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Blogs and News Sites

  • Neuroscience News: Up-to-Date General News
  • Neuroskeptic
  • Scienceblogs: Brain and Behavior

Large Scale Brain Initiatives

  • The Human Connectome Project.
  • BRAIN – Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, NIH, US. There is also a nice overview manuscript available about how the BRAIN initiative is Connecting the Dots in the Brain
  • The BLUE BRAIN PROJECT, Funded by European Commission’s Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) projects. The Blue Brain project has some amazing videos online, see e.g. the video of a 3D Brain Waves Simulation.

Systems & Computational Neuroscience Societies and Assocations

  • Society for Neuroscience
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  • Association for Canadian Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience
  • Trans-Canada Initiative studying Children’s Brain Development from clinical and basic science perspectives
  • CNS – Organization for Computational Neurosciences
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Society
  • Ontario Brain Institute in Canada
  • CSBBCS Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science

Online Video’s On Important Research Topics (a short selection)

  • P. GLimcher, “Representation of Value in the Primate Brain”
  • O. Hikosaka, “How the Brain Encodes Reward”
  • Nathaniel Daw, “Reinforcement Learning in Humans and Other Animals”
  • Yael Niv, “The Neuroscience of Reinforcement Learning”
  • Kenji Doya, “Computational Models of Basal Ganglia Function”

– News –

  • January 23, 2023

    Acetylcholinergic Drug enhances attention at different dose as cognitive flexibility

    Acetylcholinergic Drug enhances attention at different dose as cognitive flexibilityWe tested how a cholinergic drug that is used to treat symptoms of dementia (donepezil, Arizept) affects cognitive abilities across multiple domains in monkeys. We found that donepezil showed stunning improvements of attentional filtering (less distraction) during visual search but at a different dose at it […]

  • September 15, 2022

    ACC causally supports learning -difficult- attention sets

    We used focused ultrasound (FUS) sonication of the anterior cingualte and striatum to disrupt local processing during learning. FUS in ACC slowed down learning of atetntion sets – but only when the attentional demands were high and the task included the risk of loosing already attaiuned reward tokens. Under these cognitive and motivaitonally challenging conditions […]

  • June 10, 2022

    Adaptive Learning needs Attention, Meta-learning and Working Memory

    We tested which model mechanisms best explain how six animals learn attention sets and found a common set of most-important behavioral mechanisms that account for learning success.When learning attention sets is easy value based reinforcement learning and working memory are powerful, but when learning problems are more complex learning is more efficient with attention and […]

  • August 26, 2021

    A Novel Monkey Kiosk: Cognitive Enrichment and Cognitive Assessment

    We now published the hardware and software design for a novel Monkey Kiosk Station that provides cognitive enrichment and the ability to assess cognition with cage-based touchscreen tasks. The paper and its appendix with the technical details are available here.

  • July 3, 2021

    Interneuron-specific gamma synchrony indexes uncertainty resolution

    Our new paper in eLife shows that a subclass of fast spiking interneurons in prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex gamma synchronizes when uncertainty about cues and outcomes is resolved. This finding was possible by classifying narrow spiking neurons into fast and non-fast spiking classes and correlating their firing and spike-LFP synchrony during processing of attention […]

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