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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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  • 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 –

  • June 10, 2025

    Updating of Attentional Priorities is Causally Supported by ACC and Striatum

    A long-standing open question is how brain circuits learn what information is behaviorally relevant and should be attended. We have a new key insight to this question published in the paper “Adaptive Reinforcement Learning is causally supported by Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Striatum” (Neuron, pdf). We found that brief 0.3 s electrical stimulation at the […]

  • November 1, 2024

    Updating of Attentional Priorities is supported by Noradrenergic Receptors

    Our new paper shows that the flexible learning of attention sets is facilitated by noradrenergic receptor action. The paper “Noradrenergic alpha-2a receptor stimulation enhances prediction error signaling and updating of attention sets in anterior cingulate cortex and striatum” is published in Nature Communications was led by PhD alumnus Ali Hassani and found that neuronal firing […]

  • November 14, 2023

    New Multi-task cognitive profiling platform for NHPs+humans

    We published a new unity based software platform for profiling cognitive and motivational constructs in nonhuman primates and humans. The platform has multiple pre-configured tasks with some gamified features that makes them engaging to play for participants. Details are described and linked on the website: http://m-use.psy.vanderbilt.edu. The technical details are available in Watson et al. […]

  • October 19, 2023

    Inter-areal neural routing states emerge and switch during oscillatory bursts and with attention

    We have a new major finding published at Neuron. We found that spiking in different areas (ACC, Striatum, LPFC) engage in ~20ms wide correlations, and that this coordinated activity has systematic time lags that correspond to the anatomical connectivity. These ‘baseline routing states’ are amplified during beta bursts, and switch directionality (between ACC and PFC) […]

  • April 27, 2023

    M1-selective allosteric modulation enhances cognitive flexibility

    We have new research out at PNAS about enhancing cognitive flexibility with highly selective allosteric modulation of the M1 muscarinic receptor (pdf: here)! Muscarinic receptors are known to mediate pro-cognitive effects of acetylcholine, but it has remained unclear whether they differentially affect the cognitive subfunctions of attentional filtering, set shifting, and learning. To clarify the […]

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