Jeffrey C. Erlich @jerlich@qoto.org

@ekmiller Well, we showed the rat SC is causally involved in abstract categorisation, so... not so surprised https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00865-x (cited as Ref 51)

@Sheril revisionist history (Malcolm Gladwell). All the freakonomics podcasts

Excited to share a new paper from the lab:

Encoding of 2D Self-Centered Plans and World-Centered Positions in the Rat Frontal Orienting Field

Activity in the M2 predicts upcoming choices. But what does the activity represent? A gaze-centered plan? A world-centered goal? A specific movement? We asked rats to plan responses to different targets from different start position to find out!

Liujunli Li, Timo Flesch, Ce Ma, Jingjie Li, Yizhou Chen, Hung-Tu Chen and Jeffrey C. Erlich
Journal of Neuroscience 11 September 2024, 44 (37) e0018242024; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0018-24.2024

Tweetthread: https://x.com/erlichlab/status/1835716087251406866

#neuroscience #prefrontal #premotor #planning #neuralnetworks

@raineyday @JeremyMallin Also Rosetta stone does this. It uses pictures.

@david1 huh? Biden won the 2020 election. That doesn't mean people want him to run again now.

@adredish @UlrikeHahn @albertcardona

I would argue that the rise of GenAI demands more not less transparency. The "old" peer review system hides the process of approval, so once a paper is "peer-reviewed" it somehow has an air of legitimacy.

I share your concerns- but I think the solution involves networks of trust and more active science communication.

#science #publishing #ScientificPublishing

@adredish We disagree. I find it super informative to be able to read decision-letters. To see what careful readers came up with that I might have missed on a casual read.

@albertcardona Or wind or fusion or fission. Lots of ways to make energy. We need to do some large scale sequestration of C02, right?

This seems important. A new catalytic process converts CO2 to ethanol or acetic acid. https://phys.org/news/2024-05-catalyst-carbon-dioxide-industrial-emissions.html

@ekmiller excited about this one!

@adamhsparks Agreed. I much prefer Julia over R (for syntax and other things) but the documentations of packages on CRAN is generally really good.

@Gert this is such an important perspective. in the west, when someone has a psychotic episode, we strap them down in a hospital and then wonder why they are paranoid.

@dhananjaythakur@mastodon.social This is a challenge! h265 encoding of video can save a lot of space. Companies like 45drives.com offer really affordable solutions, but you should talk to your dept/university IT department because labs shouldn't be managing their own storage. Some places, like https://gin.g-node.org offer free storage (up to some limit).

A-mazing.

"A robot-rodent interaction arena with adjustable spatial complexity for ethologically relevant behavioral studies"

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)01682-0

#neuroscience

@MolemanPeter @neuralreckoning Dan - I think the most basic forms of consciousness (like https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1520084113) require representation and require some integration of sensory information over time (even if the timescale is short, like a few hundred milliseconds). Would you consider this memory? Is all integration memory?