📖 In a paper published on The Journal of Architecture, Marta Macedo and Ricardo Costa Agarez compare two Portuguese #AgriculturalColonisation projects: Vila Fernando, in #Alentejo, and the penal colonies in #Angola. 🇵🇹 🇦🇴
"...despite their differences, metropolitan and imperial projects can be addressed using the same analytical framework as they share an allied set of practices, cultures, technologies, and agents..."
Happy to share our #NewPaper on experiences of patients undergoing #epilepsy surgery, comparing traditional resective surgery to #NeuroPace responsive neurostimulation, using interviews and ethnographic observation of patient visits. First, we documented circuitous treatment paths described by patients and caregivers as "winding," "confusing," and "chaotic." In two of our participants, continual ECoG recordings from an implanted RNS device enabled the detection of a single seizure focus for subsequent resective surgery. Second, RNS was perceived with greater safety, viewing the act of "putting in" a device as reversible in contrast with the irreversibility of "taking out" brain tissue in a resection. Third, evaluation of postoperative course reflected different aims and expectations, with resection understood in "all-or-nothing" terms such that any post-operative seizure was perceived as a failure, while patient expectations in RNS were more incremental. #neuroethics#OpenAccess at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S152550502400088X
My new paper with a former student is out! It's work that we did when I was still a postdoc at Reading and rather fittingly the first one to be published after my return to Reading! OA is made available through University of Lincoln (really appreciate this).
It's such a weird a cool phenomenon and I'm so excited about it!!
TLDR: we found minute-scale periodic sequences of activity in the MEC which could help organise sequential experiences at behavioural time scales.
So grateful for all the wonderful colleagues #KISNeuro and abroad, especially my amazing mentors/supervisors Soledad (also first author on the paper), May-Britt, and Edvard. (Neither on mastodon). Also congrats to @horst who DOES have mastodon. So so happy I could be a part of this project! 😊
Two years ago, Dan Akarca & I wondered: Could the various features we observe in brains across species be caused by shared functional, structural & energetic constraints? 🧠⚡️
With our now published spatially embedded RNNs we show this is true!
📖 In the journal Diasporas, @victorpereira published an essay on the new wave of Portuguese emigration triggered by the economic recession of the 21st century.
Acaba de ser publicado o artigo "Multi-output time series forecasting with randomized multivariate Fuzzy Cognitive Maps" no periódico international Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals. Esse é um trabalho de autoria de Omid Orang, minha e de Frederico Gadelha e apresenta de um novo método baseado em redes neurais aleatorizadas (Reservoir Computing) e conjuntos fuzzy para previsão multivariada de séries temporais.
So let me tell you guys a little about this magnificent new crocodile. The species name is 'iylwenpeny' but is pronounced "eel - OON - bin - yah" which looks about as far from the spelling as it is possible to get. It is an Anmatjerre name (an Arandic language from central Australia) and means "skilled at hunting".
"exposure to sexually conservative ethnic out-groups can provoke an instrumental increase in LGBT+ inclusion, particularly among those hostile toward immigration."
📖 In the journal Culture. Society. Economy. Politics, Leonor Sá published a paper where she presents three interdisciplinary and community-serving projects carried out by the Portuguese Judiciary Police Museum, all related to the protection of #CulturalHeritage.
#newpaper on "Learning heterogeneous delays of spiking neurons for motion detection"
We build a #SpikingNeuralNetworks with heterogeneous delays, that is with the capacity integrating a spatiotemporally structured spiking history...
Results show excellent accuracy, and especially the capacity of performing this computation much more economically, up to 500 less ! Another step for more #frugal computations and hopefully a better understanding of neural computations.
👉 Grimaldi, A., Perrinet, L.U. Learning heterogeneous delays in a layer of spiking neurons for fast motion detection.Biological Cybernetics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-023-00975-8 (paywall)
People share true or false news anticipating positive reactions from like-minded audiences and refrain from sharing to avoid upsetting politically dissimilar audiences
Inconsistent and very weak associations (at best) between childhood personality and general conservatism, social conservatism, and economic conservative.
System justification theory predicts that people who are disadvantaged will justify the system more than those who are advantaged
New paper by Rebekka Kesberg, Felicity Turner-Zwinkels & co find that this holds in about 1/4th of the population in 🇫🇷🇵🇱🇪🇸🇬🇧
These "justifiers" are in contrast to the "rejectors": About 1/3rd of the population shows the complete opposite effect, with advantaged people justifying the system more
#newpaper 🧠 " Cortical recurrence supports resilience to sensory variance in primary visual cortex" 🧠
By 🧑🍳 @hugoladret, Nelson Cortes, Lamyae Ikan, Frederic Chavane, Christian Casanova and myself.
We show that connections between neighboring cortical neurons give neural networks the ability to compute the variance of a sensory input. This is crucial for supporting Bayesian computations in the brain.