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Can neuroscientists decode memories solely from a map of synaptic connections?
| Five experts discuss the progress, possibilities and hurdles of decoding a “nontrivial” memory from an organism just by analyzing its brain connectivity patterns |
The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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https://www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspired/can-neuroscientists-decode-memories-solely-from-a-map-of-synaptic-connections/

#neuroscience #connectomics #memory #TheTransmitter

"Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning"
https://www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-careers/fear-and-loathing-on-study-section-reviewing-grant-proposals-while-the-system-is-burning/

#TheTransmitter #USScience #USScienceCut #NIH

#AllaKatsnelson in @thetransmitter, on #SheenaJosselyn's work on #engrams.

I like #TheTransmitter for their accessible writing on #neuroscience. It's building bridges for interested people, without over-simplification.

»They seemed to be catching a glimpse of a real-time competitive mechanism in which the #neurons with the ramped up #CREB expression were primed to jump into an #engram. They had found what they were looking for.«

https://www.thetransmitter.org/memory/sheena-josselyn-and-memories-lost-found-and-created/