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Locally induced traveling waves generate globally observable traveling waves #neuroscience

Locally induced traveling waves generate globally observable traveling waves
Cortical traveling waves have been proposed as a fundamental mechanism for neural communication and computation. Methodological uncertainties currently limit the interpretability of non-invasive, extracranial traveling wave data, sparking debates about their cortical origin. Studies using EEG or MEG typically report waves that cover large portions of the sensor array which are often interpreted as reflecting long range cortical waves. Meanwhile, invasive, intracranial recordings in humans and a…

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Songs Don’t Just Move Us, They Shape Memories
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Songs Don’t Just Move Us, They Shape Memories - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

Multiplexed subspaces route neural activity across brain-wide networks (in mice)  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58698-2 but no, subspace communication is not faster-than-light, sorry Star Trek fans.

Multiplexed subspaces route neural activity across brain-wide networks - Nature Communications
How the brain flexibly engages different networks of regions to perform different cognitive processes remains unknown. Here, the authors show changing the geometry of a neural representation to align with different subspaces within a brain region can engage different brainwide networks.

« Adult human cortex does not reorganize after amputation » (and certainly also for other species). So, do not trust textbooks (or LLMs that statistically parameterize those). #brain #plasticity #neuroscience

Adult human cortex does not reorganize after amputation
The results from a new longitudinal study contradict classic findings in monkeys but may not warrant a rewriting of the textbooks just yet.

Ah. So, they're musicians and dancers... 😉
#science

Sonic Swarms: How Tiny Robots Use Sound to Think and Move Like One - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

Important for discussions about agency and free will:
Hermida M, Ladyman J (2025): Physical Explanation and the Autonomy of Biology. Philosophy of Science :1–18.
DOI: 10.1017/psa.2025.10115
#neuroscience #consciousness

#neuroscience #news

Natural Compound Combo Restores Aging Brain Cells - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

Built to learn - How the brain learns to see #neuroscience
Development of coherent cortical responses…

Learning, prediction accuracy, and neural plasticity in sensory cortex https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959438825001199 "Associative learning extensively modifies sensory neocortex";

The colors we perceive follow consistent brain codes in all humans #neuroscience
Large-scale color biases in the retinotopic functional architecture are region specific an…

The colors we perceive follow consistent brain codes in all humans

Visual objects refine head direction coding (in mice) #neuroscience

As an engineer-scientist I am suspicious of neuroscience theories that do not lead to clinical or engineering applications. It's too easy to game the system and create matching hypotheses in hindsight, after the experimental data was already harvested. #neuroscience

Robust spatial hearing beyond primary interaural cues in humans over deep neural networks #neuroscience

(2018) Functional MRI of sensory substitution in the blind #blindness

A transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.02.672180v1 "Extensive work has shown that the visual cortex is reactivated during mental imagery";

#BCI technology will be great, but great technology need not imply great results. What will work well with the human brain - let alone scales beyond medical niches - remains a big unknown. #neuroscience
(YouTube) Modems for the mind: The future of brain-computer interfaces

Feature-specific inhibitory connectivity augments the accuracy of cortical representations (in mouse V1) #neuroscience

Invariant inter-subject relational structures in high order human visual cortex #neuroscience

Invariant inter-subject relational structures in high order human visual cortex - Nature Communications
The neuronal coding principles that underlie inter-individual perceptual similarities remains unclear. Here, the authors compared the stability of relational similarity versus activation patterns across brains and found that relational similarity was preferentially consistent across individuals, potentially underlying shared inter-subject perception.

Switches in orientation coding by mouse primary visual cortex neurons depend on stimulus predictability #neuroscience

40 Hz audiovisual stimulation improves sustained attention and related brain oscillations #neuroscience

Shared texture-like representations, not global form, underlie deep neural network alignment with human visual processing #neuroscience

Retinotopic scaffolding of high-level vision https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/rynbz_v2 by @… et al.;