The brain spontaneously produces activity regardless of mental activity and stimulus input. Current theories treat this activity as noise or simply ignore it. What does…
Why Do Brains Have Spontaneous Activity?
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The Radically Changing View of the Cerebellum
Long thought to be purely involved in motor activity, new roles have been discovered for the cerebellum in cognition. Yet so long on a backfoot…
Finding your Grandmother Inside Your Head
How do you perceive your Grandmother? It is still not known how the activity of neurons represent complex perceptual objects with many features. The theories…
From Neuron to Brain: The Perils of a Reductionist Approach
Much of neuroscientific research on brain signals is focused on studying the spiking activity of neurons in a dish. Can this really tell us how…
The Puzzle of Working Memory
Working memory, the capacity to keep things ‘in mind’ such as a phone number, is a phenomenon poorly understood in Neuroscience. What do we know…
Intelligence and Neuroscience
Intelligence research has been the domain of psychology and sociology and barely intersects with neuroscience. Yet intelligence has everything to do with the brain, and…
Brain in a Dish
Pieces of brain in a dish can give rise to synchronous electrical activity with similar characteristics to that measured in the intact brain. What aspect…
Vitamins for the Brain
Vitamins play a crucial role in building axon fiber and facilitating synaptic transmission but have to be ingested to become available to the brain. Surprisingly,…
Beyond the Brain: Embodied Cognition
The feedback loops between brain and body are profound, leading to the possibility that cognition is not simply a function of the brain alone but…
The EEG from infancy to adulthood
Studies point to a systematic shift in various signatures of the EEG from infancy to adulthood, however there is no clear large scale longitudinal dataset…
