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		<title>The Price of Knowledge</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The millions of global university academics, industrial researchers and independent scholars generate almost all of the content in today’s academic journals. Candidate papers are usually submitted to a journal editor who filters out the junk. Typically, the work is then outsourced back to academia for peer-reviewing. If a paper is still deemed up to scratch, it can be formatted and issued as part of a periodical publication. This is a highly profitable business.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuronism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4018899&amp;post=96&amp;subd=neuronism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Computational Neuroscience: modeling the mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why have we not found a cure for Alzheimer’s, understood how you can tell a cat from a dog in a split second, or explained why I feel like a person, and not just “a pack of neurons”? The answer lies in the sheer complexity of the brain. Find out how modern computational neuroscience is helping us get a toe-hold on this immense problem.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuronism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4018899&amp;post=84&amp;subd=neuronism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Blue Brain shows gamma oscillations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cortical oscillations and synchrony have long been touted as the mechanisms underlying many cognitive processes, including consciousness. Now these oscillations appear to have been reproduced in a computer.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuronism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4018899&amp;post=76&amp;subd=neuronism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing but networks of neurons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are elite sport players so much better at their game than you or I? A professional basketballer would probably make eight or nine freethrows from every ten, while I'd be happy with five. Why the difference? Aglioti et al investigated the ability of elite basketball players to anticipate whether a shot was heading for the basket or not. It turned out that these athletes can not only perform this task significantly better than expert watchers (sports journalists and coaches) and lay persons, but that their muscles activated differently for shots going in or out of the hoop, even though they are just sitting still in a chair for the duration of the experiment.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuronism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4018899&amp;post=59&amp;subd=neuronism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The grid cell code</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2005, Torkel Hafting and Marianne Fyhn permanently changed the neuroscience of spatial navigation by discovering the grid cell. In their seminal Nature paper, the Moser lab reported that certain cells in the rat medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) fire action potentials only when the animal occupies certain locations in space. When you map at these locations from above, they look suspiciously like a 2-D triangular grid...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuronism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4018899&amp;post=28&amp;subd=neuronism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dendritic plasticity and &#8216;input feature storage&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://neuronism.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/losonczy2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any neuroscience textbook will tell you that learning and memory in the brain happens through synaptic plasticity, where the strength of the connections between neurons is modified. However, it&#8217;s now clear that there are also non-synaptic forms of activity-dependent plasticity, where neurons change their intrinsic properties without altering the synapses at all. This can happen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuronism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4018899&amp;post=7&amp;subd=neuronism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Academic hype in neuroscience</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the theatrics might be to purposely skew the reader's opinion of a paper. Of course everyone wants to read interesting stuff. But what if I have nothing interesting to say? I could stay quiet. But maybe it would be better for me and my image to just say something, anything, then bathe it in a few buzzwords and round it off with some juicy speculation.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuronism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4018899&amp;post=13&amp;subd=neuronism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monkeys mentally manoeuver mobile machines</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent Nature paper by Velliste et al has understandably (and justifiably) received a huge amount of media coverage (e.g. this BBC report). They used electrical signals recorded from monkeys' motor cortices to control a robotic arm. With just a few days training the animals could use it to swing a piece of food to their mouth, avoid obstacles and even adjust the movement trajectory when interrupted by the experimenter. Pretty impressive.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuronism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4018899&amp;post=11&amp;subd=neuronism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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