Neuroscience When to Avoid Coffee When I"m headed into an important meeting, I've been known to down a cup or two of coffee without thinking much of it, in the hopes that the caffeine will give my
Bookshelf Finding the Engram Josselyn et al. - 2015 The authors discuss primarily the process of finding the cellular basis for memory (the "engram") via circuit neuroscience in mice. They compile a body of evidence based on
Bookshelf How Does the Brain Solve Visual Object Recognition DiCarlo et al. - 2012 Core object recognition (something primates are great at) is the ability to rapidly distinguish/identify an object visually without prior information, even when the object changes context. This
Bookshelf A Framework for Consciousness Crick and Koch - 2003 The authors present the following 10-point framework that characterizes the neural correlates of consciousness as a theory of competing cellular assemblies. The “front” of the cortex is an