1) Why oh why did the authors think they had to frame this in terms of AI. Isn't the brain interesting enough?
Jun 25, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Tweetstorm on behalf of twitterless Cameron Higgins and @markwoolrich.
Our brains at rest spontaneously replay recently acquired information. How is this process orchestrated to avoid interference with ongoing cognition?
We can see replay in humans with magnetoencephalography (MEG) (eg Liu 2019). MEG similarly lets us measure whole brain resting state network activity on very rapid timescales (Vidaurre2018). We investigated whether these phenomena were linked.
Jan 23, 2019 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
Twitter-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests).
1760: Bayes: You should interpret what you see in the light of what you know.
1780: Galvani: Nerves have something to do with Electricity.
1850: Phineas Gauge et al: Different parts of the brain do different things.
