Interesting Papers for Week 32, 2022
Selective memory retrieval can revive forgotten memories. Bäuml, K.-H. T., & Trißl, L. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(8), e2114377119.
The hippocampus supports high‐precision binding in visual working memory. Borders, A. A., Ranganath, C., & Yonelinas, A. P. (2022). Hippocampus, 32(3), 217–230.
Cognitive strategies shift information from single neurons to populations in prefrontal cortex. Chiang, F.-K., Wallis, J. D., & Rich, E. L. (2022). Neuron, 110(4), 709-721.e4.
The oculomotor signature of expected surprise. Drążyk, D., & Missal, M. (2022). Scientific Reports, 12, 2543.
Visual perspective-taking ability in 7- and 12-month-old infants. Ikeda, A., Kanakogi, Y., & Hirai, M. (2022). PLOS ONE, 17(2), e0263653.
Different computations over the same inputs produce selective behavior in algorithmic brain networks. Jaworska, K., Yan, Y., van Rijsbergen, N. J., Ince, R. A., & Schyns, P. G. (2022). eLife, 11, e73651.
A large majority of awake hippocampal sharp-wave ripples feature spatial trajectories with momentum. Krause, E. L., & Drugowitsch, J. (2022). Neuron, 110(4), 722-733.e8.
Cell-type-specific responses to associative learning in the primary motor cortex. Lee, C., Harkin, E. F., Yin, X., Naud, R., & Chen, S. (2022). wLife, 11, e72549.
Learning and attention increase visual response selectivity through distinct mechanisms. Poort, J., Wilmes, K. A., Blot, A., Chadwick, A., Sahani, M., Clopath, C., … Khan, A. G. (2022). Neuron, 110(4), 686-697.e6.
Forgetting as a form of adaptive engram cell plasticity. Ryan, T. J., & Frankland, P. W. (2022). Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 23(3), 173–186.
Plasticity impairment exposes CA3 vulnerability in a hippocampal network model of mild traumatic brain injury. Schumm, S. N., Gabrieli, D., & Meaney, D. F. (2022). Hippocampus, 32(3), 231–250.
Individual variability of neural computations in the primate retina. Shah, N. P., Brackbill, N., Samarakoon, R., Rhoades, C., Kling, A., Sher, A., … Chichilnisky, E. J. (2022). Neuron, 110(4), 698-708.e5.
Clustering analysis of movement kinematics in reinforcement learning. Sidarta, A., Komar, J., & Ostry, D. J. (2022). Journal of Neurophysiology, 127(2), 341–353.
Visual object categorization in infancy. Spriet, C., Abassi, E., Hochmann, J.-R., & Papeo, L. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(8), e2105866119.
Influence of sensory modality and control dynamics on human path integration. Stavropoulos, A., Lakshminarasimhan, K. J., Laurens, J., Pitkow, X., & Angelaki, D. E. (2022). eLife, 11, e63405.
Humans represent the precision and utility of information acquired across fixations. Stewart, E. E. M., Ludwig, C. J. H., & Schütz, A. C. (2022). Scientific Reports, 12, 2411.
Bayesian hypothesis testing and estimation under the marginalized random-effects meta-analysis model. van Aert, R. C. M., & Mulder, J. (2022). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29(1), 55–69.
Neuronal modulation in the mouse superior colliculus during covert visual selective attention. Wang, L., Herman, J. P., & Krauzlis, R. J. (2022). Scientific Reports, 12, 2482.
Retrospective memory integration accompanies reconfiguration of neural cell assemblies. Wang, Y., Deng, Y., Cao, L., Zhang, J., & Yang, L. (2022). Hippocampus, 32(3), 179–192.
Shallow neural networks trained to detect collisions recover features of visual loom-selective neurons. Zhou, B., Li, Z., Kim, S., Lafferty, J., & Clark, D. A. (2022). eLife, 11, e72067.
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Af, Animals, and Cats: Let me tell you a story about this big, orange ball of squish. Back when he was younger, my cat Thor (see above) would frequently turn up with swollen lips. I had no idea what was causing it. Did he havengy to something? Was he hunting bugs and gatting bitten? I had all sorts of tests carried out, and saw several different eterinarians, but nobody had Finaly, I managed to get him in to a see a specialist, who took one look at him and pronounedblunt trauma. Blunt trauma: in plain English, he had puy ips because he was getting smacked hard in the face. That came as quite the surprise: I certainly wasn't slapping him around, and none of my other cats were big enough to give him a hard time. So how was Now, as anyone who has cats can tell you, when there's a cat in your house, you become accustomed to odd noises at even odder hours. As long as it doesnt sound ike anything important got broken, you generally learn to ignore it. I started paying dloser attention, though, and a particular pattem soon began to stand out. It sounded something like this: galumph galumph gavumph WHAM Yeah, it turns out that he's ternble at judging elavation. What was happening is that he was attempting to hop up onto some piece of fumiture, badly misjudging its height, and slamming face-first into the side of it at a dead run. All those fat lips As he's gotten older and less energetic, the problem has mostly taken care of itsef. Some nights, though, when he's galumph galumph gelumph WHAM The only real d erence is now that I know what's causing it, he comes running to me for comfort afterwards, because apparenty the kitchen table is a big meanie. Wlife Ncats Wijury Wthor #story time hiziram prokopetz If you're unsure how to pet a cat (ia, maybe you didn't have cats around growing up), itcan be helpful to bear in mind that petting is a grooming activity. Grooming each other is how cats bond. Of course, each cat will have individual preferences, but the fact that it's grooming thing gives you two basic places to start: . Scratch areas that the cat has difficulty reaching, like the chin and upper throat, behind the ears, or the the very top of the head. (Watch the body language here-youl know if you pick the wrong spot right away.) . Work your fingers deeply into areas of thick fur where tangles are likely to form, Ike around the shoulderblades or the ruff of the neck. (You may come away with a handful of loose fur; this means you're doing it right.) Also, if you're unsure of how to approach, try extending your hand with the palm up and the fingers relaxed for the cat to sniff. It's the cat equivalent of a handshake-cats snifeach other to see where they've boon, and for humans, is the hands that carry our prokopetz It's kind of amazing watching all the folks who didn't know that petting is a grooming behaviour come to the realisation that cats lick you because they want to pet you back 55,144 notes prokopetz That thing about how cats think humans are big kittens is a It's basically bom of false assumptions; folks were trying to explain how a naturally solitary animal could form such complex social bonds with humans, and the explanation they settled on is "it's a displaced bond The trouble is, cats aren't naturaly solitary. We just assumed housecats aren't descended from European widcats. They're descended from African widcats, which are known to hunt in bonded pairs and famly groupings, and that social tendency is even stronger in their domesticated relatives. The natural social unit of the housecat is a colony a loose affiliation of cats centred around a shared territory held by allianoe of dominant females, who raise all of the colony's kittens It's often remarked that dogs understand that humans are diftlerent, while cats just think humans are big, dumsy cats, and that's totally true-but they regard us as adult colonymates, not as kittens, and all of their social behaviour taward us makes a lot more sense through that lens They like to cuddle because communal grooming is how cats for the colony and helps dean spots that they can't easiy They bring us dead animals because cats transport surplus kills back to the colony's shared territory for consumption by pregnant, nursing, or sick colonymates who can't easily hunt on their own. Indeed, that's why they kill so much more than hey individualy need- it's not for fun, but to generate enough surplus kils to sustain the colony's non-hunting members. Thay're okay with us messing with their kittens because communal parenting is the norm in a colony setting, and us being colonymates in their minds automatically makes us co parents It's even why many cats are so much more tolerant toward very small children, as one of their regular humans: they can tell the difference between human adults and human Tittens", and your kittens are their kittens. Basically, you're going to have a much casier time getting a handle on why your cat does why your cat does if you remember that the natural mode af social organisation for cats is not as isolated solitary hunters, but as a big communal catpile - and for that purpose, you count as a cat. they sill yell like we're kittens, though XD i wonder, do cats use their loud-vaice for hard-of-hearing adult cats? It's true that cats meow at kittens, but not at other adult cats. However, cats don't use the same "vocabulary of vocalisations when communicating with humans as they do when communicating with kittens,. Indeed, many of the specific vocalisations they direct at us are used only to communicate with humans, and are never uttered for any other purpose. So that's not a point in favour of the "they think we're big kittens" theory, it's simply a reflection of the fact that, like all social animals, cats adapt their communication style to suit their target audience.
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