Consciousness makes sense in the light of evolution

B Grinde - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT I believe consciousness is a property of advanced nervous systems, and as
such a product of evolution. Thus, to understand consciousness we need to describe the …

Cognitive synaptopathy: synaptic and dendritic spine dysfunction in age-related cognitive disorders

FJ Barrantes - Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cognitive impairment is a leading component of several neurodegenerative and
neurodevelopmental diseases, profoundly impacting on the individual, the family, and …

From engrams to schemas: Implications of engram research for usage-based models of language

K Szcześniak, V Řeřicha - Lingua, 2024 - Elsevier
One of the principal concepts instrumental in cognitive linguistic research is that of schemas,
defined as general, partly abstract mental outlines shared by the memories of specific …

Olfactory neurons selectively respond to related visual and verbal cues

K Franks, A Schaefer - 2024 - nature.com
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High-altitude particle detector spots a second Galactic microquasar

J Holder - 2024 - nature.com
High-altitude particle detector spots a second Galactic microquasar Skip to main content
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Lost in Translation: The Algorithmic Gap Between LMs and the Brain

T Tosato, PJT Notsawo, S Helbling, I Rish… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Language Models (LMs) have achieved impressive performance on various linguistic tasks,
but their relationship to human language processing in the brain remains unclear. This …

The brain versus AI: World-model-based versatile circuit computation underlying diverse functions in the neocortex and cerebellum

S Ohmae, K Ohmae - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.16075, 2024 - arxiv.org
AI's significant recent advances using general-purpose circuit computations offer a potential
window into how the neocortex and cerebellum of the brain are able to achieve a diverse …

Probing the contents of semantic representations from text, behavior, and brain data using the psychNorms metabase

Z Hussain, R Mata, BR Newell, DU Wulff - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.04936, 2024 - arxiv.org
Semantic representations are integral to natural language processing, psycholinguistics,
and artificial intelligence. Although often derived from internet text, recent years have seen a …

Selectivity for “Non-Food” versus “Food” Nouns Is Increased in Healthy Adults in Response to Elevated Peripheral Blood Glucose Levels as Indicated by Event …

VA Ivanov, OV Kruchinina, YA Chiligina… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2024 - Springer
The glucose facilitation effect is well-documented in enhancing the amplitude of event-
related potentials (ERPs) when blood glucose levels rise, primarily observed in sensory and …

Probing the contents of text, behavior, and brain data toward improving human-LLM alignment

Z Hussain, R Mata, BR Newell, DU Wulff - openreview.net
Large language models (LLMs) are traditionally trained on massive digitized text corpora;
however, alternative data sources exist that may help evaluate and improve the alignment …