Neurons in the brain are wired like a social network, report researchers from Biozentrum, University of Basel. Each nerve cell has links with many others, but the strongest bonds form between the few cells most similar to each other.
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Basic integration to send notifications to Slack from Matlab, via an Incoming Webhooks integration. Sending message attachments along with a notification is supported.
Matlab code for performing kernel density estimates on periodic and aperiodic domains, for unidimensional and multidimensional data.
Eliane Glaser trots out the old "science is a gated community" argument, with scientists as priests or gatekeepers with "privileged access" to the minutiae of the natural world ("Prof Brian Cox: physicist or priest?"). This feels particularly mean-spirited considering the target of her epithets is none other than Brian Cox, who spends a considerable portion of his days striving to make science accessible to non-scientists...
A view of Alghero, with Capo Caccia in the distance, from the mountain road above Alghero
A view of Alghero, with Capo Caccia in the distance, from the mountain road above Alghero
This year at Capo Caccia we will be talking about what forms of computation exist in cortex and how they are implemented, exploring whether competition in cortex can explain high-level representations of visual objects, and thinking about ways to maintain state with cortical oscillations.