Neuroscience
On Twitter, movie/brain buff My Cousin Amygdala issued the #MovieDirectorNeuroscientistMashup challenge using the following selections:
I made a few movie posters to go along with my suggestions...
Write-in nominations were allowed, too.
How about Scorsese / Lynch / Maguire: Mulholland Taxi Driver's Hippocampus {that one was a bit too involved for a poster}
Finally, I'll write in one by David Cronenberg and....
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In a previous post, I noted that Jack Gallant had issued a Neural Prediction Challenge. Now, we have another challenge, this time from the Gerstner lab: Here is our Challenge, open to everybody in in neural modeling, machine learning, or similar fields:...
- Movie: "in Search Of Memory" With Eric Kandel
Total Recall: A Journey From Vienna to Brooklyn and the Center of the Brain By A. O. SCOTT The New York Times Published: January 8, 2010 A review of the new movie, "In Search of memory" about Dr. Eric Kandel. [snip] "Ms. Seeger, a German filmmaker who...
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From the Scientific American website: May 20, 2007 The Traveler's Dilemma When playing this simple game, people consistently reject the rational choice. In fact, by acting illogically, they end up reaping a larger reward--an outcome that demands...
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8 1/2 Reward Prediction Errors: #MovieDirectorNeuroscientistMashup
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On Twitter, movie/brain buff My Cousin Amygdala issued the #MovieDirectorNeuroscientistMashup challenge using the following selections:
I made a few movie posters to go along with my suggestions...
Kurosawa/Tonegawa: Rashomon and the Memory Engram
David Lynch/Eric Kandel: Blue Velvet Aplysia
Write-in nominations were allowed, too.
@CousinAmygdala or an action movie by Woo/Kanwisher: 'Fusiform Face Off'— rogier kievit (@rogierK) June 14, 2015@CousinAmygdala Write-in: Scorsese / Eleanor Maguire - Taxi Driver's Hippocampus— Mariam Aly (@mariam_s_aly) June 14, 2015How about Scorsese / Lynch / Maguire: Mulholland Taxi Driver's Hippocampus {that one was a bit too involved for a poster}
Finally, I'll write in one by David Cronenberg and....
Cronenberg/Friston: Statistical Parametric Mapping to the Stars
Let's play a game #MovieDirectorNeuroscientistMashup Reply w/ answers & will tweet summary; write-ins welcome pic.twitter.com/G6tUQCpnRJ— My Cousin Amygdala (@CousinAmygdala) June 14, 2015- Is The Mtl One Big Happy Region?
A recent post in BRAINETHICS spawned an interesting discussion about the limits (and truthiness) of image coregistration. Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy spotted an egregious error in an fMRI study that appeared in a high-profile publication last year: Big fMRI...
- Dialogues And Dilbert On Prediction Errors
A new article in TICS (Trends in Cognitive Sciences) by Niv and Schoenbaum makes use of Dilbert cartoons and a Q&A format to discuss the neural correlates of prediction error signals: The goal of this ‘dialogue style’ review (which loosely follows...
- Another Neural Prediction Challenge!
In a previous post, I noted that Jack Gallant had issued a Neural Prediction Challenge. Now, we have another challenge, this time from the Gerstner lab: Here is our Challenge, open to everybody in in neural modeling, machine learning, or similar fields:...
- Movie: "in Search Of Memory" With Eric Kandel
Total Recall: A Journey From Vienna to Brooklyn and the Center of the Brain By A. O. SCOTT The New York Times Published: January 8, 2010 A review of the new movie, "In Search of memory" about Dr. Eric Kandel. [snip] "Ms. Seeger, a German filmmaker who...
- Game Theory
From the Scientific American website: May 20, 2007 The Traveler's Dilemma When playing this simple game, people consistently reject the rational choice. In fact, by acting illogically, they end up reaping a larger reward--an outcome that demands...