I really love this essay by @ShannonVallor: https://t.co/fpecDqGNhB It points out that notions of "intelligence" held by AI researchers are very different from those held by people in cognitive science. I also wrote about this striking difference:

The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Diversity of visual inputs to Kenyon cells of the Drosophila mushroom body https://t.co/ZpN8DFOjfJ #biorxiv_neursci

“Neural circuit mechanisms for transforming learned olfactory valences into wind-oriented movement” by Yoshinori Aso et al. eLife https://t.co/M8nMWLHDH0 2/2

*possibly not pseudoscience* - new paper in Neuron with @PMuhleKarbe @hannahsheahan @nico_schuck @hugospiers @GiovanniPezzulo. Goal seeking compresses neural representations of space (in hippocampal BOLD.) enjoy.

Sensory neuron population expansion enhances odour tracking through relaxed projection neuron adaptation https://t.co/jQW6qR4JNs #biorxiv_neursci

Neural and behavioral organization of rapid eye movement sleep in zebrafish https://t.co/BHdwafar9j #biorxiv_neursci

What are the bounds to morphological complexity? Would plants on another planet look different from those here? Probably not due to fundamental evolutionary constraints. Check this @sciam paper by the great Karl Niklas https://t.co/b056rTsoeU

两幅清代仕女图，都是站着荡秋千的。 两幅"水秋千"的图，即在船上荡秋千(人飞出去了😂)。 五代和宋代的词中，秋千常常出现。 “庭院深深深几许，杨柳堆烟，帘幕无重数。玉勒雕鞍游冶处，楼高不见章台路。 雨横风狂三月暮。门掩黄昏，无计留春住。泪眼问花花不语。乱红飞过秋千去。” ——欧阳修《蝶恋花》

Stochastic coding: a conserved feature of odor representations and its implications for odor discrimination https://t.co/bspURC4XpA #biorxiv_neursci

Happy to announce two new papers out in Nature today! One is on octopus sleep, where Neuropixels recordings shows a wake-like stage of 'active sleep' accompanied by rapidly changing skin patterns that match those of waking behavior https://t.co/wbtWcFHvYM

I asked a friend who's a criminal defense lawyer what he'd change about the world to fix the most problems. He specializes in death penalty cases, so he's seen a lot. I expected him to say drugs, but he said if he could change one thing, it would be to make people better parents.

Demonstration that sublinear dendrites enable linearly non-separable computations https://t.co/Wwl89eBtuJ #biorxiv_neursci

Sleep and memory consolidation are linked by RNA processing genes in the Drosophila mushroom body https://t.co/F6KN5IrH1c #biorxiv_neursci

Contribution of dorsal versus ventral hippocampus to the hierarchical modulation of goal-directed action https://t.co/s2fln5Xfwt #biorxiv_neursci

Wow!!! If you train a DL network, but add a regularization not just on weights, but on the imagined LENGTHS of these connections in virtual 3D space, you get brain-like networks with distinct nuclei responsible for different things! (pigeon-, midbrain-like architecture, I guess?)

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Whither unisensory olfactory cortex: processing of visual and auditory stimuli in olfactory cortex, independently of odor associations https://t.co/XMhrwWOfXP #biorxiv_neursci

The distortion and disintegration of grid cells' patterned activity challenges the idea that those cells are a "neural GPS" used for spatial navigation. @gilyginosar and friends review the evidence. Out today @NeuroCellPress https://t.co/sjUEskBYG8