Aaron Batista
@aaronbatista
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Neuroscience for the greater good!
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined June 2009
And you thought your amygdala was just for fear. It turns out to have a nuanced emotional repertoire, always monitoring our context.
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Third-party viewers of pairwise dominant-subordinate interactions infer social status from the observed behaviors. Neurons in the amygdala are tuned to the inferred dominant/subordinate status of...
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When you fail to perform at your best right when it matters the most, what's going on in your brain? We can now provide an explanation: Exceptionally high stakes interfere with motor preparation. We can see this in motor cortex. Next up: finding out why.
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We're working hard every single day so we can help people like Michelle live their fullest lives.
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I recommend reading "The Hidden Spring" by Mark Solms. He lays out a compelling vision of the origin of consciousness.
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RT @jehosafet: I am so so excited to see this work published in @NatureNeuro!. "Learning is shaped by abrupt changes in neural engagement"….
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RT @jehosafet: Excited to share a preprint of our work "Learning is shaped by abrupt changes in neural engagement," advised by Aaron Batist….
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The trick is to continually realign the recordings to the manifold, which has a stable relationship to motor intent. (2/2).
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New paper: We can stabilize brain-computer interface performance, despite recording instabilities. (1/2).
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Nature Biomedical Engineering - Neural activity residing in a low-dimensional space that reflects specific correlation patterns among neurons can be used to maintain the performance of...
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