The power of the "uhhh... lemme think" face.| IFLScience
“We would need the stars of 10,000 galaxies to equal the number of synapses that make up the connectome.”| IFLScience
Some creatures can survive the deep freeze, but are humans among them?| IFLScience
$100,000 for decoding a "non-trivial" memory from a preserved brain| preservinghope.substack.com
Despite the last decade’s development of optogenetic methods for artificially manipulating engrams, and subsequent claims that there is a consensus that memories are stored in ensembles of synaptic connections, it remains unclear to what degree there truly is unanimity within the neuroscientific community about the neurophysiological basis of long-term memory. We surveyed 312 neuroscientists, comprising one cohort of experts on engram research and another of general neuroscientists, to asse...| journals.plos.org