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A disruptive tune in the Canon —my joyous mischief with Andreas Keil UFMotivation&Vision I welcome your feedback!

We argue: Defying the assumed subservience to top-down instruction (from the amygdala or elsewhere) of threat, the sensory cortex drives smart (fast and precise) evaluation of environmental threat and elicits network-wide threat responses.

This faculty stems from mnemonic representations of threat stored in the sensory cortex that are sensitive, specific, and adaptable, due to experience-based sculpting of sensory coding networks (via ensemble pattern modification, tuning shift, disinhibition, and sparsification).

For a more in-depth discussion of this mnemonic representation, kindly check out our other piece pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36703569/. The simple and well-understood circuit architecture of (olfactory) sensory cortex can support this function via the powerful content-addressable memory.

Here is the other review about threat engrams in the sensory cortex underpinned by its simple and well-understood circuit architecture, prime for the powerful content-addressable memory (CAM) for threat memory storage and retrieval journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘅, not just amygdala. Very interesting perspective by Wen Li and Andreas Keil. "Animal models of threat processing have evolved beyond the amygdala to incorporate a distributed neural network." doi.org/10.1016/j.tics…

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Just finished my course “Machine Learning for Cognitive Computational Neuroscience”. Across 12 lectures (90 minutes each) and 10 workgroup sessions, we covered >100 papers (46% published in the past two years). The students (and I) learned a lot. Here is what we covered: 1/

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I saw lots of beautiful beta-rhythm work lately! there is one specific aspect which I find non-optimal: in the human brain, there are also lots of alpha-rhythms, which may produce harmonics in the beta-band. I wrote about it here in this short article: psyarxiv.com/ywv8s/

This is getting a lot of attention, so now, as promised - a 🧵on our NEW PAPER Nature Physics nature.com/articles/s4156… Together with Chandrakala Meena, Chittaranjan Hens, Suman Acharyya, Simi Haber and Stefano Boccaletti So, 50 years ago, back in the 70s...

A very useful synopsis!

Applying fMRI-EEG, tACS, and HMM to uncover brain state dynamics and its temporal modulation via alpha oscillations--remarkable work led by graduate student Joshua Brown, collaborated with lab mate @KevinJC_psych, Drs. Ding Mingzhou Ding & Qin Shaozheng Qin.

Focus on the mechanisms…

Such a tall tale also happened to my aunt. Luckily, after hearing her symptoms and checking her prescriptions, we stopped her benzo immediately, and she quickly recovered.

A fair warning: concepts are useful tools but just tools...

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