Loving this new preprint -- such a clever way to examine the question of the importance (or not!) of sensory experience in shaping cortical development. I wish we could have cited this in our discussion on altricial/precocial animals last year.
Excellent new preprint by @sroig.bsky.social @djabaudon.bsky.social & collaborators on the prenatal assembly of functional cortical circuits.
Great discussion of maturation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧠
still fascinated by the barrel cortex
Amazing comparative study from @djabaudon.bsky.social lab between mus musculus and Acomys (spiny mouse) brain development!
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David Schoppik
www.biorxiv.org
Outstanding new study tracking the changes in Purkinje neuron dendritic architecture during primate evolution, documenting an increase in dendritic compartmentalization in the human
lineage
Study by @auroraferrell.bsky.social @neurosilas.bsky.social & colleagues 🧪🧠
#cerebellum
Paying peer reviewers works.
Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social:
• 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews
• ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript
• no reduction in editor-assessed review quality
• similar acceptance rates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thrilled to shared our new preprint with @djabaudon.bsky.social ! Led by Ilaria Morassut, we explored "the extent to which early brain maturation requires interactions with the outside world". This wouldn't have been possible without our incredible collaborators, specially the @lanevol.bsky.social 🧵
Thrilled to shared our new preprint with @djabaudon.bsky.social ! Led by Ilaria Morassut, we explored "the extent to which early brain maturation requires interactions with the outside world". This wouldn't have been possible without our incredible collaborators, specially the @lanevol.bsky.social 🧵
Vertebrate evolution has driven adaptive remodeling of brain regions impacted by changing sensorimotor demands. The cerebellum--a hindbrain area mediating associative learning and predictive coding--i...