#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺
This Friday, March 13th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Leonie Koban giving a talk entitled "Social influences on drug and food craving: from behavior to brain signatures" In person or online.
Read more:
www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events
New bioarXiv paper out from the NEF team on the neural computations during multi-option reward learning in macaques:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Great student summerschool in Lyon on cognitive modelling, neuroscience and clinical applications:
neurograduate.univ-lyon1.fr/summerschool/
The prefrontal cortex has a central role in flexible behavior. Computations for weighing alternatives, committing to an option, integrating evidence, and abandoning an option are dominantly formalized...
www.biorxiv.org
The next edition of the NeuroGraduate summer school will take place from the 6 to 9 July 2026 Program and details will be published here soon NeuroGraduate Summer School in Cognitive Neuroscience: 6th...
Out in the UK today! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Problem is that it is extremely hard to get funding for cross species cognition and comparison of neural circuits across species emphasizing both similarities AND differences. Funding agencies incentivize "model system = human" claims and reviewers often hate on work in different model system.
Grants that include human and animal work rarely get funded as research communities working in different systems drift apart. Reviewers are focused on critizing the weaknesses of other model systems, rather than harnessing the potential in comparing capacities and systems and link to species niches.
