2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (233+ words) Exploring why Anthropic's AI, Claude, displays something like emotion could ultimately help us better understand the function that emotions serve in humans. To understand Anthropic's claims about Claude, we first need to grapple with its definition of "emotion." For many,…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (232+ words) In a 1982 paper, the Nobel laureate created his namesake recurrent neural network'work that taught Maria Geffen to always ground research questions in biology. Answers have been edited for length and clarity. What paper changed your life? Neural networks and physical…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago  (224+ words) Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles. Artificial intelligence is now offering neuroscience the same deal. Artificial intelligence (AI) is prying them apart. Consider Alpha Fold. Its predictive accuracy is extraordinary. But there is no explanatory…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (338+ words) Four statistical measurements of neural network geometry capture how well brains and artificial networks use what they already know to solve new problems, a study suggests. The brain effortlessly tackles countless variations of the same task. A person walking around…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (429+ words) The sphinx, with a worm's brain and a fly's body, illustrates the potential pitfalls of using deep-learning techniques to model biological processes. A neural network based on a nematode worm's connectome can puppeteer a digital fruit fly's body, a new…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (575+ words) Find out what "may be one of the brain's most underappreciated superpowers" and why it's so crucial to "talk about our research in our everyday lives." "Any number of minutes you spend pulling back the curtain on where our medical…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (609+ words) New cross-species findings may help settle a long-standing debate about whether the hippocampus is required for passive learning. Experience kindles most of our learning throughout life, without any explicit instruction or reward. Thanks to this process, called statistical learning, people…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (474+ words) Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias peer review. Despite the massive rise in preprints over the past few years, peer review at journals is still widely held as the gold standard for assessing the validity…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (252+ words) Blanco-Su'rez revamped the traditional journal club by developing a course in which students peer review preprints alongside the published papers that evolved from them. Not long ago, though, I was reviewing a paper and found myself spending a stupid amount…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (527+ words) Eight researchers explain how they are using large language models to analyze the literature, brainstorm hypotheses and interact with complex datasets. Responses have been lightly edited for length and clarity. The model effectively learns the rules of neuroanatomy from the…...