11+ hour, 12+ min ago   (254+ words) Taylor Bolt spent his Ph.D. and postdoc digging through brain imaging data for clues to cognition. In industry, the datasets are different but the joy of answering questions with data remains. Taylor Bolt loved the challenge of mining terabytes of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (253+ words) Artificial intelligence may soon enable researchers to generate high-quality science at a previously unimaginable speed. For science consumers—the public, medical patients, technology users—the likely effects will be positive. For scientists, the effects will be as disruptive as industrial…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (143+ words) As AI-driven systems are integrated into all aspects of science, we need to make sure that they read and write to a shared data and knowledge space. Through these AI-enabled research workflows, we can record and disseminate a richer and…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (750+ words) The Transmitter AI can’t solve the brain without data that fit together The brain’s first foundation models exist because some areas of neuroscience did the slow work of developing and adopting standards to help integrate data. Artificial intelligence cannot do…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (189+ words) Agentic coding makes it possible to specify a neuroscience model in hours instead of months. Six neuroscientists weigh in on what that tectonic change may bring to the field. How is this reshaping the landscape of theoretical and computational neuroscience?...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (415+ words) Large language models are now routinely used to search, summarize and synthesize the literature at scales impossible for any individual researcher—yet scientific publishing has not adapted to that reality. A lot has been said about the pros and cons…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (361+ words) A child’s socioeconomic status, screen time and amount of sleep all show stronger associations with measures of brain structure and function, according to an imaging study of nearly 12,000 9- to 10-year-olds. IQ is one of the most-studied traits in brain imaging…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (960+ words) The illusion of AI consciousness: Lessons from human unconscious processing The Transmitter The illusion of AI consciousness: Lessons from human unconscious processing Complex, goal-directed and even emotionally responsive behavior can unfold without awareness, providing a useful lens for interpreting artificial…...

3+ mon, 2+ day 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,…...

3+ mon, 4+ day 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…...