OsciPod

This study reveals the neural circuit by which the medial prefrontal cortex drives contingency degradation — the process of unlearning a cue-reward association that is no longer valid. A new computational model, the...

<p>Hippocampal ripples — brief, high-frequency electrical bursts lasting under 200 milliseconds — do more than consolidate memories during sleep; they actively update the medial prefrontal cortex's relational code...

<p>A new study in Science reveals that the apical tuft dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal neurons in the mouse motor cortex are specifically required for relearning complex behavioral rules, but not for executing...

<p>When thousands of neurons fire together, their collective activity traces a low-dimensional surface called a neural manifold — but does that surface reveal how the neurons are wired? This episode explores a...

<p>This episode explores how a star-shaped network of phase oscillators, whose synaptic weights evolve through a plasticity rule based on phase differences, can settle into exactly 2^N distinct stable configurations...

<p>A team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University built a single glass micropipette device that spontaneously fires neuron-like electrical spikes using only ion flow and surface chemistry — no...

<p>How does the brain switch between the synchronized rhythms of sleep and the scattered activity of waking? Kuroki and Mizuseki introduce the EI-Kuramoto model, which divides neural oscillators into excitatory...

<p>How does the brain stay stable through aging, learning, and injury? This episode explores a computational model showing that inhibitory synaptic plasticity — a self-adjusting rule that strengthens local braking...

<p>Why do mice—and likely all mammals—consistently make the same perceptual mistakes on certain sounds? Researchers at the University of Mainz used large-scale two-photon calcium imaging in the mouse auditory cortex to...

<p>When we share personal memories with others, do listeners pick up on the richness of those memories — and does it change how they feel about us? A new study published in PNAS tested this across two experiments in...

<p>The brain's visual cortex generates gamma-band oscillations — rhythms between 30 and 80 Hz — but whether these oscillations actually help us perceive objects has been hotly debated. Karimian and colleagues argue that...

<p>This episode explores how mice trained to discriminate pulsed sounds showed shared, systematic choice biases even when sounds had the same reinforced pulse count. Seiler and colleagues found that auditory cortex...

<p>This study is the first in the world to reveal that theta waves in the human hippocampus are "traveling waves" that move in a specific direction. Using electrode data implanted in the brains of epilepsy patients, the...