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TMS: "Virtual lesion" or "virtual excitation"?
TMS: "Virtual lesion" or "virtual excitation"?Yesterday's introduction to paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation elicited an insightful comment from reader "Kix": As you mention, TMS can be...
View ArticleTranscranial Reprogramming of Action? Induction Problems in ppTMS
Transcranial Reprogramming of Action? Induction Problems in ppTMSWith our introduction to paired pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (ppTMS) out of the way, we now turn to a 2010 PNAS paper by...
View ArticleMachines Learn How Brains Change
Machines Learn How Brains ChangeIn last week's Science, Dosenbach et al describe a set of sophisticated machine learning techniques they've used to predict age from the way that hemodynamics correlate...
View ArticleWhy The N2 Indexes Conflict Monitoring, Not Response Inhibition
Why The N2 Indexes Conflict Monitoring, Not Response InhibitionSometimes, ground-breaking studies don't get the attention they deserve - even from experts in the field. One great example of this is an...
View Article(Possibly) Dissociable Prefrontal Effects of Target and Target Class Probability
(Possibly) Dissociable Prefrontal Effects of Target and Target Class ProbabilityHow do we detect important items in our environment? This crucial capacity has received less attention than one might...
View ArticleNovelty May Dynamically Rearrange The Prefrontal Hierarchy
Novelty May Dynamically Rearrange The Prefrontal HierarchyOwing to the low signal-to-noise ratio of functional magnetic resonance imaging, it is difficult to get a good estimate of neural activity...
View ArticleGreater Performance Improvements When Quick Responses Are Rewarded More Than...
Greater Performance Improvements When Quick Responses Are Rewarded More Than Accuracy Itself.Last month's Frontiers in Psychology contains a fascinating study by Dambacher, HuÌbner, and Schlösser in...
View ArticleModus Tollens, Modus Shmollens! When people commit a fallacy so absurd that...
Modus Tollens, Modus Shmollens! When people commit a fallacy so absurd that it's only recently been given a name.Suppose - rather reasonably - that soups which taste like garlic have garlic in them....
View ArticleArchitecture of the VLPFC and its Monkey/Human Mapping
Architecture of the VLPFC and its Monkey/Human MappingIf you ever said to yourself, "I wonder whether the human mid- and posterior ventrolateral prefrontal cortex has a homologue in the monkey, and...
View ArticleAttractors All the Way Up: Metastability, Rostrocaudal Hierarchies, and...
Attractors All the Way Up: Metastability, Rostrocaudal Hierarchies, and Synaptic FacilitationIn their wonderful Neuroimage article, Braun & Mattia present a comprehensive introduction to the...
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