This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

A research team from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an interpretable artificial intelligence (AI) framework named Convolutional Kolmogorov ...

AI has successfully been applied in many areas of science, advancing technologies like weather prediction and protein folding ...

Neural and computational evidence reveals that real-world size is a temporally late, semantically grounded, and hierarchically stable dimension of object representation in both human brains and ...

Neuroscience continually strives to unravel the intricate relationship between neural network morphology, spiking dynamics, and their resulting functional ...

The Chinese AI lab may have just found a way to train advanced LLMs in a manner that's practical and scalable, even for more cash-strapped developers.

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The paper addresses the AI shutdown problem, a long-standing challenge in AI safety. The shutdown problem asks how to design AI systems that will shut down when instructed, will not try to prevent ...

The human brain is constantly processing information that unfolds at different speeds – from split-second reactions to sudden environmental changes to slower, more reflective processes such as ...

What is the neuropsychological basis for the brain's ever-changing contextualized goals? I explore this question from the perspective of the Affect Management Framework (AMF).