Mel Goodale

@action-brain.bsky.social

Cognitive neuroscientist and nature lover. Founding Director of Brain and Mind at Western University. https://www.uwo.ca/bmi/

@action-brain.bsky.social

Here's a wonderful opportunity for postdocs and senior graduate students to learn more about the science of consciousness and discuss why consciousness matters. Apply for a spot in CIFAR's Winter School, which this year will be held in Nairobi, Kenya. #consciousness 🧠🧪 #CIFAR

megan peters 🧠@meganakpeters.bsky.social

Applications for the #CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School open April 29! Join us in December to discuss "why consciousness matters": why we value it, why it might matter for moral status or exist evolutionarily, & why we have to get C-science right for society & our global future.

cifar.caCIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School - CIFARFollow Us FaceBook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Instagram The CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School is a unique, three-day event where tomorrow’s neuroscience leaders work closely […]
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Very nice work by the @martinhebart.bsky.social lab shows that many across-exemplar effects in early visual cortex can be explained by low-level visual features, whereas LOC appears, in addition, to exhibit higher order category-specific information. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... 🧪 🧠

jneurosci.orgThe Scope and Limits of Fine-Grained Image and Category Information in the Ventral Visual PathwayHumans can easily abstract incoming visual information into discrete semantic categories. Previous research employing functional MRI (fMRI) in humans has identified cortical organizing principles that...