Is: Divergent Evolutionary Systems, may have convergent features if there is a common ancestor, true?

There is the implied assumption that divergent evolutionary traditions eliminate convergent features. I am of the opinion that despite divergent traditions, some features may converge if there is...

10 November 2015 6,711 3 View

How do we measure Awareness

Given the eventual emulation of the whole brain, How will we be able to test it's awareness to prove that it is a perfect emulation? Evidence seems to suggest that the human brain kludges this...

05 June 2015 6,076 1 View

Is Neuronal Workspace Theory Correct? Or Is There Another Way The Workspace Could Work?

In Computing there is often two different ways that a process can be executed, Pre-emptive Selection, or Lazy Selection. In Pre-emptive Selection something is known about the process before...

03 April 2015 1,360 6 View

Is Will free, or does freedom exist without the presence of a Force of Will?

Since Libett's work, there are many people who have questioned the idea of free will, since the fact that much of the work done before a decision is preconscious and consciousness only seems to...

10 November 2014 6,076 16 View

Is the thalamus REALY the CPU of the Brain?

In a recent article, Yingxu Wang asserted that in a previous article he had determined that the thalamus was the CPU of the brain. I have heard in other articles and books that no CPU can be found...

10 November 2014 3,273 39 View

Is the Optical Lobe of the mollusk what later became the Optic tectum of vertebrates?

In comparative neuro-anatomy there are evolutionary links between mollusks and vertebrates. Noting the relative position in the brain of the Mollusk Optical lobes, could they have evolved into the...

08 September 2014 8,969 4 View

Given a coherent monochrome lightsource, will phase affect the number of photons detectable?

The idea that light is both a wave and a particle (duality) is interesting, As a potential theory, what about the idea that light is a phase change from field to photon that is dependent on the...

03 April 2014 5,782 5 View

Is Language Use based mostly on inner trains of thought?

The Supramarginal Gyrus, is associated with inner trains of thought, and with language formation. The superior parietal Lobule with external trains of thought, and somatosensory processing. This...

10 November 2013 5,165 3 View

Is the inferior parietal lobule really two separate workspace like hubs, the angular gyrus, and the supramarginal gyrus?

After reading a recent (2011) article on cooperation of the default mode network, and the frontal-parietal network in internal trains of thought, it became obvious to me that there were two...

09 October 2013 3,744 6 View

Is the human brain like a computer, if so, in how many ways and why is it different?

Computers were originally designed around a brain model, and at one time were called electronic brains. Since then there has been some discussion as to whether they resemble brains or not. Today...

08 September 2013 2,347 76 View

Can Ethovision store the generated data and video recordings directly to NAS system?

The size of data generated by Ethovision is huge. Having NAS system for data storage seems to be a good option, I am wondering whether Ethovision can directly store the data to the NAS system...

27 February 2021 6,350 2 View

Does anyone have a stack of images of action potentials or abnormal brain scans?

I need a stack of black and white .jpeg/.tiff/.jpg/.png images across time of either action potentials, neurons firing, or brain scans (comparing disease and normal brain, disease progression,...

09 February 2021 2,648 3 View

Help needed: How to map AA, AG, and GG genotypes on to polymorphism information?

Dear Colleagues, I am new to genes and genotyping and I need help. I am trying to figure our how AA, AG, and GG genotypes map on to A1 for DRD2/ANKK1 Taq1A polymorphism(rs1800497) and Val or MET...

02 February 2021 3,861 3 View

Does the pre-synaptic neuron location in a cortical map influences the spatial position of its synapses in the dendrite of the downstream neuron?

Are functional maps in the cortex used by the brain to carry out computations or are they just a byproduct of wiring minimization? A key element to answer this question is to know if, when...

26 January 2021 1,118 8 View

Lighting for open field test behavior assay?

I am currently setting up our lab's behavioral space to run the open field test in rats, and I am trying to figure out how to set up lighting to evenly illuminate the open field chamber (a 90 cm x...

26 January 2021 1,399 3 View

Can you apply graph theoratic functional connectivity analysis to study cognitive processes under external stimuli?

Can functional connectivity analysis using Graph Theory (Hub-ness, clustering coefficient, etc) be applied to study cognitive processes? I felt most of the analysis to study the brain after...

25 January 2021 4,575 3 View

What is the half-life of TNF-alpha in vitro?

I'm designing a low-grade chronic treatment with this cytokine and I'm wondering how regularly to change the culture medium based on the half-life of the protein in an in vitro environment....

24 January 2021 5,988 2 View

Help me conduct a neuroscience experiment for my master's thesis?

22 January 2021 9,994 5 View

What are some recent publications showing the predictor power of resting state brain acitivity for tasks done outside the MRI scanner?

Looking for recent articles (2018-2020) that showed resting state brain activity can predict cognitive task performance (e.g., attentional and executive functioning tasks) done in the lab AFTER...

09 January 2021 2,310 2 View

What are the essential elementts of a Nature Neuroscience Paper?

What would land a neuroscience paper in Nature Neuroscience? What is the minimum a paper should have to pass the editorial scrutiny in Nature Neuroscience or the journals around the same cadre?...

01 January 2021 1,510 2 View