The Spike

A single cognitive strategy might help brains do everything from resolving visual ambiguity, empathizing with others, and performing…

The rough guide to doing data science on neurons

The fragility of our minds and theirs

Neural networks of neural networks

A cortex by any other name

We came, we saw, we did a little shopping

And it shall come to pass…

Seeking clarity for the connectome

Why pursue knowledge for its own sake?

Why doesn’t every neuron know about every thing?

Just one more hit

Slugging it out in neuroscience

Data labs, and the scant motivations for sharing data in basic science

A tale of the invisible hand of theory in neuroscience

All our fiddling in the brain is supernatural

“Perception is controlled hallucination.”

On the disturbing lack of direction in neuroscience