Andrew Pruszynski
Canada Research Chair in Sensorimotor Neuroscience. Faculty at @BMI_WesternU, @SchulichMedDent, @WesternU. Co-director of @wusmsl. Comments are my own.
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Feedforward and Feedback Control Share an Internal Model of the Arm's Dynamics
Recent work has shown that, when countering external forces, the nervous system adjusts not only predictive (i.e., feedforward) control of reaching but also reflex (i.e., feedback) responses to mechanical perturbations. Here we show that altering...
Temporal pattern separation in hippocampal neurons through multiplexed neural codes
Author summary Pattern separation (the process of disambiguating incoming patterns of neuronal activity) is a central concept in all current theories of episodic memory, as it is hypothesized to support our ability to avoid confusion between similar...
CAN 2019 Public lecture with Geoffrey Hinton and Blake Richards
Host: Dr. Blake Richards, University of Toronto
Speaker: Geoffrey Hinton
Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
VP Engineering fellow at Google
Geoffrey Hinton is a leader in artificial intelligence who designs...
Author accepted manuscript: Why the whole is more than the sum of its parts: Salience-driven overestimation in aggregated tactile sensations. - PubMed - NCBI
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2019 Apr 10:1747021819847131. doi: 10.1177/1747021819847131. [Epub ahead of print]
Province slashes Ontario Library Service funding by 50% | CBC News
Southern Ontario Library Service says its budget will be reduced by just over half, as well as the Ontario Library Service-North.
‘I Want What My Male Colleague Has, and That Will Cost a Few Million Dollars’
Women at the Salk Institute say they faced a culture of marginalization and hostility. The numbers from other elite scientific institutions suggest they’re not alone.
Reading List 13
Here are the articles that caught our attention this week.
Rats Generate Vibrissal Sensory Evidence until Boundary Crossing Triggers a Decision
Faced with uncertain sensory inputs, primates integrate evidence over time to a decision
boundary. Zuo and Diamond ask whether rats’ employ bounded integration as they generate
tactile evidence to identify texture. On each trial, rats accumulate...
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Andrew Pruszynski
"Akin to primate decision making, rats’ choices are governed by bounded integration”
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Selective targeting of unipolar brush cell subtypes by cerebellar mossy fibers
Distinct inputs to the cerebellum make contact on specific subtypes of target neurons.
cpsscp.ca » J.A.F. Stevenson Visiting Professorship of the CPS
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Andrew Pruszynski
Happy to announce that I have been awarded the Stevenson Award by the Canadian Physiological Society. Named after a former head of my own department @westernuPandP so its quite an honour.
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Opposing Influence of Sensory and Motor Cortical Input on Striatal Circuitry and Choice Behavior
Using ex vivo brain slice recordings and in vivo optogenetic manipulations in mice,
Lee et al. find that synaptic inputs from sensory and motor cortex distinctly affect
striatal circuitry and behavior. Sensory cortex (S1) innervates striatal...
Nominations Open for the Next Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurophysiology
Andrew Pruszynski
The great @JNeurophysiol is searching for a new editor and chief. Know someone?
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Pepsi plans to project a giant ad in the night sky using cubesats
"An hour and a half after the launch we concluded that the test was successful."
Editorial: No BRT a loss for students
By ignoring the transit needs of the Western community, both the city and the campus lose out.
Help Kristen raise money for participating in Forest City Road Races 2019 on April 28, 2019
Hello :)
This will be my second year running in FCRR. Last year I ran 10km, and this year I'll be running the half marathon (21km) - eek!
I am running to raise funds for TVCC and the London Down Syndrome Association. Both of these organizations...