Neurochannels

Cruising the web, I ran into the official Application for Enrollment in Scientology Religious Services . Surprisingly, it reads much more li...

As shown below in EEG traces recorded during different stages of sleep, when we record neuronal activity on a large scale (either local fiel...

Anscombe's Quartet is a group of four data sets that provide a useful caution against blindly applying statistical methods to data. Each...

Neurodudes , one of the first neuroscience blogs I ever saw, seems to have gone 404. Hopefully it is just temporary. Note added 4/14/08: it ...

In the previous post , I briefly discussed the background and methods behind this paper by Ritt et al.. In this post I summarize and discus...

This is the first of a two-part post on the recent Neuron paper Embodied information processing: vibrissa mechanics and texture features sh...

While the Blue Brain folk want to construct an incredibly detailed model of a single cortical column, a recent paper by Izhikevich and Edel...

Warning: this post isn't directly about neuroscience, but a mathematical tool that is used quite a bit by researchers.  One of the most ...

Over at Nature's neuroscience group, I wrote up a summary and discussion of the excellent paper Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Cortical Sens...

A new neuroscience journal, Frontiers in Neuroscience , recently published its inaugural issue. It has a big-name editorial board including...

Developing Intelligence provided a helpful summary of a fun and thought provoking paper by Douglas and Martin that addresses the question,...

It's been a few weeks since SFN. It was exceptionally well organized, San Diego was beautiful, and the scientific content overwhelming a...

Grants are done, things are manageable so I'm firing this thing up again. I notice there are lots of new neuro-themed blogs out there so...

Mid-November 2007, this blog restarts in earnest. Still working on Boltzmann (well, experiments, really, but the Boltzmann is on my mind, an...

A new primer on combinatorics that I wrote can be found here . I first cover basic stuff like permutations and combinations. The rest focuse...

A PDF of my newly revised probability theory refresher can be downloaded here . It is a quick and informal review of concepts from elementar...

I expect to kick-start this puppy in August. I've been working on a grant, which I will send out next week. As for the Boltzmann distrib...

Those of us who got our neuroscience education recently are raised from our undergraduate days to think that electric currents across the me...

Chapter 2 outlined the HH theory of the action potential: when they wrote their papers, nobody yet knew the mechanism of current flow. From ...

Hille discusses gating currents at greater length in later chapters (e.g., Chapters 9, 12, 18, and 19), and he will explicitly draw on the m...