Consciousness makes sense in the light of evolution

B Grinde - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT I believe consciousness is a property of advanced nervous systems, and as
such a product of evolution. Thus, to understand consciousness we need to describe the …

Cognitive synaptopathy: synaptic and dendritic spine dysfunction in age-related cognitive disorders

FJ Barrantes - Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cognitive impairment is a leading component of several neurodegenerative and
neurodevelopmental diseases, profoundly impacting on the individual, the family, and …

Animal models of the human brain: Successes, limitations, and alternatives

N Kanwisher - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2025 - Elsevier
The last three decades of research in human cognitive neuroscience have given us an initial
“parts list” for the human mind in the form of a set of cortical regions with distinct and often …

Emotional words evoke region-and valence-specific patterns of concurrent neuromodulator release in human thalamus and cortex

SR Batten, AE Hartle, LS Barbosa, B Hadj-Amar… - Cell Reports, 2025 - cell.com
Words represent a uniquely human information channel—humans use words to express
thoughts and feelings and to assign emotional valence to experience. Work from model …

Reply to 'Language is widely distributed throughout the brain'

E Fedorenko, AA Ivanova, TI Regev - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2025 - nature.com
SL & Skipper, JI Language is widely distributed throughout the brain. Nat. Rev. Neurosci.
https://doi. org/10.1038/s41583-024-00903-0; 2025) 1 for their comments on our Review …

From engrams to schemas: Implications of engram research for usage-based models of language

K Szcześniak, V Řeřicha - Lingua, 2024 - Elsevier
One of the principal concepts instrumental in cognitive linguistic research is that of schemas,
defined as general, partly abstract mental outlines shared by the memories of specific …

Olfactory neurons selectively respond to related visual and verbal cues

K Franks, A Schaefer - 2024 - nature.com
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High-altitude particle detector spots a second Galactic microquasar

J Holder - 2024 - nature.com
High-altitude particle detector spots a second Galactic microquasar Skip to main content
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Lost in Translation: The Algorithmic Gap Between LMs and the Brain

T Tosato, PJT Notsawo, S Helbling, I Rish… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Language Models (LMs) have achieved impressive performance on various linguistic tasks,
but their relationship to human language processing in the brain remains unclear. This …

Probing the contents of text, behavior, and brain data toward improving human-LLM alignment

Z Hussain, R Mata, BR Newell, DU Wulff - 2024 - openreview.net
Large language models (LLMs) are traditionally trained on massive digitized text corpora;
however, alternative data sources exist that may help evaluate and improve the alignment …