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My Guts, Exposed: Reviewer Comments for a Rejected Manuscript

💔💔💔 This is exhibitionism at its finest. Feed your internal sadist with my failures. Feast your eyes on the diatribes of learned people against my pathetic excuse for a manuscript. Okay, enough of that. I found the criticism ultimately helpful. Was it painful to read? Sure, a little bit. But some of the best things in life hurt a little. I submitted this paper to … Continue reading My Guts, Exposed: Reviewer Comments for a Rejected Manuscript

Sun, 26.01.2020, 13:00: Steve Garofano on polyrhythms, music and the brain at CTM

Sunday, 26 January: come by Kunstquartier Bethanian: Studio 1 (Mariannenpl. 2, 10997 Berlin) at 13:00 and for a tale of brains and beats. The event, a part of the CTM Festival Research Networking day, is free and open to the public.  Steve Garafano is a neuroscience researcher and musician who recently completed his Master’s thesis at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain with Drs. … Continue reading Sun, 26.01.2020, 13:00: Steve Garofano on polyrhythms, music and the brain at CTM

Beyond navigation: the calibration of human grid cells

by Alex Masurovsky To learn more about how grid cells work, researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig are thinking abstractly. Grid cells and place cells work together in the brain to allow an organism to keep track of where it is in a given space. They are found in the hippocampus, a key brain area for memory functioning. Research on these cells has … Continue reading Beyond navigation: the calibration of human grid cells