AI SLOP BATTLEGROUND PART 1: The cerebellum and “Autism”/”ADHD”
AI Slop Battleground is a test series where we compare and contrast the output of AI driven research against each...
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Dorsal Cognitive Testing
Something I've been baking in my head for awhile is how to do cognitive assessments which don't have the subjective...
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I am probably wrong about the dementia bomb.
The data to support the conceit just isn't there. There may be small shifts due to things like "diet", "microplastics"...
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February Dump
Pons-to-cerebellum hypoconnectivity along the psychosis spectrum and associations with sensory prediction and hallucinations in schizophrenia - Eh, but at least we...
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Nervous systems don’t differentiate between “action” and “thought”
It's almost certainly accurate to say that all "thought" has the same active "physical" component (salience) as expressed movement does....
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Who will weep for Descartes?
One of the weirdest parts of being on the internet today is the rush of advertising masquerading as "content" in...
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Is immune response the primary driver of speciation across all dominions of biology?
Antigen response is universal to all domains, arguably even/including viruses. "Selection" as an inside out process rather than outside in....
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The *literal* stands of experience
Ponto-olivary climbing fibers are the substrate upon which all personal experience is built. The neonatal period in humans is largely...
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Is “memory” better thought of as “Sensory Memory” and “Object Memory”?
And are these stored discretely? I need to dig around for a bit for the references on these, but there...
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Dorsal and Ventral and Everything In-between
I've been meaning to make a blurb about this for awhile, but it keeps slipping my mind. This means this...
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January Dump, I should have put this on the website first…
Neural substrates of cough control during coughing - The ponto-cerebellar bridge is where the money is. Retracted: An Automated Deep Learning...
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It’s really just poop.
One of my girls is really fascinated with a game character called "Pou". If you haven't seen this game, it's...
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Where’s the remote? Right in front of you!
One of the weirdest bits of cognitive dissonance I've had in my life is when searching for an object that...
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A plant making it’s way in the world
One of the (too many) projects I've been working on for a bit is automating a hydroponic growing system with...
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Some cool stuff and random musings…
Subcortical and cerebellar volume differences in bilingual and monolingual children: An ABCD study - brain explodes. I have so many thoughts about...
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Guys, we gotta talk about this paper…
The Cerebellum and Cognitive Function: Anatomical Evidence from a Transdiagnostic Sample The more I sit on this paper, the more...
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Time perception as a function of integration “staple” density
I guess there's two different paths this was pushing along, the first was that "time" doesn't really exist like we...
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Cerebellar tDCS quick dump
Modulation of Resting-State Brain Complexity After Bilateral Cerebellar Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: a...
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The Gravity of it All
Something I can't really wrap my head around the last couple of days is the gravity of what it means...
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