TAPASI – Monkeys and Microstimulation
Some monkeys and some microstimulation. Courtesy of Gabe Diaz, a little scene from Graziano, Taylor and Moore, 2002. Dots indicate trajectory of the left arm after microstimulation of the right hemisphere PFC. Remember kids – PFC does everything!… Read More
Retina and LGN
A demonstration written in Mathematica to show the interaction of the retina and LGN on the sampling of image information from the eyes. You can play with the receptive field size to see how the whole “Hybrid Images”… Read More
Spring 2018 Computational Methods — Final Projects
The goal of Computational Methods in Psychology and Neuroscience is to acquaint students with scientific computing, broadly speaking, but especially as it applies to psychology and neuroscience. Even so, it attracts students from a pretty wide swath of majors…. Read More
An attack on reductionism in neuroscience
Neuroscience needs its Einstein – Salon.com “I was a liberal arts major, prefer stories to hard facts, questions to answers. I prefer ambiguity, mystery and awe to bottom-line explanations. I’m personally offended by fundamentalist and reductionist beliefs, be… Read More