neuroecologylab.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroecology Lab at OxCIN/FMRIB (Oxford) and Donders Institute (Nijmegen) headed by Rogier Mars. Interested in what makes different brains tick. www.neuroecologylab.org
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Tell me about it ;-)
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I think that a general measure of encephalization says very little about behavioral abilities
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It's not that size has no role, it's that using whole brain size is too crude a proxy to correlate with any specific behaviour.
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I would argue that Krubitzer's work shows most convincingly that changes in function have very specific effects at many different levels of organisation (large areas, more areas, changes in connections, etc).
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Asking @dickretired.bsky.social to join the conversation.
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Note that I don't mean to imply anything about the mechanisms of selection. It's perfectly possible that a genetic change allows for a bigger brain, which then allows for a particular lower level organisation feature.
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At a lower level of brain organisation, you could be able to be more specific: a particular feature allow a particular computation-->allows a particular behaviour.
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Correlate. But I would argue one is much more specific than the other. From ready Sue Haley's book, the impression I got is that the problem is that very many behavioural variables correlate with brain size.
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Very sorry I can’t make it. My two cents for discussion: we should look at brain organization, not brain size, when linking to behavior
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Building technological bridges... across species
The neuroecologylab.org led by Rogier Mars compares brains of different species (tinyurl.com/4v9svnt8) to understand brain evolution (tinyurl.com/5n74hka3) and translate preclinical results to humans.
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Fantastic! Congratulations, well deserved!
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Hi, we're the Neuroecology Lab at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging in Oxford and should like to be included www.neuorecologylab.org
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Thanks! We are currently working on a study investigating this in a much larger sample of species @dienkathalon.bsky.social
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At least we have clean telephones!
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Shameless pitch for the Digital Brain Zoo! open.win.ox.ac.uk/DigitalBrain...
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My book and a bunch of articles. At least it knows about connectivity fingerprints.
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@dondersinst.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
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Thanks to our many collaborators, including @sbe.bsky.social, @mristam.bsky.social, and @saadjbabdi.bsky.social.
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I would put the book case against the wall
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Thanks!
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Love it! Can we please be included? We scan cool animal brains
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Thanks for putting this together! Can we self-nominate to be included :-)