Select a few neuroimaging papers at random and you’re likely to come across a handful of statements in the introduction to the effect that the topic under study is of “increasing interest”. At conferences and research talks, you’ll sometimes see speakers invoke a familiar kind of figure that looks something like this:
That’s the number of […]
The latest issue of Science has a really impressive article by Papassotiropoulos et al. probing the genetic basis of episodic memory. In it, the authors identify for the first time a link between a polymorphism in a gene called Kibra and individual variability in performance on delayed episodic memory tasks.
In brief, Papassotiropoulos and colleagues conducted […]
Developing Intelligence has a nice post today summarizing last week’s flurry of posts on the utility of functional neuroimaging. I should point out that while these posts offer a nice introduction to some of the issues involved, they by no means offer a comprehensive assessment of the pros and cons of fMRI. For one thing, […]
The latest issue of Neuron has a fantastic article on visual attention from Maurizio Corbetta’s group at Washington University in St. Louis. In it, Jack and colleagues report finding a novel signal in V1 independent of other, relatively well-characterized signals.
V1 is the primary visual cortex–essentially, the first cortical stop for incoming visual information. The traditional […]