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| bio | website | facebook.com/csclyde |
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| location | Davis, CA | |
| age | 25 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
| seen | Apr 19 at 17:51 | |
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I'm a Neuroscience student at UC Davis. Brains are my thang.
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Apr 8 |
asked | How many thalamocortical relay cells synapse onto each spiny stellate cell in neocortex? |
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Mar 29 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 15 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Sep 6 |
awarded | Editor |
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Sep 6 |
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Is stimulus generalization acquired due to inability to discriminate stimuli? edited body |
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Sep 3 |
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Is religiousness a genetically heritable feature? @MartaCz-C My point is: we might not be prone to the idea, the idea may be prone to us. It's just another vantage point that I don't think adds up to a full answer. I'm not telling you what you think, merely providing another view. |
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Sep 3 |
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Is religiousness a genetically heritable feature? Consider the opposite. If evolution adapts a creature to it's physical environment, might the idea of Christianity itself be evolving to fit the environment of the human mind? If so, finding a gene for religiousness would be nonsense because you'd only find genes for normal mental development. |
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Aug 22 |
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Why do humans have sex in private? To those who grow up in a nudist colony, nudity does not elicit disgust or shame. Even in ugly people. |
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Aug 22 |
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Why do humans have sex in private? Yet, private sex seems to transcend individual cultures. Not in an absolute way, but there is a definite trend. I like that you go to Exhibitionism as part of your explanation, I think that could be fruitful. But your answer right now is mostly just a guess. |
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Aug 18 |
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What makes people easily subscribe to pseudoscientific theories? This is a superb answer. Well done. |
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Aug 15 |
awarded | Revival |
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Aug 15 |
answered | What is the effect of motherese on development? |
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Aug 6 |
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How can STDP fit with reciprocal connectivity? @Xurtio I see. I was equivocating a bit because I couldn't produce a direct source. It's just inference from other things I know of the nervous system. I'll try and find sources and edit the answer to be more certain. |
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Jul 29 |
awarded | Revival |
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Jul 27 |
answered | What is the role of traveling waves in circuit formation during cortical development? |
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Jul 26 |
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Does each sensory neuron type have a characteristic spike sequence pattern? @bfrs Start thinking in terms of activity. That is what counts. The neurons can be considered conduits for this activity. Activity generated by some external happening travels into the nervous system, and that activity inherently represents what caused it. That is the foundation of the functioning of the nervous system, and it can be a little difficult to digest. Here is one more example to clarify: how does the nervous system differentiate between a touch on the toe and on the finger? Because the sensory neurons in the toe inherently represent activity there. No need to code the location. |
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Jul 26 |
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Does each sensory neuron type have a characteristic spike sequence pattern? @bfrs Because each ganglion cell has it's own axonal projection to the LGN. The LGN is more or less a topographical map of ganglion cells, so the information is preserved. |
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Jul 26 |
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Does each sensory neuron type have a characteristic spike sequence pattern? @bfrs Auditory physiology has advanced significantly since Bekesy. The paper I linked shows this, and you can find many more on the same subject. I do not believe I have misunderstood you. You're not considering that the individuality of neurons is itself a type of encoding. The upper regions know which is which because different retinal ganglion cells (simplification here) respond to different colors. When a green/red ganglion cell fires, it is informing the upper regions that there is green/red within that place on the retina. No extra information needs to be encoded in the firing rate. |
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Jul 25 |
answered | How can STDP fit with reciprocal connectivity? |
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Jul 25 |
answered | Does each sensory neuron type have a characteristic spike sequence pattern? |
