Cognitive Science

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Testing Models of Human Declarative Memory at the Single-Neuron Level

Deciphering the mechanisms of declarative memory is a major goal of neuroscience. While much theoretical progress has been made, it has proven difficult to experimentally verify key predictions of some foundational models of memory. Recently, single-neuron recordings in human patients have started to provide direct experimental verification of some theories, including mnemonic evidence accumulation, balance-of-evidence […]

Published on April 26, 2019

Responsible Data Governance of Neuroscience Big Data

Responsible Data Governance of Neuroscience Big Data B. Tyr Fothergill*, William Knight, Bernd Carsten Stahl and Inga Ulnicane Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, School of Computer Science and Informatics, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom Current discussions of the ethical aspects of big data are shaped by concerns […]

Published on April 25, 2019

Dilated Dense U-Net for Infant Hippocampus Subfield Segmentation

Dilated Dense U-Net for Infant Hippocampus Subfield Segmentation Hancan Zhu1,2, Feng Shi3, Li Wang1, Sheng-Che Hung1, Meng-Hsiang Chen4, Shuai Wang1, Weili Lin1 and Dinggang Shen1,5* 1Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States 2School of Mathematics Physics and Information, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing, China […]

Published on April 24, 2019