@MariaShujah

Ph.D. student at the Brain and Sound lab (@tania_barkat) at @unibasel_en. Interested in how the brain learns. Avid reader.

 Zurich, Switzerland
Joined February 2020
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When does modular structure emerge in neural networks? What are the consequences of this structure for learning and behavior? New work with @StefanoFusi2 answers these questions and more: doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.30.6… see 🧵below (1/11)
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Excellent new study led by Sebastian Reinartz: primary sensory cortices do not merely relay stimulus information, but contribute to the perception of elapsed time. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-4…
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@Nature13 Oct 2023
ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken go.nature.com/3rVYO7J
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I have faced this glass ceiling as a citizen of a developing country since the start of my Ph.D. I am applying early for a visa for #CVPR2023, apparently, there is a 197 days processing time from Switzerland. Does someone know if they speed it up for conference presenters? @CVPR
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Even though it is very rarely completely silent around us, our brains usually manage to ignore the background noise and filter out the important information. How they do this is what @tania_barkat and her team are interested in. #UniNova unibas.ch/en/News-Events/Uni…

The sounds of silence.

Much remains to be understood about how sounds are processed in the brain. In the University of Basel’s Brain & Sound Lab, researchers are slowly coming closer to solving the puzzle.

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Come and hear about how the adolescent brain deals with surprise: Tuesday July 12 in the afternoon, Poster S06-654 by Patricia @PValerio_: Asynchronous development of deviance detection in the mouse central auditory system. #FENS2022 #BrainSoundLab
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The largest conglomeration of neuroscientists in Europe. @FENSorg Forum is back in person. Excited to meet fellow researchers and listen to some amazing science over the next couple of days.
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Complete silence is something we experience only very, very rarely in our lives,” says neuroscientist @tania_barkat. Read more: unibas.ch/en/News-Events/Uni… #neuroscience #brain #research @DepBiomedicine @UniBasel_en

The sounds of silence.

Much remains to be understood about how sounds are processed in the brain. In the University of Basel’s Brain & Sound Lab, researchers are slowly coming closer to solving the puzzle.

unibas.ch
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A chocolate gorilla is melting in a pan of hot milk. The gorilla says: "listen kid, I don't have much time, the noise in your ephys rig is caused by". But the gorilla melts before revealing the answer.

ALT A chocolate gorilla is melting in a pan of hot milk. The gorilla says: "listen kid, I don't have much time, the noise in your ephys rig is caused by". But the gorilla melts before revealing the answer.

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Important votes today in Switzerland. Let’s hope we can keep the strictly regulated, and 3R principle-guided animal research we have 🙏🏼🏔 swissinfo.ch/eng/reuters/swi…
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So happy to see our review “Inhibition in the auditory cortex” out: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Congratulations to our postdoc Florian Studer for managing to bring together the most recent research in the field in such a comprehensive way. #BrainSoundLab #AuditoryNeuroscience
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The hungry brain! 🧠 Neocortex saves energy by reducing coding precision during food scarcity cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…
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Today with @emblebi, we're launching the #AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, which offers the most complete and accurate picture of the human proteome, doubling humanity’s accumulated knowledge of high-accuracy human protein structures - for free: dpmd.ai/alphafolddb 1/
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Happy birthday to Maria Goeppert Mayer, born #OnThisDay in 1906! The physicist and Nobel laureate analyzed two-photon excitation, which led to the two-photon microscope, developed by Winfried Denk while a graduate student with Watt W. Webb at Cornell. #womeninscience #scicomm
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This is concerning. When controlling for age, body habitus, and other variables, people who had covid had sizes of key brain structures 4 standard deviations below average. The hippocampal gyrus is responsible for memory, in part. medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Mice form categories to simplify their world. Showing that, researchers from the team of Tobias Bonhoeffer and Mark Hübener identified neurons in prefrontal cortex encoding learned categories. nature.com/articles/s41586-0… @xpieter @sandra_tanja @t_bonhoeffer @MHuebener @nature #brain
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neat!
Tim Stearns@StearnsLab26 Feb 2021
Rosalind Franklin, reanimated by running through Deep Nostalgia. She wants her DNA x-ray image back, Jim Watson. #WomenInSTEM myheritage.com/deep-nostalgi…
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Delaying school start times by 1hr = 1) more sleep, 2) better attendance, and 3) superior academic performance. Conclusion: "A delay in school start time should be seriously considered to improve sleep and academic achievements of students." Quite. tinyurl.com/y46bgt5t
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for the neuroscientists
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I am proud to be part of the large science community. 2020 showed what SCIENTISTS can do. The world is learning the difficulty and rewards of doing #science. No shortcuts, accept the data, ignore at your peril. I hope politicians and business people learn the lesson #2020heroes
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