June 19, 2017 - 3:30 pm
"La capacità di gestire i rapporti sociali coinvolge una gerarchia di reti cerebrali che classificano in modi diversi gli elementi di una situazione. Una di queste reti si attiva esclusivamente quando è presente e attivo un possibile partner di una relazione sociale(red)
VAI AL VIDEO: Lo sguardo sull'interazione sociale
Nel cervello dei primati esiste un circuito neurale dedicato esclusivamente all'analisi delle interazioni sociali. A...
June 6, 2017 - 4:00 pm
"Understanding social interactions and what others are thinking is essential for relationships. Monkeys, like humans, can recognize and interpret social interactions. Primates use behaviors like playing, grooming, and fighting to determine social rank and gain allies in their group. But how the brain processes social interactions is unknown.
Drs. Julia Sliwa and Winrich A. Freiwald at Rockefeller University investigated the neural circuitry...
June 1, 2017 - 7:00 pm
by PAM BELLUCK
The New York Times
"Pulses of electricity delivered to the brain can help patients with Parkinson’s disease, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and possibly other conditions. But the available methods all have shortcomings: They either involve the risks of surgery, from implanting electrodes deep within the brain, or they stimulate from the skull’s surface, limiting the ability to target electricity to the right brain...
June 1, 2017 - 1:15 pm
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
Excerpt: "Delivering an electrical current to a part of the brain involved in movement control has proven successful in treating many Parkinson’s disease patients. This approach, known as deep brain stimulation, requires implanting electrodes in the brain — a complex procedure that carries some risk to the patient.
Now, MIT researchers, collaborating with investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (...
May 30, 2017 - 4:00 pm
Noam Chomsky (MIT)
Title: Language and Evolution
In their latest book, Why Only Us: Language and Evolution, Berwick and Chomsky discuss the biolinguistic perspective on language, which views language as a particular object of the biological world; the computational efficiency of language as a system of thought and...
In their latest book, Why Only Us: Language and Evolution, Berwick and Chomsky discuss the biolinguistic perspective on language, which views language as a particular object of the biological world; the computational efficiency of language as a system of thought and...
May 29, 2017 - 4:00 pm
"Monkeys show evidence of having developed the parts of the brain dedicated to analyzing social interactions. The new information - aside from offering a peek at monkey's brain activity - can also help scientists understand the origins of human's social cognition.
According to a report from Rockefeller University, Winrich Freiwald and Julia Sliwa found areas in the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys that analyze social interactions. The team of...
May 26, 2017 - 4:00 pm
"We humans think we're so special. To determine what sets us apart from the rest of the animal world, scientists investigate features that might be uniquely human, such as self-awareness or language.
But every now and then, a new finding throws the narrative, leaving us to wonder what those truly unique human traits really are. In a new study, neuroscientists have knocked down another assumption by discovering a network in the monkey brain that'...
May 26, 2017 - 4:00 pm
Kevin Murphy (Google Research)
Host: Josh Tenenbaum
Abstract: In this talk, I summarize some recent work in my group related to visual scene understanding and "grounded" language understanding. In particular, I discuss the following topics:
Our DeepLab system for semantic segmentation (PAMI'17, https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00915).
Our object detection...
Our DeepLab system for semantic segmentation (PAMI'17, https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00915).
Our object detection...
May 26, 2017 - 3:45 pm
Bret Stetka | Scientific American - Neuroscience
May 18, 2017
"For many hours a day they pluck dirt, debris and bugs from each other’s fur. Between grooming sessions they travel in troops to search for food. When ignored by mom, they throw tantrums; when not ignored by zoo-goers, they throw feces.
Through these behaviors, monkeys demonstrate they understand the meaning of social interactions with other monkeys. They recognize when their peers...
What makes us human? Scientists just found a defining feature of the human brain in monkeys [QUARTZ]
May 25, 2017 - 3:15 pm
"A new look inside monkeys brains is forcing researchers to reconsider what makes humans unique, as you can see in the video above.
It’s no surprise that humans and many types of monkeys have a lot in common; we’re both social creatures and share about 93% of our DNA. But when scientists from The Rockefeller University peeked inside four rhesus monkeys’ brains with an fMRI machine, they were still surprised to find something they’ve only ever...
May 24, 2017 - 3:30 pm
"Monkey brains have sections dedicated solely to social interactions, a new finding that researchers say could help us better understand the human mind.
Scientists scanning the brains of rhesus macaques found that certain parts were active when the monkeys watched videos of social interactions between other monkeys, but that same network was largely inactive in response to other images. A study in the journal Science said those brain regions...
May 23, 2017 - 4:15 pm
"Primates are intensely social species. We smoothly maneuver in our social environment by effortlessly understanding our peers' encounters. But what is the neural circuitry that is engaged when primates perceive such scenes of social interactions? By using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we found three networks in the monkey brain engaged in processing social interactions, and discovered that one of them is exclusively dedicated to this...
May 23, 2017 - 3:45 pm
"What is the social network of the brain" [Google Translate]
"Социальная жизнь – настолько обширное и сложное явление, что было бы странно, если бы для нее в мозге не было специальных зон. Они и впрямь есть, причем разными аспектами социальной жизни занимаются разные структуры.
Отдельные нейронные цепи срабатывают тогда, когда индивидуум получает удовольствие от общения – таким нейронным цепям, в частности, была посвящена работа исследователей...
May 19, 2017 - 3:30 pm
"Parallels to humans: How monkeys process social interactions neuronal" [Google Translate]
Listen to the radio broadcast interview recording (German) of Winrich Friewald on Deutschlandfunk's website using the link below.
May 18, 2017 - 4:00 pm
"Scientists call our ability to understand another person’s thoughts—to intuit their desires, read their intentions, and predict their behavior—theory of mind. It’s an essential human trait, one that is crucial to effective social interaction. But where did it come from?
Working with rhesus macaque monkeys, researchers in Winrich Freiwald’s Laboratory of Neural Systems at The Rockefeller University have discovered tantalizing clues about the...