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Matthew Self

@MatthewWSelf

Neuroscientist at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, interested in perceptual organisation, feedback, memory formation, and mandolins.

 Amsterdam
Joined November 2013
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Paolo Papale et al. find that the representation of borders of objects in natural scenes are special in the visual brain. Borders elicit extra activity in area V1. There is an early effect reflecting receptive field tuning and a later, contextual effect. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.22…

V1 neurons are tuned to perceptual borders in natural scenes | PNAS

The visual system needs to identify perceptually relevant borders to segment complex natural scenes. The primary visual cortex (V1) is thought to e...

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Thanks to @PsyPost for featuring our work! psypost.org/concept-cells-an…
Concept cells and pronouns: Neuroscientists shed light on key aspect of language comprehension

Concept cells and pronouns: Neuroscientists shed light on key aspect of language comprehension

Neurons in the hippocampus, known as "concept cells," respond to both specific nouns and pronouns that refer to those nouns, suggesting these cells help link and update concepts during language...

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Proud of our work and my PhD baby. Now out in Science: Pronouns reactivate conceptual representations in human hippocampal neurons. Thanks to @Pieters_Tweet, @MatthewWSelf and the others for this great study! science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… – at Bonn, Germany
Pronouns reactivate conceptual representations in human hippocampal neurons

Pronouns reactivate conceptual representations in human hippocampal neurons

During discourse comprehension, every new word adds to an evolving representation of meaning that accumulates over consecutive sentences and constrains the next words. To minimize repetition and...

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Voor de nederlanders onder ons: Ons onderzoek in een notendop! newscientist.nl/nieuws/shrek… @Pieters_Tweet @MatthewWSelf
Shrek-cel in het brein reageert ook op persoonlijk voornaamwoord ‘hij’

Shrek-cel in het brein reageert ook op persoonlijk voornaamwoord ‘hij’

Hersencellen die actief worden als je een persoon voor je ziet, reageren ook op persoonlijke voornaamwoorden die naar die persoon verwijzen.

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Enny@EnnyvBeest29 Jun 2021
"The Focea": a region in mouse visual cortex with enhanced spatial resolution, with a.o. @MatthewWSelf @KirchbergerLisa @SreedeepMukher3 @Pieters_Tweet at the @NIN_knaw. A thread (1/7):
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