In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world

Planning in the brain

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Neurons Embodied in a Virtual World: Evidence for Organoid Ethics?

(2022) Brett J. Kagan et al.   AJOB Neuroscience

The population doctrine in cognitive neuroscience

(2021) R. Becket Ebitz et al.   NEURON

All-Optical Electrophysiology Reveals the Role of Lateral Inhibition in Sensory Processing in Cortical Layer 1

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Sentience and the Origins of Consciousness: From Cartesian Duality to Markovian Monism

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Illuminating dendritic function with computational models

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Neuronal Computation Underlying Inferential Reasoning in Humans and Mice

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Third-order nanocircuit elements for neuromorphic engineering

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An elaborate sweep-stick code in rat barrel cortex

(2020) Evan R. Harrell et al.   Science Advances

Self-Organized Synchronous Calcium Transients in a Cultured Human Neural Network Derived from Cerebral Organoids

(2019) Hideya Sakaguchi et al.   Stem Cell Reports

Generalised free energy and active inference

(2019) Thomas Parr et al.   BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS

On Markov blankets and hierarchical self-organisation

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Visible Machine Learning for Biomedicine

(2018) Michael K. Yu et al.   CELL

Network analysis of hippocampal neurons by microelectrode array in the presence of HIV-1 Tat and cocaine

(2018) Taha Mohseni Ahooyi et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY

The Markov blankets of life: autonomy, active inference and the free energy principle

(2018) Michael Kirchhoff et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Organoids of intelligence

(2018) Mark Buchanan   Nature Physics

The Discrete and Continuous Brain: From Decisions to Movement—and Back Again

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High frequency neurons determine effective connectivity in neuronal networks

(2018) Aref Pariz et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Enhanced Dendritic Compartmentalization in Human Cortical Neurons

(2018) Lou Beaulieu-Laroche et al.   CELL

Parvalbumin+ interneurons obey unique connectivity rules and establish a powerful lateral-inhibition microcircuit in dentate gyrus

(2018) Claudia Espinoza et al.   Nature Communications

Lateral inhibition by Martinotti interneurons is facilitated by cholinergic inputs in human and mouse neocortex

(2018) Joshua Obermayer et al.   Nature Communications

In vitro neural networks minimise variational free energy

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From in vivo to in vitro: The medical device testing paradigm shift

(2017) Dayna Myers   ALTEX-Alternatives to Animal Experimentation

Movement: How the Brain Communicates with the World

(2016) Andrew B. Schwartz   CELL

GAPTrap: A Simple Expression System for Pluripotent Stem Cells and Their Derivatives

(2016) Tim Kao et al.   Stem Cell Reports

Different Patterns of Electrical Activity Lead to Long-term Potentiation by Activating Different Intracellular Pathways

(2015) G. Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Neuronal medium that supports basic synaptic functions and activity of human neurons in vitro

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Cultured Cortical Neurons Can Perform Blind Source Separation According to the Free-Energy Principle

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Modeling the Dynamic Interaction of Hebbian and Homeostatic Plasticity

(2014) Taro Toyoizumi et al.   NEURON

Topographic organization in the brain: searching for general principles

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Rapid Single-Step Induction of Functional Neurons from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

(2013) Yingsha Zhang et al.   NEURON

Topographic cues of nano-scale height direct neuronal growth pattern

(2012) Koby Baranes et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

A Whole-Cell Computational Model Predicts Phenotype from Genotype

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Directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to cerebral cortex neurons and neural networks

(2012) Yichen Shi et al.   Nature Protocols

Neurons derived from human embryonic stem cells extend long-distance axonal projections through growth along host white matter tracts after intra-cerebral transplantation

(2012) Mark Denham et al.   Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Perception and self-organized instability

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Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms Maintain Low Spike Co-Variability and Enhance Population Coding in Somatosensory Cortex

(2012) Cheng Ly et al.   Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Inducing functional radial glia-like progenitors from cortical astrocyte cultures using micropatterned PMMA

(2011) Marta Mattotti et al.   BIOMATERIALS

The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?

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Generation of Transgene-Free Lung Disease-Specific Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using a Single Excisable Lentiviral Stem Cell Cassette

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Signals Involved in Neural Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

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Spatio-temporal electrical stimuli shape behavior of an embodied cortical network in a goal-directed learning task

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Long-Term Activity-Dependent Plasticity of Action Potential Propagation Delay and Amplitude in Cortical Networks

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Shaping Embodied Neural Networks for Adaptive Goal-directed Behavior

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