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Back in the 90s, when I was in grad school, sensory decisions were analyzed with “signal detection theory”. Since then, many have found it more fruitful to use logistic classification: the observer weighs the factors, uses their sum to bias a coin, and flips the coin.

However, a student starting today would find the relevant information scattered around. To fix this, I wrote “Sensory choices as logistic classification": https://www. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20 24.01.17.576029v1. If you have suggestions, please let me know!

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Back in the 90s, when I was in grad school, sensory decisions were analyzed with “signal detection theory”. Since then, many have found it more fruitful to use logistic classification: the observer weighs the factors, uses their sum to bias a coin, and flips the coin.

However, a student starting today would find the relevant information scattered around. To fix this, I wrote “Sensory choices as logistic classification": https://www. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20 24.01.17.576029v1. If you have suggestions, please let me know!

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A "graphical abstract" of the paper, showing a cartoon of a logistic classifier, and two examples of fits by the model, with traditional psychometric curves on the left and log odds representations on the right.

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Visual cortex is affected by sounds. Does this mean it is multisensory? Does it represent sounds?

Today in Nature #Neuroscience (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-012 27-x) Célian Bimbard and team find otherwise.

Sound-evoked activity in visual cortex was similar across neurons. Even neurons in hippocampus. It persisted after we cut fibers from auditory cortex!

This activity was predicted by… subtle body movements evoked by the sounds. It reflects brainwide state and behavior signals.

#NeuroNewPaper

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Visual cortex is affected by sounds. Does this mean it is multisensory? Does it represent sounds?

Today in Nature #Neuroscience (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-012 27-x) Célian Bimbard and team find otherwise.

Sound-evoked activity in visual cortex was similar across neurons. Even neurons in hippocampus. It persisted after we cut fibers from auditory cortex!

This activity was predicted by… subtle body movements evoked by the sounds. It reflects brainwide state and behavior signals.

#NeuroNewPaper

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An animated cartoon showing (1) the waveforms of four sounds; (2) the neural activity that those sounds evoke in visual cortex; (3) the body movements evoked by the sounds. The traces for the neural activity and for the body movements are very similar.

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@markkula @KathaSchmack @albertcardona @kanoldlab @rhodricusack @antoniolozano @jmgrohneuro Thanks for the encouragement! I have refined those "tips for writing science" and they are now published in eNeuro (https://www. eneuro.org/content/9/6/ENEURO. 0497-22.2022). I hope they will be useful to some fellow scientists, and especially trainees.

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@markkula @KathaSchmack @albertcardona @kanoldlab @rhodricusack @antoniolozano @jmgrohneuro Thanks for the encouragement! I have refined those "tips for writing science" and they are now published in eNeuro (https://www. eneuro.org/content/9/6/ENEURO. 0497-22.2022). I hope they will be useful to some fellow scientists, and especially trainees.

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The first page of the article titled "Some tips for writing science", available at this link: https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0497-22.2022

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Back in 1996 I spent a month working with Horace Barlow (!) and he told me an interesting fact: after the war (I guess in the 1950s) he'd go to Soho in London to buy electronics discarded by the British military. He was particularly interested in boxes that contained a (fancy) photosensor aimed at a (cheap) light bulb. He explained why the British military had those boxes, and it's fascinating. Care to guess why? ( if you already know the answer, please hold your tongue as it may spoil the fun)

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Back in 1996 I spent a month working with Horace Barlow (!) and he told me an interesting fact: after the war (I guess in the 1950s) he'd go to Soho in London to buy electronics discarded by the British military. He was particularly interested in boxes that contained a (fancy) photosensor aimed at a (cheap) light bulb. He explained why the British military had those boxes, and it's fascinating. Care to guess why? ( if you already know the answer, please hold your tongue as it may spoil the fun)