Enjoy watching the interview of the Associate Editor, Patricia GasparĀ A new Special Feature of EJN focused on the development and plasticity of thalamocortical systems has now been published online. To access the articles of the Special Feature, please click here. In February 2011, scientists assembled in Arolla, a picturesque village in …
Monthly Archive: May 2012
Patricia Gaspar, Associate Editor of EJN – development and plasticity of thalamocortical systems
Enjoy listening to the interview of Patricia Gaspar, the Associate Editor of the Special Feature entitled “Development and Plasticity of Thalamocortical Systems”, giving an overview of the issue and summarizing some features of thalamocortical systems, including the role of serotonin in their formation (interview published May 17, 2012).
Featured Article: Circadian [Ca2+]c Waves and Long-range Network Connections in Rat Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
Featured article of EJN issue 35-9: Circadian [Ca2+]c Waves and Long-range Network Connections in Rat Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Jin Hee Hong, Byeongha Jeong, Cheol Hong Min, and Kyoung J. Lee Center for Cell-dynamics and Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul, Korea The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is the master clock in mammals governing the daily physiological …
Interview Comment by Wolfram Schultz about the Special Issue of EJN on Reinforcement Learning
Wolfram Schultz (Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, UK) has greatly inspired the traditional reinforcement learning framework. What does Wolfram Schultz think about alternative mechanisms to prediction error learning rules to account for elements of reward-learning? To find out download and read the Interview Comment.

