Beyond Glossy Covers: How Magazines Signify and Shape Identities

How earlobes can signify leadership potential.

Beyond the connectome: how neuromodulators shape neural circuits.

Powerful ultrastructural tools are providing new insights into neuronal circuits, revealing a wealth of anatomically-defined synaptic connections. These wiring diagrams are incomplete, however, because functional connectivity is actively shaped by neuromodulators that modify neuronal dynamics, excitability, and synaptic function. Studies of defined neural circuits in crustaceans, C. elegans, Dr...

Scaling Identities for Solitons beyond Derrick’s Theorem

New integral identities satisfied by topological solitons in a range of classical field theories are presented. They are derived by considering independent length rescalings in orthogonal directions, or equivalently, from the conservation of the stress tensor. These identities are refinements of Derrick’s theorem.

Beyond Shape: How You Learn about Objects Affects How They Are Represented in Visual Cortex

BACKGROUND Experience can alter how objects are represented in the visual cortex. But experience can take different forms. It is unknown whether the kind of visual experience systematically alters the nature of visual cortical object representations. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We take advantage of different training regimens found to produce qualitatively different types of perceptual exp...

How to Trace and Revise Identities

The Entity Name System (ENS) is a service aiming at providing globally unique URIs for all kinds of real-world entities such as persons, locations and products, based on descriptions of such entities. Because entity descriptions available to the ENS for deciding on entity identity—Do two entity descriptions refer to the same real-world entity?—are changing over time, the system has to revise it...