Disentangling simple from complex cells

The Neural Correlates of Emotional Prosody Comprehension: Disentangling Simple from Complex Emotion

BACKGROUND Emotional prosody comprehension (EPC), the ability to interpret another person's feelings by listening to their tone of voice, is crucial for effective social communication. Previous studies assessing the neural correlates of EPC have found inconsistent results, particularly regarding the involvement of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). It remained unclear whether the involvement ...

Disentangling the Trichoderma viridescens complex

Trichoderma viridescens is recognised as a species complex. Multigene analyses based on the translation elongation factor 1-alpha encoding gene (tef1), a part of the rpb2 gene, encoding the second largest RNA polymerase subunit and the larger subunit of ATP citrate lyase (acl1) reveals 13 phylogenetic species with little or no phenotypic differentiation. This is the first use of acl1 in Trichod...

Complex Networks from Simple Rules

Complex networks are all around us, and they can be generated by simple mechanisms. Understanding what kinds of networks can be produced by following simple rules is therefore of great importance. This issue is investigated by studying the dynamics of extremely simple systems where a “writer” moves around a network, modifying it in a way that depends upon the writer’s surroundings. Each vertex ...

From Simple to Complex Compounds

What simple and complex cells compute.

Visual neuroscientists seek to answer two related questions. First, what does the visual system do? Second, how does it do it? While an answer to the second question is a description based on anatomy and biophysics, an answer to the first question is a description of computations performed on images. Important steps in providing this description were made with the publication of two classical s...