At the crossroads of neurosciences and philosophy, a reflection proposing the geopolitical metaphor of borders to better describe the interfaces regulating the exchanges between the blood and the brain. So, “Blood-Brain Barriers”, or “Blood-Brain Borders” ? 

Within social species, dominance hierarchies more often show a pyramid-shaped structure than a tree-shaped structure. Moreover, at a cognitive level, humans (adults and infants) are more likely to infer dominance relationships that conform to a pyramid structure than to a tree structure. 

Fiona Qiu received a Scholarship from the AINSE/ANSTO/French Embassies (SAAFE) Research Internship Program, and is a laureate of the UCBL1 Neurograduate School Doctoral Mobility Award. She joined the FLUID Team in a collaborative venture with the Norman Saunders Neuroscience laboratory in Melbourne. She will explore the mechanisms by which the developing brain protect itself from drugs and environmental pollutants. 

Teodora Vékony (MEMO) published a paper in Cerebral Cortex in collaboration with Adam Takács (University of Dresden, Germany), Barbara Tillmann (CAP and Dijon), Frederic Haesebaert (PSYR2), Felipe Pedraza (MEMO) and Dezső Németh (MEMO).

They employed a combination of RIDE (residue iteration decomposition) and MVPA (multivariate pattern analysis) on  data obtained in the Neurocampus' EEG lab to demonstrate that probability information can be decoded both as modality-specific and modality-independent neural representation in sequence learning.