The Brain Club Archive

2018Second half: October 2018- November 2018

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2018Second half: December 2018 - March 2019

2018/12/07(Fri): Discussion

• T. Ishikawa practiced making a presentation at a preliminary examination of doctoral thesis.

2018/1/11(Fri): Journal Club

• Report T. Ishikawa: Shai Ben-David, Pavel Hrubes, Shay Moran, Amir Shpilka and Amir Yehudayoff "Learnability can be undecidable." Nature machine intelligence (2019) vol.1 44-48.

2019/1/25(Fri): Discussion

• T. Takano practiced making a presentation at a preliminary examination of doctoral thesis.

2019/2/1(Fri): Discussion

• We had a discussion about Takano's presentation at a preliminary examination of doctoral thesis.

2019/2/15(Fri): Journal Club & Progress Report

• Association of plasma leptin levels with incident Alzheimer disease and MRI measures of brain aging.
  Lieb W, Beiser AS, Vasan RS, Tan ZS, Au R, Harris TB, Roubenoff R, Auerbach S, DeCarli C, Wolf PA, Seshadri S. (2009)
  JAMA. doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1836.
  Report A. Onzo

• Processed foods and food reward.
  Small DM, DiFeliceantonio AG. (2019)
  Science. doi: 10.1126/science.aav0556.
  Report A. Onzo

• Libet experiment and free will.
  Report K. Omata

2019/2/22(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Opinion: How can we boost the impact of publications? Try better writing.
  Freeling B, Doubleday ZA, Connell SD. (2019)
  PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1819937116.
  Report M. Toshima

• The brain as artificial intelligence: prospecting the frontiers of neuroscience.
  Fuller, S. (2018)
  AI & SOCIETY doi: 10.1007/s00146-018-0820-1
  Report K. Mogi

2019/3/1(Fri): Journal Club & Special Talk

• Finches choose parent lookalikes as mates.
  Spurgin LG, Chapman T. (2018)
  Nature doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-07494-8.
  Report T. Takano

• Facial Expressions of Basic Emotions in Japanese Laypeople.
  Sato W, Hyniewska S, Minemoto K, Yoshikawa S. (2019)
  Front Psychol. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00259. eCollection 2019.
  Report T. Takano

• A. Onzo prepared her first special lecture.

2019/3/8(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Nonpolitical images evoke neural predictors of political ideology.
  Ahn WY, Kishida KT, Gu X, Lohrenz T, Harvey A, Alford JR, Smith KB, Yaffe G, Hibbing JR, Dayan P, Montague PR. (2014)
  Curr Biol. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.050.
  Report K. Omata

• AI and brain. Some explorations.
  Report K. Mogi

2019/3/15(Fri): Journal Club & Research Talk

• Thanatophobia (Death Anxiety) in the Elderly: The Problem of the Child's Inability to Assess Their Own Parent's Death Anxiety State.
  Sinoff G. (2017)
  Front Med (Lausanne). doi: 10.3389/fmed.2017.00011. eCollection 2017.
  Report A. Onzo

• The spread of true and false news online.
  Vosoughi S, Roy D, Aral S. (2018)
  Science. doi: 10.1126/science.aap9559.
  Report M. Toshima

2019/3/29(Fri): Research Talk

• Cooporative principle
  Report K. Omata