Butterfly Brain

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Typical for steering cells 42, these neurons modulated their firing rate prior to each turn of the animal (Fig.

She succumbed to the progression of disease five years and two months after the initial presentation. She is author of the Carnegie Medal nominated YA novel Lorali, as well as the Darcy Burdock series (Random House) for younger readers, which was also nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2014, and My Mum is Growing Down (Faber). She has been a roaming reporter for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, judged the BBC National Short Story Award, and has appeared on Blue Peter, Channel 4 News and Newsnight. By resetting their goal directions, we found neurons whose spatial tuning was tightly linked to the goal directions.Laura Dockrill’s narrative voice is a fresh and youthful sounding one, and although she does not shy away from the darker aspects of grief and loss, this is balanced by the lightness and humour in the happy memories. W = −85, n = 14 pairs of simultaneously recorded neurons; two-sided Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test). The story is sometimes scary, at first seems very straightforward and then turns into something so so metaphorical.

Routine MRI scans remained stable for nine months without intervention; at that time MRI demonstrated remarkable local progression of the tumor (Figure ​ (Figure3C). There was an indication of intraventricular extension with subependymal enhancement and transependymal flow along the trigone and occipital horns of the lateral ventricles.This is not surprising considering that most of the 17 butterflies set their goal direction toward the virtual sun hemisphere prior to conditioning, a trend often observed in indoor experiments 40, 53, 54.