
researching the Neurobiology of empathy and pro-social behavior in mammals [email protected]
Tel-Aviv university
Joined October 2011
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Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal retweeted
Last week to apply to our course on #BehavioralPrototyping and #BehavioralControl. Learn how to use @bonsai_rx , design your behavioral setup and build the state machine you need for your experiments. @EBBS_Science is sponsoring 10 spots!!
🚨Are you looking for a hands on course that will allow you to create your own behavioral setups, align behavior with neural data and manipulate circuits in a highly controlled manner?
🔧Join us in #Coimbra (Portugal)!
@EBBS_Science is sponsoring 10 spots for its members. 👇
Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal retweeted
Breakthrough Nature paper...
Brain neurons record autoimmune activity and remember it....
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal retweeted
This website visualizes social media as a room with 100 people in it
3 people are producing most of the toxic content
Most people assume 43 are producing toxic content, because these 3 are hyperactive
Engagement-based ranking amplifies the 3 provocative, high-reaction users.
The other 97 quiet voices disappear or self-censor.
And the loud minority thinks it's the majority: the more someone posts, the more they believe the public agrees with them!
thenoisyroom.com/
Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal retweeted
Interested in how and why people ascribe conscious to AI? Come work with @AnatPerry, @Deouell and me on this problem. Applications for postdoc positions are welcome!
Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal retweeted
Pre-print alert! @AmitKoIt from our lab created NaviGraph, an open source tool to easily consolidate data streams (location, head direction, calcium imaging and more) into a multi-layer graph. Great for any 2D spatial decision making layouts. bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/3njrj92n
Why, and when, do we decide to help someone? Understanding the neural mechanisms that explain #prosocial behavior is a major mission of our lab. This week, we've published a paper in #JNeurosci that sheds some light on that question, at least in rats :
jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.…
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Although we still had some rat helpers after general oxytocinergic inhibition via the PVN, affiliative behavior was significantly reduced by this manipulation.
In sum, affiliative relationships between rat dyads predicts helping and activity in the prosocial brain network!
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Congrats to the amazing team that worked so hard on this paper: talented co-first authors Dr. Reut Hazani & Dr. @joce_breton, as well as @KerenRuzal, Dr. @estherina_t, and all other authors! meet them here: bartallab.sites.tau.ac.il/te…
Thanks for reading! @of_sagol #empathy
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Feeling hungry for a social paper? Feast your eyes on this - mechanism for social homeostasis unveiled by @DulacLab’s fantastic team! nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal retweeted
We are excited to share our latest work showing that mice display rescue-like prosocial behavior toward unresponsive partners. @ScienceMagazine
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal retweeted
You are now constantly being manipulated so your attention can be captured and sold. This is done through a variety of ways, one of which is through the constant stream of outrage that is being pumped constantly through your eyes and ears into your brain.
Sometimes it is useful to be aware of things in the world that you have the power to help change. Other times it creates a sense of hopelessness, distraction from things that matter, or, worse, an appeal to our own prejudices.
Learning how to regulate your attention in the face of this tsunami is now a zen-level skill that everyone in society needs to understand and master. Otherwise you will be endlessly manipulated until the day you die.
Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal retweeted
🚨Thrilled to share our new study in Cerebral Cortex🚨: "The Future, Before, and After" The ability to imagine things we haven’t done before is one of the hallmarks of human cognition. How do we do it?
academic.oup.com/cercor/arti…
Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal retweeted
Don't let what you see on social media skew your view of humanity.
Most bad behavior is due to a few bad apples:
• Just 3% of active users are toxic, but they generate 33% of online content
• 1% of communities launch 74% of conflict
• 0.1% of users spread 80% of fake news
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