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A new paper, researchers at the Flatiron Institute, NYU Langone, and Rutgers University propose that sensory neurons are not just passive filters but active, “self-supervised learners“. Their job is to find hidden structures in the dynamic flow of sensory data, effectively sorting the present moment based on its shared history or its likely future.
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The age at which a person is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder is sometimes linked to their genetic make-up and their risk of developing mental-health conditions, according to an analysis of behavioural and genetic data.