Thank you @fox13seattle.bsky.social for sharing a recent #OpenScope study on the science of illusions!

@hyeyoungshin.bsky.social shared how this research helps the world better understand how schizophrenia and other mental conditions work.

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Do you see a white square?

A new study, supported by our #OpenScope team, identified the key neural circuit and cell type involved with inferring details that don't exist in illusions like the one below.

🔗 alleninstitute.org/news/scienti...

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The Universe Is Painted With Colors You Can’t See. Psychedelics Can Reveal This Hidden World, Scientists Say. There are likely aspects of reality that sit outside our perception—and it’s possible psychedelics reveal some of that, experts say.

A recent #OpenScope study found that psilocybin changes the activity of the visual cortex - the region of the brain involved in visual processing.

Take a trip into emerging psychedelics #neuroskyence research and what its revealing about the brain.👇
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a648...

World’s first crowd-sourced neuroscience study aims to understand how our brains predict the future Using the Allen Institute’s OpenScope platform, experiments will probe brain functions related to “predictive processing”

How does the brain predict the future? 🧠🔮

Scientists will explore this question as part of the first crowd-sourced neuroscience study. Using our #OpenScope platform, they study "predictive processing" or how our brains anticipates what happens next.

#Neuroskyence

The deadline is approaching quickly for our #Neuropixels and #OpenScope Workshop!

2025 Neuropixels and OpenScope Workshop In this workshop, participants will gain in-depth exposure to the tools and techniques used by the Allen Institute to collect in vivo physiology data at scale.

See how we collect in-vivo physiology data at scale at our #Neuropixels and #OpenScope Workshop! Enjoy summer in Seattle, tour our labs, and attend a masterclass on our imaging and ephys methods. 🧠📈

Applications due March 1.

🔗 alleninstitute.org/events/2025-...

2025 Neuropixels and OpenScope Workshop In this workshop, participants will gain in-depth exposure to the tools and techniques used by the Allen Institute to collect in vivo physiology data at scale.

🧠📈 Now accepting applications for our #Neuropixels and #OpenScope Workshop on July 9-11 in Seattle!

Please help us spread the word, esp. to grad students, early career researchers, and those looking to learn a new lab skill.

Apply by 3/1. Free to attend. alleninstitute.org/events/2025-...

Our #OpenScope collaboration with the @alleninstitute.bsky.social is now up in J Neurosci!

#neuroskyence #brains

tl;dr: the responses to violations of a pattern in sequences of images evolve differently in apical dendrites and somata of V1 pyramidal neurons:

www.jneurosci.org/content/44/5...