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Peer tutors Diane J. Choi ’10 and Alexander E. H. McNaughton ’11 said the price increase was unfortunate because it would dissuade students from seeking assistance...
...second of its kind to be sent out this week, before which no advisories had been sent out since September. Students expressed concern about the recent crimes on campus. “There’s certainly reason to be vigiliant and aware,” said Alexander E. McNaughton ’11. The department sends advisories directly to Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, as well as the deans of the schools, department public affairs officers, and the Director of News and Public Affairs for the University. They also ask representatives to post...
...jobs have vanished,” Bridge wrote in the e-mail. “The whole not-yet-complete Q staff just got laid off, basically.” According to the e-mail, Bridge said he and Q Guide co-editor Alexander E. H. McNaughton ’11 had learned of the extent of the changes to the Q Guide on Wednesday, just before the information was released to the public. “If this news makes you feel shocked, deceived, and as if you wasted your time, I can completely empathize because, frankly, I feel...
...they have had electrodes small enough and computers powerful enough to record scores of individual neurons at once. The goal is to identify the changing patterns of neuronal firing during sleep. "There are days when we can record up to 500 neurons, but that's not typical," says Bruce McNaughton, a psychologist and physiologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who studies rats. More typically, he is able to tap between 50 and 100 neurons. That's not a lot when you consider that even a rodent's brain has 125 million neurons. But it was enough...
...What McNaughton's recordings have shown is that many of the same neurons that fire during the daytime--say, when a rat is learning to navigate a maze--are reactivated during the REM stage of sleep. "Basically, the brain is reviewing its recently stored data," he says. Eventually the brain consolidates those patterns into permanent connections--or, as neuroscientists like to say, "neurons that fire together, wire together." Interestingly, says McNaughton, that process appears to happen not just during sleep but during restful states throughout the day as well...