About DINOC Philosophy / Neuro3000.com

DINOC is your Digital Neuronal Operations Center: Digital Items in AANs power Language and Thought. Perhaps.
ABOUT DINOC Journal: Site is being seeded by recent and past works, many involving NU students and graduates. Topical Commentaries (coming soon) are intended to spark discussion (and critique) of this approach to revealing neuronal-circuit evolution in Hominids. Initial posters and docs already provide a substantial foundation on our Neuro-Generative Grammar and the SNOPs (Symbolic Neuronal Operations) that power your thoughts and your language. Ping Don for more info about how you might contribute to the future of Neuro-Linguistics!
Thanks to Dick Masland, Paul Adams, Barry Burbach, Susan Powers Lee, Veronica Godoy, James Monaghan, Missy Borla, Jorge Jose and many other colleagues, friends and family, including OMalley Lab members and so many NBOA/Inquiries Students for contributions, guidance, support and so many questions (so little time). PRESS
DINOC Submissions must have Abstract, Bibliography and in-text citations: DINOC opts for clean, neat style for all elements. Exemplars to be posted soon. Non-profit, informal publishing of curated works and commentaries anticipated for the coming years/decades. Systems Neuroscience, Paleogenetics and Neuro-Linguistics especially welcome. Thanks to GT McConnville Foundation. Authors of published works retain all rights and responsibilities for article contents.
While WDSCF is the main current focus of DINOC, the Neurobiology of Aging / NBOA field features the opposite question, where do sentences go? [along with the rest of our cognition]. Both are Computational Problems, perhaps largely for future generations. But we know every cognitive deficit has a computational / neuronal failure: if every neuron was working perfectly, no cognitive deficits!

Each point of light, a single iCR neuron, one of 10 billion.

AS OF 2026: Neuro3000 will be offering advanced Neuro-Linguistics and focusing on SNOPs: Symbolic Neuronal Operations. SNOPs make up the Linguistic / Semantic core of Hominid Neocortex, thus powering Fully Modern Thought and Language (FMT / FML). We will soon launch of a novel, curated and open access publishing option: The DINOC Journal. We are especially interested in what intracranial recordings / iCR will have to say by 2050.
SYMBOLIC operations in Zebrafish Brainstem or Rabbit Retina do not seem warmly welcomed by some in the Cognitive Linguistics community (and I mean you Prof. Fodor). BUT the notion of symbol is quite generally described as a sign that represents or means something, and a spot of light (of certain size and speed) moving across the Zebrafish Optic Tectum means food just as surely as a Red Octagon with 4 white letters means YOU should be paying attention to the road (if driving) because that visual pattern / sign in V1 is just as important as the visual symbol crawling across the larval optic tectum. And don't let the 'larval' name fool you, dem 7-day old fish are Natural Born Killers! Our Philosophy, at the Digital Neuronal Operations Center is to promote neuron-level analysis and research to understand the symbols in our minds (brains). Hard to find minds using electrodes, but dem fMRI-ologists can read minds! Just not mine. Post Script: saddened to just learn of JF's demise and given my sass above I went ahead and just ordered "Minds without Meaning"...I can relate. w/ Zenon, Princess Warrior. The Where do Sentences Come From challenge is vast, across evolutionary time and neuronal space.
CONTRIBUTORS: TO NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Hi, I'm Don O'Malley

PhD in Physiology and Biophysics - Harvard Medical School Author: Hominid Games, Neurobiology of Aging
I've been doing Systems Neuroscience for a very long time. Worked with Dick Masland at MGH on rabbit retina. At SUNY-SB, did first live animal neuronal-population imaging (thx to Paul Adams & Barry Burbach). Described the Locomotor Repertoire of Zebrafish at NU (w/ Budick, Borla, Gahtan, Severi, Naga and Westphal).
These days, I care about SNOPs and Hominid Games. SNOPs are Symbolic Neuronal Operations in mammalian neocortex. I also wrote a Neurobiology of Aging textbook.

Nancy Madigan

PhD in Neuropsychology - City University in New York NBOA Textbook Co-Author
Dr. Madigan's expertise includes neuropsychological assessments for those with neurological and psychiatric disorders, including dementia, multiple sclerosis, concussion/traumatic brain injury, and neurodevelopmental disorders / learning disorders. She had worked for many years as a staff neuropsychologist in the Cognitive Neurology Unit at Beth Israel hospital in Boston. She currently sees patients in private practice.

Kate Cruite, Lucille Johnston & Whitney Kuwamoto

Former Northeastern Students NBOA Textbook Contributors
Whitney, Lucille and Kate were Behavioral Neuroscience / Biology students at Northeastern University who had taken the NBOA course (during its early years) and then continued working on this project, making important contributions to their respective chapters.

Rachel Waddell

Former Northeastern Student Neuro 3000 Website Contributor
Rachel Waddell was a student at Northeastern's Khoury Colleges pursuing a B.S. in Data Science as well as a minor in Behavioral Neuroscience. Her interest in neuroscience and experience in website work brought her onto this project. She helped redesign the layout and user experience of the Neuro3000 website.

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