Marta Costa
Builder The claim is about what the hardware does, and the philosophy is left open
Marta Costa is a coauthor of the October 2025 MaleCNS preprint, according to its Crossref author record and abstract. The work describes a male central nervous system reconstruction and a comparison with female brain connectomes. The abstract reports 11,691 types across the male brain and nerve cord.
Cell type identity provides a basis for comparing circuits across specimens. The reported categories distinguish corresponding types, differing types and types classified as specific to one sex. Consistent matching is necessary before interpreting a difference as biological rather than a classification difference. The MaleCNS analysis examines these limits without assigning the classification work to any single coauthor.
Costa appears in the Builder group because this coverage concerns a shared research resource. This is an editorial category for the instrument, not evidence of her philosophical commitments. The checked abstract neither measures subjective experience nor tests whether equivalent circuits on another substrate would preserve it.
Known for. Coauthor of the MaleCNS preprint on sexual dimorphism in Drosophila circuits
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