which upends assumptions about the speed of learning and the role of the sensory cortex, and which the researchers believe ...

This adds to our general understanding of the structural organization of the brain—and may help to ... organization for ...

New research uncovers how the brain processes learning by identifying the exact moment an animal learns a new skill.

After making a mouse brain transparent in this way ... “There are ridiculously simple questions about the cortex that we can’t answer at all,” says Clay Reid, a former colleague of Jeff ...

Have you ever felt a chill run down your spine while watching someone else in distress? This phenomenon, known as vicarious ...

In a huge collaborative effort, researchers profiled millions of cells to chart a cellular map of a mouse brain ... parts of the brain surprised the researchers. “We assumed that other parts of the ...

This is the same type of neuron — a pyramidal cell — from the cortex of a mouse, chimp and human. The mouse brain has fewer of these cells and they are less well connected compared with the ...

The researchers used fiber photometry systems to detect neurotransmitters, which involved injecting the mice with fluorescent ...

Brain-wide cell-type comparisons made ... Gene regulatory programs in the primary motor cortex of human, macaque, marmoset and mouse were investigated with single-cell multiomics assays ...

A research team at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has uncovered a fundamental principle of how the brain prioritizes vision and hearing differently depending on whether we are still or in ...

"Looking at a tiny part of the brain in a mouse, we can understand how the brain ... the team recorded the activity of neurons in the auditory cortex, an area of the brain associated with hearing ...