By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, JHU researchers shed light on the ...

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

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 ...

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost layer of the brain—and examined how neurons, or nerve cells, refine their ...

As in larger brains, mouse visual cortex neurons with the same function ... understanding of the structural organization of the brain -- and may help to solve the mystery of the columns?

"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 ...

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...