This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

Neuroscience continually strives to unravel the intricate relationship between neural network morphology, spiking dynamics, and their resulting functional ...

How do caterpillars keep memories after dissolving into soup? How do we transform without fragmenting? A new AI architecture ...

The brain constantly blends split-second reactions with slower, more thoughtful processing, and new research shows how it pulls this off. Scientists discovered that brain regions operate on different ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

The paper addresses the AI shutdown problem, a long-standing challenge in AI safety. The shutdown problem asks how to design AI systems that will shut down when instructed, will not try to prevent ...

This important study reports three experiments examining how the subjective experience of task regularities influences perceptual decision-making. Although the evidence linking subjective ratings to ...

Humans possess a remarkable balance between stability and flexibility, enabling them to quickly establish new plans and ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

A biologically grounded computational model built to mimic real neural circuits, not trained on animal data, learned a visual categorization task just as actual lab animals do, matching their accuracy ...

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...