As the U.S. government takes steps to stop using nonhuman primates in research, The Transmitter investigates what that shift means for neuroscience.

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Learn the basics of neural networks and backpropagation, one of the most important algorithms for the modern world.

Comparisons are fundamental to science: experiment against model, one organism against another, a system against itself across time. Because many systems, from brains to climate, are characterized by ...

Nature Neuroscience - Senne, Suthard and colleagues show that dorsal hippocampal astrocytes display time-compressed calcium-event sequences after foot shock and upon context re-exposure, and that...

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Using a combined approach of monkey electrophysiology, artificial neural networks and human psychophysics, Xue et al. show that neuronal interference from irrelevant information underlies behavioral e...

Two researchers who study the debilitating sleep disorder have won a prestigious Lasker Award. Their research in animals laid the groundwork for a new drug that addresses the conditions’s root cause.

I use birdsong to understand how the brain learns complex skills across molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior, and computation. On the 2026–27 faculty job market.

An imaging system developed to record cellular activity throughout the whole body of zebrafish captures cellular organ dynamics and identifies multiple distributed circuits.

Detailed behavior analysis is essential for thorough characterization of ethologically relevant behaviors in model organisms, yet manual annotation of the full behavioral repertoire remains subjective...

Rapid learning, memory, and generalization are often attributed to circuits of the neocortex and hippocampus, but their specific role remains unclear. To examine these cognitive abilities together in ...

Classic experiments by Albert Bandura more than 50 years ago first illustrated that aggression is shaped not just by innate predisposition but also by…

Recent studies reveal striking representational alignment between artificial neural networks (ANNs) and biological brains, leading to proposals that all sufficiently capable systems converge on univer...

Genetics profoundly influences aggression by shaping neural circuits, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, authors show that strain differences in male mouse aggression are linked to di...

This course covers fundamentals of quantitative behavior analysis, machine learning, and data science for neuroscience, genetics, and biomedical researchers.

While isolated motor actions can be correlated with activities of neuronal networks, an unresolved problem is how the brain assembles these activities into organized behaviors like action sequences. Using brain-wide calcium imaging in Caenorhabditis elegans, we show that a large proportion of neuron …

The Marr–Albus framework describes learning in Purkinje cells (PCs) through supervised plasticity associated with complex spikes. However, complex spikes occur with low probability in individual PCs f...