A process that uses a lottery system saves time and accepts that, above a quality threshold, luck has always played a part in science funding.

Rapid communication between the neurons of the cerebral cortex involves propagation of an action potential, but the assumption that this is the sole form of cortical neuronal communication may need re...

Science of Intelligence Seminar

Curiosity, the intrinsic motivation to investigate and gain information, is fundamental to human intelligence. However, like other cognitive capacities that ...

The lab at our end-of-semester field day

Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...

Workshop at IEEE ISMAR 2026

This study establishes the ghost mechanism as an underlying mechanism for abrupt learning, whereby the recurrent neural network develops ghost points---transient dynamical bottlenecks---and identifies...

We don’t have hormones, hormones have us.

Postdoc Fatih Dinc has been recognized by the the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his work developing a bridge between mathematics and neuroscience.

During learning, neural circuits reorganize to encode new information and adapt behavioral responses. Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM…

Letter to the Editor

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