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...

Sleep is a widespread biological state found across both vertebrates and invertebrates, yet its expression and functions remain incompletely understood. Comparative research shows that invertebrates, ...

Brains rely on internal models of the world to interpret sensory input and to simulate the future. In the mammalian hippocampal-entorhinal network, environments are represented by cognitive maps that ...

What does The Edge of Sentience tell us about insect sentience and consciousness? In this commentary, we reflect on Jonathan Birch’s framework for defining and scientifically investigating sentience i...

This Special Issue of the Journal of Comparative Physiology A continues the journal’s tradition of recognizing pioneering neuroethologists by honoring Peter M. Narins. A former Associate Editor of the...

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Using a virtual reality system, experiments in Drosophila show that flies use memory mechanisms to navigate along the boundary of an odour plume and track the source of a smell.

Distinguishing visual input generated by active eye movements from input due to external events is a fundamental challenge for visual processing. Here, we uncover a remarkably simple solution to this ...

An object on immediate collision course generates a rapidly expanding visual stimulus on the retina, which will typically trigger a fast reaction, such as an evasive behavior. In hoverflies, for examp...

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Neurons have long taken top billing in memory, but researchers are making the case for astrocytes.

Finding comes from first-of-its-kind study of thousands of wild snakes

A phased diploid telomere-to-telomere reference genome for the zebra finch fully resolves its complete somatic chromosome set, recovering 2,710 previously missing or unannotated genes. The assembly al...

Bats navigating clutter must steer around obstacles to avoid collision, while simultaneously planning future flight trajectories. In this study, we investigated active sensing strategies of two bat sp...

Efficient navigation requires prioritizing information from behaviorally relevant locations. In rats, such selective sampling may arise from theta-paced sweeps in grid and place cell populations, whic...

Selective processing of behaviorally relevant sounds in complex environments requires dynamic modulation of auditory representations. Here, we show that behaviorally relevant sound locations selective...

Discover how insects navigate using vision, memory and cues from nature. A clear, engaging look at ants, bees, and the remarkable abilities of tiny brains.