When monkeys draw novel complex shapes, neural activity representing a previously learned repertoire appears in a single brain area.

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You’re a monkey, and somebody in a white lab coat has shown you a location where a delicious, ever-so-nummy, bit of banana has been placed, and then obscured your visual field. It is up to you, my goo...

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The debate highlights opposing views on how the cortex transmits information.

Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."

The Paris Brain Institute is launching a Call for Junior Group Leaders, inviting outstanding early-career scientists in artificial intelligence, data science, computational neuroscience, and related f...

The international DIM C-BRAINS PhD program is back. Up for grabs: 7 fully funded, 3-year doctoral contracts in the Île-de-France region, 3 of which will be hosted by the Institut du Cerveau. Applicati...

Facial gestures are one fundamental set of communicative behaviors in primates, generated through the dynamic arrangement of many fine muscles. Anatomy shows that facial muscles are under direct contr...

A countenance such as a grimace activates many of the same cortical pathways as voluntary facial movements.

The ability to consider and appraise positively valenced stimuli in the environment, such as food and social interaction, to guide appropriate action is important for survival of most animals. Several...

Drawing on methods from psychophysics across ten experiments, Boger and Firestone examine the cognitive and computational foundations of style perception. Their findings suggest that this capacity is grounded in psychological processes for separating form from content.

The evolutionary origins of human language are deeply intertwined with the ability to communicate intentionally. Grounded in frameworks from developme…

Humans, dolphins, and elephants are the only known species that vocally label their conspecifics. It remains unclear whether nonhuman primates share this ability. We recorded spontaneous “phee-call” d...

Animals capable of complex behaviors tend to have more distinct brain areas than simpler organisms, and artificial networks that perform many tasks tend to self-organize into modules ( [1][1]–[3][2] )...

Behavior is more complex than scientists realized, could reveal origins of musicality

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Understanding how the brain reflects and shapes mood requires resolving the disconnect between behavioral measures of mood that can only be made in humans (typically based on subjective reports of hap...

Memory formation requires neural activity reorganization during experience that persists in sleep. How these processes promote learning while preserving established memories remains unclear. We record...

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Using advanced brain-recording techniques, parrots were found to have a brain organization for vocal control similar to humans, making them an important model for studying speech and for developing potential treatments for communication disorders.

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The pursuit of fleeing prey is a core element of many species behavioral repertoires. It poses the difficult problem of continuous tracking of multiple agents, including both self and others. To under...