Dopamine sites mimic shopping’s thrill without the spending, turning the ritual of consumption into a digital game.

​ ​Animals must make crucial behavioural choices on a minute by minute basis to survive in a changing environment. A long-standing enigma is, how are alternative options evaluated in the brain...

Biological sciences; Behavioral neuroscience; Laboratory animal science

Placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality may lead neuroscience down the wrong path.

Our summer reading list includes books on the Human Brain Project, the neuroscience of motherhood and the career of a Huntington’s disease researcher.

Animals adapt their behavior by integrating sensory evidence with prior experience and contextual information. Understanding how animals employ specific behavioral strategies to integrate these variab...

Artificial intelligence may soon enable researchers to generate high-quality science at a previously unimaginable speed.

What the latest fMRI “crisis” means for the rest of science

This workshop will celebrate 20 years of neural theory!

In neurons, the mapping from inputs to output involves complex biophysical processes. Despite this complexity, it is now shown that simple artificial models explain a large fraction of the variability...

This workshop will celebrate 20 years of neural theory!

Enlightening the brain

We seek a predoctoral research assistant to join the Humphries’ group at the University of Nottingham on a BBSRC-funded project to study the neural basis of foraging, in collaboration with the groups of Matthew Apps (Birmingham) and Nathan...

As with Peter Mandelson, so in the science world: the Epstein files are not telling us anything that most ordinary punters didn’t already know, but are revealing the full, rotten, appalling extent …

Enlightening the brain

Enlightening the brain

It is unclear which aspects of experience shape sleep’s contributions to learning. Here, by combining neural recordings in rats with reinforcement learning, the authors show that reward-prediction sig...

During natural behaviour, changes in the visual scene are largely driven by the subject’s own movements, which can be actively generated (e.g., walking) or passively imposed by external forces (e.g., ...