Wenn Mäuse und Primaten sich bewegen, verändert das ihre visuelle Wahrnehmung auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise. LMU-Forscher zeigen, dass dahinter dasselbe Prinzip steckt.

Behavior modulates the activity of sensory systems in multiple ways: from gain changes in individual neurons to changing interactions in neural populations. These effects are not universal; while move...

Decision making is associated with frontal brain circuits and spatial navigation with the hippocampus. In addition, recent work in spatial decision making tasks found single neurons in both areas enco...

In this Analysis, Rupprecht et al. investigate the behavior of GCaMP8 variants in spike inference using several different algorithms. They highlight the role of the indicators’ linearity in the infere...

DeepOF: An open-source Python library for mouse behavioral analysis.

Theta oscillations in the medial temporal lobe support memory, but how they relate to eye and body movements during human navigation is unclear. This study shows that theta power increases during sacc...

Nature - Using two-photon microscopy with a panoramic virtual reality setup, how head direction cells in larval zebrafish integrate visual landmarks and optic flow to track orientation is revealed.

The LGN is a critical stage between the retina and visual cortex, but the properties of human LGN neurons are not fully understood. Here the authors report that they closely resemble those in monkeys ...

Dirk Görlich and Steven McKnight receive the Lasker Prize for their groundbreaking research on low complexity regions in proteins.

Die Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina berät Politik und Gesellschaft unabhängig zu wichtigen Zukunftsthemen.

Chaire d'excellence - développement, évolution moléculaire et cellulaire des circuits cérébraux // Full Professor or Associate Professor Chair of Excellence Development, Molecular and Cellula...

Unlike cortical progenitors, ventral telencephalic progenitors retain the ability to generate diverse neuron types during neurogenesis. Here, the authors show that ventral telencephalic progenitor mat...

Our experience of the world is a continuous stream of events that must be segmented and organized at multiple timescales. The neural mechanisms underlying this process remain unknown. In this work, we...

The brain’s ability to prioritize sensory information is crucial for adaptive behavior, yet its mechanisms remain unclear. We investigated basal forebrain cholinergic neurons modulating olfactory bulb...