Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 22 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02503-7In this Review, Preston, Smith and Voytek examine aperiodic neural activity in the brain and how measuring aperiodic activity can shed light on brain function and disease.

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Humans across cultures not only share the ability to recognise music but also respond to it through movement. While the sensory encoding of music is well-studied, when and how infants naturally start ...

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Music-evoked nostalgia activates the default mode network, reward network, medial temporal lobe, and supplementary motor regions of the brain more than non-nostalgic but familiar music that sounds mu....

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I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:

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Young children transition in and out of more and less synchronous states with their caregivers across physiology, behavior, and brain activity, but wh…

High-density single-neuron recordings show diverse tuning for acoustic and phonetic features across layers in human auditory speech cortex.

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Tools for analyzing spiking data. Contribute to spiketools/spiketools development by creating an account on GitHub.

When I launched my new lab at New York University in 2022, I decided to apply my expertise in computer vision to an urgent problem far outside the brain: climate change.

"Now THAT'S What I Call Getting Into Grad School" is a PhD Application Guide for biomedical graduate programs put together by Ya'el Courtney, a 5th year Neurobiology PhD candidate at Harvard Univers...