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Why the passport you inherit can determine your place — and potential — in a hierarchy of global inequality.

Diurnal animals commonly navigate using a sun compass, compensating for the sun’s movement to maintain accurate headings during migration or homing.1,…

Cognitive maps enable the flexible selection of navigation paths. Acoustic cognitive maps, constructed from the spatial layout of sonar auditory objec…

Abstract. The scope of unconscious integration is widely debated. Here, we examined this question, focusing specifically on deciphering the relations betwe

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience on Simons Foundation

Nature Neuroscience - Using two-photon imaging in awake bats, the authors show that the inferior colliculus encodes vocalization categories as categorical primitives—spatially clustered,...

Natural neuroscience departs from the classical reductionist approach, which emphasizes control at the expense of natural behaviors, by proposing a shift tow...

Stratification makes environments look like genes

Seeber et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. Neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly, demonstrating parallels between navigational, im...