Efficient navigation requires prioritizing information from behaviorally relevant locations. In rats, such selective sampling may arise from theta-paced sweeps in grid and place cell populations, whic...

Illusions are entertaining, but they are also a useful diagnostic tool in cognitive science, philosophy, and neuroscience. A typical illusion shows a gap between how something "really is" and how some...

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Birds use a variety of navigational strategies, including the geomagnetic field, especially when other cues are not available, such as under overcast or nocturnal conditions. Magnetite particles in th...

a companion piece to our ICLR 2026 Paper: Learning is Forgetting: LLM Training As Lossy Compression

In the hippocampus, complex processing of sensory stimuli occurs even in the unconscious state.

Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles. Artificial intelligence is now offering neuroscience the same deal.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social communication tools in the animal kingdom.

Submit your application (Deadline March 31 2026) Snapshot We see and recognize objects effortlessly but vision is in fact a very hard computational problem. At the Vision Lab IISc, we are trying to un...

Essays on neuroscience

Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals.

Nature - Parsimonious deep neural network models can be used for prediction of visual neuron responses.