Fast processing of emotionally salient facial expressions is widely believed to depend on a subcortical visual circuit from the superior colliculus through the thalamus to the amygdala, but the specif...

Tunicates are the sister group to the vertebrates, yet most species have a life cycle split between swimming larva and sedentary adult phases. During metamorphosis, larval neurons are largely replaced...

We investigated the neural bases of navigation based on spatial or sequential egocentric representation during the completion of the starmaze, a complex goal-directed navigation task. In this maze, mi...

Action-selection is determined by a combination of goal-directed and habitual processes. Habits are defined as the reward-independent, stimulus-response relationships which form when an action is regu...

Abstract. Accurate forecasts of population-level behavior critically inform institutional choices and public policy. While neuroforecasting research sugges

The basolateral amygdala (BLA) has long been implicated in threat detection and the generation of anxiety states. While previous experiments have demonstrated the important role of BLA principal neuro...

How do neighboring bacterial biofilms sense and communicate with each other? In a recent paper, Liu et al. (2017) demonstrate how electrical signaling allows communication of metabolic states between adjacent B. subtilis biofilms, providing a ...

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There is increasing evidence that even the smallest animal brains provide a capacity for selective attention and subjective awareness, but it is unknown if similar mechanisms might be employed as in higher animals. Recent work in insects highlights ...

The canonical view of how general anesthetics induce loss-of-consciousness (LOC) permitting pain-free surgery posits that anesthetic molecules, distributed t...

The bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only effect is the creation of a severe but nonfatal red meat allergy. Public health departments warn against lone s...

Much recent interest has centered on understanding the relationship between brain structure variability and individual differences in cognition, but there has been little progress in identifying speci...

Humans blink their eyes frequently during normal viewing, more often than it seems necessary for keeping the cornea well lubricated. Since the clos...

It remains unknown why we generate spontaneous eyeblinks every few seconds, more often than necessary for ocular lubrication. Because eyeblinks ten...

Our memories do not simply keep time — they warp it, bending the past to fit the structure of our experiences. For example, people tend to remember items as occurring farther apart in time if they spa...

When reading a book, we tend to blink over less familiar words, which suggests it may have a cognitive role

Researchers at the University’s Boyce Thompson Institute have recently uncovered that aspirin might not be working the way most doctors think it does. Prof. Daniel Klessig, plant science at BTI, has b...