Mice spontaneously form leader and follower roles during cooperation, and the medial prefrontal cortex encodes these role dynamics and an egocentric social value map of the partner’s position.

Highlights Salk Fellow Talmo Pereira, who designs AI-based tools to study movement in fields ranging from neuroscience to plant biology, joins the faculty as assistant professor Julie Law, who studies...

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Applications are open! Program Overview & Goals The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences Symposium for a Diverse Inclusive Scientific Community Offering a Vision for an Ecosystem Reimagined (DISCO...

Much like open source software, open science is a path to distributed collaboration. By sharing the data from experiments and investigations open and available, scientists can multiply impact and disc...

The learning algorithms that produce social behavior are unknown. Here the authors show that artificial fish, modeled via embodied deep neural networks, learn the same social behaviors as real fish, s...