Researchers unravel a mechanism behind distinct organizational features in the visual cortex of mouse and ferrets Recent...
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Otto Hahn Medal thanks to an optical illusion
Yunmin Wu receives award for outstanding research For her insights into the neuronal mechanism of motion perception, Dr...
Picky neurons
In the visual thalamus, neurons are in contact with both eyes but respond to only one. The visual thalamus is...
Gut to brain: nerve cells detect what we eat
Nerve cells of the vagus nerve fulfill opposing tasks The gut and the brain communicate with each other in order to...
Wiring diagrams can shed light on how brains operate
A novel approach to connectomics gives insights on the validity of brain models Our brains house about 85 billion...
Simplifying our world
Mice master complex thinking with a remarkable capacity for abstraction Categorization is the brain’s tool to organize...
