How can we measure a skeleton’s motion in a furry animal as it moves through its environment? Researchers at the Max...
Motor Systems
Near-natural, fractal architecture promotes well-being
Basic researchers call for urban design based on scientific facts An interdisciplinary group of researchers uses basic...
Another Way of Being in Tune: How Fingers and Brains Coordinate...
Playing an instrument presents an enormous challenge for our brains. How exactly the brain masters the complex...
Ready, Set … GO!
Scientists discover a brain circuit that triggers the execution of planned movement. Planned movement is essential to our...
Simplifying our world
Mice master complex thinking with a remarkable capacity for abstraction Categorization is the brain’s tool to organize...
See where the journey goes
The challenges of autonomous driving. Autonomous vehicles could become the cars of the future. However, they still face a...
Speaking rhythmically can shape hearing
Evidence suggests that temporal predictions arising from the motor system can enhance auditory perception. However, in...
Inhibition within a premotor circuit controls the timing of...
Vocal turn-taking is a fundamental organizing principle of human conversation but the neural circuit mechanisms that...
How a Bird Brain Times Tweets
Inhibitory neurons in the zebra finch brain control coordinated vocal interactions Zebra finches can take turns when...
Neurotelemetry Reveals Putative Predictive Activity in HVC...
Premotor predictions facilitate vocal interactions. Here, we study such mechanisms in the forebrain nucleus HVC (proper...