Neurons in the spinal cord integrate tactile information and help coordinate walking. Many people are uncomfortable when...
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Continuous ratings of movie watching reveal idiosyncratic...
Visual aesthetic experiences unfold over time, yet most of our understanding of such experiences comes from experiments...
Deep inside the brain: Unraveling the dense networks in the...
Researchers use 3-dimensional electron microscopy to map the local connectome in the cerebral cortex. Mammalian brains...
Mothers’ behavior influences bonding hormone oxytocin in babies
A new epigenetic study suggests that mothers’ behavior can also have a substantial impact on their children’s...
It takes more than a global impression to move a fish
Larval zebrafish require both global and local visual stimuli to avoid drifting. If you drift off course, it’s useful to...
Uncovering the presynaptic distribution and profile of...
Scientists from Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) and the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine...
Dr. Hidehiko Inagaki chooses Max Plank Florida to conduct...
MPFI announces that Dr. Hidehiko Inagaki has joined the institute as a research group leader studying Neural Dynamics and...
“Whoa, I didn’t expect that”
How babies integrate new events into their knowledge. Babies seek to understand the world around them and learn many new...
When cells become cannibals
Max Planck scientists describe the mechanism of partial phagocytosis. Cells can cut up rough: They will sometimes even...
Why the language-ready brain is so complex
In a review article published in Science, Peter Hagoort, professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud University and...