Researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience identify three distinct cortical representations that...
Sensory Systems
Hidden away: An enigmatic mammalian brain area revealed in...
Scientists find, in reptiles, a brain area previously suspected to play a role in mammalian higher cognitive processes...
Motion patterns instead of pixels
Higher brain areas receive a functional rather than realistic view of the environment Every moment, our eyes receive...
Impact of visual callosal pathway is dependent upon ipsilateral...
The visual callosal pathway, which reciprocally connects the primary visual cortices, is thought to play a pivotal role in...
Constrained Structure of Ancient Chinese Poetry Facilitates...
Ancient Chinese poetry is constituted by structured language that deviates from ordinary language usage [1, 2]; its poetic...
Listening to birdsong reveals basic features of rate perception...
The timing of acoustic events is central to human speech and music. Tempo tends to be slower in aesthetic contexts: rates...
Odor-Induced Multi-Level Inhibitory Maps in Drosophila
Optical imaging of intracellular Ca2+ influx as a correlate of neuronal excitation represents a standard technique for...
Everything is relative: How flies see the world
The neural code in the fly brain continuously adapts to environmental conditions. Our visual system is extremely good at...
The anticipation of events in time
Humans anticipate events signaled by sensory cues. It is commonly assumed that two uncertainty parameters modulate the...
Decision-making process becomes visible in the brain
Transparent fish larvae reveal how a decision makes its way through the brain Without hardly noticing, we make countless...