Neurons in a visual brain area of zebrafish are arranged as a map for catching prey. Spotting, pursuing and catching prey...
Sensory Systems
A novel sequence to improve auditory functional MRI with...
Purpose: Auditory functional MRI (fMRI) often uses silent inter-volume delays for stimulus presentation. However...
An optical illusion opens a window into the brain
Interview with Yunmin Wu from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, who identified neurons enabling zebrafish to...
On a quest for a magnetic compass
caesar researcher Pascal Malkemper awarded with an ERC Starting Grant He is on a fascinating quest to understand a...
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A Screening Tool...
People differ in how they respond to artworks. Measuring such individual differences is helpful for explaining response...
Neuroaesthetics
Neuroaesthetics uses the tools of psychology and neuroscience to understand the nature of aesthetic experiences, such as...
Acoustic-driven oscillators as cortical pacemaker”: a...
This is a commentary on a review article by Meyer, Sun & Martin (2019), “Synchronous, but not entrained: exogenous...
Directed protein evolution with CRISPR-Cas9
New area of application for gene scissors: Optimized proteins for biomedical research “Directed evolution” is...
Early visual experience drives precise alignment of cortical...
Researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience identify three distinct cortical representations that...
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...