Gamma rhythms in the brain are neither self-sustaining nor regular. But many earlier models assumed just that. ESI...
Sensory Systems
Experience Required: A role for vision in the development of...
Brain function, much like many other areas of life, is all about balance. Excitatory neurons that increase the activity of...
A brain network for social attraction
Specialized nerve cells in the zebrafish visual system enable recognition of conspecifics Humans are famously social...
Spot the difference: Brain changes that enable fine visual...
Our visual perception of the world is often thought of as relatively stable. However, like all of our cognitive functions...
Getting in the Groove: Why samba makes everyone want to dance
Year after year, carnival in Rio makes one thing perfectly clear: samba moves people. The pounding drums elicit exuberant...
Prefrontal cortex involved in conscious vision
Use of ambiguous visual stimuli to disambiguate the neural correlates of consciousness An international group of...
Near-natural, fractal architecture promotes well-being
Basic researchers call for urban design based on scientific facts An interdisciplinary group of researchers uses basic...
What and Where: Location-Dependent Feature Sensitivity as a...
Traditionally, functional representations in early visual areas are conceived as retinotopic maps preserving ego-centric...
Asymmetry as a building block of neuronal computations
Structure and function of neurons are closely linked in the cerebral cortex. One of the most exciting questions in...
Coherence turned upside down
When Marius Schneider starts his PhD at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, he would not dare to dream that...