Researchers use 3-dimensional electron microscopy to map the local connectome in the cerebral cortex. Mammalian brains...
Sensory Systems
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...
The default-mode network represents aesthetic appeal that...
Visual aesthetic evaluations, which impact decision-making and well-being, recruit the ventral visual pathway, subcortical...
A division of labor between power and phase coherence in...
Both time-based (when) and feature-based (what) aspects of attention facilitate behavior, so it is natural to hypothesize...
Brain region for close-up exploration
A mouse’s brain creates a multi-sensory impression of the nearby environment When viewing objects within reach of our...
Humans strategically shift decision bias by flexibly adjusting...
Decision bias is traditionally conceptualized as an internal reference against which sensory evidence is compared...
Identifying predictors of within-person variance in MRI-based...
Adequate reliability of measurement is a precondition for investigating individual differences and age-related changes in...
Diminished pre-stimulus alpha-lateralization suggests...
Older adults experience difficulties in daily situations that require flexible information selection in the presence of...
Otto Hahn Medal for two young Drosophila experts
Aljoscha Leonhardt and Georg Ammer are being honored for their outstanding research This year, two young scientists from...
Gilles Laurent receives second ERC Advanced Grant for project on...
With this prestigious grant of about 2.5 million Euro, Gilles Laurent, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain...