This work, combining behavioural genetics and calcium imaging, provides evidence for a form of learning in Drosophila that derives solely from direct or (optogenetically induced) phantom experience of ...

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

Korean researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that oral bacteria, once colonized in the gut, can affect neurons in ...

The brain never rests: even during deep sleep or under anesthesia, it maintains rhythmic electrical activity known as slow ...

How we focus our attention before we even see an object matters. For example, when we look for something moving in the sky, ...