All animals need a means by which to distinguish sensory inputs caused by their own movements from sensory inputs that are due to sources in the outside world. One such means is provided by corollary ...

Tendrils of fiber optic cable cascaded down from the ceiling, their tips shimmering through a rainbow of colors at the touch of a button. Nearby was a metal carabiner designed to hold a swing. On the ...

Sensory Experience Shapes a Growing Brain: Regulation of Sensory-Dependent Circuit Refinement by TWEAK/Fn14 Cytokine Signaling from thescientistllc on Vimeo. Sensory experience sculpts neural ...

The cerebral cortex processes sensory information via a complex network of neural connections. How are these signals modulated to refine perception? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has ...

A fruit fly walks on a rolling ball. As it meanders, Kevin Daly, biology professor at West Virginia University, looks deep into its brain through a specialized microscope. He's studying how the brain ...

Scientists have untangled a sensory circuit in worms that allows them to choose whether to spend energy on self-defence or rely on the help of nearby bacteria, a new study in eLife reveals. The paper ...

"This is the first neural circuit for temperature sensation in which the full pathway from the skin to the brain has been clearly identified." The cool signal activates when the skin is exposed to ...

In embryonic stages, tactile stimuli simultaneously activate tactile and visual neural pathways. Shortly after birth, both pathways reorganize to allow separate processing of touch and vision. Waves ...

One of the greatest challenges of systems neuroscience is to explain how synaptic connections change to support adaptive behaviours. Neuroscientists have previously showed that synaptic learning ...