Sometimes a gentle touch feels sharp and distinct, other times it fades into the background. This inconsistency isn’t just mood—it’s biology. Scientists found that the thalamus doesn’t just relay ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new, and important or just "background noise." Led by researchers ...

A recent small study analyzes how the psychedelic drug LSD reshapes brain activity. The research shows that the substance ...

Functionally analogous to biological generative models, these traveling waves allow the brain to infer sensory causes, ...

Researchers gave adult mice with autism-like traits a single dose of rapamycin. The treatment improved social, sensory, and ...

Scientists at Newcastle University's Neural Circuits Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the Blue Brain Project ...

Researchers have mapped the long-range synaptic connections involved in vocal learning in zebra finches, uncovering new details about how the brain organizes learned vocalizations such as birdsong.

Researchers have discovered how two brain areas, neocortex and thalamus, work together to detect discrepancies between what animals expect from their environment and actual events. These prediction ...

A new mouse study led by UCLA Health suggests that inflammation during pregnancy can trigger autism-like changes in offspring ...