In his new book, Michael W. Cole examines how the movement of neuronal activity between neural populations shapes free will, intelligence and creativity.

Pruning method: Many neurons in the prenatal brain are rife with copy number variants, most of which are eliminated before birth or shortly thereafter, a new study reports. Investigators conducted ...

Then, in the 1980s, the genetic revolution arrived, bringing with it the concrete information that embryologists had long ...

Michael Cole is professor of neuroscience and psychology at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University-Newark, where he directs the Cole Neurocognition Laboratory. His ...

The effort seeks to train the model on data that scientists plan to collect over five years—but questions about its utility and feasibility remain.

Macaques and marmosets recapitulate the condition’s core traits better than mice can, but funding uncertainty and challenges ...

Retinal waves offer a powerful example of a self-organizing system that can build structure without external guidance.

Robin Hiesinger is professor and head of the Division of Neurobiology at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is interested in ...

Lisa Yang ICoN Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ila Fiete is professor of brain and cognitive sciences, associate ...

Fischbach, who died 25 October, elucidated the dynamic changes in neuromuscular junctions. Beyond the lab, he shaped careers, ...

A new platform records neuronal activity and multiple behavioral measures, and includes optogenetic stimulation, enabling ...

The map gives neuroscientists a trove of testable hypotheses about how neuronal circuits guide feeding behaviors.