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

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 2 November.

Professor of neuroscience and psychology Rutgers University-Newark ...

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.

The U.S. government has touted organoids as an alternative to animals for studying the brain. The model has improved since its debut in 2013, but scientists are still working to overcome key ...

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

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 ...

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