The dominant theory in neuroscience has been that the sensory processing circuits in our brain are finalized in early ...

When a fruit fly sniffs out a chemical scent, the signal travels to its little brain where a newly discovered circuit quickly transforms that information into a physical response. The feat takes just ...

Action and perception are functionally linked in the brain, but a hotly debated question is whether perception and comprehension of stimuli depend on motor circuits. Brain language mechanisms are ...

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 ...

Far from being sick, motor neurons in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy are actually raring to fire. Unfortunately, they do not receive the signals telling them to do so. So conclude the ...