The study presents a useful computational analysis of how the ratio between excitatory and inhibitory neural numbers affects coding capacity. The authors show that increasing the proportion of ...

For more than 50 years, it has been known that in the cerebral cortex of many mammals, neurons with the same function are ...

The image is a time projection of mitochondria (in the cytoplasm, grey) and chromosomes (center of the cell, orange) during anaphase showing a flow pattern with vortexes. The flow pattern is aligned ...

How do you make a sensible decision about whether it’s safe to cross the street when your brain must instantaneously juggle ...

One brain region critical for decision making is the prefrontal cortex, which sits just behind the eyes and is lauded as the epicenter of higher cognition. Previous research found that the response of ...

Neuroscientists have discovered how the brain distinguishes between visual motion occurring in the external world from that ...

Brazilian researchers have created the first cell atlas of focal cortical dysplasia (FCD), a malformation of the cerebral cortex that leads to drug-resistant epilepsy. These cases are most common ...