Have you ever thought back to a recent day and seen all the events as a continuous film, while your vacation from a year ago ...

If the brain plays back a memory at exactly this ... So, slow-wave sleep evidently supports memory formation by making the neocortex particularly receptive for many short periods of time." ...

Synaptic triads of this sort (axo-axo-somatic) have not been described in neocortex, and indeed they have rarely been observed elsewhere in the brain. The pharmacology of interpyramidal IPSCs was ...

New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

How does your mind change if your brain is connected with other brains? We connect the brains to microchip sensors and feedback novel information that animals (or humans) cannot naturally sense to the ...

Researchers have mapped the long-range synaptic connections involved in vocal learning in zebra finches, uncovering new ...

Therefore, the arrangement of the representation of muscles and movements in the neocortex provides a window into the behavioural priorities of the brain. On a large scale, individuals within a ...