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… if the deviations sometimes lead to unnecessary error. The behavior of “exploring” when one could just be “exploiting,” … they’ll stay that way in this uncertain world, so altering behavior from the optimal condition every so often could help … subjects all settled into the same reasonable pattern of behavior regarding the task. The longer the image stayed on …

… to increased neural activity in circuits affecting social behavior. Another mystery was why certain symptoms appear to … Choi has also examined neuroimmune effects on social behavior in other ways. In a study in 2021 she demonstrated … only further explain the effects of cytokines on social behavior during development, but also a mechanism by which …

… stores, and retrieves memories to inform intelligent behavior engram synapse function synapse formation memory … stores, and retrieves memories to inform intelligent behavior. Written By Noah Daly, MIT Biology Department For … and our ability to retrieve it to guide our intelligent behavior are hypothesized to be movements of a neuroplastic …

… in the inner workings of the brain produce differences in behavior and cognition, but also the kind of understanding … looking at factors that account for differences in social behavior in autism, Picower Professor Earl K. Miller of The … aim to tease out how these differences are manifest in behavior. For instance, he’s finding that in at least one …

… can change the output of a circuit involved in a state or behavior. With appreciation of the extraordinary influence of … properties, for instance by affecting social behavior when they act on cortical neurons. She has also seen … affected a particular serotonin-dependent food seeking behavior. Then the team also fluorescently tagged each …

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… whether it was indeed responsible for a particular feeding behavior, he found that within a week it had completely … of techniques such as imaging neural activity during behavior, sequencing gene expression cell by cell, and … to predict how anatomy helps give rise to function and behavior. And given that new neurons are being born, …

… produce learning and memory, perception, consciousness, or behavior, or model how those are altered by disease. For … chemicals such as dopamine or serotonin affect behavior, cell by cell and brain-wide. These advantages make C. elegans a tractable model of the brain-behavior connection, but in no way an easy or trivial one. …