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… interpret new situations April 6, 2020 Research Findings Neurons that store abstract representations of past … Martin are also authors of the paper. Above: Though many sensory details may differ each time, our brain can identify … also showed that if they used optogenetics to inhibit sensory input from a part of the brain called the medial …

… The brain connects sensory information from the environment to our subjective … brains need to disconnect — i.e., sleep — from the noisy sensory world that we’re steeped in. Sleep helps us maintain … formation when the brain is essentially cut off from the sensory world? “The content of memory is hidden during sleep …

… or deleted, the gene alpha CaM kinase II, which enables neurons in the hippocampus to form and strengthen connections … into categories, a feat that requires combining new sensory information with prior experience (i.e. the meaning … The team focuses on areas of the cortex that process new sensory information as well as areas, like the prefrontal …

… begins with the connections, or “synapses,” that neurons form with each other. In her talk Picower Institute … instantaneously to changes in the ongoing onslaught of sensory inputs as well as changes in your cognitive and … neurons and help configure prefrontal circuits to inhibit sensory inputs that would compete with the stimulus of …

… In another, the scientists will investigate other enteric neurons whose functions aren’t known, but whose anatomy … the rest of the nervous system feeds back to these enteric sensory neurons. For example, when the worms are sated, the sensory neurons have diminished food responses compared to …

… downplaying what’s predictable. By measuring thousands of neurons along the surface, or cortex, of the brain in animals … predictable stimuli. That paved the way for neurons in sensory regions in the back of the brain to push forward … have not yet had time to form can produce a feeling of sensory overload. Setting and violating expectations In the …

… inhibitory synapses inhibitory circuits inhibitory neurons LTD LTP … the natural noisiness of individual neurons or arbitrary sensory stimuli the world can produce. “How does the brain … inevitable internal neural noise and at least small sensory input differences. Finally, the team is considering …

… they needed to know could be observed in the anatomy of neurons, synapses, circuits and regions, says Picower … readout from working memory, for instance when the stored sensory information is needed for cognition. Beta rhythms, … be expected. The superficial layers carry “feedforward” sensory information from the outside world and contain …