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… -- we can reveal fundamental principles of how nervous systems work that are universal,” said Lister Brothers … employs C. elegans to study how behaviors emerge from neural activity. Picower Professor Susumu Tonegawa’s 1987 … make with muscle (red) are highly informative models of neural circuit connections called "synapses." The Littleton …

… Scientist Jefferson Roy, the research team measured neural activity in the brains of animals as they tracked …

… visual spatial perception, the brain has evolved separate neural resources for the right vs left sides of gaze even in … studies have shown that even in the prefrontal cortex, neural encoding of information about where an object is, is … towers do for your phone as you drive around, according to neural activity measurements in studies such as one in 2014 …

… technique allows researchers to characterize dynamical systems from limited measurements by augmenting each … inputs, such as sounds, or to spontaneous perturbations of neural activity. In the normal, awake state, neural activity spikes after any input, then returns to its …

… Findings A flexible new tool both monitors and manipulates neural activity in the brains of large animals. GABA … A flexible new tool both monitors and manipulates neural activity in the brains of large animals. A team of … animal. And it integrates directly with experimental systems that cognitive neuroscientists already use in their …

… internal states arise and influence behavior in nervous systems in general. “I think that it should be possible to … Flavell’s lab has published studies showing how specific neural circuits, employing neuromodulators, integrate inputs … manipulations, to imaging of behavior and brain-wide neural activity, to computational modeling to produce major …

… findings Open-source system provides for fast, accurate neural decoding place cells replay … “The use of real-time decoding and closed-loop control of neural activity will fundamentally transform our studies of … both postdoctoral scholars at MIT. After demonstrating how neural decoding can be used to read out what places are …