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… make major contributions to what the field knows about how neurons and neural circuits change and adapt with experience. … and Torsten Wiesel who produced powerful demonstrations of sensory experience reshaping the cortex at Harvard in the … They also found that as information moved from sensory to cognitive regions, the dimensionality of the …

… memory. It’s a system for our minds to exert our will over sensory information. “What’s special about working memory is … working memory by coordinating ensembles of cells, or neurons, in the cortex with timely bursts of activity at the … the higher frequency “gamma” waves that handle the new sensory information to be stored and manipulated, (e.g. the …

… autistic brain. From studies of the connections between neurons, to interactions between the nervous and immune … project that focuses on another phenomenon: the feeling of sensory overload that many autistic people experience. … shown that the brain’s ability to make predictions about sensory stimuli, which is critical to filtering out mundane …

… to reveal how synapses, or the connections between neurons, change in the live brain with neural electrical … has revealed novel principles of information flow from sensory through parietal to frontal and cingulate cortex in … have shown how cortical areas rewire amid changes in sensory inputs, have revealed new rules of synaptic …

… “ For his discovery of fundamental mechanisms by which sensory experience and deprivation modify synapses by … brain disorders.” Synapses are the connections neurons make to form the circuits that enable brain functions … In the 1990s, Bear’s Lab led the discovery that reduced sensory input weakens synaptic connections by a mechanism …

… learning how to use optogenetics, a technology that makes neurons controllable with flashes of visual light, to … the brain must constantly evaluate whether incoming sensory information, like something it sees, is new and … brain’s expectations and control whether it encodes new sensory information in higher-frequency “gamma” waves. With …

… stress levels? These are interesting questions about how sensory inputs from the body feed into stress circuits in the … nervous system. It’s well understood that sympathetic neurons are responsible for making you sweat and your heart … the field is starting to appreciate that these same neurons regulate the immune system, and can signal to stem …

… organs. The lab had identified six different types of sensory neurons in the nerve bundle, validating the hypothesis that a … team showed that there were not just six distinct types of sensory neurons in the vagal nerve, but 37. The results she …

… 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 …

… to recognize the behavioral significance of incoming sensory stimuli, and to make flexible decisions about those … and subcortical areas, to transform stimulus encoding in sensory cortical areas into task-related cognitive encoding … to monitor the activity patterns of populations of neurons in multiple brain areas during visual learning, …