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… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… in behaving primates demonstrated that the same group of neurons can extract different information from a scene … mammals naturally shift their focus toward need-relevant sensory cues (e.g., visual cues associated with food) to meet … of neurons in cortex and amygdala to need-relevant sensory cues. In turn, such responses to need-relevant cues …

… 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 …