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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …