New research shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t simply broadcast generic commands to sensory regions—it sends finely tailored signals that shape how the brain processes vision depending on ...

A new study in Neuron reveals that the brain’s executive center sends highly specialized, context-dependent instructions to ...

Ultra-high-field brain scans reveal integrated maps of vision and touch, highlighting the brain's role in embodied perception ...

When it comes to brain function, neurons get a lot of the glory. But healthy brains depend on the cooperation of many kinds ...

Understanding the shape or morphology of neurons and mapping the tree-like branches via which they receive signals from other ...

Scientists found that hair grows because surrounding cells pull each strand upward. New imaging uncovered hidden motion ...

Human consciousness once looked like an evolutionary extravagance, a mysterious inner movie with no clear purpose. Now a wave ...

What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move individual toes.

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

We conclude that brain states are shaped by local circuit mechanisms, large-scale connectivity and neuromodulation. A unified multiscale theory of cortical dynamics is relevant not only for ...