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Widely distributed brain areas sync to orchestrate decisions in rodents
From bench to bot: How important is prompt engineering?
Karen Adolph explains how we develop our ability to move through the world
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Brains, biases and amyloid beta: Why the female brain deserves a closer look in Alzheimer’s research
Are brains and AI converging?—an excerpt from ‘ChatGPT and the Future of AI: The Deep Language Revolution’
This paper changed my life: ‘Spontaneous cortical activity reveals hallmarks of an optimal internal model of the environment,’ from the Fiser Lab
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”To truly see if AI can benefit you, you need to spend time integrating AI into your routine, even when it’s a bit annoying at first. — TIM REQUARTH, DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE SCIENCE WRITING, NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Microglia’s pruning function called into question
Upcoming Online Seminars
How neuroscience comics add KA-POW! to the field: Q&A with Kanaka Rajan
Tips to navigate SfN as a trainee
Brains, biases and amyloid beta: Why the female brain deserves a closer look in Alzheimer’s research
What makes memories last—dynamic ensembles or static synapses?
The S-index Challenge: Develop a metric to quantify data-sharing success
A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.
Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?
Putting a bright idea to the test
A surprising wave of findings in mice suggests that light and sound flickering at 40 hertz clears the brain of Alzheimer’s-disease-linked plaques. Several companies are hoping to prove it works in people.
From bench to bot: Does AI really make you a more efficient writer?
From bench to bot: Boost your writing with AI personas
From bench to bot: How to use AI to structure your writing
Martín Giurfa y la idea de hogar
El investigador de la cognición de insectos ha hecho su trabajo en varios continentes, pero Argentina nunca está lejos de su mente.
At the end of the earth with Paul-Antoine Libourel
Timothy Ryan on his pivotal switch from studying particle physics to decoding synaptic transmission
Biosensors and being fearless with Lin Tian
Male and female brains, Proust, and Catherine Dulac
A README for open neuroscience
Designing an open-source microscope
Neuroscience needs a research-video archive
What are mechanisms? Unpacking the term is key to progress in neuroscience
Mechanism is a common and powerful concept, invoked in grant calls and publication guidelines. But scientists use it in different ways, making it difficult to clarify standards in the field. We asked nine scientists to weigh in.
What, if anything, makes mood fundamentally different from memory?
To better understand mood disorders—and to develop more effective treatments—should we target the brain, the mind, the environment or all three?