The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives

In Nature Neuroscience, three researchers argue that the primary sensory cortex plays a flexible role in perception, a view that demands a “more holistic investigative approach that challenges sensory pathways with adaptive behaviors in response to changing environments, behavioral contexts and injury.”

Eva Kreysing et al. find that environmental factors mediate neuron maturation, and that tissue stiffness is a “fundamental” regulator.