A new MIT study illustrates how areas within the brain’s executive control center tailor their messages in specific circuits ...

Neurons are complex, highly connected cells engaged with multiple networks throughout the brain, and they exhibit a wide range of activity. As such, individual neurons can perform many functions.

Researchers discover a new visual pathway that bypasses the primary visual cortex in mice, a structure previously considered essential to all visual processing. The newly discovered pathway (red).

A research group led by Prof. Zhang Peng from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed how ...

Seeing is believing. For humans, vision is one of the major senses for interacting with our environment. Lenses in our eyes focus light onto the retina. This image is transmitted as an electrical ...

Scientists have demonstrated that the motor cortex is necessary for the execution of corrective movements in response to unexpected changes of sensory input but not when the same movements are ...