This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.
Research has shown that people who experience hearing loss have a greater risk of going on to develop dementia however we still don’t fully understand why the two are linked. Subtle changes in how the ...
At the heart of every camera is a sensor, whether that sensor is a collection of light-detecting pixels or a strip of 35-millimeter film. But what happens when you want to take a picture of something ...
A new study by neuroscientists is the first to directly compare brain responses to faces and objects with responses to colors. The paper reveals new information about how the brain’s inferior temporal ...
A Purdue University Northwest professor has been selected to join a NASA-funded project that seeks to find new ways to search for signs of life in space.