New recordings in navigating rats show that spatial learning selectively strengthens information flow from the hippocampus into the thalamic nucleus reuniens while prefrontal influence fades, ...

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Machine-learning optimization led to three printed silk fibroin ionic conductors that generated distinct spatial resistance ...

Nuri Jeong remembers the feeling of surprise she felt during a trip back to South Korea, while visiting her grandmother, who'd been grappling with Alzheimer's disease. "I hadn't seen her in six years, ...

Astrocytes form large networks of interconnected cells in the central nervous system. When these cell-to-cell couplings are disrupted in the brain of adult mice, the animals are no longer able to ...

Inside the Spatial Meeting environment, students have an immersive experience of being in the classroom while also being able to engage with renderings of objects, achieving an experience Cisco calls ...

earning spatial elements of a new environment is important for people and animals. However, how this process occurs in the brain remains poorly understood. Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) are abundantly ...

Humans have unique sensory functions, among them binaural hearing — meaning we can identify types of sound, as well as what direction it's coming from and how far away it is, and we can also ...