It is always worth paying attention when someone wins a Nobel Prize for their life’s work, but a couple of awards this year ...

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Two Nobel Prizes this year, one for developers of AI and the other for researchers using it, have sparked unnecessary controversy writes Satyen K. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which selects Nobel ...

The claustrum complex, a small yet powerful region in the brain, has intrigued scientists for years. Found across mammalian ...

This important collection of over 800 new cell type-specific driver lines will be an invaluable resource for researchers studying associative learning in Drosophila. Thoroughly characterized and well ...

The social stress caused by a resident/intruder paradigm induces fear memory and anxiety-like behaviors, which rely on the recruitment of associative memory neurons by neuroligin-3-mediated new ...

They found that immediately after a fear-inducing event, the brain relies on associative memories ... to integrate the event's sequence into fear memory, reducing the scope of fear.

In 1981, at California Institute of Technology, physicist John Hopfield worked with his colleagues Richard Feynman and Carer Mead to create a new course for students that would cover some of the most ...