Predictive coding is an enticing theory of brain function. Building on decades of models and experimental work, Eli Sennesh proposes a biologically plausible way our brain might implement it.Source: Spectrum News

If every person in the neuroscience community committed to doing one thing, imagine the cumulative difference it would make.Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the last two weeks of December.Source: Spectrum News

The largest ongoing refugee crisis in Europe has overwhelmed humanitarian agencies. Meeting the needs of families affected by autism has not been a priority.Source: Spectrum News

For The Transmitter’s first annual book, five contributing editors reflect on what subfields demand greater focus in the near future—from dynamical systems and computation to technologies for studying the human brain.Source: Spectrum News

Our chosen stories include tales about research misconduct in the lab, a neuroscientist working at the end of the world, and the passing of neuroanatomy’s “great-grandfather,” Harvey Karten. Source: Spectrum News

We round up our most notable autism stories of the past 12 months.Source: Spectrum News

“We’ve cured mouse-heimer’s thousands of times...”—find out who said this to a Transmitter reporter, and read our other favorite quotes from the past year.Source: Spectrum News

These five stories—on the pregnant brain, a failed imaging method and more—top our list of some of the most notable neuroscience research findings this year.Source: Spectrum News

From sex differences in Alzheimer’s disease to enduring citation bias, experts weighed in on important scientific and practical issues in neuroscience. Source: Spectrum News

Our picks include a deep dive into dopamine, the role of PKMzeta in memory, and studying the stomatogastric ganglion. Source: Spectrum News

Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study.Source: Spectrum News

These complex combinations of organoids afford a closer look at how gene alterations affect certain brain networks.Source: Spectrum News

The human brain takes in sensory information roughly 100 million times faster than it can respond. Neuroscientists need to explore this perceptual paradox to better understand the limits of the brain, Meister and Zheng say.Source: Spectrum News