New findings on the role of neural activity in developing circuits are challenging our prior notions about the rules that govern critical periods. Source: Spectrum News

Human neuroscience research has largely overlooked this spatial scale—which bridges cells and brain areas. But new advances in functional MRI technology are changing that. Source: Spectrum News

The first published paper from the EEGManyLabs replication project nullifies a null result that had complicated a famous reinforcement learning theory.Source: Spectrum News

In 2023, I had the privilege of sitting down with Gerry over the course of several days and listening as he told the story of his life and career—including stints as dean or director of such leading institutions as Columbia University and NINDS—so that we could record it for posterity.Source: Spectr…

First an educator and now an internationally recognized researcher, the Kenyan psychologist is changing autism science and services in sub-Saharan Africa. Source: Spectrum News

The teams aim to develop tools to scale up mouse connectomics in preparation for eventually mapping an entire human brain.Source: Spectrum News

Donald Hebb’s theory—memorably summarized as “cells that fire together, wire together”—does not explain the shifting hippocampal connections in mice learning to navigate a virtual environment, according to a new study.Source: Spectrum News

For decades, scientists have been teased by the strange but inaccessible cephalopod visual system. Now, thanks to a technological breakthrough from a lab in Oregon, data are finally coming straight from the octopus brain.Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 26 May.Source: Spectrum News

Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration.Source: Spectrum News

Neuroscientists have long ignored the variability in animals’ behavioral responses in favor of studying differences across groups. But work on the brain differences that underlie that variability is beginning to pay off.Source: Spectrum News

Regulatory T cells in the spinal meninges release endogenous opioids in a sex-specific manner, new work shows.Source: Spectrum News

After more than a month of uncertainty, 30 previously purged employees at the institute no longer face termination.Source: Spectrum News

Beggs outlines why and how brains operate at criticality, a sweet spot between order and chaos.Source: Spectrum News