Environmental Enrichment Rescues Precocious Critical Period
Critical periods are developmental time windows when neural circuits in the brain are shaped by experience. Jianhua Cang and colleagues show that a precocious critical period disrupts the matching of ...
Martha Giraldo, a research associate in the Department of Plant Pathology, was recently recognized for her innovative use of electronic media in her doctoral dissertation. She is one of three recipien...
“Singing” Fish Rely on Circadian Rhythm and Melatonin for the Timing of Nocturnal Courtship Vocalization/ Curr. Biol., Sep. 22, 2016 (Vol. 26, Issue 19) - The patterning of social acoustic signaling a...
Episodic-like Memory in Dogs Revealed by Do As I Do/ Curr. Biol., Dec. 5, 2016 (Vol. 26, Issue 23)
Episodic-like Memory in Dogs Revealed by Do As I Do/ Curr. Biol., Dec. 5, 2016 (Vol. 26, Issue 23) - This video abstract illustrates how episodic-like memory of incidentally encoded complex events was...
Phase Transition in Disease/ Cell August 27, 2015 (Vol. 162, Issue 5)
Phase Transition in Disease/ Cell August 27, 2015 (Vol. 162, Issue 5) - In this video and the accompanying Cell paper, the Tony Hyman and Simon Alberti groups at Max Planck Institute propose an intere...
The Temporal Sequence of the Mammalian Neocortical Neurogenetic Program Drives Mediolateral Pattern in the Chick Pallium. The six-layered neocortex permits complex information processing in all mammal...
In A Flash: Firefly Communication - Fireflies communicate with a "language of light" that scientists still don't completely understand. James Lloyd and Marc Branham of the University of Flor...