Auditory Stimulus Selection in Rodents and the Cocktail Party Problem
We must often focus on important sounds in our environment while ignoring others—sometimes called the "cocktail party problem." In this video, Dr. Chris Rodgers explains how rats were traine...
Localized Axonal Translation in Retrograde Injury Signaling
Local translation in dendrites is known to have important physiological roles, but so far evidence is lacking for an essential role of mRNA localization in axons. In this study, Mike Fainzilber and co...
We’ve all heard the expression “monkey see, monkey do", but actually, that's a myth. Imitation is very rare in the animal kingdom. Apes can imitate sometimes, but – apart from humans – the animal...
The Function and Organization of the Fly Flight Motor/ Curr. Biol., Jan. 26, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 3)
The Function and Organization of the Fly Flight Motor/ Curr. Biol., Jan. 26, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 3). Fruit flies execute agile aerial maneuvers using only twelve control muscles per wing. In this stu...
Infant calming responses during maternal carrying in humans and mice
Mother-infant bonding is the earliest and most critical social relationship of mammalian infants, one that is promoted by an infant's innate desire to be close to his or her mother (as demonstrated by...
Atypical female courtship, including enhanced genital biting, characterizes a novel stock of laboratory mice. This heritable anomaly appeared together with ectopic Hoxd gene expression in the adult br...
