Hebbian Learning Shows How Brains Could Spend Their Synaptic Budget Wisely
A new computational study shows that a constrained Hebbian learning rule achieves lower representational cost than backpropagation and target propagation ...
Tag: Neuroscience
Optogenetics Pioneers Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel Win 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on light-gated ...
Music Helps AI Read Brain Signals of Mental Fatigue, Study Finds
A preliminary EEG study found that artificial intelligence detected mental fatigue far more accurately when participants' brain activity was recorded ...
Brain Cells Can Be Reversed to Immaturity by Seizure-Like Activity Only After a Developmental Switch
A new mouse study shows that electroconvulsive treatment can drive hippocampal neurons back to an immature state only from about ...
New spatial sequencing method maps RNA turnover kinetics across the mouse brain
Spatial NT-seq combines metabolic RNA labeling with in situ chemical recoding to co-map newly synthesized and pre-existing RNAs, revealing the ...
Just 20 Neurons Were Enough to Set off a Learned Movement in Mice
UC San Diego researchers showed that artificially activating just twenty selected neurons in the mouse motor cortex can trigger the ...
How Integrated Information Theory Became a Scientific Movement and Sparked a Countermovement
A new sociological study argues that the battle over Integrated Information Theory is best understood as a clash between a ...
Oxytocin in the Brain’s Septum Lets Mice Learn Safe Foods From Friends
New research in PLOS Biology shows that oxytocin receptor signaling in the dorsal lateral septum is essential for mice to ...
Your Brain Can Learn Without Practice, New Study Reveals
A new iScience study shows that visual perceptual learning can proceed for days after a single training session with no ...
Hidden Symmetry Found in the Brain’s Messy Head-Direction Circuits
A new Nature Neuroscience study shows that seemingly disordered mammalian head-direction circuits conceal the hidden circular symmetry of continuous attractor ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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