As neuroscience increasingly recognizes that understanding the brain requires studying natural behavior, it has begun to adopt more naturalistic experimental environments as a means to that end — an ...

Technical progress in systems neuroscience has led to an explosion in the volume of neural and behavioral data 1,2,3,4. New challenges in processing these large, high-dimensional data have spurred the ...

Scientists learn about the brain's inner workings by studying what animals or people do, how they move, react, and make choices. Behavior is complex, as animals and humans can move in countless ...

A key objective of several neuroscience studies is to understand and model how the dynamics of distinct populations of neurons give rise to specific human and animal behaviors. Many existing methods ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Neuroscience is a vast field of study containing a range of narrower subfields. Each involves a spotlight on the brain and other parts of the nervous system, connecting them to one or more zones of ...

A new study found that prolonged mental fatigue can wear down cognitive resources, leading to higher rates of aggressive behavior. The findings improve understanding of why we may be more inclined to ...

Neuroscience emerged as a defined discipline more than half a century ago, enthralling scientists to study the most enigmatic organ: the brain. Researchers explored animal models and probed the ...