Three preprints expand the list of high-confidence autism-linked genes and reveal how variants in these genes contribute to ...

The tool could help reveal how information transmission between areas relates to perception, cognition and behavior.

Maxim Raginsky draws on control theory, engineering and philosophy to explore biological and artificial intelligence and ...

Davi Bock’s lab took 21 million images for the fruit fly connectome. Now he wants to apply “this high-throughput flashlight” ...

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 5 October.

To enhance AI safety, take a lesson from biological brains; a small set of wants maintains durable control over a much larger ...

The technique enables neuroscientists to target brain circuits with unprecedented specificity, transforming the study of ...

A new functional MRI (fMRI) technique cuts down on scanning noise and motion-related artifacts, broadening the range of brain ...

In “A Mother’s Brain,” Carmona shares key moments in her career that led her to study the neuroscience of motherhood.

Confidence may therefore not have a single computational architecture. Sometimes it behaves like a genuine second thought; sometimes it is built into the first.

Ariel Zylberberg is a research scientist at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute. He studies the neural and computational mechanisms of decision-making, with a particular focus on confidence and ...