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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The field has long known that serotonin neurons vary, but understanding how and where they connect within the brain was ...