More than three decades of research have demonstrated a role for hippocampal place cells
in representation of the spatial environment in the brain. New studies have shown that place …

Since its discovery almost three decades ago, the secreted neurotrophin brain-derived
neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has been firmly implicated in the differentiation and survival of …

To understand how function arises from the interactions between neurons, it is necessary to
use methods that allow the monitoring of brain activity at the single-neuron, single-spike …

The hippocampus is an important brain circuit for spatial memory and the spatially selective
spiking of hippocampal neuronal assemblies is thought to provide a mnemonic …

What distinguishes good explanations in neuroscience from bad? Carl F. Craver constructs
and defends standards for evaluating neuroscientific explanations that are grounded in a …

One prominent view holds that episodic memory emerged recently in humans and lacks a
“(neo) Darwinian evolution”[Tulving E (2002) Annu Rev Psychol 53: 1–25]. Here, we review …

Social animals have to know the spatial positions of conspecifics. However, it is unknown
how the position of others is represented in the brain. We designed a spatial observational …

The mammalian visual system is endowed with a nearly infinite capacity for the recognition
of patterns and objects. To have acquired this capability the visual system must have solved …

Most of our knowledge about the functional organization of neuronal systems is based on
the analysis of the firing patterns of individual neurons that have been recorded one by one …

It takes a fraction of a second to recognize a person or an object even when seen under
strikingly different conditions. How such a robust, high-level representation is achieved by …