Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding
predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment …

The coding of stimulus information into patterns of spike times occurs widely in sensory
systems. Determining how temporally coded information is decoded by central neurons is …

The importance of behavioral evolution during speciation is well established, but we know
little about how this is manifest in sensory and neural systems. A handful of studies have …

Basic research in neuroscience and clinical research on neurological disorders
synergistically increase our understanding of the human brain. Traditionally, functional and …

One of the most remarkable examples of convergent evolution among vertebrates is
illustrated by the independent origins of an active electric sense in South American and …

Brain region size generally scales allometrically with brain size, but mosaic shifts in brain
region size independent of brain size have been found in several lineages and may be …

Brains, and the distinct regions that make up brains, vary widely in size across vertebrates
[1, 2]. Two prominent hypotheses have been proposed to explain brain region scaling …

A large brain can offer several cognitive advantages. However, brain tissue has an
especially high metabolic rate. Thus, evolving an enlarged brain requires either a decrease …

The vertebrate trigeminal nerve is the primary mediator of somatosensory information from
nerve endings across the face, extending nerve branches through bony canals in the face …

Elucidating the origins of complex biological structures has been one of the major
challenges of evolutionary studies. Within vertebrates, the capacity to produce regular …