Tactile sensory information from facial whiskers provides nocturnal tunnel-dwelling rodents,
including mice and rats, with important spatial and textural information about their immediate …

The sensory cortex contains a wide array of neuronal types, which are connected together
into complex but partially stereotyped circuits. Sensory stimuli trigger cascades of electrical …

Dendritic spines mediate most excitatory neurotransmission in the nervous system, so their
function must be critical for the brain. Spines are biochemical compartments but might also …

Real-world complex systems may be mathematically modeled as graphs, revealing
properties of the system. Here we study graphs of functional brain organization in healthy …

In Neurocognitive Mechanisms Gualtiero Piccinini presents the most systematic, rigorous,
and comprehensive philosophical defence to date of the computational theory of cognition …

Perceptual decisions involve distributed cortical activity. Does information flow sequentially
from one cortical area to another, or do networks of interconnected areas contribute at the …

The descending projections from motor cortex share many features with top-down or
backward connections in visual cortex; for example, corticospinal projections originate in …

A basic feature of intelligent systems such as the cerebral cortex is the ability to freely
associate aspects of perceived experience with an internal representation of the world and …

Speaking is one of the most complex actions that we perform, but nearly all of us learn to do
it effortlessly. Production of fluent speech requires the precise, coordinated movement of …

Studies in anesthetized animals have suggested that activity in early visual cortex is mainly
driven by visual input and is well described by a feedforward processing hierarchy …