Chemosensory neurons translate perception of external chemical cues, including odorants,
tastants, and pheromones, into information that drives attraction or avoidance motor …

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Flexible behaviors over long timescales are thought to engage recurrent neural networks in
deep brain regions, which are experimentally challenging to study. In insects, recurrent …

We developed a new way to engineer complex proteins toward multidimensional
specifications using a simple, yet scalable, directed evolution strategy. By robotically picking …

While isolated motor actions can be correlated with activities of neuronal networks, an
unresolved problem is how the brain assembles these activities into organized behaviors …

Efforts are ongoing to map synaptic wiring diagrams, or connectomes, to understand the
neural basis of brain function. However, chemical synapses represent only one type of …

How, why, and when consciousness evolved remain hotly debated topics. Addressing these
issues requires considering the distribution of consciousness across the animal …

Establishing how neural function emerges from network properties is a fundamental problem
in neuroscience. Here, to better understand the relationship between the structure and the …

The ability to acquire large-scale recordings of neuronal activity in awake and unrestrained
animals is needed to provide new insights into how populations of neurons generate animal …

Classical and modern ethological studies suggest that animal behavior is organized
hierarchically across timescales, such that longer-timescale behaviors are composed of …