Neuroscience has historically exploited a wide diversity of animal taxa. Recently, however,
research has focused increasingly on a few model species. This trend has accelerated with …

The ecological dominance of ants has to a great extent been achieved through their
collective action and complex social organization. Ants provide diverse model systems to …

Goal-directed learning is a key contributor to evolutionary fitness in animals. The neural
mechanisms that mediate learning often involve the neuromodulator dopamine. In higher …

Neuroplasticity and evolutionary biology have been prominent fields of study for well over a
century. However, they have advanced largely independently, without consideration of the …

Highlights•Modern social behavior research suffers from species, environment, and sex
biases.•This reductionism has enabled great findings but restricted biological …

Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy is a serious brain disorder in adults that is often preceded by
an initial brain insult, such as status epilepticus (SE), that after a latent period leads to …

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 …

Historically, diverse organisms have contributed to our understanding of auditory function. In
recent years, the laboratory mouse has become the prevailing non-human model in auditory …

Understanding the function and connectivity of thalamic nuclei is critical for understanding
normal and pathological brain function. The medial geniculate nucleus (MGN) has been …

Neuroscience is enjoying a renaissance of discovery due in large part to the implementation
of next-generation molecular technologies. The advent of genetically encoded tools has …