Animals that rely on electrolocation and echolocation for navigation and prey detection
benefit from sensory systems that can operate in the dark, allowing them to exploit sensory …

Abstract The Journal of Comparative Physiology lived up to its name in the last 100 years by
including more than 1500 different taxa in almost 10,000 publications. Seventeen phyla of …

Natural behaviors are a coordinated symphony of motor acts that drive reafferent (self-
induced) sensory activation. Individual sensors cannot disambiguate exafferent (externally …

In recent decades, research on somatosensory perception has led to two important
observations. First, self-generated touches that are predicted by voluntary movements …

In motor control, the brain not only sends motor commands to the periphery, but also
generates concurrent internal signals known as corollary discharge (CD) that influence …

High-level neural activity often exhibits mixed selectivity to multivariate signals. How such
representations arise and modulate natural behavior is poorly understood. We addressed …

Animals need to distinguish sensory input caused by their own movement from sensory
input which is due to stimuli in the outside world. This can be done by an efference copy …

The communication behaviors of vocal fish and electric fish are among the vertebrate social
behaviors best understood at the level of neural circuits. Both forms of signaling rely on …

Perhaps the most important question posed by brain research is: How the brain gives rise to
the mind. To answer this question, we have primarily relied on the connectionist paradigm …

Etiopathogenic models for psychosis spectrum illnesses are converging on a number of key
processes, such as the influence of specific genes on the synthesis of proteins important in …