Breathing is a well-described, vital and surprisingly complex behaviour, with behavioural
and physiological outputs that are easy to directly measure. Key neural elements for …

The array of whiskers on the snout provides rodents with tactile sensory information relating
to the size, shape and texture of objects in their immediate environment. Rodents can use …

Stable in vivo mapping and modulation of the same neurons and brain circuits over
extended periods is critical to both neuroscience and medicine. Current electrical implants …

Slow brain oscillations are usually coherent over long distances and thought to link
distributed cell assemblies. In mice, theta (5–10 Hz) stands as one of the most studied slow …

Cortical neurons process information on a background of spontaneous, ongoing activity with
distinct spatiotemporal profiles defining different cortical states. During wakefulness, cortical …

The hippocampus is a mammalian brain structure that expresses spatial representations
and is crucial for navigation,. Navigation, in turn, intricately depends on locomotion; …

A key question in systems neuroscience is to identify how sensory stimuli are represented in
neuronal activity, and how the activity of sensory neurons in turn is “read out” by downstream …

Perception of external objects involves sensory acquisition via the relevant sensory organs.
A widely-accepted assumption is that the sensory organ is the first station in a serial chain of …

Current trends in neuroscience research have moved toward a reliance on rodent animal
models to study most aspects of brain function. Such laboratory-reared animals are highly …

While the hippocampal memory system has been relatively conserved across mammals, the
cerebral cortex has undergone massive expansion. A central question in brain evolution is …