Simultaneous recordings from hundreds or thousands of neurons are becoming routine
because of innovations in instrumentation, molecular tools, and data processing software …

Across species, social behaviors are shaped and maintained through positive reinforcement
of affiliative social interactions. As with nonsocial rewards, the reinforcing properties of social …

Goal-directed behaviors involve coordinated activity in many cortical areas, but whether the
encoding of task variables is distributed across areas or is more specifically represented in …

Romantic engagement can bias sensory perception. This 'love blindness' reflects a common
behavioural principle across organisms: favouring pursuit of a coveted reward over potential …

Complexity is important for flexibility of natural behavior and for the remarkably efficient
learning of the brain. Here we assessed the signal complexity among neuron populations in …

The reinforcing nature of social interactions is necessary for the maintenance of appropriate
social behavior. However, the neural substrates underlying social reward processing and …

Learning new skills requires neuroplasticity. Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) during sensory
and motor events can increase neuroplasticity in networks related to these events and might …

The activity of neurons in sensory areas sometimes covaries with upcoming choices in
decision-making tasks. However, the prevalence, causal origin, and functional role of choice …

During learning of a sensory discrimination task, the cortical and subcortical regions display
complex spatiotemporal dynamics. During learning, both the amygdala and cortex link …

Body movements influence brain-wide neuronal activities. In the sensory cortex,
thalamocortical bottom-up inputs and motor-sensory top-down inputs are thought to affect …