Scientists at UC San Diego, have uncovered processes that explain how our brains record information, which could help boost new discoveries.

Findings challenge the idea that neurons follow a single learning strategy and offer a new perspective on how the brain ...

New research reveals that individual neurons follow multiple learning rules simultaneously, challenging the long-held belief that synaptic plasticity operates uniformly throughout the brain.

Neurons and their branch extensions known as dendrites are featured within a mouse’s cerebral cortex. Must be used in conjunction with Science paper on brain plasticity rules.

Neuroscientists have carefully studied how synapses only have access to their own “local” information, yet collectively they ...

Connections made via apical synapses seemed to be strengthened by movement information more than those made via basal ...

As you experience or encounter new things, your brain must encode this information via the right neural networks at the right ...

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo ...

Researchers mapped 84,000 neurons in a mouse brain after it watched video clips. The 3D map links structure and activity.

Researchers mapped 84,000 neurons in a mouse brain after it watched video clips. The 3D map links structure and activity.

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date — a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire ...

The brain really is an incredible organ, and neurons are the vital link between, well, everything. The brain is anything but set in stone; how we think, feel, reason, and understand the world changes ...