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Peptidergic neurons regulate undulation and turning movements to enable Caenorhabditis elegans to gradually adjust its locomotion strategy from dispersal to local search.

A novel technology for recording muscle activity provides unprecedented access to the electrical signals that control the body across muscles, species, and behaviors.

Blocking D2 dopamine receptors increases goal-directed (“model-based”) control when alternative habitual ("model-free") actions are available, whereas blocking opioid receptors does not seem to have an effect on the arbitration between the two modes of acting.

Social and cognitive functions require normal activity during development of the posterior cerebellum.

A computational model of the neuronal network that recognizes mating signals reveals network properties that support and constrain behavioral diversity in a species group.

Local disinhibition provides a biologically plausible mechanism for flexible top-down control of network states that integrates normalized value coding, winner-take-all choice, and persistent activity in a single circuit of decision-making.

Songbirds can use arbitrary visual cues to immediately, flexibly and adaptively control syntax of learned song vocalizations in a manner that parallels human cognitive control over syllable sequencing in speech.

The flexible escape behavior exhibited by C. elegans in response to threats relies on a combination of feedback and feedforward circuits.

Mouse gaze shifts are unexpectedly flexible.

The novel Reach Cage allows neurophysiology studies of structured behavior with unrestrained Rhesus macaques showing that the frontoparietal reach network is selective for reach goals outside the immediately reachable space.