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Incidental experiences can lead to lasting category knowledge, demonstrating that humans forage for information to acquire and consolidate new knowledge even when learning is not strictly necessary for success on an ongoing task.

The development of knowledge for a board game facilitates memory for sequences in the game, demonstrating a new mechanism for the facilitation by enabling complicated predictions.

Continuum mechanics-based computational modeling provides insights into the interplay between cell proliferation in different zones of the developing human brain and the evolving cortical folding patterns.

A GABAergic neural circuit from AgRP to the dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus regulates leptin-mediated feeding and energy balance through α3-GABAA signaling, which could provide a new therapeutic avenue for obesity.

Scaling stimulus size based on the extent of its representation in visual cortex eliminates differences in contrast sensitivity and acuity when measured as a function of eccentricity, but not when measured as a function of polar angle.

A novel behavioural paradigm reveals how neurons in the ventral hippocampus dynamically adapt their firing activity after the introduction of an anxiogenic location.

A properly designed two-photon fluorescence microscope allows high-resolution visualization of neurons and capillaries in healthy and diseased mouse retinas in vivo, while to visualize subcellular structures, adaptive optics is required to correct the eye-induced optical aberrations.

Neural circuit monitoring and manipulation reveal that neurons of the rostral intralaminar nuclei of the thalamus projecting to the dorsal striatum activate at movement initiation and reward to reinforce actions.

Exploring how UBQLN2 mutations cause ALS leads to the discovery of a pathway by which an ancient retroelement changes gene expression in human cells.

A model of hippocampal replay is proposed that gives a biologically plausible account of how the hippocampus could prioritize replay and produce a variety of different replay statistics, and is efficient in driving spatial learning.