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A set of canonical computational principles implemented in a simple feedforward neural network naturally gives rise to the network's sensitivity to numerosity and its illusory effects, providing an explanation for the ubiquity of the number sense in the animal kingdom.

The priming protein ubMunc13-2 and Synaptotagmin-7 cooperate with phorbolesters/diacylglycerol to stimulate vesicle priming in adrenal chromaffin cells, whereas phorbolesters/diacylglycerol interacting with Munc13-1 inhibit vesicle fusion, which identifies opposing functions of these two Munc13 proteins.

Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations illuminate the structure and dynamics of PSD-95, a protein involved in neural plasticity.

A comprehensive meta-analysis of the neuroimaging literature reveals that the lateral prefrontal cortex of humans is mainly organized along its rostrocaudal axis according to a unimodal-to-transmodal pattern of network connectivity and a concrete-to-abstract axis of functional associations.

Before a saccadic eye movement to a location in the visual periphery, human observers' foveal vision becomes more sensitive to the features defining the eye movement target, anticipating information that will soon be fixated in a retinotopic reference frame.

A novel experimental paradigm investigating how humans manage limited search capacity over many alternatives reveals close-to-optimal behaviours and identifies heuristics used to minimize computation with little impact on performance.

In a mouse model of psychiatric illness, the neuronal network of the medial prefrontal cortex is characterized by reduced activity levels of interneurons, impaired gamma oscillations, and altered activation of cell assemblies.

Drosophila flies infer value to olfactory stimuli based on the previously repeatedly presented associative structure between two odorants.

A new method is described to identify sharp-wave ripples from the rodent hippocampus with deep learning techniques, which may help to identify and characterize previously undetected physiological events.

The retina compensates for rod death and deteriorating cones to retain high-fidelity visual signaling to the brain.