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A genetic method allows neurons to be individually identified and characterized by combining information about both their developmental origins and their mature patterns of gene expression.

Keeping flexible adaptable representations of speech categories at different time scales allows the brain to maintain stable perception in the face of varying speech sound characteristics.

The determination that a decision-maker integrated evidence to form perceptual decisions is shown to be much more difficult than previously appreciated.

C. elegans nematodes use a sensory-neuronal circuit to determine whether to defend themselves from hydrogen peroxide attack or to freeload off orthologous protective defenses from bacteria in their surrounding environment.

Loss of function of the Rett syndrome gene MeCP2 in a small but powerful interneuron population, the VIP cells, causes a unique combination of impairments in neural function and behavior.

Confidence-dependent reinforcement learning is active and produces trial-to-trial choice updating even in well-learned perceptual decisions without explicit reward biases, across species and sensory modalities.

Neuroimaging reveals that the brain response to spoken language can be better explained by rule-based models than statistical models recently developed in artificial intelligence research.

Simultaneous recordings of neural ensembles in both the frontal and parietal cortices reveal how persistent activity can be maintained in the primate brain during visuospatial working memory.

Optogenetic control of Purkinje cells in the cerebellar vermis enables bidirectional control of aggression.

Cation-independent-mannose-6-phosphate-receptor, or insulin-like-growth-factor-2-receptor (CIM6P/IGF2R) expressed in the hippocampus controls the protein metabolism regulated by learning and required for memory consolidation, and is also a key mechanism for memory enhancement.