Accepted at CVPR 2023 Yu Takagi* 1,2 , Shinji Nishimoto 1,2 1. Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan 2. CiNet, NICT, Japan

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Various theories have been developed for the biological and physical basis of consciousness. In this Review, Anil Seth and Tim Bayne discuss four prominent theoretical...

Nature Neuroscience - Drawing from advances in mathematics and related fields, we show that biophysical models of large-scale neural dynamics can help to bridge the gap between neuromodulation at...

In the fifth decade of life, our brain begins a radical "rewiring" that results in networks becoming more integrated and connected.

Nature - Sympathetic inputs drive hair greying in stressed mice.

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - People may respond to listening to music by physically moving or feeling emotions. In this Review, Peter Vuust and colleagues discuss how music perception and related...

Forget ‘I think therefore I am’. In a new theory of embodied consciousness, the neuroscientists Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio propose that feelings are the source of consciousness. Long dismissed...

Neurodegenerative diseases are a major cause of death and disability worldwide and are influenced by many factors including age, genetics, and injuries. While these diseases are often thought to...

Nature - Loosely packaged DNA might make these nerve cells better able to encode memories.

Nature - Nerve cells form long-term memories with the help of an inflammatory response, study in mice finds.

Nature Neuroscience - Most spatial navigation studies assume a linear map of space. This study reports that neural representations of space follow non-linear hyperbolic coordinates. These...

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - In order to anticipate and prepare effectively for future experiences, the brain must cope with the inherent uncertainty of future events. In this Review, Grupe and...

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are essential tools in modern machine learning. In this Primer, Yang and Wang introduce how new computational models based on ANNs can be built, analyzed, and...

Molecular Psychiatry - How nature nurtures: Amygdala activity decreases as the result of a one-hour walk in nature

Social life requires people to predict the future: people must anticipate others' thoughts, feelings, and actions to interact with them successfully. The theory of predictive coding suggests that the...

Nature Reviews Psychology - Debates about human emotion traditionally pit biological and cultural influences against one another. In this Perspective, Lindquist et al. suggest that emotions are...

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - ‘Mechanism’ is a frequently used causal concept in neuroscience but can have different meanings that are often not specified. In this Review, Ross and...

Tiny clumps of cells show basic cognitive abilities, and some animals can remember things after losing their head

“Ultimately, we are puppets of both pain and pleasure, occasionally made free by our creativity.”

Here, we integrate insights from decision and affective sciences into a novel viewpoint on emotion control, the Flexible Emotion Control Theory (FECT). This theory explains how an individual can...

Nature Neuroscience - This Review explains how the neural coding of uncertainty is theoretically conceived and empirically tested. It compares the approaches of two largely separate research...

Groundbreaking neuroscience confirms what Sigmund Freud first theorized.

Studies of interoception challenge distinctions between disorders of the brain and body—and may hold clues to the basis of consciousness

Nature Neuroscience - A new brain mapping approach tailored to individual people reveals that volume changes in psychiatric illness occur in highly variable locations across individuals, but that...

Cognitive scientists often infer multidimensional representations from data. Whether the data involve text, neuroimaging, neural networks, or human judgments, researchers frequently infer and analyze...

Once thought of as a mere motor coordination center, the "little brain" is now appreciated as participating in higher neurological processes.

Abstract. There are plenty of issues to be solved in order for researchers to agree on a neural model of consciousness. Here we emphasize an often under-re

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Developments in connectomics and network neuroscience over the past 20 years have led to new ways of investigating communication in complex brain networks. In this...

Nature Immunology - Godbout and colleagues discuss the neuroimmune mechanisms that underlie social-stress defeat, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Nature Neuroscience - Neuronal activity across task states converges onto a low-dimensional manifold. Flow within this attractor space covaries with network-level topology, fluid intelligence, and...

Abstract. Meta-awareness refers to the capacity to explicitly notice the current content of consciousness and has been identified as a key component for th

Nature Human Behaviour - Current machine learning language algorithms make adjacent word-level predictions. In this work, Caucheteux et al. show that the human brain probably uses long-range and...

Nature - There are dozens of theories of how the brain produces conscious experience, and a new type of study is testing some of them head-to-head.

Neuroscience Bulletin - The insula is a complex brain region central to the orchestration of taste perception, interoception, emotion, and decision-making. Recent research has shed light on the...

Abstract. What is the biological advantage of having consciousness? Functions of consciousness have been elusive due to the subjective nature of consciousn

The recommendations by Muff and colleagues are an incoherent approach to statistical inferences, and should only be used if one wants to signal a misunderstanding of p-values. Coherent alternatives...

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Attractor network dynamics can support several computations performed by the brain. In their Review, Khona and Fiete introduce different attractor dynamics and their...

Human cognitive abilities are generally thought to arise from cortical expansion over the course of human brain evolution. In addition to increased neuron numbers, this cortical expansion might be...

Nature Human Behaviour - Human infants need a social environment to survive as they rely on caregivers to maintain allostasis. This Perspective proposes that the need of others to regulate...

Abstract. The neurobiology of conscious experience is one of the fundamental mysteries in science. New evidence suggests that transcranial magnetic stimula

Nature Methods - An approach for integrating the wealth of heterogeneous brain data — from gene expression and neurotransmitter receptor density to structure and function — allows...

Nature Reviews Physics - The brain is the quintessential complex system, boasting incredible feats of cognition and supporting a wide range of behaviours. Physics has much to offer in the quest to...

The history of neuroscience is the memory of the discipline and this memory depends on the study of the present traces of the past; the things left behind: a...

Nature - Studies find a densely connected network of neurons that communicate over long distances, rather than across synapses.

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Linking human behaviour to brain structure: further challenges and possible solutions

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Playing a musical instrument involves the precise control of both timing and pitch. Zatorre and colleagues consider the requirements of music perception and...

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Neuroscience can explain cognition by considering single neurons and their connections (a ‘Sherringtonian’ view) or by considering neural spaces...

Neural activity probes your physical surroundings to select just the information needed to survive and flourish

Nonlinear Dynamics - Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) and its variants, such as extended DMD (EDMD), are broadly used to fit simple linear models to dynamical systems known from observable data. As...

Nature Neuroscience - Cognitive activity requires the collective behavior of cortical, thalamic and spinal neurons across large-scale systems of the CNS. This paper provides an illustrated...

Top-down feedback in cortex is critical for guiding sensory processing, which has prominently been formalized in the theory of hierarchical predictive coding (hPC). However, experimental evidence for...

Studying ‘behavior’ lies at the heart of many disciplines. Nevertheless, academics rarely provide an explicit definition of what ‘behavior’ actually is. What range of definitions do people use, and...

When neurons strengthen their synapses, they “infect” surrounding cells with a virus-like protein to weaken those cells’ excitatory connections, according to a new preprint.

Nature Neuroscience - Engelen et al. review in animals and humans how the CNS senses cardiac, respiratory and gastric rhythmic activity, and detail the range of cognitive functions impacted, from...

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Flexibility is critical for the optimal adaptation of thoughts and actions under changing circumstances. In this Review, Uddin summarizes research that has identified...

Nature - Can recalling positive memories alleviate depression? Susumu Tonegawa and colleagues addressed this question in mice using optogenetically labelled specific hippocampal memory engrams...

Scientific Reports - Brain-to-Brain Synchrony during Naturalistic Social Interactions

Hyperscanning, by near-infrared spectroscopy, showed that the empathic cortical response of a mother to her baby's pain is synchronized with the neonatal cortical response to the painful stimulation...

Abstract. Time plays a significant role in science and everyday life. Despite being experienced as a continuous flow, computational models of consciousness

Nature Human Behaviour - This study examines individuals with autoimmune limbic encephalitis, a condition that impairs the hippocampus, to understand how they evaluate rewards and efforts in...

A new study shows that carrion crows use memorized reward associations in a combinatorial way to apply relative probabilistic information to optimize reward outcome. This for the first time shows...

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - How does the brain generate positive or negative hedonic or motivational reactions (such as liking or disgust) to particular stimuli or events? In this Opinion...

Nature Neuroscience - Recent studies separately address the neural representation of stimuli and its dynamics in networks that model neural interactions. Ju and Bassett review such recent advances...

To guide adaptive behavior and support predictions in real-life contexts, the brain may rely on opaque, over-parameterized models capable of directly fitting to the multidimensional world, while...

Nature - Distinct dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area respond to physiological fluid balance and nutrient cues at specific stages of ingestion, driving learning about the...

Hassabis et al. review how neuroscience has informed research in artificial intelligence. They argue that a better understanding of biological brains will play a vital role in building intelligent...

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - In this Review, Arber and Costa discuss the anatomical and functional specificity of circuitry essential for executing diverse body movements. They focus on specific...

Nature Human Behaviour - Using concepts mostly familiar to fluid physicists, the authors manage to elegantly tackle the complex problem of describing large-scale brain activity patterns, providing...

Nature - For the first time, scientists identify individual brain cells linked to the linguistic essence of a word.

Studies of interoception challenge distinctions between disorders of the brain and body—and may hold clues to the basis of consciousness

Abstract. In this view, we address the problem of consciousness, and although we focus on its human presentation, we note that the phenomenon is present in numerous nonhuman species and use findings...

The involvement of mirror neuron brain regions in action understanding has been difficult to determine. Two experiments using transcranial magnetic stimulation and functional magnetic resonance...