Biological intelligence is remarkable in its ability to produce complex behaviour in many
diverse situations through data efficient, generalisable and transferable skill acquisition. It is …

Pleasurable touch is paramount during social behavior, including sexual encounters.
However, the identity and precise role of sensory neurons that transduce sexual touch …

Neuronal responses during behavior are diverse, ranging from highly reliable
'classical'responses to irregular 'non-classically responsive'firing. While a continuum of …

Cancer models, which are biologically representative of patient tumors, can predict the
treatment responses and help determine the most appropriate cancer treatment for …

Primary sensory cortex has long been believed to play a straightforward role in the initial
processing of sensory information. Yet, the superficial layers of cortex overall are sparsely …

Neurons often encode highly heterogeneous non-linear functions of multiple task variables,
a signature of a high-dimensional geometry. We studied the representational geometry in …

Accurate goal-directed behaviour requires the sense of touch to be integrated with
information about body position and ongoing motion,. Behaviours such as chewing …

The feedback projections from cortical layer 6 (L6CT) to the sensory thalamus have long
been implicated in playing a primary role in gating sensory signaling but remain poorly …

Social recognition consists of multiple memory processes, including the detection of
familiarity–the ability to rapidly distinguish familiar from novel individuals–and recollection …

Rodents use whisking to probe actively their environment and to locate objects in space,
hence providing a paradigmatic biological example of active sensing. Numerous studies …