Neuroethology utilizes a wide range of multidisciplinary approaches to decipher neural
correlates of natural behaviors associated with an animal's ecological niche. By placing …

'Social competence'refers to the ability of an individual to optimise its social behaviour
depending on available social information. Although such ability will enhance social …

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in
the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition …

Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and
language to science and technology. How did the human mind—and the uniquely human …

Shifting computing architectures from von Neumann to event-based spiking neural networks
(SNNs) uncovers new opportunities for low-power processing of sensory data in …

Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying
increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged …

Cognition presents evolutionary research with one of its greatest challenges. Cognitive
evolution has been explained at the proximate level by shifts in absolute and relative brain …

Neuroscience has made astounding progress in the understanding of the brain. What
should we make of its claims to go beyond the brain and explain consciousness, behaviour …

Despite considerable interest in the forces sha** the relationship between brain size and
cognitive abilities, it remains controversial whether larger-brained animals are, indeed …

An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …