A research team at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has uncovered a fundamental principle of how the brain prioritizes ...

Despite this suppression, the auditory cortex continued processing sounds, meaning the brain was adjusting how it integrates sensory information rather than completely ignoring sound. This study ...

New research uncovers how the brain processes learning by identifying the exact moment an animal learns a new skill.

Figure 1: Response of rat auditory cortex neurons to repeated stimuli. In this study, NB activation was paired with temporally modulated acoustic stimuli to investigate plasticity of the cortical ...

The researchers taught mice to lick when they heard one tone but not to lick when they heard a different sound. From the ...

The first study used functional MRI to examine brain activity while participants ... less complex ones in brain regions including the auditory cortex, which is the first cortical waystation ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers discovered that mice can learn new skills in fewer trials than previously assumed. Their ...

From the moment training began, the team recorded the activity of neurons in the auditory cortex, an area of the brain associated with hearing and perception. There were two major surprises.

In stressed mice, she noted, “We observed an increase in baseline (spontaneous) activity in excitatory cells of the auditory cortex.” In a brain without this heightened baseline activity ...

The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum. Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Toward the bottom ...