Cortical neurons emit seemingly erratic trains of action potentials or “spikes,” and neural
network dynamics emerge from the coordinated spiking activity within neural circuits. These …

As the old adage goes: practice makes perfect. Yet, the neural mechanisms by which rote
repetition transforms a halting behavior into a fluid, effortless, and “automatic” action are not …

The Rhizoclosmatium globosum genome encodes three rhodopsin-guanylyl cyclases
(RGCs), which are predicted to facilitate visual orientation of the fungal zoospores. Here, we …

Sequence memory is an essential attribute of natural and artificial intelligence that enables
agents to encode, store, and retrieve complex sequences of stimuli and actions …

Sets of spikes emitted sequentially across neurons constitute fundamental pulse packets in
neural information processing, including offline memory replay during hippocampal sharp …

The temporal activity of many physical and biological systems, from complex networks to
neural circuits, exhibits fluctuations simultaneously varying over a large range of timescales …

Episodic memory requires linking events in time, a function dependent on the hippocampus.
In" trace" fear conditioning, animals learn to associate a neutral cue with an aversive …

Dynamical descriptions and modeling of natural systems have generally focused on fixed
points, with saddles and saddle-based phase-space objects such as heteroclinic channels …

Naturalistic animal behavior exhibits a strikingly complex organization in the temporal
domain, with variability arising from at least three sources: hierarchical, contextual, and …

Most theories of behavior posit that agents tend to maximize some form of reward or utility.
However, animals very often move with curiosity and seem to be motivated in a reward-free …