In the mammalian nervous system, billions of neurons connected by quadrillions of
synapses exchange electrical, chemical and mechanical signals. Disruptions to this network …

Trial-to-trial variability in the execution of movements and motor skills is ubiquitous and
widely considered to be the unwanted consequence of a noisy nervous system. However …

The basal ganglia are known to influence action selection and modulation of movement
vigor, but whether and how they contribute to specifying the kinematics of learned motor …

Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is a neuromodulation therapy for a broad and expanding set
of neurologic conditions. However, the mechanism through which VNS influences central …

Social behaviours in species as diverse as honey bees and humans promote group survival
but often come at some cost to the individual. Although reinforcement of adaptive social …

Advances in artificial intelligence are stimulating interest in neuroscience. However, most
attention is given to discrete tasks with simple action spaces, such as board games and …

Neurocognitive and neurolinguistics theories make explicit statements relating specialized
cognitive and linguistic processes to specific brain loci. These linking hypotheses are in …

Rapid and reversible manipulations of neural activity in behaving animals are transforming
our understanding of brain function. An important assumption underlying much of this work …

How rudimentary movements evolve into sophisticated ones during development remains
unclear. It is often assumed that the primitive patterns of neural control are suppressed …

Studies of humans with focal brain damage and non-human animals with experimentally
induced brain lesions have provided pivotal insights into the neural basis of behavior. As the …