Much like camera settings—filters, flashes and focus—affect what we notice in a final photo, the way scientists measure ...

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...

An image from the research shows axons from neurons in the ACA (red) and ORB (green) innervating the visual cortex, targeting discrete layers. Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT ...

Many horse owners think the existence of the prefrontal cortex is a major controversy in equine science. It’s not. It’s just an area that’s riddled with misinformation. Curiously, most people—horsey ...

Before the prefrontal cortex evolved, another system in the brain may already have been directing attention, scientists have ...

A new study uncovers a brain-gut-bone axis where stress accelerates hematopoietic stem cell aging via gut microbes.