Study reveals how environment and state are integrated to control behavior
A simple animal model shows how stimuli and states such as smells, stressors, and satiety converge in an olfactory neuron to guide food-seeking behavior.
A simple animal model shows how stimuli and states such as smells, stressors, and satiety converge in an olfactory neuron to guide food-seeking behavior.
In a long-studied population of wandering albatrosses, females are less likely to stick with a shy mate.
PhD student Setayesh Radkani studies the psychological and neural mechanisms at work when humans learn from and influence each other.
At MIT, social networks with “weak ties,” which help foster new ideas, declined during the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers report.
MIT scientists have discovered a population of neurons that light up whenever we see images of food.
By tracking feedback during tasks, the anterior cingulate cortex notices when a new step has become necessary and signals the motor cortex to adjust.
To ensure a quick halt, brain circuit architecture avoids a slow process of integration in favor of quicker differentiation, study finds.
Senior Keith Murray combines his interests in neuroscience, computation, and philosophy to better understand human behavior.
In a new book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our seemingly odd and irrational decisions.
These cells, located in the brain’s striatum, appear to help with decision-making that requires evaluating risks and benefits.
Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study.
A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.
By integrating multiple sensory inputs, a loop of mutual inhibition among a small set of neurons allows worms to switch between long-lasting behavioral states.
In spreading politics, videos may not be much more persuasive than their text-based counterparts.
Periodically catching up on sleep can improve gait control for the chronically sleep-deprived.