A new study, published in Nature Communications this week, led by Jake Gavenas PhD, while he was a PhD student at the Brain Institute at Chapman University, and co-authored by two faculty members of ...

Facemap uses a mouse's facial movements to predict brain activity, bringing researchers one step closer to understanding brain-wide signals driven by spontaneous behaviors. Mice are always in motion.

A new study examines how the brain initiates spontaneous actions. In addition to demonstrating how spontaneous action emerges without environmental input, this study has implications for the origins ...

A new study reports a potential neurological link between adverse experiences in childhood and the negative thinking patterns characteristic of mood disorders. Researchers found that a specific ...

A recent study provides new evidence on the neural basis of shyness, suggesting a link between this personality trait and spontaneous activity in the cerebellum. The research indicates that the ...

Mice are always in motion; sweeping their whiskers, sniffing their environment, and grooming themselves. So too are neurons in the brain, even in the absence of external sensory stimuli or a ...

A schematic of the stimuli seen by the mouse after vision onset in a virtual corridor rich with optic flow, created using a 3D animation software and used as the training dataset (Methods 4.1.4). The ...

Janelia scientists have developed a tool that could bring researchers one step closer to understanding brain-wide signals driven by spontaneous behaviors. The tool, known as Facemap, uses deep neural ...