New recordings in navigating rats show that spatial learning selectively strengthens information flow from the hippocampus ...

Three gene mutations that reliably cause intellectual disability in humans — and that are frequently co-diagnosed with autism ...

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Nuri Jeong remembers the feeling of surprise she felt during a trip back to South Korea, while visiting her grandmother, who'd been grappling with Alzheimer's disease. "I hadn't seen her in six years, ...

earning spatial elements of a new environment is important for people and animals. However, how this process occurs in the brain remains poorly understood. Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) are abundantly ...

Biology and medical researchers use spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies to detect transcription levels in cells, predict cell types and build a tissue's three-dimensional (3D) structure. However ...

Humans have unique sensory functions, among them binaural hearing — meaning we can identify types of sound, as well as what direction it's coming from and how far away it is, and we can also ...

Do you struggle to visualise how to rotate your shoes so that they nest together in a shoe box? How are you with flat-packed furniture? Are you good at giving directions? These everyday activities ...