<p>To solicit the attention or determine the intentions of another, we use our eyes. While many animals appear to use eyes as an important behavioral cue, for humans, these cues are especially critical. The power of the ...

<p>Negotiating the complex decisions that we encounter daily requires coordinated neu- </p><p>ronal activity. The enormous variety of decisions we make, the intrinsic complexity </p><p>of the situations we encounter, and ...

<p>Mice produce many ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) in the 30 - 100 kHz range including pup isolation calls and adult male songs. These USVs are often used as behavioral readouts of internal states, to measure effects ...

<p>Synaptic plasticity is the leading candidate for the cellular/molecular basis of learning and memory. One of the key molecules involved in synaptic plasticity is Calcium/calmodulin-dependent Kinase II (CaMKII). Synaptic ...

<p>Monoamines were first discovered at the end of the 19th century when William Bates identified epinephrine (EPI) and noted its hemostatic effects. During the 20th century, norepinephrine (NE), dopamine (DA), and serotonin ...

<p>Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) use recordings from the nervous system to extract volitional and motor parameters for controlling external actuators, such as prosthetics, thereby bypassing or replacing injured tissue. ...

<p>The ability of young children to vocally imitate the speech of adults is critical for speech learning. Vocal imitation requires exposure to an external auditory model and the use of auditory feedback to adaptively ...