Your brain constantly juggles sensory information to make split-second decisions, but how? A new latent circuit model ...

As a young scientist in the early 1990s, he had labored to understand neural circuits using chemical ... a tug on their whiskers. But the technique can be applied well beyond whiskers, says ...

These early connections may be crucial in forming developing brain circuits, despite their ... controlling and processing touch via the whiskers, neural connections persist excessively long ...

It’s one of neuroscience’s biggest questions, and researchers have pursued it for decades: How do the firing patterns in specific neural circuits ... it licked its whiskers and other parameters.