Robb Rutledge receives funding from the UK Medical Research Foundation, the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, and the National Institute of Mental Health. Bastien Blain does not work for, consult, ...

Last week, my not-so-little brother celebrated his thirtieth birthday, and he proudly showed the gift he got from his girlfriend that morning — a shiny new guitar. Despite his reputation for ...

Researchers have long recognized that hormones play a crucial role in shaping brain function—affecting emotions, motivation, energy levels, and even the way we make decisions. Yet, despite decades of ...

The idea of reinforcement learning—or learning based on reward—has been around for so long it’s easy to forget we don’t really know how it works. If DeepMind’s new bombshell paper in Nature is any ...

David Kleinfeld receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. My colleagues and I recently found that we were able to train mice to voluntarily increase the size and frequency of seemingly ...