Scientists have uncovered a key role for the protein “Frazzled” in building and maintaining the rapid neural connections that allow fruit flies to react in milliseconds.

In this paper I criticize a view of functional localization in neuroscience, which I call "computational absolutism" (CA). "Absolutism" in general is the view that each part of the brain should be ...

Modeled on the human brain, neural networks are one of the most common styles of machine learning. Get started with the basic design and concepts of artificial neural networks. Artificial intelligence ...

Find out why backpropagation and gradient descent are key to prediction in machine learning, then get started with training a simple neural network using gradient descent and Java code. Most ...

Over 12 years, researchers mapped all of a larval fruit fly's brain, charting 3,016 neurons and 548,000 connections. It's big news for neuroscience. Reading time 7 minutes To most humans, a fruit fly ...

This project is not being offered for the current term. Please check back next semester for updates. Two undergraduates will be first learning to work with mice under the supervision of a postdoc in ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Researchers at the University of Texas have discovered a new way for ...

Scientists have long struggled with how to study the gut's vast nervous system — often called the body's 'second brain' — without damaging it. Current research methods are invasive and often require ...