Millisecond Windows of Time May Be Key to How We Hear, Study Finds

“Brain Dial” for Consumption Found in Mice

Discovering ways to regulate this brain center may lead to new therapies for weight control and chemotherapy side effects

How an AI Fish Senses the World

Digital version of a real fish that detects objects using electric fields demonstrates promise of AI for studying the senses

Scientists Map Tongue’s Sweet Sensor, May Lead to New Ways to Curb Sugar Cravings

Discovery reveals the workings of the key molecule responsible for our insatiable attraction to sugar.

Memory Center in Flies Linked to Smell Sheds Light on Sight

By tracing connections inside the fruit fly brain, Zuckerman Institute researchers hope to learn more about multisensory learning

Brain-Imaging Study Reveals Curiosity as it Emerges

In a first, researchers link people’s subjective feelings of curiosity to the way their brains physically represent it

How Does the Brain Turn Waves of Light Into Experiences of Color?

Fruit fly study reveals brain-cell circuitry that could underlie how creatures large and small see wavelengths of light as information-rich hues

Do Some Electric Fish Sense the World Through Comrades' Auras?

Scientists uncover evidence for a new form of collective sensing that appears to enable elephantnose fish to extend their perceptual reach

This Pianist Learns with Songbirds

Meet Graduate Student Jonathan Kasdin, Neurobiology and Behavior Program

A Trillion Scents. One Nose.

Smell’s sensory magic emerges from intricate developmental mechanism that tailors each of nose’s sensory cells, mice studies suggest