Year-long program embeds award-winning painter, jazz musician and author with scientists studying the mind, the brain and behavior.
Columbia-led study in mice maps brain circuitry that enables a single pheromone to drive both innate and learned sexual behaviors
Findings lay groundwork for mapping mechanisms of color vision; could inspire future technologies for those with vision impairments.
A Q&A with Nathaniel Sawtell, Larry Abbott and Salomon Muller.
Sarah Sze, a 2003 Macarthur Fellow and a professor in the visual arts program at the School of the Arts, spent 2019 as the Alan Kanzer Artist-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Institute.
If you could see the brain at work in a living creature, imagine what you could discover about the biology’s most fundamental processes. For postdoctoral research scientist Wenze Li, PhD, and graduate student Rebecca Vaadia, this is not a dream, but reality.
Columbia researchers uncover mechanism that produces the fly’s startle response, offers clues as to what may happen in our own bodies when we get startled.
Postdoctoral research scientist Jordan Moore, PhD, discovered a part of the brain critical for learning songs: a step toward understanding how human beings learn language when young.
Award-winning pianist completes a year-long residency at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute with a debut of original compositions inspired by brain science.
Mentored by Nobel laureate Eric Kandel, two young scientists team up and discover they have a lot in common.
