Michael Halassa and colleagues describe how brain circuits can shift between processing information from two distinct sources: external stimuli and internally generated constructs....
Plants engage in important symbiotic relationships with both bacteria and fungi that involve exchanges of nutrients; their encounters with nitrogen-fixing bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi activate the s...
Social jetlag and its consequences. Why are most people in industrialized societies so tired? The reason lies in an increasing discrepancy between our body clocks' internal time and the social demands...
Network Organization of the Human Brain - In this study, Steven Petersen and co-authors present a preliminary draft of functional brain networks in healthy adults. With resting state fMRI, the authors...
The non-imaging-forming visual system has important physiological roles, including entrainment of the circadian rhythm, but its development is not well understood. Here, Andrew Lumsden and colleagues ...
Triangulating the Bases of Guilt Aversion - Why do we cooperate when it's in our best interest to be selfish? Alan Sanfey and colleagues explore whether the desire to avoid feeling guilty is a fundam...
Implicit Bias: Awareness is a Good Start - Joanne Kamens speaks about “Implicit Bias: Awareness is a Good Start” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science and the Science of Gen...