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Remembering Barbara Finlay, 'maverick' of evolutionary neuroscience Oct 23, 2026

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Finlay, who died on 12 September, championed the idea that developmental constraints dictate how evolution sculpts brains, a concept she used to model the timing of hundreds of events and align them across mammalian species.

What to do when traditional mechanistic approaches no longer work Oct 19, 2026

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Many complex behaviors have stubbornly resisted mechanistic explanations. Deciphering them will require new approaches-and perhaps a new concept of "understanding."

How new technologies can bring primatologists and systems neuroscientists together Oct 15, 2026

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The two groups study the same behavioral phenomena yet rarely interact or read each other's work-a mutual blind spot that weakens both fields. New technologies offer a chance to bring them together.

This paper changed my life: A first glimpse into the 'middle' of brain processing Oct 14, 2026

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Work by Jeffrey Moran and Robert Desimone showed that monkeys could focus their attention on different stimuli in their visual field without shifting their gaze. Their work marked a key milestone in the emergence of cognitive neuroscience.

Creating community through grant support Oct 14, 2026

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Fiona Sanderson, a senior program manager at the Brain Canada Foundation, shares how she got into grant administration and how she helps connect researchers with funding and one another.

The neural code at 100 Oct 12, 2026

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In two 1926 articles, Edgar Douglas Adrian revealed that neurons communicate through trains of spikes.

What AI can learn from hunger Oct 05, 2026

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To enhance AI safety, take a lesson from biological brains; a small set of wants maintains durable control over a much larger cognitive system.

How the pipa frog hunts prey by touch Sep 30, 2026

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Each of the frog's eight fingers branches into 16 ultra-sensitive tips, which together function as a fovea-potentially the first demonstration of this type of sensory structure outside of mammals.

Revisiting the neural correlates of consciousness Sep 28, 2026

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Life happens in real time, but experience may be composed in ragtime-like the music genre, full of offbeat notes and uneven rhythms. The assumption that waking life consists of a "stream" of conscious representations has inadvertently led consciousness science to its current impasse.

Grant review needs reform. How about we add an element of chance? Sep 25, 2026

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A process that uses a lottery system saves time, reduces strategic resubmission and accepts that, above a quality threshold, luck has always played a part in science funding.

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