Brain & Behavior

(l-r) Prof. Elisha Moses, Prof. Menahem Segal and Dr. Yaron Penn

Neuron Networks Lead by Consensus

23.05.2016

Theoretical Physics, Brain & Behavior

Neurons may synchronize their oscillations to produce signals

timestamp for the brain

Time and Place

09.05.2016

Brain & Behavior

Patterns of nerve cell activity act as a "timestamp" in our brain

Day 3 of the fMRI experiment

Learning without One’s Knowledge

04.05.2016

Brain & Behavior

Subject's brains in an fMRI experiment showed the preferred pattern after three days

Red and green dots reveal a region in the brain that that is very dense with synapses. A special fluorescent protein allows Dr. Ofer Yizhar and his group to record the activity of the synapses

Temporary Disconnects Shed Light on Long-Term Brain Dysfunction

16.03.2016

Brain & Behavior

Targeting axons uncovers the brain's distance communications

A small change in images at the minimal recognizable configurations (MIRC) level can cause a large drop in human recognition rate. MIRCs (top) and corresponding sub-MIRCs (bottom); numbers under each image indicate the human recognition rate

Less than Meets the Eye

07.03.2016

Brain & Behavior, Systems Biology, Math & Computer Science, Robotics and Machine Learning, Computer Vision

How do computers - or our brains - recognize images?

brain and headphones

People with Anxiety Show Fundamental Differences in Perception

07.03.2016

Brain & Behavior

Patients may overgeneralize their responses to stimuli, harmful or not

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Calculating Whiskers Send Precise Information to the Brain

28.01.2016

Brain & Behavior

Organs that sense through movement are more complex than thought

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Your Symptoms? Evolution’s Way of Telling You to Stay Home

07.01.2016

Brain & Behavior, Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

Research suggests that our selfish genes are behind the aches and fever

To understand the relationships between the “words” encoded in the retinal responses to film clips, the researchers analyzed and plotted them on a 3-D graph on which they attempted to preserve the relations between the words. Each balloon covers all the words that belong to the same sematic cluster. The fact that the balloons are so distinct shows the underlying “synonym” organization of neuron communication

A Thesaurus for the Brain’s “Language”

20.11.2015

Brain & Behavior

The brain’s communications networks may use synonyms to avoid misunderstandings

Weizmann Institute Scientists Discover: How to Manipulate the Brain to Control Maternal Behavior in Females and Reduce Aggression in Males

Weizmann Institute Scientists Discover: How to Manipulate the Brain to Control Maternal Behavior in Females and Reduce Aggression in Males

07.10.2015

Life Sciences, Brain & Behavior

New research shows that same network of brain cells operates differently in male and female mice

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