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The Science of Team Science: Lessons Learned from the International Brain Laboratory
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1127+ words) The International Brain Laboratory, a consortium of 22 labs worldwide working together to study decision-making in the brain, offers insights into how large-scale scientific collaborations can be supported and how the model itself can be improved. Science as we know it…...
Kelsey Martin Wins Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (211+ words) The prize recognizes Martin’s contributions to the discovery of local protein translation in neurons. Martin, along with fellow awardees Christine Holt, Erin Schuman and Oswald Steward, will be honored for their contributions to the discovery of local protein translation in…...
Seeing and Imagining Are Handled by the Same Brain Cells
4+ mon, 14+ hour ago (531+ words) Researchers make advances in understanding how human brains are wired by pinning down how the same neurons are used for both imagining and seeing objects. In one of the first single-neuron studies of imagination in the human brain, researchers found…...
Applications Open for 2026–2027 Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Neuroscience
6+ mon, 2+ day ago (316+ words) Simons Foundation The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications from undergraduate students to participate in its Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) program for the 2026–2027 academic year. The SURFiN program aims to spark and sustain interest in neuroscience among…...
Applications for Conferences and Courses Awards in Neuroscience Now Open
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (289+ words) The Simons Foundation’s Autism & Neuroscience division is pleased to announce the launch of a request for applications (RFA) for conferences or courses in fundamental neuroscience. This year, conferences and courses that align with the scientific missions of any of the…...
Biological Brains Inspire a New Building Block for Artificial Neural Networks
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (340+ words) While artificial intelligence systems have advanced tremendously in recent years, they still lag behind the performance of real brains in reliability and efficiency. A new type of computational unit developed at the Flatiron Institute could help close that gap. While…...
Fellows-to-Faculty Awardee Sama Ahmed Studies the Neuroscience of Multitasking
8+ mon, 6+ day ago (723+ words) How did you become interested in starting your own lab? One thing that definitely sticks out to me is that I had a fantastic undergraduate advisor. I worked in a lab in Philadelphia at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, doing…...