HMS News article on new research from the lab of Ziv Williams and colleagues at MIT, first author Mohsen Jamali, identifying the specific neurons critical for social reasoning. Also featured in the Harvard Gazette.

Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.

Suk Joon Lee shares new research from the Sabatini lab on the use of fluorescence lifetime photometry to monitor activity in the neurons of a mouse performing a reward-based learning task. Their findings provide in-vivo evidence for the presumed connection between the neurotransmitter dopamine and the enzyme protein kinase A (PKA), linked to synaptic plasticity, in the basal ganglia.

Miguel Turrero García and Corey Harwell share new research exploring how chromatin modifications in neural stem cells can shape the formation of complex circuits in the cerebral cortex.

Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.

Jaeeon Lee shares new research from the lab of Bernardo Sabatini confirming that distinct pathways of the basal ganglia remain segregated in all the output nuclei of the basal ganglia when sensory information is transformed to motor commands.

Johannes Bill of the Drugowitsch and Gershman labs explores how our brains might exploit hierarchical motion relations when solving perceptual tasks.

New research from the lab of Sam Gershman proposes that contexts correspond to hidden states of the environment, and that place cells track beliefs about the hidden state, such that remapping occurs when these beliefs change.

Prof. Venki Murthy will assume the directorship of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard on July 1st. We are pleased to announce that he will accordingly assume the position of co-director for HBI at that time.

New research from Arthur Sugden and colleagues in the lab of Mark Andermann examines how the brain changes during learning in mice—specifically, how the cortex replays neural activity patterns linked to recent sensory experiences.

Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.

The MGH Multicultural Alzheimer's Prevention Program (MAPP) recently launched a research study to examine the impact of COVID19 on the well-being, memory and cognition of ethnically diverse older individuals.

Harvard Gazette article on new research from the labs of Adam Cohen, Anne Takesian, and colleagues, first author Linlin Fan, on the development of new technology that can help dissect how the brain ignores or acts on information.

BIDMC News article on new research from the lab of Mark Andermann (first author Yoav Livneh) shedding new light on interoception.

HMS News article on new research from the lab of Rachel Wilson, first author Yvette Fisher, on virtual reality experiments that reveal how visual cues reorganize direction-sensing 'compass neurons' in fruit flies.

Harvard Gazette article on new research from the lab of Bence Ölveczky, first author Ashesh Dhawale, on how the brain uses performance to regulate variability in motor functions.

Artificial neural networks could be used to provide insight into biological systems.

After using tools, the birds behave more optimistically, study suggests.

The Landis Award is granted annually, with five researchers receiving $100,000 each to support their efforts in advancing the careers of students and postdoctoral fellows in their labs.

They were one of 44 doctoral advisor-student pairs awarded a Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from HHMI.