As researchers discover more about the brain, their findings uncover even more questions. Some researchers are striving to learn what prompts two neurons to form a synapse. Others are focused on how neural networks are built or what gives rise to consciousness, to personality, and to memories.

As researchers discover more about the brain, their findings uncover even more questions. Some researchers are striving to learn what prompts two neurons to form a synapse. Others are focused on how neural networks are built or what gives rise to consciousness, to personality, and to memories.

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Multisensory effects are found when the input from single senses combines, and this has been well researched in the brain. Presently, we examined in humans the potential impact of visuo-proprioceptive interactions at the peripheral level, using microneurography, and compared it with a similar behavioral task. We used a paradigm where participants had either proprioceptive information only (no vision) or combined visual and proprioceptive signals (vision). We moved the foot to measure changes in the sensitivity of single muscle afferents, which can be altered by the descending fusimotor drive. Visual information interacted with proprioceptive information, where we found that for the same passive movement, the response of muscle afferents increased when the proprioceptive channel was the only source of information, as compared with when visual cues were added, regardless of the attentional level. Behaviorally, when participants looked at their foot moving, they more accurately judged differences between move...

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present five neuroscientists with this year’s Science Education and Outreach Awards, comprising the Award for Education in Neuroscience, the Science Educator Award, and the Next Generation Awards. The awards will be presented during SfN’s annual meeting, Neuroscience 2023.

Different models support research into different questions

Understanding human cortical maturation is a central goal for developmental neuroscience. Significant advances toward this goal have come from two recent strands of in vivo structural magnetic resonance imaging research: (1) longitudinal study designs have revealed that factors such as sex, cognitive ability, and disease are often better related to variations in the tempo of anatomical change than to variations in anatomy at any one time point; (2) largely cross-sectional applications of new surface-based morphometry (SBM) methods have shown how the traditional focus on cortical volume (CV) can obscure information about the two evolutionarily and genetically distinct determinants of CV: cortical thickness (CT) and surface area (SA). Here, by combining these two strategies for the first time and applying SBM in >1250 longitudinally acquired brain scans from 647 healthy individuals aged 3–30 years, we deconstruct cortical development to reveal that distinct trajectories of anatomical change are hidden within...

Check out these program highlights for Neuroscience 2017, taking place November 11-15 in Washington, DC.

The Meet-the-Experts Series will continue with live one-hour webinars after the conclusion of Neuroscience 2022, between December 2022 and September 2023.

SfN honors women with the Celebration of Women in Neuroscience event each year at the SfN annual meeting.