Most people probably think of transitional fossils or species when they hear the term “missing link,” but another just as important missing link is the one between psychology and biology, between our ...

Many neurons in the primary visual cortex are tuned to orientation, and their responses as a function of orientation, known as tuning curves, are typically bell-shaped (Fig. 1a). From these tuning ...

If you want to understand an electronic device, you can simply review its circuit diagram. But even if such diagrams existed for the brain, they would be of limited use in unraveling this organ’s ...