Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 5 October.

The technique enables neuroscientists to target brain circuits with unprecedented specificity, transforming the study of ...

Davi Bock’s lab took 21 million images for the fruit fly connectome. Now he wants to apply “this high-throughput flashlight” ...

In “A Mother’s Brain,” Carmona shares key moments in her career that led her to study the neuroscience of motherhood.

To enhance AI safety, take a lesson from biological brains; a small set of wants maintains durable control over a much larger ...

Confidence may therefore not have a single computational architecture. Sometimes it behaves like a genuine second thought; sometimes it is built into the first.

A new functional MRI (fMRI) technique cuts down on scanning noise and motion-related artifacts, broadening the range of brain ...

Gene activity across 17 mouse models occurs in one of two molecular states, suggesting diverse genetic changes converge on a ...

Ariel Zylberberg is a research scientist at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute. He studies the neural and computational mechanisms of decision-making, with a particular focus on confidence and ...

A process that uses a lottery system saves time and accepts that, above a quality threshold, luck has always played a part in ...

The frog Pipa pipa is an effective hunter, yet it doesn’t chase its prey. Instead, the aquatic frog lies in wait, motionless ...

The findings provide a new perspective on how granule cells in the cerebellum help to generalize across tasks.