At a symposium of the Simons Center for the Social Brain, six speakers described a diversity of recently launched studies aimed at improving understanding of the autistic brain.

Research could help improve motor rehabilitation programs and assistive robot control.

A detailed new look at dopamine signaling suggests neuroscientists’ model of reinforcement learning may need to be revised.

Researchers have developed a web plug-in to help those looking to protect their mental health make more informed decisions.

Using fMRI, the research team identified 24 networks that perform specific functions within the brain’s cerebral cortex.

The newly identified pathways appear to relay emotional information that helps to shape the motivation to take action.

The new study also identifies factors that can make these efforts more successful.

Labs that can’t afford expensive super-resolution microscopes could use a new expansion technique to image nanoscale structures inside cells.

A new study adds evidence that consciousness requires communication between sensory and cognitive regions of the brain’s cortex.

New dataset of “illusory” faces reveals differences between human and algorithmic face detection, links to animal face recognition, and a formula predicting where people most often perceive faces.