This valuable work shows that subcortically-generated behaviors, like grooming, can have widespread representations in cortical activity. While the evidence is solid, additional analyses are necessary ...

Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research, Yang Tan Collective, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...

To decipher the evolution of the hominoid brain and its functions, it is essential to conduct comparative studies in primates, including our closest living relatives. However, strong ethical concerns ...

Domestic horses are currently often subject to management practices that can entail social stressors, which in turn can negatively influence immunocompetence and disease susceptibility. The present ...

Video analysis is a popular and frequently used tool in animal behavior and welfare research. In addition to the actual object of research, video recordings often provide unforeseen information about ...

Although guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) have been used in research for more than a century and remain the most prevalent USDA-covered species, little has been elucidated regarding the recognition of ...

Most behaviors and neuronal responses are variable across individual animals and repeated presentation of the same stimulus. Current neuronal recording techniques examine one animal at a time, whereas ...

Complex behaviors, such as aggression, are comprised of distinct stereospecific behavioral patterns (modules). How such patterns get wired into nervous systems remains unknown. Recently, we reported ...

Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Translational Psychiatry, Royal Society Short Industry Fellow I am an Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Translational Psychiatry, and Chair of the Animal ...