Three preprints expand the list of high-confidence autism-linked genes and reveal how variants in these genes contribute to ...

Number of autism-linked genes more than triples in new analyses In addition to a new preprint that expands the list of genes tied to the condition, two related analyses reveal how variants in those ...

Maxim Raginsky draws on control theory, engineering and philosophy to explore biological and artificial intelligence and ...

The tool could help reveal how information transmission between areas relates to perception, cognition and behavior.

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

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

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

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

In July, about 1,200 artificial-intelligence (AI) agents at OpenAI were working through a cybersecurity test, each supposedly sealed in its own environment. The agents breached their isolation and ...

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

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 ...