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Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

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RESEARCH CULTURE

Interdisciplinary collaboration on the brain

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TRANSFORMATIVE TRAINING

Creating future leaders in neuroscience

Mice choose best escape route without ever experiencing threat

Neuroscientists at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL explored how mice learn about their spatial environment and the behavioural strategies they use to take the shortest route to a shelter when they are scared. In a new study, published today in Current Biology, the researchers show that mice learn the shortest route to escape after only 10 minutes of exploring the environment and they do not need previous experience of threat.

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Controlling the order and timing of action sequences

From washing the dishes to typing in the password to log on to our devices, learned action sequences are integral parts of our lives. In a recent SWC Virtual Seminar, Dr Xin Jin shared his work exploring the neural mechanisms of action sequence order and timing. In this Q&A, he shares some of the backstory, next steps, and more.

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Central tendency bias linked to short-term history effects

Vezha Boboeva and fellow researchers in the Akrami lab at SWC and Clopath lab at Imperial College London, have been exploring a parametric working memory task in rodents to understand how brain circuits give rise to contraction bias towards the sensory mean.

Nurturing a culture of care at SWC

Throughout changing work-from-home regulations, a culture of care at SWC has persisted. The 3Rs – replacement, reduction, refinement – are the guiding principles developed over 50 years ago that still drive us today to minimise use of animals and provide the best possible conditions for animals under care.

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Discovering how the brain gives rise to behaviour

How does the brain allow us to think, feel, see, smell, hear, laugh and love? By bringing together world-leading experimental and computational neuroscientists, the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre's mission is to explain how activity in brain circuits gives rise to thoughts, sensations, memories and actions.

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SWC Seminar: The adaptable auditory system: from everyday listening to compensating for hearing loss

Professor Andrew King

University of Oxford

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SWC Special Lecture: Collective Cognitive Capital

Professor Emily Murphy

University of California Hastings College of the Law