Neuroscientist Ilana Witten, who investigates the brain circuits behind learning and decision-making, has been named a 2024 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator.

Witten, a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University, is one of 26 new investigators from…

PNI graduate student Priscilla Louis, and her advisors, PNI associate director and associate professor…

John Ngai, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN Initiative, and U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman visited in May with Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI) researchers to discuss recent advances toward understanding the fundamental workings of the brain.

Ngai and Watson Coleman toured several major research…

For fruit flies, love is not blind. During courtship, a male fruit fly relies on his sense of vision to pursue a female fruit fly—if she is far away, he will speed up; if she is to the left, he will turn left; if she is close, he will serenade her with a complex acoustic signal generated by vibrating his wings. But how does the visual…

At Princeton, interdisciplinary collaborations of researchers are using artificial intelligence to accelerate discovery across the University in fields ranging from neuroscience to Near Eastern studies.

Princeton experts are also pushing the limits of AI technology to make it more accurate and efficient, to…

Research conducted at Princeton in worms has provided thus far the most comprehensive description of how signals flow through the brain. The findings could provide new information that help advance our understanding of how neurons work together as interacting components to process information.

A study by Princeton researchers finds that mice that resist aggression from larger mice can become resilient and less prone to depression-like symptoms. Activating the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain while the mice fought back led to further resilience.

A new study shows that social isolation changes the behavior and brain development of bumblebees, but not in the way researchers expected.

The study explored how bumblebees, which depend largely on their social instincts for survival, were impacted by being socially isolated during a key developmental period.

The researchers…

Eight new interdisciplinary research projects have won seed funding from Princeton University’s Schmidt DataX Fund, marking the third round of grants undertaken by the fund since 2019. The fund, supported…

Neuroscientists and computer scientists from Princeton University, the Allen Institute and Baylor College of Medicine have just released a collection of data that marries a 3-D wiring diagram with the function of tens of thousands of neurons to create the most detailed examination of mammalian brain circuitry to date.

“Our five-year…