New research reveals how electrical synapses filter sensory input, helping animals choose actions based on context.

Scientists at Yale and the University of Connecticut have taken a major step in understanding how animal brains make decisions, revealing a crucial role for electrical synapses in “filtering” sensory ...

They found that these electrical synapses, mediated by a protein called INX-1, connect a specific pair of neurons (AIY neurons) which are responsible for controlling locomotion decisions in the worm.

Researchers discovered that electrical synapses filter sensory signals in animals, enabling context-specific ...

How electrical synapses fine-tune sensory information for better decisions Date: January 8, 2025 Source: Yale University Summary: Scientists have taken a major step in understanding how animal ...

we will undoubtedly further our insights into how these synaptic machines are set in motion so that synapses can reliably generate robust and stable baseline electrical responses while also ...

Scientists at Yale and the University of Connecticut have taken a major step in understanding how animal brains make decisions, revealing a crucial role for electrical synapses in “filtering ...

Animation of artificial synapses made from magnetic Josephson junctions. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 26, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS.