Some behaviours that are crucial to survival appear to be hard-wired, meaning that they occur without previous experience. For example, many prey organisms naturally know how to escape to safety from ...

Instinctual behaviors, such as suckling in newborns, or the flight-fight response, are generally seen as subconscious drives underlying the actions of humans and other animals. Yet the manner by which ...

I am a research assistant in Prof. Yang’s lab. My research focuses on how the brain organizes instinctive behaviors and emotional responses, and how dysfunctions in these fundamental systems lead to ...

Yong Xu of the University of South Florida, Sadaf Farooqi of University of Cambridge and Tiago Branco of University College London found that pathways in a key part of the brain called the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Males of Drosophila melanogaster exhibit stereotypic courtship behavior through which they assess potential mates by processing multimodal ...

A new study has found that an innate ability in dogs and humans developed before our evolutionary paths diverged nearly 100 million years ago.