Meet some of the people featured in the October 2017 issue of The Scientist.

The birds’ ability to multitask may be attributable to a more densely packed cerebral cortex, scientists propose.

Researchers are piecing together the links between the gut microbiome and mental health.

Male rodents given access to a running wheel early in life show increased neural activity and improved memory as adults.

New methods could propel investigation of neural “PGO” wave patterns that may underlie critical aspects of visual experience, dreaming, and even psychosis.

Did behaviors that seem ingrained become fixed through epigenetic mechanisms and ancestral learning?

A protein found in human umbilical cord plasma improves synaptic plasticity, learning, and memory in aged mice.

Researchers investigate the unusual association of musical sounds with tastes or colors through the lens of another perceptual quirk.

At the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, the researcher studies the neurobiology of music perception.

Visit the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research, located in Montreal, to see the research seeking to decipher humans’ relationship to music.