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We tend to separate the brain and muscle – the brain does the thinking; the muscle does the doing. The brain takes in complex information about the world, makes decisions, while muscle merely executes. This distinction extends to our understanding of cellular processes, where certain molecules withi...

Aya Takeoka and her team at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have identified the neural pathways in the spinal cord that facilitate motor learning independently of the brain. Their research, published in the journal Science on April 11, found two critical groups of spinal cord neurons, on...

Abstract: > Reasoning about the use of external resources is an important aspect of many practical applications. Effect systems enable tracking such information in types, but at the cost of complicating signatures of common functions. Capabilities coupled with escape analysis offer safety and nat...