Washington DC, April 21 -- Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualisation techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold.

The findings depict how information is processed in our brain's circuitry, offering insights for neurological disorders and brain-like AI systems.

How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains?

The broad answer is that our brains undergo adaptations to accommodate new information. To follow a new behaviour or retain newly introduced information, the brain's circuitry changes.

Such modifications are orchestrated across trillions of synapses -- the connections between individual nerv...