We can observe behavior: what a person or animal does in any given moment. What we can't easily see is the cascading neural activity in the brain that produced it. Bridging that gap is the defining challenge of neuroscience, and it requires studying all the pieces of the brain at once.

We study how animals make flexible, real-world decisions like foraging for resources while minimizing effort and avoiding danger. These kinds of behaviors recruit almost every major brain system. By recording neural activity across the whole brain and building mathematical models that tie it to behavior, we're discovering the algorithms that let the brain learn, generalize, and adapt. With this powerful new perspective, our open datasets and tools will seed an entirely new generation of neuroscience.