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    1. Neuroscience

    Large language models poorly capture how word order shapes representations of sentence meaning in the human brain

    James Fodor, Carsten Murawski, Shinsuke Suzuki
    Representations from models that explicitly encode semantic roles (who did what to whom) align better with activity in language regions of the brain than representations from transformers do.
    1. Neuroscience

    Morphology and ultrastructure of pharyngeal sense organs of Drosophila larvae

    Vincent Richter, Tilman Triphan ... Andreas S Thum
    Comprehensive ultrastructural reconstruction of the Drosophila larval pharyngeal sensory system reveals the organization and diversity of its sensory structures and enables future investigations into sensory processing, feeding decisions, and behavior.
    1. Neuroscience

    Mapping the topographic organization of the human zona incerta using diffusion MRI

    Roy AM Haast, Jason Kai ... Jonathan C Lau
    Showing that the structural connectivity between the zona incerta and cortex is organized along a rostral–caudal axis.
    1. Neuroscience

    Motor unit mechanisms of speed control in mouse locomotion

    Kyle Thomas, Rhuna Gibbs ... Samuel J Sober
    Recording the spiking activity of muscle fibers at high resolution in awake, behaving mice, reveals that locomotor speed is driven by highly variable subsets of motor units.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Olfactory combinatorial coding supports risk–reward decision-making in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Md Zubayer Hossain Saad, William G Ryan ... Bruce A Bamber
    An odorant is encoded in the periphery as independent inputs of attractive and repulsive valence, which are then integrated and balanced to drive overall chemotactic behavior.
    1. Ecology

    Novel but stable endosymbionts have contrasting effects on aphid dispersal and plant feeding damage in the cereal pest Diuraphis noxia

    Xinyue Gu, Alex Gill ... Ary Hoffmann
    Naturally occurring bacterial endosymbionts can modify population growth, crop damage, and dispersal in the Russian wheat aphid, a major pest of cereal crops, highlighting their potential for sustainable pest management.
    1. Neuroscience

    Complementary stable and dynamic prelimbic ensembles encode learned threat value underlying generalization and discrimination

    Marc E Normandin, Pedro M Ogallar ... Isabel A Muzzio
    Stable and dynamic prelimbic neurons preserve threat-generalization gradients despite ensemble turnover, supporting enduring representations of stimulus significance rather than freezing.
    1. Neuroscience

    A mechanistic theory of planning in prefrontal cortex

    Kristopher T Jensen, Peter T Doohan ... Timothy E Behrens
    Recently discovered sequence representations in prefrontal cortex can be combined with the ubiquitous principle of neural attractor dynamics to support planning in complex environments.
    1. Neuroscience

    Strong mnemonic prediction errors increase cognitive control, attention, and arousal

    Alice M Xue, Jenna Jokhani ... Anthony D Wagner
    Violations of strong memory-based predictions trigger a cascade of changes in cognitive control, attention, and arousal, with differential impacts on the encoding of unexpected information into memory.
    1. Cell Biology

    p66Shc mediates SUMO2-induced endothelial dysfunction

    Jitendra Kumar, Shravan K Uppulapu ... Santosh Kumar
    SUMO2ylation of redox protein p66Shc drives endothelial dysfunction by promoting oxidative stress, identifying a potential therapeutic target for cardiovascular disease.