Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Divergent spatiotemporal integration of whole-field visual motion in medaka and zebrafish larvae

    Yasuko Isoe, Yasmine Fatima Mabene ... Florian Engert
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    1. Neuroscience

    Arousal modulates functional connectivity through structured and hemispherically asymmetric community architecture during wakefulness

    Xiangyu Kong, Siyu Li, Gaolang Gong
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    ARHGEF6-dependent cytoskeletal regulation underlies a conserved program of forebrain interneuron development

    Carla Liaci, Beatrice Savarese ... Giorgio R Merlo
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    A validated antibody toolbox for ALS research

    Riham Ayoubi, Emma J MacDougall ... Carl Laflamme
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    1. Neuroscience

    Modality-Specific and Amodal Language Processing by Single Neurons

    Yair Lakretz, Naama Friedmann ... Itzhak Fried
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies

    Max S Farnworth, Yi Peng Toh ... Stephen H Montgomery
    A cognitive adaptation in Heliconius butterflies, accompanied by strikingly divergent changes in two principal insect integration centres, reveals that neural circuits can differ strongly in their propensity for evolutionary change.
    1. Neuroscience

    Examining Alzheimer’s Disease modifiable risk factors: Impact of physical activity and diet on neuroanatomy and behaviour in mouse models

    Cindy L García, Chloe Anastassiadis ... M Mallar Chakravarty
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    1. Neuroscience

    Decentralized Clocks and Direct Photoreception: The Zebrafish as an Integrative Model for Circadian Biology

    Wang Liao, Chun-jiao Wei ... Da-long Ren
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    1. Neuroscience

    When word order matters: human brains represent sentence meaning differently from large language models

    James Fodor, Carsten Murawski, Shinsuke Suzuki
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    1. Neuroscience

    Disentangling Cephalopod Chromatophores Motor Units with Computer Vision

    Mathieu DM Renard, Johann Ukrow ... Gilles Laurent
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña
    1. Neuroscience

    Insights into perceptual learning

    Zhong-Lin Lu
    1. Neuroscience

    Understanding ovulation

    Lillian Rose, Alexander S Kauffman

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  1. Lu Chen
    Stanford University, United States
  2. Merritt Maduke
    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
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    Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas, Greece
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