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Neuroscience

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    A behavioral architecture for realistic simulations of Drosophila larva locomotion and foraging

    Panagiotis Parthenios Sakagiannis, Anna-Maria Jürgensen, Martin Paul Nawrot
    A three-layered modular architecture unifies diverse computational models of Drosophila larval behavior, enabling realistic closed-loop simulations from locomotion through chemotaxis to associative learning.
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    Visual Categorization: How monkeys carve up the visual world

    Binxu Wang
    Monkeys generalize many visual categorization rules, such as animate versus inanimate, but fail on culturally defined ones, placing their behavior closer to networks trained on images alone than to humans.
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    EEG-Neurofeedback Targeting Gamma Oscillations at the Parieto-Occipital Region Reduces Pain Perception

    Xiangyue Zhao, Hao Sun ... Li Hu
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    Multisensory learning recruits visual neurons into an olfactory memory engram

    Zeynep Okray, Nils Otto ... Scott Waddell
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    Reduced dorsal CA1 Activity Limits Retention of the Temporal Component of Declarative Memory in the Cntnap2 Knockout Mouse Model of Autism

    Elise C Rawlinson, Michael H McCullough ... Nathalie Dehorter
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    Revealing the benefit of eye motion for acuity under emulated cone loss

    Hannah K Doyle, James Fong ... Austin Roorda
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    Strong mnemonic prediction errors increase cognitive control, attention, and arousal

    Alice M Xue, Jenna Jokhani ... Anthony D Wagner
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    Distancing alters the controllability of emotional states by affecting both intrinsic stability and extrinsic sensitivity

    Jolanda Malamud, Quentin JM Huys
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    Olfactory cortical outputs recruit and shape distinct brain-wide spatiotemporal networks

    Teng Ma, Xunda Wang ... Alex TL Leong
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    Nitric oxide feedback to ciliary photoreceptor cells gates a UV avoidance circuit

    Kei Jokura, Piotr Słowiński ... Gáspár Jékely
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    Understanding the cellular architecture of Huntington’s disease

    Dorian Pustina
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    Stronger memories through smarter stimulation

    Justin Riddle
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    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña

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    The University of Texas at Austin Center for Learning and Memory, United States
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    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
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    University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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