Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Region-specific mechanosensation modulates Drosophila postural control behaviour

    William Roseby, Jonathan AC Menzies ... Claudio R Alonso
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Neuroscience

    Distinct involvements of the subthalamic nucleus subpopulations in reward-biased decision-making in monkeys

    Kathryn Branam, Joshua I Gold, Long Ding
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
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    1. Neuroscience

    Reduction of complex dynamic touch information to a single stable perceptual feature

    Naghmeh Zamini, Benjamin Stephens-Fripp ... Jess Hartcher-O’Brien
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Dopamine ramps as a normative consequence of dual-process control

    Luke Priestley, Thomas Akam
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    1. Neuroscience

    Layer-specific wide-field calcium imaging of neocortical activity

    Dayra A Lorenzo, Yasir Gallero-Salas ... Fritjof Helmchen
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    1. Neuroscience

    Evidence that humans underestimate body mass in microgravity: kinematic signatures in reaching movements during spaceflight

    Zhaoran Zhang, Yu Tian ... Kunlin Wei
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Transcriptional profiling of extraocular motor neurons reveals sim1a as a candidate strabismus-related gene

    Emily Gershowitz, Kyla Rose Hamling ... David Schoppik
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Neuroscience

    Neural signatures of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning across prefrontal cortex and striatum

    Bruno Miranda, James L Butler ... Steven W Kennerley
    Single-neuron recordings reveal that anterior cingulate cortex and caudate nucleus encode the interaction between rewards, state transitions, and choices that underlies flexible, goal-directed decision-making.
    1. Neuroscience

    Paraventricular thalamus hyperactivity mediates stress-induced sensitization of unlearned fear but not stress-enhanced fear learning (SEFL)

    Kenji J Nishimura, Denisse Paredes ... Michael R Drew
    Chemogenetic and in vivo recording approaches reveal how persistent hyperactivity in the posterior paraventricular thalamus promotes sensitization of fear responses to unlearned threats after stress exposure.
    1. Neuroscience

    The Crunchometer: A Low-Cost, Open-Source Acoustic Analysis of Feeding Microstructure

    Elvi Gil-Lievana, Benjamin Arroyo ... Ranier Gutierrez
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Stronger memories through smarter stimulation

    Justin Riddle
    1. Neuroscience

    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña
    1. Neuroscience

    Insights into perceptual learning

    Zhong-Lin Lu

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    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
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    University of California, San Diego, United States
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    State University of New York Upstate Medical University, United States
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