Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    Sensory adaptation and pupil-linked arousal support flexible evidence accumulation during perceptual decision making

    Kara D McGaughey, Joshua I Gold
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    Diverse paths for chemoreception in ciliated neurons contacting the cerebrospinal fluid in the spinal cord

    Emily Verran, Louise Moizan ... Claire Wyart
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    Concurrent category-selective neural activity across the ventral occipito-temporal cortex supports a non-hierarchical view of human visual recognition

    Corentin Jacques, Jacques Jonas ... Bruno Rossion
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    1. Neuroscience

    Behavioral Signatures of Post-Decisional Attention in Preferential Choice

    Ariel Zylberberg, Ian Krajbich, Michael N Shadlen
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    Relating layer fMRI signals to acoustics and intracranial neuronal activity in the human auditory cortex in a naturalistic design

    Hsin-Ju Lee, Jyrki Ahveninen ... Fa-Hsuan Lin
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    1. Neuroscience

    Human cerebellum and ventral tegmental area interact during extinction of learned fear

    Enzo Nio, Patrick Pais Pereira ... Dagmar Timmann
    The cerebellum and ventral tegmental area interact during unexpected omissions of aversive outcomes in humans, supporting a role for reward-like prediction error signaling in fear extinction learning.
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    Nanoscale organization of betaII-spectrin within segments of the membrane-associated periodic skeleton in mouse sciatic nerve axons

    Nahir Guadalupe Gazal, Gonzalo Escalante ... Nicolás Unsain
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    1. Neuroscience

    Decoding spine nanostructure in cultured neurons derived from mouse models of neuropsychiatric disorder reveals a schizophrenia-linked role for Ecrg4

    Yutaro Kashiwagi, Qingrui Liu ... Shigeo Okabe
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    1. Neuroscience

    Astrocytic Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay regulates calcium signaling to support synapse function and restrain anxiety

    Pablo J Lituma, Aykut Deveci ... Dilek Colak
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Estimating the replicability of Brazilian biomedical science

    The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative
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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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    Insights into perceptual learning

    Zhong-Lin Lu

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    University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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    Brown University, United States
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    Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India
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