Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    The Crunchometer, a low-cost, open-source acoustic analysis of feeding microstructure

    Elvi Gil Lievana, Benjamin Arroyo ... Ranier Gutierrez
    Making the moment-to-moment dynamics of solid-food intake measurable in any laboratory enables researchers to map the brain circuits that control appetite and accelerate the development of treatments for obesity.
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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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    Behavioral Signatures of Post-Decisional Attention in Preferential Choice

    Ariel Zylberberg, Ian Krajbich, Michael N Shadlen
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    • Important
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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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    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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    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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    • Useful
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    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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    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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    Primate Hippocampus Reveals Distinct Rules for Associative Synaptic Plasticity

    Anoop Manakkadan, Krishna Kumar ... Sreedharan Sajikumar
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    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
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
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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 of Oxford / University College London, United Kingdom
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    Stanford University, United States
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    University of California, San Diego, United States
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