Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    Hippocampal neuronal and astrocytic responses to noradrenaline and natural arousal

    Sian N Duss, Maria Wilhelm ... Peter Rupprecht
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    Arousal modulates functional connectivity through structured and hemispherically asymmetric community architecture during wakefulness

    Xiangyu Kong, Siyu Li, Gaolang Gong
    Rather than exerting a uniform influence, arousal modulates the connectome through a structured, low-dimensional community architecture characterized by discrete topological patterns and intrinsic hemispheric asymmetries.
    1. Neuroscience

    Verbal Episodic Processing in Newborns

    Emma Visibelli, Ana Fló ... Silvia Benavides-Varela
    Speaker identity is a distinguishing feature at birth and highlights the episodic nature of humans’ first-stored verbal memories.
    1. Neuroscience

    Confidence phenotypes: a unified computational account of value and decision certainty in reinforcement learning

    Nicolás A Comay, Guillermo Solovey, Pablo Barttfeld
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Temporal Dynamics of Cortical State Plasticity Following Adult Vision Loss

    Ismaël Djerourou, Maurice Ptito, Matthieu P Vanni
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    • Useful
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    Layer-specific spatiotemporal dynamics of feedforward and feedback in human visual object perception

    Tony Carricarte, Siying Xie ... Radoslaw M Cichy
    Not revised
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    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    • Solid
    1. Genetics and Genomics
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    Dominant α-tubulin mutations rescue tauopathy neurodegenerative phenotypes in C. elegans

    Sarah J Benbow, Aleen D Saxton ... Brian C Kraemer
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Cognitive control networks in human and macaque

    Valentina Mione, Freja Holm Prins ... John Duncan
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    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Training neural networks from scratch in a videogame leads to brittle brain encoding

    François Paugam, Basile Pinsard ... Lune Bellec
    Not revised
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Opposing BOLD signals and oxygen metabolism largely arise from statistical uncertainty in metabolic estimates

    Ole Goltermann, Alexander Huth, Christian Büchel
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    • Important
    • Convincing
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    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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