Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Individuality across environmental context in Drosophila melanogaster

    Thomas F Mathejczyk, Cara Knief ... Gerit A Linneweber
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v4
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Computational mechanisms for temporal integration in the anterior claustrum

    Kuenbae Sohn, Donghyeon Yoon ... Sukwoo Choi
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Prior cocaine use disrupts identification of hidden states by single units and neural ensembles in orbitofrontal cortex

    Wenhui Zong, Lauren E Mueller ... Geoffrey Schoenbaum
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding in naturalistic listening designs

    Inés Schönmann, Jakub Szewczyk ... Micha Heilbron
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Neuroscience

    Microglia: Replacing the immune system of the brain

    Julie Rebejac, Soyon Hong
    A new method enables engineered immune progenitor cells to replace microglia in mice and reveals how a genetic mutation can lead to inflammation in the brain.
    Version of Record
    Insight
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural Mechanisms of Willed Attention Control

    Changhao Xiong, Qiang Yang ... Mingzhou Ding
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    The effect of physical activity on brain structure and cognitive function in the population-based cohort of LIFE-Adult-Study

    Polona Kalc, Rober Dahnke ... Christian Gaser
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Noradrenergic infraslow rhythm during sleep is the critical link between heart-rate dynamics and memory consolidation

    Sofie S Jacobsen, Allison B Morehouse ... Celia Kjaerby
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Boosting Hyperalignment Performance with Age-specific Templates

    Yuqi Zhang, Maria Ida Gobbini ... Ma Feilong
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Circadian photoreceptor CRYPTOCHROME promotes wakefulness under short winter-like days via a GABAergic circuitry

    Lixia Chen, Danya Tian ... Luoying Zhang
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
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Highlights

    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Neuroscience

    The brain's immune system

    Julie Rebejac, Soyon Hong
    1. Neuroscience

    Non-visual photoreceptors

    N Sören Häfker
    1. Neuroscience

    Encoding time in working memory

    Dhruv Grover, Marissa L Heintschel

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    Stanford University, United States
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