Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

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    Reactivation strength during cued recall is modulated by graph distance within cognitive maps

    Simon Kern, Juliane Nagel ... Gordon B. Feld
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    Adult neurogenesis through glial transdifferentiation in a CNS injury paradigm

    Sergio Casas-Tintó, Nuria García-Guillen, Maria Losada-Pérez
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    Somatotopic organization among parallel sensory pathways that promote a grooming sequence in Drosophila

    Katharina Eichler, Stefanie Hampel ... Andrew M Seeds
    A synaptic resolution somatotopic map of nearly all mechanosensory neurons on the Drosophila head that individually elicit aimed grooming of specific head locations and collectively elicit a head grooming sequence.
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    Species -shared and -unique gyral peaks on human and macaque brains

    Songyao Zhang, Tuo Zhang ... Tianming Liu
    Having compared cross-species cortical folding patterns between humans and macaques, it is shown that 'Gyral Peaks' can stably exist across different species.
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    Lesions in a songbird vocal circuit increase variability in song syntax

    Avani Koparkar, Timothy L Warren ... Lena Veit
    A forebrain nucleus contributes specifically to the variability of syllable sequencing in songs of Bengalese finches, a songbird with complex syntactic song structure.
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    tCFS: A new ‘CFS tracking’ paradigm reveals uniform suppression depth regardless of target complexity or salience

    David Alais, Jacob Coorey ... Matthew J. Davidson
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    Functional Diversity of Dopamine Axons in Prefrontal Cortex During Classical Conditioning

    Kenta Abe, Yuki Kambe ... Tatsuo K. Sato
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    Chronic activation of a negative engram induces behavioral and cellular abnormalities

    Alexandra L. Jellinger, Rebecca L. Suthard ... Steve Ramirez

Highlights

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    Coping with fear

    Sydney Trask, Nicole C Ferrara
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    How to pause fertility

    Aleisha M Moore

Senior editors

  1. Yanchao Bi
    Beijing Normal University, China
  2. Michael Taffe
    University of California, San Diego, United States
  3. Ma-Li Wong
    State University of New York Upstate Medical University, United States
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