Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Economic and Social Modulations of Innate Decision-Making in Mice Exposed to Visual Threats

    Zhe Li, Jiahui Wang ... Ya-tang Li
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v4
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Distinct neural representations of perceptual and numerical absence in the human brain

    Benjy Barnett, Stephen M Fleming
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Simple Methods to Acutely Measure Multiple Timing Metrics among Sexual Repertoire of Male Drosophila

    Yutong Song, Hongyu Miao ... Woo Jae Kim
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Efficient and reproducible pipelines for spike sorting large-scale electrophysiology data

    Alessio Paolo Buccino, Arjun Sridhar ... Joshua H Siegle
    Parallelized, cloud-compatible pipelines reduce spike sorting of large-scale neural recordings from weeks to hours, and enable systematic benchmarking of algorithms on hybrid data.
    1. Neuroscience

    Boosting hyperalignment performance with age-specific templates

    Yuqi Zhang, Maria Ida Gobbini ... Ma Feilong
    Age-specific templates improve the quality of functional alignment using hyperalignment algorithms, and the improvement is consistent across age groups, validation analyses, and datasets.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Engulfment by brain macrophages in a short-lived vertebrate

    Rahul Nagvekar, Angela N Pogson ... Anne Brunet
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Scale matters: Large language models with billions (rather than millions) of parameters better match neural representations of natural language

    Zhuoqiao Hong, Haocheng Wang ... Ariel Goldstein
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Continuous partitioning of neuronal variability

    Anuththara Rupasinghe, Adam S Charles, Jonathan W Pillow
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Fundamental
    • Exceptional

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