Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Multi-timescale dynamics organize descending pain modulation

    Carl Ashworth, Melissa Martenson ... Flavia Mancini
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    Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Disrupts γ-Secretase Activity and Impairs Learning and Memory in Wild-Type and 3xTg-AD Mice

    Paola Montenegro, Rachel Kim ... Hermes Yeh
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    1. Neuroscience

    Evolution imposes an inductive bias that alters and accelerates learning dynamics

    Benjamin Midler, Alejandro Pan Vazquez
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    1. Neuroscience

    A Functional Influence Based Circuit Motif That Constrains the Set of Plausible Algorithms of Cortical Function

    Anna Vasilevskaya, Georg B Keller
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    • Fundamental
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    1. Neuroscience

    HSSM: A Widely Applicable Toolbox for Hierarchical Bayesian Neurocognitive Modeling

    Alexander Fengler, Yang Xu ... Michael J Frank
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    ATP8B1–TMEM30B Flippase Activity Maintains Stereocilia Lipid Asymmetry Required for Hearing

    Henry N De Hoyos, Sihan Li ... Jung-Bum Shin
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    • Fundamental
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    1. Neuroscience

    Non-decision time-informed collapsing threshold diffusion model: A joint modeling framework with identifiable time-dependent parameters

    Amir Hosein Hadian Rasanan, Lukas Schumacher ... Jörg Rieskamp
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    1. Neuroscience

    PKD2L1 channels segregated to the apical compartment are the exclusive dual-mode pH sensor in cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons

    Magdalena Vitar, Daniel Prieto ... Federico F Trigo
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    1. Neuroscience

    Perceiving animacy in ‘identical’ images

    Tal Boger, Chaz Firestone
    Visual anagrams, images whose interpretations change with orientation, isolate visual processing of animacy itself, beyond its lower-level correlates.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Adaptive behavior is guided by integrated representations of controlled and non-controlled information

    Bingfang Huang, Harrison Ritz, Jiefeng Jiang
    Controlled and non-controlled information are simultaneously encoded within an integrated representation in partially overlapping neural subspaces, and the strengths of both representations jointly predict performance.
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    1. Neuroscience
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    How monkeys carve up the visual world

    Binxu Wang
    1. Neuroscience
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    Understanding the cellular architecture of Huntington’s disease

    Dorian Pustina
    1. Neuroscience
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    Stronger memories through smarter stimulation

    Justin Riddle