Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Limitations of pupil diameter as a proxy for modes of locus coeruleus activity

    Lowell W Thompson, Joshua I Gold
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    1. Neuroscience

    Neurofeedback enhances a neural signature of selective attention to speech in cocktail-party settings

    Ram K Pari, Marina Inyutina ... Benedikt Zoefel
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    • Important
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Reassessing Choice Probability: What 59 Macaque Studies Tell Us About Decision-Related Activity in Visual Cortex

    Anton Pletenev, Richard T Born ... Ralf M Haefner
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    • Valuable
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    1. Neuroscience

    Learning-Associated Flexibility of Cortical Taste Coding Is Impaired in Shank3 Knockout Mice

    Chi-Hong Wu, Gina G Turrigiano
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Cortical projection neurons with distinct axonal connectivity employ ribosomal complexes with distinct protein compositions

    Tien Phuoc Tran, Bogdan Budnik ... Jeffrey D Macklis
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    • Fundamental
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    1. Neuroscience

    Listening to the room: disrupting activity of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex impairs learning of room acoustics in human listeners

    Heivet Hernández-Pérez, Jessica JM Monaghan ... David McAlpine
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    1. Neuroscience

    Mapping the topographic organization of the human zona incerta using diffusion MRI

    Roy AM Haast, Jason Kai ... Jonathan C Lau
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    • Important
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    1. Neuroscience

    Mapping human visual contrast sensitivity and vision loss across the visual field with model-based fMRI

    Hugo T Chow-Wing-Bom, Matteo Lisi ... Tessa M Dekker
    Model‑based fMRI contrast‑sensitivity mapping provides a fixation‑tolerant, large‑field measure of cortical visual function that sensitively detects, localizes, and tracks visual field loss and recovery.
    1. Neuroscience

    Electroconvulsive stimulation drives cortical spreading depression dependent immediate early gene expression in mice

    Hugo J Ladret, Leonardo Lupori ... Georg B Keller
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Zapit: Open Source Laser-Scanning Photostimulation For Neuroscience

    Michael Lohse, Oliver M Gauld ... Robert AA Campbell
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
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Highlights

    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

Senior editors

  1. Christian Büchel
    University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
  2. Lu Chen
    Stanford University, United States
  3. Panayiota Poirazi
    Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas, Greece
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