Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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

    Polona Kalc, Robert Dahnke ... Christian Gaser
    Although physical exercise could be a beneficial protective factor for brain health in later life, older adults tend to overestimate their actual levels of activity.
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    Verbal versus Nonverbal Processing Leads to Generalized Hemispheric Laterality Effects that Span Multiple Networks

    Wendy Sun, Lauren M DiNicola, Randy L Buckner
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    Sex differences in exploration–exploitation strategies during home-cage decision making

    Chantelle L Murrell, Alex A Legaria ... Alexxai V Kravitz
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    Brain Mapping: Understanding the cellular architecture of Huntington’s disease

    Dorian Pustina
    A new diffusion MRI approach offers a glimpse of the anomalies of cellular architecture underlying basal ganglia degeneration in Huntington’s disease.
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    The Crunchometer, a low-cost, open-source acoustic analysis of feeding microstructure

    Elvi Gil Lievana, Benjamin Arroyo ... Ranier Gutierrez
    Making the moment-to-moment dynamics of solid-food intake measurable in any laboratory enables researchers to map the brain circuits that control appetite and accelerate the development of treatments for obesity.
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    Sensory adaptation and pupil-linked arousal support flexible evidence accumulation during perceptual decision making

    Kara D McGaughey, Joshua I Gold
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    Concurrent category-selective neural activity across the ventral occipito-temporal cortex supports a non-hierarchical view of human visual recognition

    Corentin Jacques, Jacques Jonas ... Bruno Rossion
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    Diverse paths for chemoreception in ciliated neurons contacting the cerebrospinal fluid in the spinal cord

    Emily Verran, Louise Moizan ... Claire Wyart
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    Behavioral Signatures of Post-Decisional Attention in Preferential Choice

    Ariel Zylberberg, Ian Krajbich, Michael N Shadlen
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    Relating layer fMRI signals to acoustics and intracranial neuronal activity in the human auditory cortex in a naturalistic design

    Hsin-Ju Lee, Jyrki Ahveninen ... Fa-Hsuan Lin
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    Justin Riddle
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    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña
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    Insights into perceptual learning

    Zhong-Lin Lu

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  1. Tamar Makin
    University College London, United Kingdom
  2. Kenton J Swartz
    National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, United States
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    State University of New York Upstate Medical University, United States
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