Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    If Grid Cells are the Answer, What is the Question? A Review of Normative Grid Cell Theory

    William Dorrell, James Whittington
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    Efficient and reproducible pipelines for spike sorting large-scale electrophysiology data

    Alessio P Buccino, Arjun Sridhar ... Joshua H Siegle
    Revised
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    • Valuable
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    NPAS4 refines spatial and temporal firing in CA1 pyramidal neurons

    Anja Payne, Daniel A Heinz ... Brenda L Bloodgood
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
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    Early Visual Cortex Supports One-Shot Episodic Memory via Spatially Tuned Reactivation

    Robert Woodry, Jonathan Winawer, Serra E Favila
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Solid
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    Analysis of dendritic input currents during place field dynamics

    Bence Fogel, Balazs B Ujfalussy
    A new analysis method to measure the propagation of different membrane currents along complex dendritic trees reveals the conditions leading to burst firing in a computational model of place cells.
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    Neural activity profiles reveal overlapping, intermingled subpopulations spanning area borders in mouse sensorimotor cortex

    Sohrab Salimian, Harrison Grier, Matthew Tyler Kaufman
    Single neurons in mouse sensorimotor cortex are organized by their activity features into distinct subpopulations with area-spanning footprints whose boundaries align closely with anatomical and somatotopic borders.
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    Mood computational mechanisms underlying increased risk behavior in adolescent suicidal patients

    Zhihao Wang, Tian Nan ... Bastien Blain
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
    • Convincing
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    Midbrain somatostatin-expressing cells control pain-suppression during defensive states

    Nanci Winke, Frank Aby ... Cyril Herry
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
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    A battery of image classification challenges reveals shared and distinct object categorization behavior across monkeys, humans, and deep networks

    Han Zhang, Zhihao Zheng ... Gouki Okazawa
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
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    Phasic and tonic pain serve distinct functions during adaptive behaviour

    Shuangyi Tong, Timothy Denison ... Ben Seymour
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
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    Stronger memories through smarter stimulation

    Justin Riddle
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    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña
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    Insights into perceptual learning

    Zhong-Lin Lu

Senior editors

  1. Christian Büchel
    University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
  2. Lu Chen
    Stanford University, United States
  3. Tirin Moore
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, United States
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