Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Ecology

    The neuronal clock network in the polar key species Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba)

    Lukas Hüppe, Nils Reinhard ... Charlotte Helfrich-Förster
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    • Valuable
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    1. Neuroscience

    Ramping-up hippocampal ripples and their neocortical coupling support human visual short-term memory

    Jing Liu, Xianhui He ... Ying Cai
    Not revised
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    • Important
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    1. Neuroscience

    Betrayal is worse than loss during cooperation

    Rumeng Tang, Jingbin Tan ... Dingguo Gao
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    1. Neuroscience

    Perceiving animacy in ‘identical’ images

    Tal Boger, Chaz Firestone
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    1. Neuroscience

    Distinct sensorimotor encoding in tuft dendrites and somata associated with action, correction, and learning

    Jackson Scheib, Zachary L Newman ... Aaron Kerlin
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    1. Neuroscience

    Neural activity profiles reveal overlapping, intermingled subpopulations spanning area borders in mouse sensorimotor cortex

    Sohrab Salimian, Harrison A Grier, Matthew T Kaufman
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    • Fundamental
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    1. Neuroscience

    Disrupted hippocampal theta-gamma coupling and spike-field coherence following experimental traumatic brain injury

    Christopher D Adam, Ehsan Mirzakhalili ... John A Wolf
    Experimental TBI results in distinct patterns of network-level pathophysiology in the hippocampus that may contribute to TBI-associated cognitive deficits.
    1. Neuroscience

    Oxytocin neurons signal state-dependent transitions from rest to thermogenesis and behavioral arousal in social and non-social settings

    Morgane Vandendoren, Jason G Landen ... Adam C Nelson
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Neuroscience

    Structural basis of CO2 valence coding in Drosophila

    Javorski Dominik, Bergkirchner Beate ... Hummel Thomas
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Tactile localization of the breast, areola, and nipple

    Katie H Long, Emily E Fitzgerald ... Charles M Greenspon
    The breast, despite its importance in sexual and affective touch, exhibits poor tactile localization and demonstrates a relationship between size and innervation density.
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña
    1. Neuroscience

    Insights into perceptual learning

    Zhong-Lin Lu
    1. Neuroscience

    Understanding ovulation

    Lillian Rose, Alexander S Kauffman

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  1. Albert Cardona
    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  2. Tirin Moore
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, United States
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    Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India
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