Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Cholinergic blockade reveals a role for human hippocampal theta in memory encoding but not retrieval

    Tamara Gedankien, Jennifer Kriegel ... Joshua Jacobs
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Microsaccades track shifting but not necessarily maintaining covert visual-spatial attention

    Anna M van Harmelen, Freek van Ede
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Dissociable memory modulation mechanisms facilitate fear amnesia at different timescales

    Yinmei Ni, Ye Wang ... Jian Li
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Cerebellar climbing fibers impact experience-dependent plasticity in the mouse primary somatosensory cortex

    Abby Silbaugh, Kevin P Koster, Christian Hansel
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Detecting Regime Shifts: Neurocomputational Substrates for Over- and Underreactions to Change

    Mu-Chen Wang, George Wu, Shih-Wei Wu
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    GPR30 in spinal cholecystokinin-positive neurons modulates neuropathic pain

    Qing Chen, Hui Wu ... Xinzhong Chen
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Biophysical network modeling of temporal and stereotyped sequence propagation of neural activity in the premotor nucleus HVC

    Zeina Bou Diab, Marc Chammas, Arij Daou
    Songbird HVC sequences arise from a balance of ionic currents and structured inhibition, providing a mechanistic framework for understanding cortical sequence generation.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Sub-surface deformation of individual fingerprint ridges during tactile interactions

    Giulia Corniani, Zing S Lee ... Hannes P Saal
    Sub-surface imaging demonstrates that vertical shear beneath fingertip ridges enables high mechanical spatial resolution to support tactile sensing.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Ptbp1 is not required for retinal neurogenesis and cell fate specification

    Haley Appel, Rogger P Carmen-Orozco ... Seth Blackshaw
    Loss of function of Ptbp1 in retinal progenitors leads to changes in RNA splicing but does not affect neurogenesis and cell fate specification.
    1. Neuroscience

    Fear conditioning biases olfactory sensory neuron expression across generations

    Clara W Liff, Yasmine R Ayman ... Bianca J Marlin
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Solid
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Keeping track of neurons

    Renata Batista-Brito, Geoffrey Terral
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles
    1. Neuroscience
    Someone typing at a laptop wearing rings and a smart watch.

    An author from the first revised Reviewed Preprint shares her experience

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