Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Flexible neural representations of abstract structural knowledge in the human Entorhinal Cortex

    Shirley Mark, Phillipp Schwartenbeck ... Timothy EJ Behrens
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    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Statistical learning of uniform- and mixed-length artificial languages: Different computational mechanisms support different task demands

    Meili Luo, Ran Cao, Felix Hao Wang
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    A geometric shape regularity effect in the human brain

    Mathias Sablé-Meyer, Lucas Benjamin ... Stanislas Dehaene
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    1. Neuroscience

    An interneuronal CRH and CRHBP circuit stabilizes birdsong performance

    Bradley M Colquitt, Michael S Brainard
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Neuroscience

    Prosapip1 (encoded by the Lzts3 gene) in the dorsal hippocampus mediates synaptic protein composition, long-term potentiation, and spatial memory

    Zachary W Hoisington, Himanshu Gangal ... Dorit Ron
    Novel function of Prosapip1, a scaffolding protein highly expressed in the hippocampus, in maintaining postsynaptic density integrity and plays a vital role in synaptic plasticity, learning, and memory.
    1. Neuroscience

    Endogenous corazonin signaling modulates the post-mating switch in behavior and physiology in females of the brown planthopper and Drosophila

    Ning Zhang, Shao-Cong Su ... Shun-Fan Wu
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
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    1. Neuroscience

    Ubiquitous predictive processing in the spectral domain of sensory cortex

    Eli Sennesh, Jacob A Westerberg ... Andre Bastos
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Neuroscience

    Increased layer 5 Martinotti cell excitation reduces pyramidal cell population plasticity and improves learned motor execution

    Thawann Malfatti, Anna Velica ... Klas Kullander
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    1. Neuroscience

    Sensitivity of the human temporal voice areas to nonhuman primate vocalizations

    Leonardo Ceravolo, Coralie Debracque ... Didier Grandjean
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Neuroscience

    Early readers know letter shape without knowing letter names

    Jhilik Das, Sonali Nag ... SP Arun
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Hunger and neuronal migration

    Fang-Shin Nian, Laurent Nguyen
    1. Neuroscience

    The power of chemogenetics

    Maria Puchik, Igor Kagan

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  1. Timothy Behrens
    University of Oxford / University College London, United Kingdom
  2. André F Marquand
    Donders Institute, Radboud University / King's College London, Netherlands
  3. Kenton J Swartz
    National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, United States
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