Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Coordinated spinal locomotor network dynamics emerge from cell-type-specific connectivity patterns

    F David Wandler, Benjamin K Lemberger ... James M Murray
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    GPR30 in spinal cholecystokinin-positive neurons modulates neuropathic pain

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

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

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

    Population analyses reveal heterogenous encoding in the medial prefrontal cortex during naturalistic foraging

    Ji Hoon Jeong, June-Seek Choi
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

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

    Abby Silbaugh, Kevin P Koster, Christian Hansel
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    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    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
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    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.
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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
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