Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    High performance sorting of motor unit action potentials with EMUsort

    Sean O’Connell, Jonathan A Michaels ... Chethan Pandarinath
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Transcriptional responses to chronic oxidative stress require cholinergic activation of G-protein-coupled receptor signaling

    Kasturi Biswas, Caroline Moore ... Michael M Francis
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Economic and Social Modulations of Innate Decision-Making in Mice Exposed to Visual Threats

    Zhe Li, Jiahui Wang ... Ya-tang Li
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Endogenous Precision of the Number Sense

    Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Michael Woodford
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Continuous flashing suppression of neural responses and population orientation coding in macaque V1

    Cai-Xia Chen, Xin Wang ... Cong Yu
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Individual Taste Preferences Predict Cortical Taste Dynamics but Are Modified by Experience

    Kathleen C Maigler, Jian-You Lin ... Donald B Katz
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Continuous partitioning of neuronal variability

    Anuththara Rupasinghe, Adam S Charles, Jonathan W Pillow
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Exceptional
    1. Neuroscience

    Increased reluctant vesicles underlie synaptic depression by GPR55 in axon terminals of cerebellar Purkinje cells

    Takuma Inoshita, Shin-ya Kawaguchi
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Identity and functions of monoaminergic neurons in the predatory nematode Pristionchus pacificus reveal nervous system conservation and divergence

    Curtis M Loer, Hyunsoo Yim ... Ray L Hong
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Distinct representational properties of cues and contexts shape fear and reversal learning

    Antoine Bouyeure, Daniel Pacheco-Estefan ... Nikolai Axmacher
    Fear updating relies on a flexible shift from generalized to item-specific, context-bound neural representations, revealing how the brain adapts to changing threat contingencies and why fear can return.
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Highlights

    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Neuroscience

    The brain's immune system

    Julie Rebejac, Soyon Hong
    1. Neuroscience

    Non-visual photoreceptors

    N Sören Häfker
    1. Neuroscience

    Encoding time in working memory

    Dhruv Grover, Marissa L Heintschel

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