Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    A nanoscale atlas of extracellular vesicles and particles in Drosophila olfactory sensilla

    Pawel Vijayakumar, Kalyani Cauwenberghs ... Chih-Ying Su
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    Head before heart? Cognitive empathy may emerge before affective empathy in the developing brain

    Chiara Bulgarelli, Paola Pinti ... Emily J Jones
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    Trial-level Representational Similarity Analysis

    Shenyang Huang, Cortney M Howard ... Simon W Davis
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    Longitudinal analysis of visuomotor orientation after optic lobe lesions reveals brain plasticity in Drosophila

    Margarida Caio, Dean Rance, Christa Rhiner
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    1. Neuroscience

    Interocular suppression weakens binocular disparity integration in the dorsal visual stream

    Rong Jiang, Ming Meng
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    A structured-illumination miniscope for optically sectioned imaging and real-time neural decoding

    Huixin Lin, Shu Wang ... Jingfeng Zhou
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    Direction and orientation preferences in mouse superior colliculus and its retinal inputs align with topographic axes atop locally mixed tuning

    Zhewen He, María Florencia González Fleitas ... Sylvia Schröder
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    Retrieval practice prevents stress-induced inference impairment and preserves rapid bridge-related memory reactivation

    Jinpeng Guo, Ruixin Chen ... Wei Liu
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    1. Neuroscience

    Language comprehension functionally modulates first-order relay thalamic nuclei

    Liu Mengxing, Shiya Wang ... Pedro M Paz-Alonso
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    1. Neuroscience

    Developmental prosopagnosics have normal spatial integration in posterior ventral face-selective regions

    Daniel A Stehr, Yiyuan Zhang ... Bradley Duchaine
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    1. Neuroscience
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    How monkeys carve up the visual world

    Binxu Wang
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    Understanding the cellular architecture of Huntington’s disease

    Dorian Pustina
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    Stronger memories through smarter stimulation

    Justin Riddle

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