Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Audiovisual congruency drives confidence in presence and absence

    Perrine Porte, Matan Mazor ... Louise Goupil
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Gene specificity landscapes for comparative transcriptomic analysis across tissues, cell types, and species

    Erik Bot, Jose Davila-Velderrain
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    Serotonergic modulation of motor subspace dynamics drives a sleep-independent quiescent state

    Kexin Qi, Yuming Chai ... Quan Wen
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Long-range neural pathways for octopus chemotactile processing revealed from periphery-to-brain by centimeter-field microCT

    Andrew Sugarman, Daniel Vanselow ... Keith C Cheng
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    1. Neuroscience

    Cross-Species BAC Transgenesis Reveals Long-Range Regulation Drives Variation in Brain Oxytocin Receptor Expression and Social Behaviors

    Mina Tsukamoto, Luis AE Nagai ... Qi Zhang
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    1. Ecology
    2. Neuroscience

    New idtracker.ai rethinks multi-animal tracking as a representation learning problem to increase accuracy and reduce tracking time

    Jordi Torrents, Tiago Costa, Gonzalo de Polavieja
    Identification of each animal in a collective becomes possible even when individuals are never all visible simultaneously, enabling faster and more accurate analysis of collective behavior.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neuroanatomy: Hidden folds reveal brain organization

    Jürgen Germann
    Previously underappreciated folds in the cerebral cortex provide insight into how its structure varies across individuals.
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    1. Neuroscience

    A stress-activated neuronal ensemble in the supramammillary nucleus produces anxiety-like behavior in male mice

    Jinming Zhang, Kexin Yu ... Jing Han
    Stress-recruited neurons can cause anxiety-like avoidance and increase peripheral corticosterone concentration.
    1. Neuroscience

    Endogenous precision of the number sense

    Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Michael Woodford
    A theory of efficient coding wherein the precision of representations is endogenous, task-dependent, and prior-dependent predicts scaling laws for imprecision and is supported by numerosity perception experiments with humans.
    1. Neuroscience

    Infant Brains Tick at 4Hz – Resonance Properties of the Developing Visual System

    Marlena Baldauf, Ole Jensen, Moritz Köster
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Cocaine disrupts "hidden states" in the brain

    Margo Le, Ronald Keiflin
    1. Neuroscience

    Rethinking how memories are retrieved

    Rocco Pizzarelli, Marilena Griguoli
    1. Neuroscience

    Psychedelic drugs and neuroplasticity

    Jessica L Maltman, Javier González-Maeso

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    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
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