Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Closed-loop neurofeedback reshapes preparatory brain states to bias subsequent pain processing

    Yinhua Zhang, Shuang Qiu ... Weiwei Peng
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    A shared neural code for gender across faces, bodies, and objects in the human brain

    Wenjie Liu, Xiqian Lu ... Yi Jiang
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    1. Neuroscience

    Essential role for plasma membrane glutamate transporters in stimulus intensity coding in auditory neurons

    Tenzin Ngodup, Laurence O Trussell
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    1. Neuroscience

    Hierarchical Neural Circuit Theory of Normalization and Inter-areal Communication

    Asit Pal, Shivang Rawat ... Stefano Martiniani
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    1. Neuroscience

    Neural computations in the foveal and peripheral visual fields during active search

    Jie Zhang, Xiaocang Zhu ... Huihui Zhou
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Individual differences drive social hierarchies in male mouse societies

    Jonathan R Reinwald, Sarah Ghanayem ... Wolfgang Kelsch
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    1. Neuroscience

    Microsaccades track shifting but not necessarily maintaining covert visual-spatial attention

    Anna M van Harmelen, Freek van Ede
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
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    1. Neuroscience

    Compensation of Hyperexcitability with Simulation-Based Inference

    Daniel Müller-Komorowska, Tomoki Fukai
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Brief disruption of activity in a subset of dopaminergic neurons during consolidation impairs long-term memory by fragmenting sleep

    Lin Yan, Litao Wu ... Chang Liu
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Spine nanostructure profiling of cultured neurons from mouse models reveals a schizophrenia-linked role for Ecrg4

    Yutaro Kashiwagi, Qingrui Liu ... Shigeo Okabe
    Population-level analysis of dendritic spine nanostructure identifies distinct synaptic signatures of schizophrenia and autism, revealing Ecrg4 as a regulator of schizophrenia-associated spine pathology.
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    1. Neuroscience
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    Understanding the cellular architecture of Huntington’s disease

    Dorian Pustina
    1. Neuroscience
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    Stronger memories through smarter stimulation

    Justin Riddle
    1. Neuroscience

    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña

Senior editors

  1. Christian Büchel
    University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
  2. Huan Luo
    Peking University, China
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    Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas, Greece
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