Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies

    Max S Farnworth, Yi Peng Toh ... Stephen H Montgomery
    A cognitive adaptation in Heliconius butterflies, accompanied by strikingly divergent changes in two principal insect integration centres, reveals that neural circuits can differ strongly in their propensity for evolutionary change.
    1. Neuroscience

    Examining Alzheimer’s Disease modifiable risk factors: Impact of physical activity and diet on neuroanatomy and behaviour in mouse models

    Cindy L García, Chloe Anastassiadis ... M Mallar Chakravarty
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Disentangling Cephalopod Chromatophores Motor Units with Computer Vision

    Mathieu DM Renard, Johann Ukrow ... Gilles Laurent
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Decentralized Clocks and Direct Photoreception: The Zebrafish as an Integrative Model for Circadian Biology

    Wang Liao, Chun-jiao Wei ... Da-long Ren
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Neuroscience

    When word order matters: human brains represent sentence meaning differently from large language models

    James Fodor, Carsten Murawski, Shinsuke Suzuki
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Biophysically inspired mean-field model of neuronal populations driven by ion exchange mechanisms

    Giovanni Rabuffo, Abhirup Bandyopadhyay ... Viktor K Jirsa
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Capturing learning on the fly: an eye-tracking method to quantify prediction errors and updating the prior

    Flóra Hann, Cintia Anna Nagy ... Orsolya Pesthy
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    How attention simplifies mental representations for planning

    Jason da Silva Castanheira, Chang (Christina) He ... Stephen M Fleming
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Dopaminergic Neurons Linking Threat Processing to Cardiac Modulation and Locomotor Responses

    Masato Tsuji, Daisuke Jinkoma ... Kazuo Emoto
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Pupil size reveals the perceptual quality and effortless nature of synesthesia

    Christoph Strauch, Casper Leenaars, Romke Rouw
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña
    1. Neuroscience

    Insights into perceptual learning

    Zhong-Lin Lu
    1. Neuroscience

    Understanding ovulation

    Lillian Rose, Alexander S Kauffman

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  1. Timothy Behrens
    University of Oxford / University College London, United Kingdom
  2. Lois Smith
    Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, United States
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    University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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