Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

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    Distinct sensorimotor encoding in tuft dendrites and somata associated with action, correction, and learning

    Jackson Scheib, Zachary L Newman ... Aaron Kerlin
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    Perceiving animacy in ‘identical’ images

    Tal Boger, Chaz Firestone
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    Ramping-up hippocampal ripples and their neocortical coupling support human visual short-term memory

    Jing Liu, Xianhui He ... Ying Cai
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    Betrayal is worse than loss during cooperation

    Rumeng Tang, Jingbin Tan ... Dingguo Gao
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    Structural basis of CO2 valence coding in Drosophila

    Javorski Dominik, Bergkirchner Beate ... Hummel Thomas
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    Oxytocin neurons signal state-dependent transitions from rest to thermogenesis and behavioral arousal in social and non-social settings

    Morgane Vandendoren, Jason G Landen ... Adam C Nelson
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Neuroscience

    Tactile localization of the breast, areola, and nipple

    Katie H Long, Emily E Fitzgerald ... Charles M Greenspon
    The breast, despite its importance in sexual and affective touch, exhibits poor tactile localization and demonstrates a relationship between size and innervation density.
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    Brain-Cognitive Gaps in relation to Dopamine and Health-related Factors: Insights from AI-Driven Functional Connectome Predictions

    Morteza Esmaeili, Erin Bjørkeli ... Alireza Salami
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Neuroscience

    Pregistered movie-fMRI analyses reveal altered visual feature encoding in autism in pSTS

    Jeff Mentch, Yibei Chen ... Satrajit S Ghosh
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    1. Neuroscience

    Anterior cingulate cortex in complex associative learning: monitoring action state and action content

    Wenqiang Huang, Arron F Hall ... Dong V Wang
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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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. Albert Cardona
    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  2. Merritt Maduke
    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
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    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, United States
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