Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Partial input loss differentially modifies neural pathways

    Joo Yeun Lee, Jeffrey Yang ... Felice A Dunn
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    1. Neuroscience

    State-dependent brain responsiveness, from local circuits to the whole brain

    Alain Destexhe, Jennifer S Goldman ... Maria V Sanchez-Vives
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Neuroscience

    Enhanced tactile coding in rat neocortex under darkness

    Kotaro Yamashiro, Shiyori Tanaka ... Yuji Ikegaya
    Temporary darkness enhances the neural separability of tactile textures in the rat somatosensory cortex, revealing how sensory coding rapidly adapts to the absence of vision.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural responses during natural vision are action-timed rather than locked to the onset of stable foveal input

    Carmen Amme, Philip Sulewski ... Tim C Kietzmann
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physiology

    The P2X7 receptor is an intermediate in the retinoic acid-signaling pathway that induces neuronal remodeling in retinitis pigmentosa

    Michael Telias, Leonor Afrima ... Richard H Kramer
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    1. Neuroscience

    The stability of thought: using experience sampling and brain imaging to determine the contextually bound nature of human cognition

    Louis Chitiz, Samyogita Hardikar ... Jonathan Smallwood
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    1. Neuroscience

    Error-driven representation learning in the mesolimbic system

    George Cai, Max F Scheller ... Samuel J Gershman
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    1. Neuroscience

    Complementary stable and dynamic prelimbic ensembles encode learned threat value underlying generalization and discrimination

    Marc E Normandin, Pedro M Ogallar ... Isabel A Muzzio
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Endosome-associated Rab GTPases control distinct aspects of neural circuit assembly

    Katie X Dong, Yanbo Zhang ... Colleen N McLaughlin
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    1. Neuroscience

    Progressive postnatal hearing development limits early parent-offspring vocal communication in the zebra fnnch

    Tommi Anttonen, Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, Coen PH Elemans
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    • Important
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience
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    How monkeys carve up the visual world

    Binxu Wang
    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

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