Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Brain-Cognitive Gaps in relation to Dopamine and Health-related Factors: Insights from AI-Driven Functional Connectome Predictions

    Morteza Esmaeili, Erin Bjørkeli ... Alireza Salami
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Stable excitatory-inhibitory synapse balance despite dynamic turnover

    Krassimira A Garbett, James P Allen ... Richard C Sando
    Long-term live imaging and tracking approaches reveal a coordination between excitatory and inhibitory synapse assembly, despite continual spatiotemporal dynamics.
    1. Neuroscience

    Sensory adaptation and pupil-linked arousal support flexible evidence accumulation during perceptual decision making

    Kara D McGaughey, Joshua I Gold
    Flexible evidence accumulation in dynamic environments relies on multiple mechanisms, including context-dependent modulations of sensory adaptation and pupil-linked arousal.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Active dendrites enable robust spiking computations despite timing jitter

    Thomas SJ Burger, Michael E Rule, Timothy O'Leary
    The brain computes rapidly and reliably using brief electrical impulses and likely exploits internal memory in nerve cells to achieve this more efficiently than existing computing hardware and neural networks.
    1. Neuroscience

    Thalamo-accumbal circuit adaptations following extended oxycodone abstinence

    Yanaira Alonso-Caraballo, Yan Li ... Elena H Chartoff
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Identifying molecular instructions to hard-wire a sensory neuron’s synaptic connectivity

    Júnia Vieira dos Santos, Renee Yin Yu ... Brian E Chen
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Excitation–inhibition balance controls coupling stability and network reorganization in a plastic Kuramoto model

    Satoshi Kuroki, Kenji Mizuseki
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Frequency and Laminar Profile of Feature Specific Visual Activity Revealed by Interleaved EEG-fMRI

    Tommy Clausner, José P Marques ... Mathilde Bonnefond
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Zapit: Open Source Laser-Scanning Photostimulation For Neuroscience

    Michael Lohse, Oliver M Gauld ... Robert AA Campbell
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Two time scales of adaptation in human learning rates

    Jonas Simoens, Senne Braem ... Tom Verguts
    Humans adapt learning rates on both a fast and a slow time scale, and the central orbitofrontal cortex may represent the slow time scale.
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    1. Neuroscience
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    Dorian Pustina
    1. Neuroscience
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    Stronger memories through smarter stimulation

    Justin Riddle
    1. Neuroscience

    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña

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    University of Barcelona, Spain
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    The University of Texas at Austin Center for Learning and Memory, United States
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    University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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