Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Cell cycle-dependent cues regulate temporal patterning of the Drosophila central brain neural stem cells

    Gonzalo N Morales Chaya, Mubarak Hussain Syed
    Intrinsic cell cycle progression governs developmental time in neural stem cells by regulating temporal gene transitions that generate neural diversity.
    1. Neuroscience

    The basolateral amygdala complex and perirhinal cortex represent focal and peripheral states of information processing in rats

    Francesca S Wong, Simon Killcross ... Nathan M Holmes
    The basolateral amygdala complex and perirhinal cortex function like the focal and peripheral states of attention described by classic associative learning theories.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural Trajectories of Conceptually Related Events

    Matthew Schafer, Philip Kamilar-Britt ... Daniela Schiller
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    • Important
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    1. Neuroscience

    Psilocin fosters neuroplasticity in iPSC-derived human cortical neurons

    Malin Schmidt, Anne Hoffrichter ... Philipp Koch
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    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Dynamics of sensorimotor plasticity during spatial finger augmentation

    Dominika Radziun, Siebe Geurts ... Luke E Miller
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    The time course of neural activity predictive of self-initiated movement

    Lucas Jeay-Bizot, Mehmet Basbug ... Aaron Schurger
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Top-down feedback matters: Functional impact of brainlike connectivity motifs on audiovisual integration

    Mashbayar Tugsbayar, Mingze Li ... Blake Richards
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Spatially periodic computation in the entorhinal-hippocampal circuit during navigation

    Bo Zhang, Xin Guan ... Jia Liu
    A threefold hippocampal code across conceptual directions, phase-locked to entorhinal grid activity, reveals a periodic mechanism through which entorhinal grids structure hippocampal vector representations.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Deep neural networks to register and annotate cells in moving and deforming nervous systems

    Adam A Atanas, Alicia Kun-Yang Lu ... Steven W Flavell
    New machine vision tools are used to align densely packed cells recorded from live, deforming tissues and automatically annotate the identities of the recorded cell types.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural connectome of the ctenophore statocyst

    Kei Jokura, Sanja Jasek ... Gáspár Jékely
    Volume EM and connectome reconstruction of the apical organ of a ctenophore combined with high-speed imaging reveals a neuronal coordination of balancer cilia in the gravisensory organ.
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Encoding time in working memory

    Dhruv Grover, Marissa L Heintschel
    1. Neuroscience

    Redefining borders in the brain

    Sylvain Crochet
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles

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    Peking University, China
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    University College London, United Kingdom
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    Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India
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