Research Articles published by eLife are full-length studies that present important breakthroughs across the life sciences and biomedicine. There is no maximum length and no limits on the number of display items.
Self-related information automatically modulates early attentional selection into awareness through mechanisms distinct from physical salience, revealing an obligatory, individualized self-prioritization at the gateway to perception.
Anurag A Agrawal, Amy P Hastings, Paola Rubiano-Buitrago
Confirming coevolutionary theory, monarch butterfly caterpillars show impaired growth and toxin sequestration when feeding on realistic cardenolide mixtures from their milkweed host plants.
Antoine Bouyeure, Daniel Pacheco-Estefan ... Nikolai Axmacher
Fear updating relies on a flexible shift from generalized to item-specific, context-bound neural representations, revealing how the brain adapts to changing threat contingencies and why fear can return.
The human posterior inferotemporal cortex integrates endogenous and exogenous influences to form a unified attentional priority map for adaptive visual control.
Anisa Azatovna Gumerova, Georgii Pevnev ... Vitaly Ryu
Using RNAscope mapping provides the comprehensive, sex-specific atlas of vasopressin and its receptor gene expression across the murine brain, refining understanding of how vasopressin signaling is anatomically organized to regulate social behavior, stress responsivity, and homeostasis.
In statistical fine-mapping, signals stable across stratified subgroups can capture functionally important loci missed by covariate adjustment approaches, and prioritizing agreement between both approaches enhances functional variant discovery.
Drew B Headley, Benjamin Latimer ... Satish S Nair
Beta and gamma inhibitory rhythms are preferentially tuned to govern synaptic integration in layer 5 pyramidal neurons by differentially modulating responses to inputs targeting distal dendritic and perisomatic compartments.
Compared with human-specific transcriptional factors, human-specific lncRNAs identified upon human lncRNAs’ orthologs in mammals have greatly evolved DNA-binding sites in archaic and modern humans in genes determining human traits.
Evidence is provided suggesting that aggregate neural activity at an early stage of visual processing (V1) can directly contribute to perceptual decisions in humans.
