Humans supplement complex, resource-demanding strategies with simple heuristics for solving the exploration-exploitation dilemma, and noradrenaline functioning controls their utilisation.
Short bursts of high-intensity exercise elicit robust improvements in core cognitive abilities, especially in individuals whose genotype is associated with lower cognitive performance.
Detecting neural oscillations in time and frequency domains enables the detailed study of spatiotemporal dynamics of oscillations throughout the brain and the investigation of biomarkers that index functional brain areas.
L Sofia Gonzalez, Austen A Fisher ... J Elliott Robinson
Dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens in mice encodes the rate and magnitude of rapid environmental luminance changes rather than visual stimulus novelty or threat intensity.
An elaborated bat-predator model shows that even in high bat-densities, bats can successfully catch flying insects and that changing their signals’ frequency is not necessary for dealing with sensory interference.
Diffusion-MRI-based cerebral cortical microstructure encoding regionally differential dendritic arborization and synaptic formation at birth robustly predicts future 2-year-old cognitive and language outcomes with regionally heterogeneous contribution that exhibits functional selectivity.
John P Grogan, Matthias Raemaekers ... Sanjay G Manohar
Muscarinic antagonism is causally involved in motivation and incentivisation in healthy human participants, partially mediated via preparatory neural signatures, with implications for cholinergic treatment of Parkinson's disease.
Thomas J Whitford, Bradley N Jack ... Mike E Le Pelley
The silent production of words in one's mind generates an efference copy that is similar in nature to the efference copy associated with overt vocalization.
