Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    Neural categorization of visual words of alphabetic and non-alphabetic languages

    Guo Zheng, Shihui Han
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    Behavioral Signatures of Post-Decisional Attention in Preferential Choice

    Ariel Zylberberg, Ian Krajbich, Michael N Shadlen
    Not revised
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    1. Neuroscience

    Circadian control of a sex-specific behaviour in Drosophila

    Sabrina Riva, M Fernanda Ceriani ... D Lorena Franco
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    A non-human primate model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    Rachael HA Jones, Luciano Saieva ... Stuart N Baker
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    • Fundamental
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    1. Neuroscience

    Language Models: Does the brain really know what word is coming next?

    Richard J Antonello
    Apparent neural encoding of future words may arise from the statistical structure of language itself, rather than from predictive computations in the brain.
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    1. Neuroscience

    AFD thermosensory neurons mediate tactile-dependent locomotion modulation in C. elegans

    Manuel Rosero, Jihong Bai
    The thermosensory neuron AFD unexpectedly modulates locomotion based on tactile experience through molecular and circuit mechanisms distinct from those underlying thermosensation.
    1. Neuroscience

    Medial prefrontal cortex encodes but is not required to generate goal-directed actions under threat

    Muhammad S Sajid, Ji Zhou, Manuel A Castro-Alamancos
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    1. Neuroscience

    Dissociable after-effects of prosocial acts: Effort is costly for others but valued for self

    Ya Zheng, Rumeng Tang
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    A meta-analysis suggests that TMS targeting the hippocampal network selectively improves episodic memory

    Elena Badillo Goicoechea, Phillip F Agres ... Joel L Voss
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Unreliable homeostatic action potential broadening in cultured dissociated neurons

    Andreas Ritzau-Jost, Salil Rajayer ... Stefan Hallermann
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Testing 'next-word prediction'

    Richard J Antonello
    1. Neuroscience

    Hidden folds reveal brain organization

    Jürgen Germann
    1. Neuroscience

    Cocaine disrupts "hidden states" in the brain

    Margo Le, Ronald Keiflin

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