Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Hugin-AstA circuitry is a novel central energy sensor that directly regulates sweet sensation in Drosophila and mouse

    Wusa Qin, Tingting Song ... Rui Huang
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    1. Neuroscience

    The dominance of large-scale phase dynamics in human cortex, from delta to gamma

    David M Alexander, Laura Dugué
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    “What” × “When” working memory representations using Laplace Neural Manifolds

    Aakash Sarkar, Shangfu Zuo ... Marc W Howard
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    1. Neuroscience

    High-fidelity neural speech reconstruction through an efficient acoustic-linguistic dual-pathway framework

    Jiawei Li, Chunxu Guo ... Yuanning Li
    Concurrent decoding of acoustic detail and linguistic structure enables natural, intelligible speech synthesis from limited human cortical recordings, resolving a fundamental constraint in neural speech reconstruction.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Developmental sleep reallocation enables metabolic adaptation in desert flies

    Shuhao Li, Milan Szuperak ... Matthew S Kayser
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    1. Neuroscience

    Material Damage to Multielectrode Arrays after Electrolytic Lesioning is in the Noise

    Alice Tor, Stephen E Clarke ... Brain Interfacing Laboratory
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    1. Neuroscience

    Adjoint propagation of error signal through modular recurrent neural networks for biologically plausible learning

    Zhuo Liu, Hao Shu ... Tao Chen
    The adjoint propagation framework enables the concurrent flow of signals and errors, providing a biologically and physically plausible learning mechanism.
    1. Neuroscience

    Non-Visual Light Perception: Ancient photoreceptor shapes behavioural responses

    N Sören Häfker
    Experiments on Drosophila show that an evolutionarily conserved photoreceptor that senses light outside of the retina can regulate responses to direct visual cues.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Toward neuroanatomical and cognitive foundations of macaque social tolerance grades

    Sarah Silvere, Julien Lamy ... Sebastien Ballesta
    Macaque’s social tolerance grades, through its underlying cognitive demands, shape subcortical structures volumes.
    1. Neuroscience

    Dissociable dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning

    Hannah H McDermott, Federico de Martino ... Ryszard Auksztulewicz
    Neural responses during statistical learning reveal dissociable dynamic effects of expectation, supporting the opposing process theory within trials while demonstrating contrasting effects across trials.

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    1. Neuroscience

    Encoding time in working memory

    Dhruv Grover, Marissa L Heintschel

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  1. Christian Büchel
    University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
  2. Sonia Q Sen
    Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India
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    Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, United States
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