Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Dense repeated sampling reveals impaired hierarchical integration of metacognitive confidence that scales with depression

    Paveen Phon-Amnuaisuk, Vanessa Teckentrup ... Claire M Gillan
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Neuroscience

    Scale matters: Large language models with billions (rather than millions) of parameters better match neural representations of natural language

    Zhuoqiao Hong, Haocheng Wang ... Ariel Goldstein
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Engulfment by brain macrophages in a short-lived vertebrate

    Rahul Nagvekar, Angela N Pogson ... Anne Brunet
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
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    1. Neuroscience

    Modulating task outcome value to mitigate real-world procrastination via noninvasive brain stimulation

    Zhiyi Chen, Zhilin Ren ... Tingyong Feng
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Brief disruption of activity in a subset of dopaminergic neurons during consolidation impairs long-term memory by fragmenting sleep

    Lin Yan, Litao Wu ... Chang Liu
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Perceiving animacy in ‘identical’ images

    Tal Boger, Chaz Firestone
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Virtual reality reveals fine-scale alterations in behaviour following loss of the ADHD-linked gene adgrl3.1 in zebrafish

    Phoebe Reynolds, Emily Read ... Robert Hindges
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Continuous partitioning of neuronal variability

    Anuththara Rupasinghe, Adam S Charles, Jonathan W Pillow
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Fundamental
    • Exceptional
    1. Neuroscience

    Overt visual attention modulates decision-related signals in the frontal cortex

    Blair RK Shevlin, Rachael Gwinn ... Ian Krajbich
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Pupil size reveals the perceptual quality and effortless nature of synesthesia

    Christoph Strauch, Casper Leenaars, Romke Rouw
    Synesthetes' pupils reflect the brightness of colors that they only see internally, making their hidden perceptual experience objectively measurable.
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    1. Neuroscience
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    Understanding the cellular architecture of Huntington’s disease

    Dorian Pustina
    1. Neuroscience
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    Stronger memories through smarter stimulation

    Justin Riddle
    1. Neuroscience

    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña

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  1. Huan Luo
    Peking University, China
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    Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas, Greece
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    University of California, San Diego, United States
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