Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Biophysical basis for brain folding and misfolding patterns in ferrets and humans

    Gary PT Choi, Chunzi Liu ... L Mahadevan
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Coordinated spinal locomotor network dynamics emerge from cell-type-specific connectivity patterns

    F David Wandler, Benjamin K Lemberger ... James M Murray
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural correlates and reinstatement of recent and remote memory in children and young adults

    Iryna Schommartz, Philip F Lembcke ... Yee Lee Shing
    Children show less robust memory retention overnight and after 2 weeks, with memories transforming more rapidly from detailed to gist-like neural representations, revealing less stable consolidation mechanisms than in adults.
    1. Neuroscience

    Sex differences in BNST signaling and BNST CRF in fear processing

    Olivia J Hon, Sofia Neira ... Thomas L Kash
    Critical differences in how the BNST responds to different types of fear across male and female mice.
    1. Neuroscience

    Microsaccades track shifting but not necessarily maintaining covert visual-spatial attention

    Anna M van Harmelen, Freek van Ede
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Cholinergic blockade reveals a role for human hippocampal theta in memory encoding but not retrieval

    Tamara Gedankien, Jennifer Kriegel ... Joshua Jacobs
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Population analyses reveal heterogenous encoding in the medial prefrontal cortex during naturalistic foraging

    Ji Hoon Jeong, June-Seek Choi
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Detecting Regime Shifts: Neurocomputational Substrates for Over- and Underreactions to Change

    Mu-Chen Wang, George Wu, Shih-Wei Wu
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    GPR30 in spinal cholecystokinin-positive neurons modulates neuropathic pain

    Qing Chen, Hui Wu ... Xinzhong Chen
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Cerebellar climbing fibers impact experience-dependent plasticity in the mouse primary somatosensory cortex

    Abby Silbaugh, Kevin P Koster, Christian Hansel
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Keeping track of neurons

    Renata Batista-Brito, Geoffrey Terral
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles
    1. Neuroscience
    Someone typing at a laptop wearing rings and a smart watch.

    An author from the first revised Reviewed Preprint shares her experience

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    The University of Texas at Austin Center for Learning and Memory, United States
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    University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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    Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, United States
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