Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Growth in early infancy drives optimal brain functional connectivity which predicts cognitive flexibility in later childhood

    Chiara Bulgarelli, Anna Blasi ... The BRIGHT Study Team
    In Gambian infants, positive growth from 0 to 5 months of age predicted more mature brain networks, which in turn predicted cognitive outcomes at 3-5 years.
    1. Neuroscience

    Boosting Hyperalignment Performance with Age-specific Templates

    Yuqi Zhang, Maria Ida Gobbini ... Ma Feilong
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Learning is a fundamental source of individuality

    Riddha Manna, Johanni Brea ... Ana Marija Jakšić
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    • Fundamental
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    1. Neuroscience

    Specific Sensitivity to Rare and Extreme Events: Quasi-Complete Black Swan Avoidance vs Partial Jackpot Seeking in Rat Decision-Making

    Mickaël Degoulet, Louis-Matis Willem ... Patrick A Pintus
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    1. Neuroscience

    Real-Time Embodied Experience Shapes High-Level Reasoning Under Altered Gravity

    Hélène Grandchamp des Raux, Tommaso Ghilardi ... Ori Ossmy
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    1. Neuroscience

    In vivo mapping of striatal neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease with Soma and Neurite Density Imaging

    Vasileios Ioakeimidis, Marco Palombo ... Claudia Metzler-Baddeley
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    1. Neuroscience

    Orco regulates the circadian activity of pheromone-sensitive olfactory receptor neurons in hawkmoths

    Aditi Vijayan, Mauro Forlino ... Monika Stengl
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    1. Neuroscience

    Mapping Visual Contrast Sensitivity and Vision Loss Across the Visual Field with Model-Based fMRI

    Hugo T Chow-Wing-Bom, Matteo Lisi ... Tessa M Dekker
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    CO2-dependent opening of connexin 43 hemichannels

    Valentin Mihai Dospinescu, Alexander Mascarenhas ... Nicholas Dale
    Connexin43 is the most ubiquitously expressed connexin in the human body, and the CO2-dependent opening of Connexin43 hemichannels implies that CO2 may influence many physiological processes.
    1. Neuroscience

    Arousal modulates functional connectivity through structured and hemispherically asymmetric community architecture during wakefulness

    Xiangyu Kong, Siyu Li, Gaolang Gong
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Language acquisition in newborns

    Marcela Peña
    1. Neuroscience

    Insights into perceptual learning

    Zhong-Lin Lu
    1. Neuroscience

    Understanding ovulation

    Lillian Rose, Alexander S Kauffman

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