Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Metabolic basis of the astrocyte-synapse interaction governs dopaminergic-motor connection

    Yanru Xu, Piaoping Kong ... Zhiguo Ma
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    PKMζ-PKCι/λ double-knockout demonstrates atypical PKC is crucial for the persistence of hippocampal LTP and spatial memory

    Panayiotis Tsokas, Changchi Hsieh ... Todd Charlton Sacktor
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Use-dependent regulation of the axonal action potential in parvalbumin-expressing interneurons

    Sophie R Liebergall, Ethan M Goldberg
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Bilateral equalization of synaptic output in olfactory glomeruli of Xenopus tadpoles

    Marta Casas, Beatrice Terni, Artur Llobet
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Canonical neurodevelopmental trajectories of structural and functional manifolds

    Alicja Monaghan, Richard AI Bethlehem ... Duncan E Astle
    Contrary to prior work, principal axes of structural and functional connectivity are established early in life, remaining stable and undergoing refinement throughout development.
    1. Neuroscience

    Continuous flash suppression of neural responses and population orientation coding in macaque V1

    Cai-Xia Chen, Xin Wang ... Cong Yu
    Continuous flash suppression reduces V1 orientation responses in an ocular-dominance-dependent manner, which may still allow low-level coarse orientation discrimination but provide insufficient information for higher-level visual and cognitive tasks.
    1. Neuroscience

    Dichotomy between extracellular signatures of active dendritic chemical synapses and gap junctions

    Richa Sirmaur, Rishikesh Narayanan
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
    • Compelling
    1. Neuroscience

    Development of Auditory and Spontaneous Movement Responses to Music over the First Postnatal Year

    Trinh Nguyen, Félix Bigand ... Giacomo Novembre
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    1. Neuroscience

    Auditory perception and neural representation of temporal features are altered by age but not by cochlear synaptopathy

    Friederike Steenken, Rainer Beutelmann ... Georg M Klump
    In aging gerbils, compromised temporal fine structure perception is explained by a more prominent representation in auditory nerve fibers of temporal fluctuations of the signal envelope, rather than by synaptopathy.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Investments in photoreceptors compete with investments in optics to determine eye design

    Francisco JH Heras, Simon B Laughlin
    Allocating space, materials and energy to an eye's optics and photoreceptor array is a major factor in eye design that explains obvious differences between simple eyes and compound eyes.

Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Testing 'next-word prediction'

    Richard J Antonello

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  1. Andrew J King
    Andrew J King
    University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  2. Tirin Moore
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, United States
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    Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas, Greece
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