Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Developmental sleep reallocation enables metabolic adaptation in desert flies

    Shuhao Li, Milan Szuperak ... Matthew S Kayser
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

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

    Alice Tor, Stephen E Clarke ... Brain Interfacing Laboratory
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Solid
    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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    Insight
    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.
    1. Neuroscience

    Comprehensive Neural Representations of Naturalistic Stimuli through Multimodal Deep Learning

    Mingxue Fu, Guoqiu Chen ... Yin Wang
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    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
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    The generalized Hierarchical Gaussian Filter

    Lilian Aline Weber, Peter Thestrup Waade ... Christoph Mathys
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Human Exploration Strategically Balances Approaching and Avoiding Uncertainty

    Yaniv Abir, Michael N Shadlen, Daphna Shohamy
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Encoding time in working memory

    Dhruv Grover, Marissa L Heintschel
    1. Neuroscience

    Redefining borders in the brain

    Sylvain Crochet
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles

Senior editors

  1. Merritt Maduke
    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
  2. Panayiota Poirazi
    Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas, Greece
  3. Ma-Li Wong
    State University of New York Upstate Medical University, United States
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