Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    How individual vigor shapes human-human physical interaction

    Dorian Verdel, Bastien Berret, Etienne Burdet
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Capturing instantaneous neural signal-behavior relationships with concurrent functional mixed models

    Al W Xin, Erjia Cui ... Gabriel Loewinger
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Visual experience shapes functional connectivity between occipital and non-visual networks

    Mengyu Tian, Xiang Xiao ... Marina Bedny
    At birth, infant visual cortex connectivity resembles that of blind adults, while lifetime visual experience enhances long-range functional connectivity between visual cortices, sensorimotor systems, and dampens connectivity with executive networks.
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    Functional connectivity-based attractor dynamics of the human brain in rest, task, and disease

    Robert Englert, Balint Kincses ... Tamas Spisak
    Functional connectivity reveals brain attractors that match predictions of free‑energy‑minimizing attractor theory, yielding an interpretable generative model of brain dynamics in rest, task, and disease.
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    Profiling presynaptic scaffolds using split-GFP reconstitution reveals cell-type-specific spatial configurations in the fly brain

    Hongyang Wu, Yoh Maekawa ... Hiromu Tanimoto
    Profiling endogenous Bruchpilot proteins in multiple cell types in mushroom bodies uncovered multilayered spatial configurations of active zones, from stereotyped intracellular distribution patterns to local arrangements of neighboring synapses.
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    Formation of task representations and replay in mouse medial prefrontal cortex

    Hamed Shabani, Hannah Muysers ... Christian Leibold
    Longitudinal calcium imaging in the medial prefrontal cortex reveals the emergence of de novo task representations and reward-associated replay.
    1. Neuroscience

    iGABASnFR2 is an improved genetically encoded protein sensor of GABA

    Ilya Kolb, Jeremy P Hasseman ... Glenn C Turner
    An improved genetically encoded GABA sensor enables the most effective direct optical measurement of inhibitory neurotransmission to date.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neuropathic Pain: Closing in on the causes of chronic neuropathic pain

    Geoffroy Laumet
    Chronic neuropathic pain in mice is maintained by the translation of messenger RNA in inhibitory neurons, so drugs that modulate translational pathways may be able to treat this condition.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Dynamic modulation of social gaze by sex and familiarity in marmoset dyads

    Feng Xing, Alec G Sheffield ... Anirvan S Nandy
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    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Endogenous Precision of the Number Sense

    Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Michael Woodford
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
    • Compelling

Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Non-visual photoreceptors

    N Sören Häfker
    1. Neuroscience

    Encoding time in working memory

    Dhruv Grover, Marissa L Heintschel

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  1. Christian Büchel
    University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
  2. Huan Luo
    Peking University, China
  3. Merritt Maduke
    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
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