Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    A comprehensive mechanosensory connectome reveals a somatotopically organized neural circuit architecture controlling stimulus-aimed grooming of the Drosophila head

    Steven A Calle-Schuler, Alexis E Santana-Cruz ... Andrew M Seeds
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    1. Neuroscience

    Regulation of sensorimotor serial learning in speech production by motor compensation rather than sensory error

    Yuhan Lu, Xiaowei Tang ... Xing Tian
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    1. Neuroscience

    Animacy semantic network supports causal inferences about illness

    Miriam Hauptman, Marina Bedny
    Making causal inferences about illness, compared to making causal inferences about mechanical breakdown and reading causally unconnected sentences, activates a semantic brain network implicated in the conceptual representation of animate entities (e.g. people, animals).
    1. Neuroscience

    Modulation of aperiodic EEG activity provides sensitive index of cognitive state changes during working memory task

    Tisa Frelih, Andraž Matkovič ... Grega Repovš
    A novel analysis reveals distinct periodic and aperiodic EEG activity during working memory, challenging oscillatory-centric views while establishing aperiodic activity as a more sensitive marker of cognitive state.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Anti-diuretic hormone ITP signals via a guanylate cyclase receptor to modulate systemic homeostasis in Drosophila

    Jayati Gera, Marishia Agard ... Meet Zandawala
    A multi-pronged approach reveals that ion transport peptide neuropeptide acts through the guanylate cyclase receptor Gyc76C to coordinate osmotic and metabolic homeostasis across multiple tissues in Drosophila.
    1. Neuroscience

    The influence of nucleus accumbens shell D1 and D2 neurons on outcome-specific Pavlovian instrumental transfer

    Octavia Soegyono, Elise Pepin ... Vincent Laurent
    Cell-specific manipulations uncover novel mechanisms in the ventral striatum that mediate the influence of environmental stimuli on action selection.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural Correlates and Reinstatement of Recent and Remote Memory: A Comparison Between Children and Young Adults

    Iryna Schommartz, Philip F Lembcke ... Yee Lee Shing
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    1. Neuroscience

    Type-I nNOS neurons orchestrate cortical neural activity and vasomotion

    Kevin Turner, Dakota Brockway ... Patrick J Drew
    Removal of type-I nNOS neurons decreased delta-band power in the LFP, lowered dilation to sustained stimulation, decreased the interhemispheric coherence of neural and hemodynamic signals, and reduced vasomotion amplitude.
    1. Ecology
    2. Neuroscience

    Individual recognition in a jumping spider (Phidippus regius)

    Christoph D Dahl, Yaling Cheng
    A jumping spider discriminates familiar from novel conspecifics for hours, indicating recognition and long-term memory in a miniature-brained, asocial arthropod, highlighting learning and internal representations in small nervous systems.
    1. Neuroscience

    The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition

    Xiaoliang Luo, Robert M Mok, Bradley C Love
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Hunger and neuronal migration

    Fang-Shin Nian, Laurent Nguyen
    1. Neuroscience

    The power of chemogenetics

    Maria Puchik, Igor Kagan
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    How stress can extend lifespan

    Loren Cocciolone, Valeria Uvarova, Patricija van Oosten-Hawle

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    Peking University, China
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    Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, United States
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    University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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