Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Visual routines for detecting causal interactions are tuned to motion direction

    Sven Ohl, Martin Rolfs
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Neuroscience

    Untangling stability and gain modulation in cortical circuits with multiple interneuron classes

    Hannah Bos, Christoph Miehl ... Brent Doiron
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Important
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    1. Neuroscience

    Progressively shifting patterns of co-modulation among premotor cortex neurons carry dynamically similar signals during action execution and observation

    Zhonghao Zhao, Marc H Schieber
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    The Geometry and Dimensionality of Brain-wide Activity

    Zezhen Wang, Weihao Mai ... Quan Wen
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    1. Neuroscience

    The neural correlates of novelty and variability in human decision-making under an active inference framework

    Shuo Zhang, Yan Tian ... Haiyan Wu
    Neurobehavioral data combined with computational models shows the superiority of active inference models in explaining human decisions under uncertainty.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Zinc finger homeobox-3 (ZFHX3) orchestrates genome-wide daily gene expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus

    Akanksha Bafna, Gareth Banks ... Patrick M Nolan
    A multiomic study reveals the role of ZFHX3 transcription factor in daily timekeeping with a combination of transcription factor and histone ChIP-seq and time-resolved RNA-seq in the mammalian central clock.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Sensorimotor delays constrain robust locomotion in a 3D kinematic model of fly walking

    Lili Karashchuk, Jing Shuang Lisa Li ... Bingni W Brunton
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Activity-dependent synapse elimination requires caspase-3 activation

    Zhou Yu, Andrian Gutu ... Erin K O’Shea
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    1. Neuroscience

    An antisense oligonucleotide-based strategy to ameliorate cognitive dysfunction in the 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome

    Pratibha Thakur, Martin Lackinger ... Joseph A Gogos
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    1. Neuroscience

    Mesoscale functional organization and connectivity of color, disparity, and naturalistic texture in human second visual area

    Hailin Ai, Weiru Lin ... Peng Zhang
    V2 exhibits interdigitated columnar organizations for color and disparity that involved feedforward and feedback processing, while the texture selectivity is primarily driven by feedback modulations from V4.
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Insulin control in fruit flies

    Omowumi Kayode
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles
    1. Neuroscience
    Someone typing at a laptop wearing rings and a smart watch.

    An author from the first revised Reviewed Preprint shares her experience

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