Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Human Exploration Strategically Balances Approaching and Avoiding Uncertainty

    Yaniv Abir, Michael N Shadlen, Daphna Shohamy
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    • Important
    • 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

    Anterior cingulate cortex in complex associative learning: monitoring action state and action content

    Wenqiang Huang, Arron F Hall ... Dong V Wang
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    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Resolving synaptic events using subsynaptically targeted GCaMP8 variants

    Jiawen Chen, Junhao Lin ... Dion K Dickman
    New synaptically targeted GCaMP8 sensors and analysis tools capture calcium dynamics with the speed and sensitivity previously achievable only through electrophysiology and chemical dyes.
    1. Neuroscience

    Boosting the signal: Expectation-driven gain modulation of preparatory spatial attention

    Dirk van Moorselaar, Stefan Van der Stigchel
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Functional imaging of nine distinct neuronal populations under a miniscope in freely behaving animals

    Mary L Phillips, Nicolai T Urban ... Ryohei Yasuda
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    • Valuable
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    1. Neuroscience

    Arousal modulates functional connectivity through structured and hemispherically asymmetric community architecture during wakefulness

    Xiangyu Kong, Siyu Li, Gaolang Gong
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Dynamic brain states during encoding and their post-encoding reinstatement predicts episodic memory in children

    Yimeng Zeng, Sandhya P Chakravartti ... Vinod Menon
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Cholinergic blockade reveals a role for human hippocampal theta in memory encoding but not retrieval

    Tamara Gedankien, Jennifer Kriegel ... Joshua Jacobs
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Fundamental
    • 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

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    The University of Texas at Austin Center for Learning and Memory, United States
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    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, United States
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    Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India
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