Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Frequency modulation of organelle calcium-dependent voltage oscillations: an essential memory trace produced by operant conditioning in Aplysia

    Laura Puygrenier, John Simmers, Romuald Nargeot
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    1. Neuroscience

    Early readers know letter shapes without knowing letter names

    Jhilik Das, Sonali Nag ... SP Arun
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    1. Neuroscience
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    Where is the melody? Spontaneous attention orchestrates melody formation during polyphonic music listening

    Martin M Winchester, Kevin Reynolds ... Giovanni M Di Liberto
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    1. Neuroscience

    Intrinsic and circuit mechanisms of predictive coding in a grid cell network model

    Inayath Shaikh, Collins Assisi
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    1. Neuroscience

    Phasic and tonic pain serve distinct functions during adaptive behaviour

    Shuangyi Tong, Timothy Denison ... Ben Seymour
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    1. Neuroscience

    Single neurons detect spatiotemporal activity transitions through STP and EI imbalance

    Aditya Asopa, Upinder Singh Bhalla
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    1. Neuroscience

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

    Tamara Gedankien, Jennifer Kriegel ... Joshua Jacobs
    Cholinergic blockade via scopolamine reveals that hippocampal theta oscillations are essential for encoding rather than retrieval, suggesting these rhythms represent a dedicated neural state for memory formation.
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    Dissociable effects of feature expectation on saccades and presaccadic perception

    Luan Zimmermann Bortoluzzi, Gustavo Rohenkohl
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    1. Neuroscience

    Neural Mechanisms of Willed Attention Control

    Changhao Xiong, Yujun Chen ... Mingzhou Ding
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    1. Neuroscience

    Midbrain somatostatin-expressing cells control pain-suppression during defensive states

    Nanci Winke, Frank Aby ... Cyril Herry
    A somatostatinergic periaqueductal-to-medullary circuit controls analgesia during defensive states.
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    How monkeys carve up the visual world

    Binxu Wang
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    Understanding the cellular architecture of Huntington’s disease

    Dorian Pustina
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    Stronger memories through smarter stimulation

    Justin Riddle

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