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    1. Neuroscience

    Visual field map clusters in human frontoparietal cortex

    Wayne E Mackey, Jonathan Winawer, Clayton E Curtis
    Topographic maps of space in frontal and parietal cortex are organized into clusters, similar to visual cortex, where multiple maps of polar angle share a confluent fovea.
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    Cerebellar re-encoding of self-generated head movements

    Guillaume P Dugué, Matthieu Tihy ... Clément Léna
    The cerebellum encodes self-generated head rotations in a head posture-dependent manner, providing in particular a representation of how the head rotates about axes referenced relative to gravity.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Signalling through AMPA receptors on oligodendrocyte precursors promotes myelination by enhancing oligodendrocyte survival

    Eleni Kougioumtzidou, Takahiro Shimizu ... William D Richardson
    Electrically active axons in white matter stimulate their own myelination by releasing glutamate, which signals through AMPA-type glutamate receptors on nearby oligodendrocyte precursors and newly-differentiating oligodendrocytes, enhancing their survival and hence their ability to myelinate.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Neuroscience

    Longitudinal imaging of Caenorhabditis elegans in a microfabricated device reveals variation in behavioral decline during aging

    Matthew A Churgin, Sang-Kyu Jung ... Christopher Fang-Yen
    The WorMotel, a novel microfabricated device for automated longitudinal imaging of aging in large numbers of Caenorhabditis elegans, reveals that long and short lived strains vary in their behavioral decline during aging in a similar way to the long and short lived individuals in a wild type population.
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    Breaking down hierarchies of decision-making in primates

    Alexandre Hyafil, Rubén Moreno-Bote
    Computational modeling of behavioral and neural data from monkeys points towards a flat decision-making process in which the brain considers all possible final outcomes simultaneously.
    1. Neuroscience

    Transient acidosis while retrieving a fear-related memory enhances its lability

    Jianyang Du, Margaret P Price ... Michael J Welsh
    Activating ASIC channels in the amygdala makes a single reminder more effective at rendering consolidated fear memories labile and susceptible to modification.
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    Serial, parallel and hierarchical decision making in primates

    Ariel Zylberberg, Jeannette AM Lorteije ... Pieter Roelfsema
    A comparison between hierarchical and flat models of decision-making refutes flat models because they lack flexibility and are not supported by behavioral and neural data.
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    MeCP2 regulates Tet1-catalyzed demethylation, CTCF binding, and learning-dependent alternative splicing of the BDNF gene in Turtle

    Zhaoqing Zheng, Ganesh Ambigapathy, Joyce Keifer
    Loss of MeCP2 function negatively impacts Tet1 and CTCF binding thereby negatively impacting learning-dependent DNA methylation and alternative splicing regulation.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Genetic specification of left–right asymmetry in the diaphragm muscles and their motor innervation

    Camille Charoy, Sarah Dinvaut ... Valerie Castellani
    Analysis of embryonic mouse diaphragm reveals muscle and nerve left–right asymmetries set by a Nodal-dependent genetic cascade, which imprints different molecular signatures to left and right motoneurons that shape their innervation pattern.
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    Threat of shock increases excitability and connectivity of the intraparietal sulcus

    Nicholas L Balderston, Elizabeth Hale ... Christian Grillon
    Multimodal neuroimaging was used to study the effect of threat on spontaneous brain activity and functional connectivity, and demonstrated that threat increases both activity and connectivity of the intraparietal sulcus, a key node in the frontoparietal attention network.