Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Adult-neurogenesis allows for representational stability and flexibility in early olfactory system

    Zhen Chen, Krishnan Padmanabhan
    Using computational and theoretical models shows how adult-neurogenesis and spike-timing-dependent plasticity balance the flexibility and stability of odor representations.
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    1. Neuroscience

    Regime shift detection and neurocomputational substrates for under and overreactions to change

    Mu-Chen Wang, George Wu, Shih-Wei Wu
    In a stylized regime-shift detection task, human fMRI evidence shows that under- and overreactions to change arise from dissociable contributions of the frontoparietal network and ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cross-modal interaction of human alpha activity does not reflect inhibition of early sensory processing in a frequency-tagging study using EEG and MEG

    Marion Brickwedde, Rupali Limachya ... Ali Mazaheri
    Early visual alpha oscillations correlate on a trial-by-trial basis with steady-state responses at later stages of the processing stream, implying a role in signal enhancement and interareal communication.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Age-dependent H3K9 trimethylation by dSetdb1 impairs mitochondrial UPR leading to degeneration of olfactory neurons and loss of olfactory function in Drosophila

    Francisco Muñoz-Carvajal, Nicole Sanhueza ... Felipe A Court
    Age-related epigenetic regulation of mitochondrial stress responses drives neuronal degeneration and sensory decline, highlighting mitochondrial resilience as a potential target to preserve brain function during aging.
    1. Neuroscience

    Probing the role of sequential sampling and integration in decisions about protracted, noiseless stimuli

    Hadiseh Hajimohammadi, Kieran S Mohr ... Simon P Kelly
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    1. Neuroscience

    A functional influence based circuit motif that constrains the set of plausible algorithms of cortical function

    Anna Vasilevskaya, Georg B Keller
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural representation of time across complementary reference frames

    Yangwen Xu, Nicola Sartorato ... Roberto Bottini
    Humans’ flexible temporal cognition, including mental time travel, arises from perspective-agnostic encoding of event sequences in the hippocampus and perspective-dependent retrieval and reconstruction in the posterior parietal cortex.
    1. Neuroscience

    Motor unit mechanisms of speed control in mouse locomotion

    Kyle Thomas, Rhuna Gibbs ... Samuel J Sober
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    1. Neuroscience

    Do monkeys see the way we do? Qualitative similarities and differences between monkey and human perception

    Thomas Cherian, Georgin Jacob, SP Arun
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    1. Neuroscience

    Object manifold geometry across the mouse cortical visual hierarchy

    Emmanouil Froudarakis, Uri Cohen ... Andreas S Tolias
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Cilia reveal their secrets

    Ruth Anne Eatock, Marina Kabirova
    1. Neuroscience

    The sound of neural silence

    Nikki Tjahjono, Yu-Shun Wang, Lin Tian
    1. Neuroscience

    Testing 'next-word prediction'

    Richard J Antonello

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    University of Barcelona, Spain
  2. Christian Büchel
    University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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