Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Neural population dynamics underlying evidence accumulation in multiple rat brain regions

    Brian DePasquale, Carlos D Brody, Jonathan W Pillow
    A computational framework for combining neural and behavioral data to infer latent dynamics underlying decision-making reveals distinct accumulation dynamics in different brain regions in the rat.
    1. Neuroscience

    Semantic representations in the visual cortex of blind and sighted humans

    Małgorzata Paczyńska, Marta Urbaniak ... Łukasz Bola
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Switching perspective: Comparing ground-level and bird’s-eye views for bumblebees navigating dense environments

    Annkathrin Sonntag, Odile Sauzet ... Olivier Bertrand
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
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    1. Neuroscience

    No effect of additional education on long-term brain structure – a preregistered natural experiment in thousands of individuals

    Nicholas Judd, Rogier Kievit
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding during natural listening

    Inés Schönmann, Jakub Szewczyk ... Micha Heilbron
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Responses to membrane potential-modulating ionic solutions measured by magnetic resonance imaging of cultured cells and in vivo rat cortex

    Kyeongseon Min, Sungkwon Chung ... Jang-Yeon Park
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Executioner caspase is proximal to Fasciclin 3 which facilitates non-lethal activation in Drosophila olfactory receptor neurons

    Masaya Muramoto, Nozomi Hanawa ... Natsuki Shinoda
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    1. Neuroscience

    Auditory stimuli extend the temporal window of visual integration by modulating alpha-band oscillations

    Mengting Xu, Biao Han ... Lu Shen
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    A general framework for characterizing optimal communication in brain networks

    Kayson Fakhar, Fatemeh Hadaeghi ... Claus C Hilgetag
    A game-theoretical framework for uncovering how optimal signal transmission takes place in a given network, here applied to large-scale brain networks.
    1. Neuroscience

    Shaping the physical world to our ends through the left PF technical-cognition area

    François Osiurak, Giovanni Federico ... Mathieu Lesourd
    Understanding and reasoning about the physical world rely on a specific brain network, in which the area PF of the left inferior parietal lobe plays a central role.
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Neuropeptides and pain

    Weihua Cai, Arkady Khoutorsky
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Targeting single neurons

    Brandon L Holder, Stephane Dissel
    1. Neuroscience

    Regulating neuropeptide release

    Jakob Rupert, Dragomir Milovanovic

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    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
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    Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, United States
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    University of California, San Diego, United States
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