Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Humans adapt rationally to approximate estimates of uncertainty

    Erdem Pulcu, Michael Browning
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Neuroscience

    Canonical neurodevelopmental trajectories of structural and functional manifolds

    Alicja Monaghan, Richard. AI Bethlehem ... Duncan E Astle
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Neuroscience

    Deficiency of Orexin Receptor Type 1 in Dopaminergic Neurons Increases Novelty-Induced Locomotion and Exploration

    Xing Xiao, Gagik Yeghiazaryan ... A Christine Hausen
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    1. Neuroscience

    Sex-specific behavioral and thalamo-accumbal circuit adaptations after oxycodone abstinence

    Yanaira Alonso-Caraballo, Yan Li ... Elena H Chartoff
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Neuroscience

    Geometry and dynamics of representations in a precisely balanced memory network related to olfactory cortex

    Claire Meissner-Bernard, Friedemann Zenke, Rainer W Friedrich
    Computational modeling revealed that balanced assemblies of excitatory and inhibitory neurons shape representational manifolds in olfactory cortex-like recurrent networks, resulting in joint maps of sensory and semantic information.
    1. Neuroscience

    Assessing the balance between excitation and inhibition in chronic pain through the aperiodic component of EEG

    Cristina Gil Avila, Elisabeth S May ... Markus Ploner
    Multiverse analysis of the aperiodic component of the electroencephalography (EEG) power spectrum yielded robust evidence against a relationship to chronic pain, guiding further research on EEG biomarkers of chronic pain.
    1. Neuroscience

    The NeuroML ecosystem for standardized multi-scale modeling in neuroscience

    Ankur Sinha, Padraig Gleeson ... Robin Angus Silver
    The NeuroML model description language, with its extensive software ecosystem, supports researchers in the development of FAIR, data-driven, biologically detailed models of neural systems.
    1. Neuroscience

    Parabrachial CGRP neurons modulate active defensive behavior under a naturalistic threat

    Gyeong Hee Pyeon, Hyewon Cho ... Yong Sang Jo
    1. Neuroscience

    Valence and salience encoding in the central amygdala

    Mi-Seon Kong, Ethan Ancell ... Larry S Zweifel
    Central amygdala neurons encode the valence and salience of unconditioned stimuli.
    1. Neuroscience

    Mapping patterns of thought onto brain activity during movie-watching

    Raven Star Wallace, Bronte Mckeown ... Jonathan Smallwood
    Decoding brain activity using a novel paradigm unveils distinct neural signatures of subjective experiences during movie-watching.
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    A close look at locomotion

    Arthur D Kuo
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles
    1. Neuroscience
    Someone typing at a laptop wearing rings and a smart watch.

    An author from the first revised Reviewed Preprint shares her experience

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    University of Barcelona, Spain
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    Peking University, China
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    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, United States
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