Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Aligned and oblique dynamics in recurrent neural networks

    Friedrich Schuessler, Francesca Mastrogiuseppe ... Omri Barak
    1. Neuroscience

    Cell class-specific long-range axonal projections of neurons in mouse whisker-related somatosensory cortices

    Yanqi Liu, Pol Bech ... Carl CH Petersen
    Whole-brain light-sheet imaging of axons segmented by trained convolutional networks reveals distinct projection patterns of genetically defined classes of neurons in primary and secondary whisker-related somatosensory cortices.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Heterozygous expression of a Kcnt1 gain-of-function variant has differential effects on somatostatin- and parvalbumin-expressing cortical GABAergic neurons

    Amy N Shore, Keyong Li ... Matthew C Weston
    An epilepsy-associated potassium channel variant causes neuron-type-dependent alterations in ionic currents, neuronal excitability, and network connectivity.
    1. Neuroscience

    Morphology and synapse topography optimize linear encoding of synapse numbers in Drosophila looming responsive descending neurons

    Anthony Moreno-Sanchez, Alexander N Vasserman ... Jessica Ausborn
    1. Neuroscience

    Sensory-memory interactions via modular structure explain errors in visual working memory

    Jun Yang, Hanqi Zhang, Sukbin Lim
    Two-module networks, combining sensory efficient coding and attractor dynamics for memory maintenance, effectively explain working memory error patterns, highlighting the role of sensory-memory interactions in continuously shaping memory representations.
    1. Neuroscience

    Coupling of saccade plans to endogenous attention during urgent choices

    Allison T Goldstein, Terrence R Stanford, Emilio Salinas

Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Dopamine: Making memories

    Francesco Longo
    1. Neuroscience

    Beware of hidden noise

    Morgan Fitzgerald, Eena Kosik, Bradley Voytek
    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    An alternative to opioids

    Jie Zhang, Jianguo Cheng

Senior editors

  1. Sofia J Araújo
    University of Barcelona, Spain
  2. Huan Luo
    Peking University, China
  3. Kenton J Swartz
    National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, United States
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