Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    Midbrain encodes sound detection behavior without auditory cortex

    Tai-Ying Lee, Yves Weissenberger ... Johannes C Dahmen
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    Choline supplementation in early life improves and low levels of choline can impair outcomes in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

    Elissavet Chartampila, Karim S. Elayouby ... Helen E. Scharfman
    1. Neuroscience

    A Synergistic Workspace for Human Consciousness Revealed by Integrated Information Decomposition

    Andrea I. Luppi, Pedro A.M. Mediano ... Emmanuel A. Stamatakis
    1. Neuroscience

    Social navigation: distance and grid-like codes support navigation of abstract social space in human brain

    Zilu Liang, Simeng Wu ... Chao Liu
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Deciphering the chemical language of inbred and wild mouse conspecific scents

    Maximilian Nagel, Marco Niestroj ... Marc Spehr
    Parallel chemical and physiological profiling of conspecific chemosensory communication in mice identifies both common and unique strategies for vomeronasal signaling of sex and strain.
    1. Neuroscience

    Functional diversity of dopamine axons in prefrontal cortex during classical conditioning

    Kenta Abe, Yuki Kambe ... Tatsuo Sato
    Two-photon calcium imaging revealed that many mesocortical dopamine axons show enhanced selectivity for aversive cue processing during classical conditioning.
    1. Neuroscience

    Jointly looking to the past and the future in visual working memory

    Baiwei Liu, Zampeta-Sofia Alexopoulou, Freek van Ede
    When memorising dynamic visual objects, the brain codes for both the past and the anticipated future object location and co-activates both codes when selecting memories for guiding behaviour.
    1. Neuroscience

    Comment on 'Accumbens cholinergic interneurons dynamically promote dopamine release and enable motivation'

    James Taniguchi, Riccardo Melani ... Nicolas X Tritsch
    We are writing to comment on the article by Mohebi et al., 2023: we show that blue light alters the fluorescent properties of a genetically-encoded dopamine sensor in a manner that may be misconstrued as phasic dopamine release.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Mitochondrial stress in GABAergic neurons non-cell autonomously regulates organismal health and aging

    Laxmi Rathor, Shayla Curry ... Sung Min Han
    1. Neuroscience

    Anti-drift pose tracker (ADPT): A transformer-based network for robust animal pose estimation cross-species

    Guoling Tang, Yaning Han ... Pengfei Wei
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Memorable first impressions

    Emilio Salinas, Bashirul I Sheikh
    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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  1. Merritt Maduke
    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
  2. André F Marquand
    Donders Institute, Radboud University / King's College London, Netherlands
  3. Barbara G Shinn-Cunningham
    Carnegie Mellon University, United States
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