Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    A stochastic world model on gravity for stability inference

    Taicheng Huang, Jia Liu
    Empirical experiments and computational modeling reveal a stochastic world model on gravity for stability inference that represents gravity’s vertical direction as a Gaussian distribution.
    1. Neuroscience

    Drift of neural ensembles driven by slow fluctuations of intrinsic excitability

    Geoffroy Delamare, Yosif Zaki ... Claudia Clopath
    Internal neural variability can induce drift of memory ensembles through synaptic plasticity, allowing for encoding of temporal information.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Synapsin E-domain is essential for α-synuclein function

    Alexandra Stavsky, Leonardo A Parra-Rivas ... Daniel Gitler
    Alpha-synuclein binding to the synapsin E-domain is essential and sufficient for their cooperation in attenuating synaptic-vesicle trafficking and neurotransmission.
    1. Neuroscience

    The NeuroML ecosystem for standardized multi-scale modeling in neuroscience

    Ankur Sinha, Padraig Gleeson ... R. Angus Silver
    1. Neuroscience

    Cholecystokinin facilitates motor skill learning by modulating neuroplasticity in the motor cortex

    Hao Li, Jingyu Feng ... Jufang He
    CCK released from the neural projections from the rhinal cortex to the motor cortex modulates neural plasticity and facilitates motor skill learning.
    1. Neuroscience

    A dynamic neural resource model bridges sensory and working memory

    Ivan Tomić, Paul M Bays
    Psychophysical measurement and computational modeling show that sensory information cannot contribute directly to a cognitive judgment, but must first be integrated into resource-limited working memory.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cognitive Neuroscience: Memorable first impressions

    Emilio Salinas, Bashirul I Sheikh
    Our ability to recall details from a remembered image depends on a single mechanism that is engaged from the very moment the image disappears from view.
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Metabolic and neurobehavioral disturbances induced by purine recycling deficiency in Drosophila

    Céline Petitgas, Laurent Seugnet ... Serge Birman
    Purine recycling deficiency triggers metabolic and neurological defects reminiscent of Lesch–Nyhan disease in Drosophila, paving the way for studying this disorder and carrying out drug screening in an invertebrate organism.
    1. Neuroscience

    Therapeutic doses of ketamine acutely attenuate the aversive effect of losses during decision-making

    Mariann Oemisch, Hyojung Seo
    The NMDA receptor might preferentially mediate immediate experience/impact of events with negative over positive valence.

Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Memorable first impressions

    Emilio Salinas, Bashirul I Sheikh
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    Genetic chimerism in marmosets

    Kenneth Chiou, Noah Snyder-Mackler
    1. Neuroscience

    Tensions in neurodiversity research

    Olujolagbe Layinka, Luca D Hargitai ... Florence YN Leung

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    University of Barcelona, Spain
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    New York University, United States
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    University College London, United Kingdom
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