Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Goal-directed motor actions drive acetylcholine dynamics in sensory cortex

    Jing Zou, Jan Willem de Gee ... Samuel Andrew Hires
    1. Neuroscience

    Spatially targeted inhibitory rhythms differentially affect neuronal integration

    Drew B. Headley, Benjamin Latimer ... Satish S. Nair
    1. Neuroscience

    Task dependent coarticulation of movement sequences

    Hari Teja Kalidindi, Frederic Crevecoeur
    1. Neuroscience

    The satiety hormone cholecystokinin gates reproduction in fish by controlling gonadotropin secretion

    Lian Hollander Cohen, Omer Cohen ... Berta Levavi Sivan
    1. Neuroscience

    Goal-directed vocal planning in a songbird

    Anja T. Zai, Anna E. Stepien ... Richard H.R. Hahnloser
    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.

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

Senior editors

  1. Sofia J Araújo
    University of Barcelona, Spain
  2. Tamar Makin
    University College London, United Kingdom
  3. Floris de Lange
    Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Netherlands
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