Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Auditory Cortex Learns to Discriminate Audiovisual Cues through Selective Multisensory Enhancement

    Song Chang, Beilin Zheng ... Liping Yu
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Neuroscience

    The gamma rhythm as a guardian of brain health

    Ana Maria Ichim, Harald Barzan ... Raul Cristian Muresan
    Fast oscillations (30-150Hz), generated by internal brain mechanisms may be essential for the maintenance of healthy brain function.
    1. Neuroscience

    Macro-scale patterns in functional connectivity associated with ongoing thought patterns and dispositional traits

    Samyogita Hardikar, Bronte Mckeown ... Jonathan Smallwood
    Interactions between attention systems and the default mode network are linked to individual differences in trait and state-level experience and cognition.
    1. Medicine
    2. Neuroscience

    NE contribution to rebooting unconsciousness caused by midazolam

    LeYuan Gu, WeiHui Shao ... HongHai Zhang
    The results of central nervous regulation in mice provide a new neural circuit and receptor regulatory mechanisms for the recovery of consciousness after midazolam administration.
    1. Neuroscience

    Muscarinic receptors mediate motivation via preparatory neural activity in humans

    John P Grogan, Matthias Raemaekers ... Sanjay G Manohar
    Muscarinic antagonism is causally involved in motivation and incentivisation in healthy human participants, partially mediated via preparatory neural signatures, with implications for cholinergic treatment of Parkinson's disease.
    1. Neuroscience

    A conserved code for anatomy: Neurons throughout the brain embed robust signatures of their anatomical location into spike trains

    Gemechu B Tolossa, Aidan M Schneider ... Keith B Hengen
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Neuroscience

    Complementary cognitive roles for D2-MSNs and D1-MSNs during interval timing

    R Austin Bruce, Matthew A Weber ... Nandakumar S Narayanan
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    1. Neuroscience

    Interneuron FGF13 regulates seizure susceptibility via a sodium channel-independent mechanism

    Susan Lin, Aravind R Gade ... Geoffrey S Pitt
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    1. Neuroscience

    Stable sequential dynamics in prefrontal cortex represents subjective estimation of time

    Yiting Li, Wenqu Yin ... Baoming Li
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    1. Neuroscience

    The transformation of sensory to perceptual braille letter representations in the visually deprived brain

    Marleen Haupt, Monika Graumann ... Radoslaw M Cichy
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
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    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles
    1. Neuroscience
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    An author from the first revised Reviewed Preprint shares her experience

    1. Neuroscience
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    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
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    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, United States
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