Kavli Affiliate: Robert Edwards | Authors: Ryan Cook, Andrea Telatin, George Bouras, Antonio Pedro Camargo, Martin Larralde, Robert A Edwards and Evelien M Adriaenssens | Summary: The majority of bacteriophage diversity remains uncharacterised, and new intriguing mechanisms of their biology are being continually described. Members of some phage lineages, such as the Crassvirales, repurpose stop […]
Kavli Affiliate: Philip Starr | Authors: Colin W Hoy, Coralie de Hemptinne, Sarah S Wang, Catherine J Harmer, Matthew A J Apps, Masud Husain, Philip A Starr and Simon Little | Summary: Choosing whether to exert effort to obtain rewards is fundamental to human motivated behavior. However, the neural dynamics underlying the evaluation of reward […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kira Poskanzer | Authors: Michelle K. Cahill, Yeraldith Rojas Perez, Amara Larpthaveesarp, Roberto Etchenique and Kira E Poskanzer | Summary: Norepinephrine (NE) is a critical neuromodulator that mediates a wide range of behavior and neurophysiology, including attention, arousal, plasticity, and memory consolidation. A major source of NE is the brainstem nucleus the locus […]
Kavli Affiliate: Reza Abbasi Asl & Adam Gazzaley | Authors: Fernando E. Rosas, Pedro A.M. Mediano, Christopher Timmermann, Andrea I Luppi, Diego Candia-Rivera, Reza Abbasi-Asl, Adam Gazzaley, Morten L Kringelbach, Suresh Daniel Muthukumaraswamy, Daniel Bor, Sarah Garfinkel and Robin Carhart-Harris | Summary: A growing body of work shows that autonomic signals provide a privileged evidence-stream […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Shadlen, Liam Paninski, Mark Churchland, & Edward Chang | Authors: Charlie Windolf, Han Yu, Angelique C. Paulk, Domokos Meszéna, William Muñoz, Julien Boussard, Richard Hardstone, Irene Caprara, Mohsen Jamali, Yoav Kfir, Duo Xu, Jason E. Chung, Kristin K. Sellers, Zhiwen Ye, Jordan Shaker, Anna Lebedeva, Manu Raghavan, Eric Trautmann, Maxwell D. Melin, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Vikaas Sohal | Authors: Nicholas A Frost, Kevin C Donohue and Vikaas Sohal | Summary: The prefrontal cortex plays a key role in social interactions, anxiety-related avoidance, and flexible context- dependent behaviors, raising the question: how do prefrontal neurons represent socioemotional information across different environments? Are contextual and socioemotional representations segregated or intermixed, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Edward Chang | Authors: Narayan Sankaran, Matthew K Leonard, Frederic E Theunissen and Edward F Chang | Summary: Melody is a core component of music in which discrete pitches are serially arranged to convey emotion and meaning. Perception of melody varies along several pitch-based dimensions: (1) the absolute pitch of notes, (2) the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Edward Chang | Authors: Sunada Khadka, Yu-Hsi Lin, Jeffrey J Ackroyd, Yi-An Chen, Yanghui Sheng, Wubin Qian, Sheng Guo, Yining Chen, Eliot Itzkow Behr, Yasaman Barekatin, Md. Nasir Uddin, Kenisha Arthur, Victoria C Yan, Edward Chang, Anton Poral, Theresa Tran, Wen-Hao Hsu, Surendra Chaurasiya, Dimitra K. Georgiou, John M. Asara, Floris P. Barthel, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Daniel Minor | Authors: Parker E Deal, Haerim Lee, Abhisek Mondal, Marco Lolicato, Philipe Ribeiro Furtado de Mandonca, Holly Black, Xochina El-Hilali, Clifford Bryant, Ehud Y Isacoff, Adam Renslo and Daniel L Minor, Jr. | Summary: K2P potassium channels regulate excitability by affecting cellular resting membrane potential in the brain, cardiovascular system, immune […]
Kavli Affiliate: Zachary Knight & Jeffrey M. Friedman | Authors: Christin Kosse, Jessica Ivanov, Zachary Knight, Kyle Pellegrino and Jeffrey Friedman | Summary: The brain processes an array of stimuli enabling the selection of an appropriate behavioural response but the underlying circuitry linking inputs to outputs is unknown. Here we delineate a subcortical circuit in […]