1. C. elegans food choice exhibits effort discounting-like behavior

    This article has 6 authors:
    1. Jonathan R. M. Millet
    2. Serge Faumont
    3. Aaron B. Schatz
    4. Amanda M. White
    5. Kathy D. Chicas-Cruz
    6. Shawn R. Lockery
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      This important work develops C. elegans as a model organism for studying effort-based discounting by asking the worms to choose between easy and hard to digest bacteria. The authors provide convincing evidence that the nematodes are effort-discounting. However, evidence regarding the role of dopamine is incomplete and this weakens the authors connection of the behavior in C. elegans with mammals.

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  2. The Self-Interest of Adolescents Overrules Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

    This article has 6 authors:
    1. Xiaoyan Wu
    2. Hongyu Fu
    3. Gökhan Aydogan
    4. Chunliang Feng
    5. Shaozheng Qin
    6. Chao Liu
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      This valuable work investigates cooperative behaviors in adolescents using a repeated Prisoner's Dilemma game. The computational modeling approach used in the study is solid and well established, yet evidence supporting certain claims remains incomplete. The work could be strengthened with the consideration of additional experimental contexts, non-linear relationships between age and observed behavior, and modeling details. If these concerns are addressed, the results will be of interest to developmental psychologists, economists, and social psychologists.

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  3. Hatching with Numbers: Pre-natal Light Exposure Affects Number Sense and the Mental Number Line in young domestic chicks

    This article has 4 authors:
    1. Rosa Rugani
    2. Matteo Macchinizzi
    3. Yujia Zhang
    4. Lucia Regolin
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      This fundamental study demonstrates how a left-right bias in the relationship between numerical magnitude and space depends on brain lateralization. The evidence is compelling and will be of interest to researchers studying numerical cognition, brain lateralization, and cognitive brain development more broadly.

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  4. CHROMAS: A Computational Pipeline to Track Chromatophores and Analyse their Dynamics

    This article has 4 authors:
    1. Johann Ukrow
    2. Mathieu DM Renard
    3. Mahyar Moghimi
    4. Gilles Laurent
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      The open-source software Chromas tracks and analyses cephalopod chromatophore dynamics. The software features a user-friendly interface alongside detailed instructions for its application, with compelling exemplary applications to two widely divergent cephalopod species, a squid and a cuttlefish, over time periods large enough to encompass new chromatophore development among existing ones. It demonstrates accurate tracking of the position and identity of each chromatophore. The software and methods outlined therein will become an important tool for scientists tracking dynamic signaling in animals.

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  5. Individuality transfer: Predicting human decision-making across tasks

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    1. Hiroshi Higashi
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      This study presents a useful framework to extract the individuality index to predict subjects' behavior in the target tasks. However, the evidence supporting such a framework is somewhat incomplete and would benefit from overall framing and clarity on its approaches. Overall, this study would be of interest to cognitive and AI researchers who work on cognitive models in general.

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  6. Risk-taking incentives predict aggression heuristics in female gorillas

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    1. Nikolaos Smit
    2. Martha M Robbins
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      This important study uses long-term behavioural observations to understand the factors that influence female-on-female aggression in gorilla social groups. The evidence supporting the claims is convincing, as it includes novel methods of assessing aggression and considers other potential factors. The work will be of interest to broad biologists working on the social interactions of animals.

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  7. Glia-mediated gut-brain cytokine signaling couples sleep to intestinal inflammation

    This article has 11 authors:
    1. Alina Malita
    2. Anne H Skakkebaek
    3. Olga Kubrak
    4. Xiaokang Chen
    5. Takashi Koyama
    6. Elizabeth C Connolly
    7. Nadja Ahrentløv
    8. Ditte S Andersen
    9. Michael J Texada
    10. Kenneth V Halberg
    11. Kim Rewitz
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      This important work by Malita et al. describes a mechanism by which an intestinal infection causes an increase in daytime sleep through signaling from the gut to the blood-brain barrier. Their findings suggest that cytokines upd3 and upd2 produced by the intestine following infection act on glia of the blood brain barrier to regulate sleep by modulating Allatostatin A signaling. The evidence is compelling and elegantly performed using the ample Drosophila genetic toolbox, making this work appealing for a broad group of neuroscience researchers interested in sleep and gut-brain interactions.

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  8. Integration of parallel pathways for flight control in a hawkmoth reflects prevalence and relevance of natural visual cues

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    1. Ronja Bigge
    2. Rebecca Grittner
    3. Anna Stöckl
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      This important study investigates how hummingbird hawkmoths integrate stimuli from across their visual field to guide flight behavior. Cue conflict experiments provide solid evidence for an integration hierarchy within the visual field: hawkmoths prioritize the avoidance of dorsal visual stimuli, potentially to avoid crashing into foliage, while they use ventrolateral optic flow to guide flight control. These findings will be of broad interest to enthusiasts of visual neuroscience and flight behavior.

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  9. Identification of the trail-following pheromone receptor in termites

    This article has 13 authors:
    1. Souleymane Diallo
    2. Kateřina Kašparová
    3. Josef Šulc
    4. Jibin Johny
    5. Jan Křivánek
    6. Jana Nebesářová
    7. David Sillam-Dussès
    8. Pavlína Kyjaková
    9. Jiří Vondrášek
    10. Aleš Machara
    11. Ondřej Lukšan
    12. Ewald Grosse-Wilde
    13. Robert Hanus
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      This important work by Diallo et al. substantially advances our understanding of the chemosensory system of a non-hymenopteran eusocial insect by identifying the first olfactory receptor for the trail pheromone in termites. The evidence supporting the conclusions that the receptor PsimOR14 is very narrowly tuned for the pheromone neocembrene is compelling. The work will be of broad interest to entomologists, chemical ecologists, neuroscientists, and molecular biologists.

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  10. Acquisition of auditory discrimination mediated by different processes through two distinct circuits linked to the lateral striatum

    This article has 13 authors:
    1. Susumu Setogawa
    2. Takashi Okauchi
    3. Di Hu
    4. Yasuhiro Wada
    5. Keigo Hikishima
    6. Hirotaka Onoe
    7. Kayo Nishizawa
    8. Nobuyuki Sakayori
    9. Hiroyuki Miyawaki
    10. Takuma Kitanishi
    11. Kenji Mizuseki
    12. Yilong Cui
    13. Kazuto Kobayashi
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      This study provides an important understanding of the contribution of different striatal subregions, the anterior Dorsal Lateral Striatum (aDLS) and the posterior Ventrolateral Striatum (pVLS), to auditory discrimination learning. The authors have included robust behavior combined with multiple observational and perturbation techniques. The data provided are convincing of the relevance of task-related activity in these two subregions during learning.

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