Neuroscience

Unique longitudinal contributions of sulcal interruptions to reading acquisition in children

1. Florence Bouhali
2. Jessica Dubois
3. Fumiko Hoeft
4. Kevin S Weiner

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  eLife Assessment

  This valuable study relating brain anatomy to reading ability in children studied longitudinally finds that a difference in sulcal anatomy is more predictive of reading ability than cognitive measures. The evidence that this anatomical difference is predictive and confers some benefit in the connectivity between brain areas is based on careful analyses and is solid. The findings would be of interest to researchers studying brain and cognitive development.

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RHODOPSIN 7: An ancestral non-canonical photoreceptor shaping light-responsive behavior

1. Valentina Kirsch
2. Nils Reinhard
3. Heiko Hartlieb
4. Annika Mohr
5. Dirk Rieger
6. Peter Soba
7. Charlotte Helfrich-Förster
8. Pingkalai R Senthilan

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  eLife Assessment

  The study investigates, from multiple angles, the still-debated function of insect rhodopsin-7 (Rh7). The authors present compelling results for its ancient phylogenetic origin across pan-arthropods, a non-visual role based on expression analyses in the fly brain, an unusual G-protein signalling pathway, and - using behavioural genetics - that Rh7 affects how Drosophila melanogaster interprets and responds to light-dark transitions. Through this, the work provides fundamental new insights into the evolution and function of non-visual opsins.

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Parvalbumin interneuron ErbB4 controls ongoing network oscillations and olfactory behaviours in mice

1. Bin Hu
2. Chi Geng
3. Feng Guo
4. Ying Liu
5. Ran Wang
6. You-Ting Chen
7. Xiao-Yu Hou

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  eLife Assessment

  This study provides important information on the role of ErbB4 expression in parvalbumin-positive cells in relation to olfactory behaviour and circuit dynamics in the olfactory bulb. The central question is both timely and novel, and the findings could shed light on the critical role that ErbB4 may play in modulating olfactory bulb cell function and olfactory perception. The authors conducted a comprehensive set of experiments which provide solid evidence in support of their conclusions. However, some concerns remain regarding the technical approaches used, such as spike sorting and control/baseline comparisons.

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High affinity cross-context cellular assays reveal novel protein-protein interactions of peripheral myelin protein of 22 kDa

1. D Stausberg
2. S Moshkovskii
3. FA Arlt
4. R Fledrich
5. RM Stassart
6. KA Nave
7. H Urlaub
8. D Ewers
9. MW Sereda

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Hierarchical Neural Circuit Theory of Normalization and Inter-areal Communication

1. Asit Pal
2. Shivang Rawat
3. David J Heeger
4. Stefano Martiniani

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  eLife Assessment

  This important study extends a model of cortical normalization (ORGaNICs) to interacting cortical areas and shows that communication through coherence and communication subspaces can arise from a single set of dynamics. The evidence is convincing, showing analytically that contrast-dependent gamma dynamics and a low-dimensional inter-areal communication subspace arise from one parameter set. The work will interest neuroscientists and theorists concerned with inter-areal communication, cortical oscillations, and divisive normalization.

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Pallium tracks valence-specific chemosensory amplification of eye-body coordination in larval zebrafish

1. Samuel KH Sy
2. Danny CW Chan
3. Jenny J Zhang
4. Jing Lyu
5. Crystal Feng
6. Kui Wang
7. Vincent CT Mok
8. Kenneth KY Wong
9. Yu Mu
10. Yu Hu
11. Ho Ko

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  eLife Assessment

  Using their unique Fish-On-Chips optofluidics platform, the authors make three important findings: the presence of precise coupling between saccades and tail flips can be used to discriminate between turning or gliding behaviours; aversive and appetitive chemosensory cues differentially modulate these behaviours; transformation from cue valence to behaviour is encoded by the pallium. The evidence supporting these findings is solid. The work advances our understanding of the ancient interplay between chemosensation and motor output through the modulation of eye-body coordination.

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Enhancer-AAVs allow genetic access to oligodendrocytes and diverse populations of astrocytes across species

1. John K Mich
2. Smrithi Sunil
3. Nelson Johansen
4. Refugio A Martinez
5. Jiatai Liu
6. Bryan B Gore
7. Joseph T Mahoney
8. Mckaila Leytze
9. Yoav Ben-Simon
10. Darren Bertagnolli
11. Ravi Bhowmik
12. Yemeserach Bishaw
13. Krissy Brouner
14. Jazmin Campos
15. Ryan Canfield
16. Tamara Casper
17. Nicholas P Donadio
18. Nadezhda I Dotson
19. Tom Egdorf
20. Amanda Gary
21. Shane Gibson
22. Jeff Goldy
23. Erin L Groce
24. Kenta M Hagihara
25. Daniel Hirschstein
26. Han Hou
27. Will D Laird
28. Elizabeth Liang
29. Luke V Loftus
30. Nicholas Lusk
31. Jocelin Malone
32. Naomi X Martin
33. Deja Monet
34. Josh S Nagra
35. Dakota Newman
36. Nhan-Kiet Ngo
37. Paul A Olsen
38. Victoria Omstead
39. Ximena Opitz-Araya
40. Aaron Oster
41. Christina A Pom
42. Lydia Potekhina
43. Melissa Reding
44. Christine Rimorin
45. Augustin Ruiz
46. Adriana E Sedeño-Cortés
47. Nadiya V Shapovalova
48. Michael Taormina
49. Naz Taskin
50. Michael Tieu
51. Nasmil J Valera Cuevas
52. Sharon W Way
53. Natalie Weed
54. Vonn Wright
55. Zizhen Yao
56. Thomas Zhou
57. Delissa A McMillen
58. Michael Kunst
59. Medea McGraw
60. Bargavi Thyagarajan
61. Jack Waters
62. Trygve E Bakken
63. Nick Dee
64. Shenqin Yao
65. Kimberly A Smith
66. Karel Svoboda
67. Kaspar Podgorski
68. Yoshiko Kojima
69. Greg D Horwitz
70. Hongkui Zeng
71. Tanya L Daigle
72. Ed S Lein
73. Bosiljka Tasic
74. Jonathan T Ting
75. Boaz P Levi

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  eLife Assessment

  This important study presents convincing findings on creating an exhaustive library of new enhancer-AAVs targeting astrocytes and oligodendrocytes with high potential for both basic and translational work, which will be of value to a large and growing community. The revisions appropriately addressed some of the previous concerns by updating description of glial biology in the Introduction and modifying text on experimental results and approaches. Overall, these amendments have strengthened the claims. The work will be of interest to neuroscientists working on glial cell biology.

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Neural Representation of Associative Threat Learning in Pulvinar Divisions, Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, and Mediodorsal Thalamus in Humans

1. Muhammad Badarnee
2. Zhenfu Wen
3. B Isabel Moallem
4. Stephen Maren
5. Mohammed R Milad

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  eLife Assessment

  This study provides valuable insights into the role of thalamic nuclei in associative threat and extinction learning, underpinned by a large dataset and rigorous, multipronged analyses. The evidence provided is solid, supporting the main conclusions. The manuscript will be of broad interest to researchers in learning and memory, fear, thalamic circuitry, and related mental health conditions.

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Synaptic Organization of Surface AMPARs Changes by Brain Region and Tauopathy

1. Rohit M Vaidya
2. Jiahao Zhang
3. Duncan Nall
4. Rujuta Pendharkar
5. Yongjae Lee
6. Eung Chang Kim
7. Donghan Ma
8. Fang Huang
9. Hiroshi Nonaka
10. Shigeki Kiyonaka
11. Itaru Hamachi
12. Hee Jung Chung
13. Paul R Selvin

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  eLife Assessment

  This is an important study that establishes a novel and enabling 3D super-resolution imaging approach for visualizing the nanoscale organization of AMPA receptors in thick mouse brain tissue. The biological findings are of importance and interest to the neuroscience field, with potential implications for neurodegenerative disease research. However, the evidence remains incomplete and some of the biological conclusions would benefit from strengthened quantitative analysis and revisions to the manuscript to ensure that the interpretations are appropriately aligned with what is supported by the analysis.

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Individual Taste Preferences Predict Cortical Taste Dynamics but Are Modified by Experience

1. Kathleen C Maigler
2. Jian-You Lin
3. Ethan Crouse
4. Bradly T Stone
5. Ainsley E Craddock
6. Donald B Katz

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  eLife Assessment

  This important study demonstrates how individual taste preferences change over time, how these changes are reflected in cortical activity, and how sensory experience contributes to reshaping both. The evidence is convincing and broadly supports the main conclusions. The findings should be of interest to neuroscientists studying sensory processing and cortical plasticity.

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