Neuroscience

Combined transcriptomic, connectivity, and activity profiling of the medial amygdala using highly amplified multiplexed in situ hybridization (hamFISH)

1. Mathew D Edwards
2. Ziwei Yin
3. Risa Sueda
4. Alina Gubanova
5. Chang S Xu
6. Virág Lakner
7. Megan Murchie
8. Chi-Yu Lee
9. Kristal Ng
10. Karolina Farrell
11. Rupert Faraway
12. Subham Ganguly
13. Elina Jacobs
14. Bogdan Bintu
15. Yoh Isogai

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  eLife Assessment

  The study presents important findings that are highly relevant for research aiming to combine transcriptomics, connectivity studies, and activity profiling in the rodent brain and the revisions improve the study. The evidence overall remains convincing as the authors use appropriate and validated methodology in line with current state-of-the-art.

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Neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex are involved in spatial tuning and signaling upcoming choice independently from hippocampal sharp-wave ripples

1. Hanna den Bakker
2. Fabian Kloosterman

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  eLife Assessment

  This useful study reports analyses of Neuropixel recordings in the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of rats in a spatial navigation trial, focusing on classifying prefrontal neurons based on SWR modulation and anatomical location. Reviewers were unconvinced by the presented evidence for the claim that distinct populations of mPFC neurons participate in non-local ensemble representations during SWR and non-SWR periods, and were unconvinced by the presented evidence for a previously unrecognized anatomical distinction between these populations. Further analyses might strengthen the incomplete evidence for some conclusions, and some of the strong claims of the paper should likely be moderated.

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Responses to conflicting binocular stimuli in mouse primary visual cortex

1. Daniel P. Montgomery
2. Daniel A. Bowen
3. Jin Wu
4. Mark F. Bear
5. Eric D. Gaier

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Asymmetric neural entrainment at resonance frequencies underlies unilateral spatial neglect

1. Yuka O Okazaki
2. Noriaki Hattori
3. Teiji Kawano
4. Megumi Hatakenaka
5. Ichiro Miyai
6. Keiichi Kitajo

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  eLife Assessment

  This valuable study uses EEG and computational modeling to investigate hemispheric oscillatory asymmetries in unilateral spatial neglect. The work benefits from rare patient data and a careful multimethod approach. However, the evidence is incomplete because key assumptions about alpha‑band entrainment and methodological confounds such as lesion variability and eye‑movement artifacts remain insufficiently addressed.

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Where is the melody? Spontaneous attention orchestrates melody formation during polyphonic music listening

1. Martin M Winchester
2. Kevin Reynolds
3. Charbel Nebo
4. Ian Cecil Scott
5. Giovanni M Di Liberto

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  eLife Assessment

  This valuable work potentially advances our understanding of melody extraction in polyphonic music listening by identifying spontaneous attentional focus in uninstructed listening contexts. However, the evidence supporting the main conclusions is incomplete. The work will be of interest to psychologists and neuroscientists working on music listening, attention, and perception in ecological settings.

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High-throughput single-cell CRISPRi screens stratify neurodevelopmental functions of schizophrenia-associated genes

1. Umut Yildiz
2. Annique Claringbould
3. Mikael Marttinen
4. Víctor Campos-Fornés
5. Mantha Lamprousi
6. Manu Saraswat
7. Mathias Saver
8. Daria Bunina
9. Michael W. Dorrity
10. Judith Zaugg
11. Kyung-Min Noh

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