1. Listening to the room: disrupting activity of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex impairs learning of room acoustics in human listeners

    This article has 6 authors:
    1. Heivet Hernández-Pérez
    2. Jason Mikiel-Hunter
    3. James Traer
    4. Jessica JM Monaghan
    5. Paul F Sowman
    6. David McAlpine
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      This study addresses valuable questions about the neural mechanisms underlying statistical learning of room acoustics, combining robust behavioral measures with non-invasive brain stimulation. The behavioral findings are strong and extend previous work in psychoacoustics, but the TMS results are modest, with methodological limitations and over-interpretation that weaken the mechanistic conclusions. The strength of evidence is therefore incomplete, and a more cautious interpretation of the stimulation findings, alongside strengthened analyses, would improve the manuscript.

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  2. Astrocytic modulation of population encoding in mouse visual cortex via GABA transporter 3 revealed by multiplexed CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing

    This article has 12 authors:
    1. Jiho Park
    2. Grayson O Sipe
    3. Xin Tang
    4. Prachi Ojha
    5. Giselle Fernandes
    6. Yi Ning Leow
    7. Caroline Zhang
    8. Yuma Osako
    9. Arundhati Natesan
    10. Gabrielle T Drummond
    11. Rudolf Jaenisch
    12. Mriganka Sur
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      In this manuscript, Park et al. developed a multiplexed CRISPR construct to genetically ablate the GABA transporter GAT3 in the mouse visual cortex, with effects on population-level neuronal activity. This work is important, as it sheds light on how GAT3 controls the processing of visual information. The findings are compelling, leveraging state-of-the-art gene CRISPR/Cas9, in vivo two-photon laser scanning microscopy, and advanced statistical modeling.

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  3. Patchy Striatonigral Neurons Modulate Locomotor Vigor in Response to Environmental Valence

    This article has 9 authors:
    1. Sarah Hawes
    2. Bo Liang
    3. Braden Oldham
    4. Breanna T Sullivan
    5. Lupeng Wang
    6. Bin Song
    7. Lisa Chang
    8. Da-Ting Lin
    9. Huaibin Cai
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      The manuscript provides important findings on how striatal projection neurons regulate spontaneous locomotion speed in the context of implicit motivation and distinct contextual valence. The manuscript presented convincing supporting evidence for the findings. This work will be of broad interest to neuroscientists in the fields of basal ganglia, movement control, and cognition.

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  4. Morphogenesis and morphometry of brain folding patterns across species

    This article has 7 authors:
    1. Sifan Yin
    2. Chunzi Liu
    3. Gary PT Choi
    4. Yeonsu Jung
    5. Katja Heuer
    6. Roberto Toro
    7. L Mahadevan
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      This important study presents a cross-species and cross-disciplinary analysis of cortical folding. The authors use a combination of physical gel models, computational simulations, and morphometric analysis, extending prior work in human brain development to macaques and ferrets. The findings support the hypothesis that mechanical forces driven by differential growth can account for major aspects of gyrification. The evidence presented, though limited in certain species-specific and parametric details, is overall strong and convincingly supports the central claims; the findings will be of broad interest in developmental neuroscience.

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  5. Biophysical basis for brain folding and misfolding patterns in ferrets and humans

    This article has 7 authors:
    1. Gary PT Choi
    2. Chunzi Liu
    3. Sifan Yin
    4. Gabrielle Séjourné
    5. Richard S Smith
    6. Christopher A Walsh
    7. L Mahadevan
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      This important study characterises the morphogenesis of cortical folding in the ferret and human cerebral cortex using complementary physical and computational modelling. Notably, these approaches are applied to charting, in the ferret model, known abnormalities of cortical folding in humans. The study finds that variation in cortical thickness and expansion account for deviations in morphology, and supports these findings using cutting-edge approaches from both physical gel models and numerical simulations. The strength of evidence is convincing, and although it could benefit from more quantitative assessment, the study will be of broad interest to the field of developmental neuroscience.

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  6. Stimulus-Dependent Theta Rhythmic Activity in Primate V1 Predicts Visual Detection

    This article has 6 authors:
    1. Prasakti Tenri Fanyiwi
    2. Beshoy Agayby
    3. Ricardo Kienitz
    4. Marcus Haag
    5. Jaime Cadena-Valencia
    6. Michael C Schmid
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      This useful study shows that stimuli of a certain size elicit theta oscillations in V1 neurons both in spikes and local field potentials, and monkeys performing a dot detection task on these stimuli show theta rhythmicity in their response times. This replicates previous findings showing rhythmic theta activity in V4 and behaviour when stimuli are presented in the receptive field along with a surrounding flanker stimulus. However, there is incomplete evidence that rhythmicity in neural activity is related to the rhythmicity in behavior, and the mechanisms underlying these oscillations remain unclear.

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  7. Adult Neurogenesis Reconciles Flexibility and Stability of Olfactory Perceptual Memory

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    1. Bennet Sakelaris
    2. Hermann Riecke
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      In this important study, the authors use computational modeling to explore how fast learning can be reconciled with the accumulation of stable memories in the olfactory bulb, where adult neurogenesis is prominent. Their model demonstrates that changes in excitability, plasticity, and susceptibility to apoptosis during the maturation of adult-born granule cells can help resolve the flexibility-stability dilemma. These compelling results provide a coherent picture of a neurogenesis-dependent learning process that is consistent with diverse experimental observations and may serve as a foundation for further experimental and computational studies.

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  8. Virtual Brain Inference (VBI): A flexible and integrative toolkit for efficient probabilistic inference on virtual brain models

    This article has 6 authors:
    1. Abolfazl Ziaeemehr
    2. Marmaduke Woodman
    3. Lia Domide
    4. Spase Petkoski
    5. Viktor Jirsa
    6. Meysam Hashemi
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      This paper presents a valuable software package, named "Virtual Brain Inference" (VBI), that enables faster and more efficient inference of parameters in dynamical system models of whole-brain activity, grounded in artificial network networks for Bayesian statistical inference. The authors have provided convincing evidence, across several case studies, for the utility and validity of the methods using simulated data from several commonly used models, but more thorough benchmarking could be used to demonstrate the practical utility of the toolkit. This work will be of interest to computational neuroscientists interested in modelling large-scale brain dynamics.

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  9. Synchronous Ensembles of Hippocampal CA1 Pyramidal Neurons During Novel Exploration

    This article has 4 authors:
    1. En-Li Chen
    2. Tsai-Wen Chen
    3. Eric R Schreiter
    4. Bei-Jung Lin
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      In this valuable study, the authors use a cutting-edge method to perform voltage imaging of CA1 pyramidal cells in head-fixed mice running on a track while local field potentials (LFPs) were recorded in the contralateral hemisphere. The authors provide solid evidence of synchronous ensembles of CA1 pyramidal neurons that are associated with contralaterally recorded theta rhythms but not with contralaterally recorded sharp wave-ripples during exploration of a novel environment. The paper will be of interest to scientists who are interested in hippocampal neuronal coding of novel environments, particularly those with experimental questions that can benefit from this cutting-edge imaging technique.

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  10. Single-cell transcriptome sequencing for opening the blood-brain barrier through specific mode electroacupuncture stimulation

    This article has 11 authors:
    1. Congcong Ma
    2. Zhaoxing Jia
    3. Tianxiang Jiang
    4. Qian Cai
    5. Jinding Yang
    6. Lin Gan
    7. Kecheng Qian
    8. Zixin Pan
    9. Qinyu Ye
    10. Mengyuan Dai
    11. Xianming Lin
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      This paper reports a valuable discovery that specific-mode electroacupuncture (EA) transiently opens the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in rats. The evidence is solid but lacks functional validation of BBB permeability changes. The work will be of interest to medical scientists working in the field of electroacupuncture and drug delivery.

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