Neuroscience

Widespread cortical representations of innate behaviors in the mouse

1. Nicholas J Michelson
2. Pankaj K Gupta
3. Timothy H Murphy

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  This valuable work shows that subcortically-generated behaviors, like grooming, can have widespread representations in cortical activity. While the evidence is solid, additional analyses are necessary to strengthen the claims associated with outsized cortical representations of grooming onsets, as well as to address atypical grooming events. This work will be of interest to neuroscientists interested in how subcortically-generated behaviors are represented across the cortex.

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NDR kinase SAX-1 controls dendrite branch-specific elimination during neuronal remodeling in C. elegans

1. Paola V. Figueroa-Delgado
2. Shaul Yogev

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Task structure tailors the geometry of neural representations in human lateral prefrontal cortex

1. Apoorva Bhandari
2. Haley Keglovits
3. Defne Buyukyazgan
4. David Badre

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  eLife Assessment

  This study presents a valuable finding on the representational structure of task encoding in the prefrontal cortex. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid, representing an impressive data collection effort and best-practice fMRI analyses. However, at least including visual regions as a control and controlling for behavioral differences in the task in representation analyses would have strengthened the study. The work will be of interest to cognitive neuroscientists interested in the neural basis of cognitive control.

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