Journal of Neuroscience
Articles in this Issue
“What” and “When” Predictions Jointly Modulate Speech Processing
Adaptive behavior rests on predictions based on statistical regularities in the environment. Such regularities pertain to stimulus contents (“what”) and timing (“when”), and both interactively modulat...
Repeated tDCS at Clinically Relevant Field Intensity Can Boost Concurrent Motor Learning in Rats
Clinical trials with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) use weak electric fields that have yet to demonstrate measurable behavioral effects in animal models. We hypothesized that weak stim...
The Administration of Ketamine Is Associated with Dose-Dependent Stabilization of Cortical Dynamics in Humans
During wakefulness, external stimuli elicit conscious experiences. In contrast, dreams and drug-induced dissociated states are characterized by vivid internally generated conscious experiences and red...
Optogenetic Mapping of Rhythmic Phase-Dependent Excitability in the Mouse Striatum
The striatum is thought to switch flexibly between multiple converging inputs to support adaptive behavior. The “communication through coherence” (CTC) hypothesis is a potential mechanism to implement...
Red Light Sensitivity of Non-image and Image Forming Visual Systems of Laboratory Rodents: Circadian Disruption and Behavioral Detection
The mammalian circadian system regulates all biological processes, thereby ensuring optimal function at the appropriate times of day. Animal studies that examine neurobehavioral processes at different...
A Role for δ Subunit-Containing GABA <sub>A</sub> Receptors on Parvalbumin-Positive Neurons in Maintaining Electrocortical Signatures of Sleep States
GABA A receptors containing δ subunits have been shown to mediate tonic/slow inhibition in the CNS. These receptors are typically found extrasynaptically and ar...
Neuronal Synchronization and Bidirectional Activity Spread Explain Efficient Swimming in a Whole-Body Model of Hydrozoan Jellyfish
Aquatic animals need tightly choreographed movements to efficiently navigate through open waters. Radially symmetric animals, like jellyfish, face the additional challenge of having to respond to regi...
LUZP1 Regulates Dendritic Spine Maturation and Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampal Dentate Gyrus of Mice
Leucine zipper protein 1 (LUZP1) functions in the maintenance and dynamics of the cytoskeleton by interacting with actin and microtubules. Deficiency or mutation of LUZP1 is associated with brain deve...
Theta Oscillons in Behaving Rats
Recently discovered constituents of the brain waves—the oscillons —provide a high-resolution representation of the extracellular field dynamics. Here, we study...
Dissociable Causal Roles of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex and Primary Motor Cortex over the Course of Motor Skill Development
Established models of motor skill learning posit that early stages of learning are dominated by an attentionally demanding, effortful mode of control supported by associative corticostriatal circuits...
The Inattentional Rhythm in Audition
The detection of temporally unpredictable visual targets depends on the preceding phase of alpha oscillations (∼7–12 Hz). In audition, however, such an effect seemed to be absent. Due to the transient...
Neural Dynamics in Extrastriate Cortex Underlying False Alarms
The unfolding of neural population activity can be described as a dynamical system. Stability in the latent dynamics that characterize neural population activity has been linked with consistency in an...
Similar Computational Hierarchies for Reading and Speech in the Occipital Cortex of Sighed and Blind: Converging Evidence from fMRI and Chronometric TMS
High-level perception results from interactions between hierarchical brain systems responsive to gradually increasing feature complexities. During reading, the initial evaluation of simple visual feat...
Orbitofrontal High-Gamma Reflects Spike-Dissociable Value and Decision Mechanisms
The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) plays a crucial role in value-based decisions. While much is known about how OFC neurons represent values, far less is known about information encoded in OFC local field...
Universal Coding for Uncertainty?
Electrophysiological Correlates of Lucid Dreaming: Sensor and Source Level Signatures
Lucid dreaming (LD) is a state of conscious awareness of the ongoing oneiric state, predominantly linked to REM sleep. Progress in understanding its neurobiological basis has been hindered by small sa...