Journal of Neuroscience
Articles in this Issue
Mind Wandering during Implicit Learning Is Associated with Increased Periodic EEG Activity and Improved Extraction of Hidden Probabilistic Patterns
Mind wandering, occupying 30–50% of our waking time, remains an enigmatic phenomenon in cognitive neuroscience. A large number of studies showed a negative association between mind wandering and atten...
Intracellular Spermine Is a Key Player in GSG1L’s Regulation of Calcium-Permeable AMPAR Channel Conductance and Recovery from Desensitization
Calcium-permeable AMPA-type glutamate receptors (CP-AMPARs) contribute to excitatory synaptic transmission and play pivotal roles in normal and detrimental forms of plasticity. Most AMPARs are associa...
A Novel Candidate Neuromarker of Central Motor Dysfunction in Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is conceived as an impairment of the central motor system's ability to program multiple speech movements, resulting in inaccurate transitions between and relative tim...
Consistent Hierarchies of Single-Neuron Timescales in Mice, Macaques, and Humans
The intrinsic timescales of single neurons are thought to be hierarchically organized across the cortex, but whether hierarchical variation in timescales is a general brain organizing principle across...
Hypothalamic Control of Learned Flight Induced by Threat Imminence
Flexible experience-dependent learned escape has paramount survival value. However, flight is generally investigated in the presence of innate threats. To study conditioned escape, we developed a para...
Characterizing Directional Dynamics of Semantic Prediction Based on Inter-regional Temporal Generalization
The event-related potential/field component N400(m) is a widely accepted neural index for semantic prediction. Top-down input from inferior frontal areas to perceptual brain regions is hypothesized to...
Tracking Neural Correlates of Contextualized Meanings with Representational Similarity Analysis
Although it is uncontroversial that word meanings shift depending on their context, our understanding of contextualized lexical meaning remains poor. How is a contextualized semantic space organized?...
A Critical Role of Neuroligin 2 C-Terminus in OCD and Social Behavior
Neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia are devastating brain illnesses that are often associated with deficits in social behaviors. Thus, understanding the...
Hemifield Specificity of Attention Response Functions during Multiple-Object Tracking
The difficulty of tracking multiple moving objects among identical distractors increases with the number of tracked targets. Previous research has shown that the number of targets tracked (i.e., load)...
Interindividual Variability in Memory Performance Is Related to Corticothalamic Networks during Memory Encoding and Retrieval
Encoding new memories relies on functional connections between the medial temporal lobe and the frontoparietal cortices. Multiscan fMRI showed changes in these functional connections before and after...
An Infralimbic Cortex Engram Encoded during Learning Attenuates Fear Generalization
Generalization allows previous experience to adaptively guide behavior when conditions change. The infralimbic (IL) subregion of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex plays a known role in generalization...
The Cerebellum Contributes to Prediction Error Coding in Reinforcement Learning in Humans
Recent rodent data suggest that the cerebellum—a region typically associated with processing sensory prediction errors (PEs)—also processes PEs in reinforcement learning (RL-PEs; i.e., learning from a...
Anatomically Distinct Regions in the Inferior Frontal Cortex Are Modulated by Task and Reading Skill
The inferior frontal cortex (IFC) is a critical region for reading and language. This part of the cortex is highly heterogeneous in its structural and functional organization and shows high variabilit...
Time-Dependent Actions of Corticosterone on Infralimbic Cortex Pyramidal Neurons of Adult Male Rats
Responses to acute stress function to restore homeostasis. Hence, the study of neurophysiological responses to acute stress helps to understand mechanisms underlying adaptive coping in the face of env...
Neural Correlates of Opioid-Induced Risk-Taking Behavior in the Prelimbic Prefrontal Cortex
Opioid use disorder occurs alongside impaired risk-related decision-making, but the underlying neural correlates are unclear. We developed an approach-avoidance conflict task using a modified conditio...