Journal of Neuroscience
Articles in this Issue
Timing and Convergence of Ensemble Activity Govern Auditory Thalamocortical Transmission
Coordinated neuronal activity plays an important role in information processing and transmission in the brain. While ensembles’ activity provides a more specific and less noisy version of sensory stim...
Lesions Reveal Shared and Distinct Neurocognitive Bases of Oral Reading and Silent Word Recognition
Reading is a fundamental skill for communication, learning, and daily life. Alexia, an acquired reading disorder typically caused by left-hemisphere stroke, impairs both oral and silent word reading....
The Emergence of New Schema Memory Requires Sleep
Schema memory refers to generalized knowledge that is formed across multiple episodes containing regularities. Schema memory is thought to be formed in an active systems consolidation process that tra...
Dopamine Supports Reward Prediction to Shape Reward-Pursuit Strategy
Reward predictions not only promote reward pursuit, they also shape how reward is pursed. Such predictions are supported by environmental cues that signal reward availability and probability. Such cue...
Central Questions for Social Neuroscience Research
Over the past decade, interest in social neuroscience has expanded rapidly. This growth raises a fundamental inquiry: what are the central questions that now define the field of social neuroscience? W...
Neural Mechanisms of Social Homeostasis: Dynamic Range Plasticity
To address the open question of how animals respond to dynamic changes in their social environment, we propose a framework in which cumulative effects of previous experience inform a key mechanism to...
Understanding the Brain as a Mentalizing Machine with a Symbol Grounding Function
Social creatures can infer the mental states of others. This cognitive ability, called mentalizing, can be considered a process of inferring others’ hidden states behind their actions from partially o...
The Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Prosocial Behavior toward Others in Negative State
Prosocial behaviors, voluntary actions benefiting others, are essential for social bonds and group survival across species from insects to primates. This review examines the neurobiological foundation...
Neural Bases of Collective Social Behavior and Group Interactions across Species
Collective group behavior is a key form of social interaction observed across animal species, including humans. These collective behaviors, such as flocking and herding, emerge from individual actions...
Layers of Social Meaning: Innate, Acquired, and Deliberative Levels of Referential Signal Processing
Referential signaling is a fundamental component of social interaction, enabling individuals to direct attention, convey intention, and establish shared understanding. The processing of referential si...
Dopamine Boosts Motivation for Prosocial Effort in Parkinson's Disease
Being willing to exert effort to obtain rewards is a key component of motivation. Previous research has shown that boosting dopamine can increase the willingness to choose to exert effort to obtain re...
Deciphering the Nanoscale Architecture of Presynaptic Actin Using a Micropatterned Presynapse-on-Glass Model
Chemical synapses are fundamental units for the transmission of information throughout the nervous system. The cytoskeleton allows to build, maintain, and transform both pre- and postsynaptic contacts...