A bioluminescent activity dependent platform, BLADe, for converting intracellular activity to photoreceptor activation - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - A bioluminescent activity dependent platform, BLADe, for converting intracellular activity to photoreceptor activation

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The wisdom of crowds emerges in flocks of thousands of migrating songbirds

Larger flocks of migrating songbirds orient more accurately toward their population’s migratory direction than smaller flocks.

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Frequency-dependent modulation of foveal contrast sensitivity by fine-scale exogenously triggered attention

Fine-scale exogenous attention within the foveola selectively enhances contrast gain at low-to-mid spatial frequencies while increasing response gain across a broad spatial frequency range.

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Frontiers | Receptive prosody adaptation to contextual feedback in autistic young adults

IntroductionUnderstanding spoken meaning requires adaptation to prosodic variability across speakers. Prior work shows autistic adolescents display reduced p...

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Dissociating mechanisms of spatial suppression and summation in human visual cortical regions MT/V5: a transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) study and clinical implications

Visual motion perception requires balancing spatial integration, which supports discrimination of weak or noisy signals, with spatial suppression, which limits the influence of large, high-contrast...

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Adult-neurogenesis allows for representational stability and flexibility in early olfactory system

Using computational and theoretical models shows how adult-neurogenesis and spike-timing-dependent plasticity balance the flexibility and stability of odor representations.

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Frequency-dependent modulation of foveal contrast sensitivity by fine-scale exogenously triggered attention

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“Does it Hurt?”: An Analysis of Parental Attributes and Responses to Children’s Questions about the COVID-19 Vaccine - Journal of Child and Family Studies

Journal of Child and Family Studies - As the COVID-19 pandemic progressed, parents and children were prompted to have conversations about the pandemic including conversations about vaccination. Our...

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Statistics of natural scenes shape contextual modulation in the visual cortex

Vision is context dependent, with neuronal responses shaped not only by local features but also by surrounding visual input. While classical studies, …

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Chimpanzees spontaneously prepare for mutually exclusive possibilities, and collective context strengthens this behaviour

Abstract. In both humans and non-human animals, collectives can sometimes overcome individual cognitive biases or shortcomings to execute more rational beh

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Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons

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Statistics of natural scenes shape contextual modulation in the visual cortex

Vision is context dependent, with neuronal responses shaped not only by local features but also by surrounding visual input. While classical studies, …

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Projection-specific intersectional optogenetics for precise excitation and inhibition in the marmoset brain

The primate cerebral cortex relies on long-range connections to integrate information across spatially distributed and functionally specialized areas,…

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Distinct eccentricity-driven dynamics in foveal and extrafoveal visual crowding

Visual crowding—impaired object recognition caused by nearby stimuli—is well documented in peripheral vision and linked to grouping and segmentation. …

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VSS 2026 Elsevier/VSS Young Investigator Award – Ilker Yildirim

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The accent atlas: A geolocation-based assessment of nonnative accent familiarity and linguistic diversity - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Successful language comprehension requires listeners to rapidly adapt to linguistic variability, including accented speech. While a growing body of research suggests that long-term exposure to…

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How animals make group decisions—without a leader

From pigeons to chimpanzees, Dora Biro shows how individual minds scale into collective intelligence—and what that reveals about us.

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The effect of unilateral cortical blindness on lane position and gaze behavior in a virtual reality steering task - Scientific Reports

Adults with cortically-induced blindness (CB) affecting a quarter to a half of their visual field show greater variability in lane positioning when steering compared to those with intact vision. Becau...

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