1918 papers
By combining EEG with Temporal Experience Tracing in experienced Transcendental Meditation practitioners, this study identifies distinct, distributed multivariate neural patterns—specifically involving temporal entropy, aperiodic dynamics, and low-frequency connectivity—that systematically characterize the neurophenomenological signatures of pure awareness.
Perinatal exposure to a mixture of organophosphate flame retardants induces persistent, sex-specific dysregulation of the HPA axis and stress-related neurocircuitry in adult mice, leading to altered corticosterone responses and avoidance behaviors.
This paper reanalyzes human brain proton spin MRI data to identify a non-compact SU(1,1) pair sector exhibiting double-quantum coherence and squeezing-like dynamics, arguing that the observed signal serves as a witness for a deep metric regime and macroscopic multiple-quantum coherence rather than strictly bipartite entanglement.
This study failed to replicate a previous pilot finding that working memory selectively impairs subjective perception (sensitivity) when perceptual processing capacity is matched, leading the authors to pre-register a follow-up investigation on the original design.
This study evaluates the impact of SVM regularization and cross-validation parameters on EEG decoding performance across various paradigms, finding that optimal results are achieved with a regularization strength of at least 1 and 3 to 5 cross-validation folds using at least 10 trials per average.
This study found that long-term naturalistic psychedelic users, after a period of abstinence, showed largely non-significant differences in resting-state EEG oscillatory power, signal complexity, and network connectivity compared to matched non-users, suggesting that the neurophysiological signatures observed in acute administration studies may not persist as stable traits in chronic users.
This study reveals that stroke impairs the complexity and expressiveness of spatiotemporal finger coordination by reducing the number of principal components and diminishing task- and individual-specific patterns, largely due to an increased flexor bias in the paretic hand.
This paper demonstrates that contextual prediction in speech comprehension acts as a compensatory mechanism that is behaviorally visible only when temporal scaffolding is insufficient and speech boundaries align with natural syllabic structures, rather than arbitrary time intervals.
This study demonstrates that while traumatic brain injury combined with tibia fracture causes chronic hindlimb hyperalgesia and disrupts endogenous pain modulation in rats, voluntary aerobic exercise initiated shortly after injury effectively restores normal pain sensitivity and descending pain control in both sexes for up to 180 days, offering a non-pharmacological alternative to sex-specific serotonergic or noradrenergic drug interventions.
Using intracranial electrocorticography, this study reveals that global low-frequency theta oscillations and aperiodic signal shifts, rather than specific network antagonism, constitute the unified neurophysiological framework underlying human attentional fluctuations and performance variability.
This study demonstrates that in adolescents, gray matter volume in key brain regions modulates the cognitive benefits of acute physical activity, with cooperative high-intensity interval training (C-HIIT) proving superior to moderate continuous training and sedentary behavior in reducing cognitive load and improving reading comprehension through specific brain-volume interactions.
This study demonstrates that Alzheimer's disease biomarkers fundamentally require age-dependent information, revealing that the disease diverges from rather than accelerates healthy aging and exposing a critical flaw in age-independent metrics like the brain-age gap.
By tracking representational drift in the mouse olfactory cortex across wake and sleep cycles, this study reveals that sleep initiates a distinct reorganization of odor representations through decorrelation and rotation, rather than simply continuing online learning, and provides the first evidence for temporally compressed olfactory replay associated with piriform cortex sharp waves.
By integrating Xenium spatial transcriptomics with PNN-labeling in adult mouse cortex, this study reveals that perineuronal nets enwrap the vast majority of parvalbumin interneurons and mark a transcriptional continuum of fast-spiking specialization, distinguishing mature PNN-positive cells from more plastic PNN-negative counterparts.
This fMRI study reveals that professional artists experience their own artwork through the activation of action-related brain regions, suggesting that the mental representation of the creative process is an integral component of their aesthetic experience.
Using fMRI and representational similarity analysis, this study demonstrates that the ventral visual cortex encodes food attributes through a functional dissociation where the lateral occipitotemporal cortex represents both visual and subjective properties, while the fusiform gyrus selectively encodes perceived caloric content beyond visual similarity.
This study utilizes cross-sectional and longitudinal MRI data to demonstrate that the hormonal transitions of menarche and menopause exert opposing yet regionally overlapping effects on brain volume, highlighting the dynamic nature of hormone-related neuroplasticity across the female lifespan.
This study presents and validates a novel non-invasive head- and arm-fixation apparatus that enables the successful application of human-standard Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation protocols, including adaptive motor threshold determination and short-interval intracortical inhibition measurement, in awake rhesus macaques without surgical intervention.
This paper proposes EnCAR, a self-supervised Transformer-based method that incorporates curvature-aware regularization to improve the estimation of asymmetric fiber orientation distribution functions (A-FODs) in complex white matter regions, outperforming existing methods in capturing intricate fiber geometries while maintaining accuracy in symmetric areas.
This study demonstrates that transitions from anticorrelated to correlated binocular stimuli trigger an initial suppressive phase followed by a rebound-like facilitation, which paradoxically results in faster reaction times despite higher detection thresholds.