1519 papers
Neuroscience explores the intricate machinery of the brain and nervous system, seeking to understand how we think, feel, and move. From the microscopic dance of individual neurons to the complex networks that shape our memories and behaviors, this field peels back the layers of our biological selves to reveal the origins of consciousness and disease.
At Gist.Science, we bring these discoveries directly from bioRxiv, the leading preprint server for biological sciences, to a broader audience. We process every new neuroscience preprint as it is uploaded, transforming dense academic manuscripts into clear, plain-language explanations alongside detailed technical summaries. This ensures that both curious readers and specialists can stay current with the latest breakthroughs before they are formally published.
Below are the latest neuroscience papers we have processed from bioRxiv, offering fresh insights into the workings of the mind.
This paper introduces a publicly available, densely sampled, multi-b-value longitudinal test-retest diffusion MRI dataset from eleven healthy volunteers, designed to facilitate the validation of signal models, assessment of reproducibility, and optimization of acquisition protocols for brain tissue analysis.
This study demonstrates that while perceptual and motor awareness of visuomotor rotation are correlated and equivalent for large rotations (50°), they diverge for small rotations (30°), where participants report perceptual awareness despite showing significantly reduced motor awareness.
This study reveals that while monetary reward improves both movement speed and action selection in younger and older adults, ageing specifically attenuates the reward-driven increase in movement vigour without significantly altering reward effects on action selection accuracy.
This study reveals that the glucagon receptor is specifically localized to motile ependymal cilia, tanycytic primary cilia, and subcommissural organ cells in the rat brain, suggesting a novel mechanism for integrating peripheral metabolic signals with central homeostatic circuits at periventricular barrier interfaces.
This study demonstrates that food representations in the lateral and ventral occipitotemporal cortex are dissociated by distinct computational constraints, with the lateral region encoding action-related properties shared with manipulable objects and the ventral region encoding surface-based visual features critical for food identification.
Using genetic and behavioral studies in adult mice, this paper demonstrates that the deletion of primary cilia from hippocampal neurons does not impair neuronal excitability, synaptic plasticity, or hippocampal-dependent behaviors, challenging the prevailing view that these structures are essential signaling hubs in mature brain circuits.
By weakening inhibitory synapses onto ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons to attenuate reward-omission pauses, this study demonstrates that such pauses normally sustain behavioral persistence and that their removal accelerates extinction without impairing new learning.
This study demonstrates that selectively activating locus coeruleus projections to the dorsal hippocampus preferentially facilitates the updating of established spatial memories during reversal learning, rather than enhancing initial spatial acquisition, while also introducing a graph-based framework to quantify the evolution of navigation strategies.
The paper introduces **spectral-unmixing**, an open-source, modular Python package that standardizes and automates reproducible directed, bidirectional, and blind spectral unmixing workflows to effectively correct spectral bleed-through in multidimensional fluorescence microscopy stacks.
This study demonstrates that the geometric convergence of photoreceptor axes in fly compound eyes creates a distance-dependent neural response peak at a specific "personal space" range, suggesting that neural superposition functions analogously to a light-field camera focused on behaviorally relevant distances to enable depth perception.