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Naveen Sendhilnathan, Debaleena Basu, Michael E. Goldberg, Jeffrey D. Schall, Aditya Murthy
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Jeremy Hogeveen, Maria Medalla, Matthew Ainsworth, Juan M. Galeazzi, Colleen A. Hanlon, Farshad Alizadeh Mansouri, Vincent D. Costa
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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
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Hannah Dames, Klaus Oberauer
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Corey Fernandez, Jiefeng Jiang, Shao-Fang Wang, Hannah Lee Choi, Anthony D. Wagner, Chris Baker
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Arvie R. Abiero, Laura A. Bradfield
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CURRENT OPINION IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
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Christopher D. Erb, Jeff Moher, Stuart Marcovitch
Summary: Research on attentional capture reveals age-related changes in the ability to recover from and avoid attentional capture, with children potentially more susceptible to interference. Results suggest that age-related improvements in attentional control may be driven by enhanced recovery from attentional capture, rather than avoidance.
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(2022)
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Ilayda Korkutmaz, Tugce Koc, Tugba Uzer
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(2023)
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Sara Mederos, Cristina Sanchez-Puelles, Julio Esparza, Manuel Valero, Alexey Ponomarenko, Gertrudis Perea
Summary: The study demonstrates that GABA(B) receptor signaling in astrocytes regulates prefrontal cortex activity to impact goal-directed behaviors. Optogenetic stimulation of astrocytes can restore working memory deficits and enhance cognition. Astrocytes are identified as a hub for controlling inhibition in cortical circuits, providing a novel pathway for midrange time-scale regulation of cortical information processing and goal-directed behaviors.
NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
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Warren Woodrich Pettine, Dhruva Venkita Raman, A. David Redish, John D. Murray
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Lin Yu, Thomas Schack, Dirk Koester
Summary: The study investigated the coordination of initial and final action goals in manual actions, revealing that final goals are more critical than initial grip postures and are preferably coordinated in a hierarchical manner.
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Lin Yu, Thomas Schack, Dirk Koester
Summary: The study found that perturbations in initial goals significantly slowed down reaching actions compared to perturbations in final goals. As indicated by the event-related potentials (ERPs), there were larger anterior P3 and a larger central-distributed late positivity time-locked to the perturbations for initial goals than for final goals.
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Li-Ann Leow, James R. Tresilian, Aya Uchida, Dirk Koester, Tamara Spingler, Stephan Riek, Welber Marinovic
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(2021)
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(2021)
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(2017)
Review
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(2016)
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(2016)