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Andrea Ciorba, Stavros Hatzopoulos, Cristina Cogliandolo, Chiara Bianchini, Martina Renna, Luca Perrucci, Magdalena Skarzynska, Piotr Henryk Skarzynski, Paolo Campioni, Corrado Cittanti, Aldo Carnevale, Melchiore Giganti, Stefano Pelucchi
Summary: The study utilized fMRI to evaluate brain maps generated from healthy individuals' response to olfactory stimuli, revealing that the left anterior insula is primarily activated by odorous stimuli and other cortical areas are also involved.
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Pradeep Dheerendra, Simon Baumann, Olivier Joly, Fabien Balezeau, Christopher Petkov, Alexander Thiele, Timothy D. Griffiths
Summary: This study compared the differences in the processing of the temporal dimension of sound between rhesus macaques and humans using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The findings showed that although the overall patterns were similar, macaques exhibited lower sensitivity to longer time windows compared to humans.
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Nora C. Vetter, Juliane H. Frohner, Klara Hoffmann, Lea L. Backhausen, Michael N. Smolka
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Matthias Fritsche, Samuel G. Solomon, Floris P. de Lange
Summary: Visual processing is influenced by recent stimulus history, and the visual system optimizes encoding by exploiting the temporal statistics of the world. Neurons in the early visual cortex maintain long-term memory traces of individual stimuli, leading to long-term and stimulus-specific adaptation.
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Nathan C. Higgins, Ambar G. Monjaras, Breanne D. Yerkes, David F. Little, Jessica E. Nave-Blodgett, Mounya Elhilali, Joel S. Snyder
Summary: The study indicates that modality-specific processing is crucial for controlling conscious perception, with distractors affecting the probability of perceptual switching. The fact that distractors did not overlap with bistable stimuli indicates that perceptual reset may be due to interference at a locus where stimuli of different frequencies and spatial locations are integrated.
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Wonjun Ko, Wonsik Jung, Eunjin Jeon, Heung-Il Suk
Summary: This paper proposes a novel deep learning framework that effectively handles neuroimaging and genetic data simultaneously, achieving state-of-the-art performance in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment identification. Unlike existing methods, the framework learns the relationship between imaging phenotypes and genotypes in a nonlinear way without prior neuroscientific knowledge.
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Adriane E. Napp, Torsten Diekhoff, Olf Stoiber, Judith Enders, Gerd Diederichs, Peter Martus, Marc Dewey
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Bonnie K. K. Lau, Katherine A. A. Emmons, Adrian K. C. Lee, Jeff Munson, Stephen R. R. Dager, Annette M. M. Estes
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Han Lv, Qian Chen, Xuan Wei, Chunli Liu, Pengfei Zhao, Zhaodi Wang, Zhenghan Yang, Shusheng Gong, Hong You, Zhenchang Wang
Summary: The study demonstrates that sound therapy can modulate the functional connectivity of the auditory network in tinnitus patients, with increased connectivity in the left primary auditory cortex and decreased values in the secondary auditory cortex. Additionally, increased connections between the auditory network and limbic network, as well as decreased values with the bilateral thalami, were observed. These changes were mainly driven by alterations in the functional connectivity of the secondary auditory cortex.
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
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Jeong-Yun Lee, Taeyi You, Choong-Wan Woo, Seong-Gi Kim
Summary: This article discusses the complexity of sensory processing and its relevance to survival and neurological disorders. It also explores the applications and challenges of optogenetics and functional magnetic resonance imaging in studying sensory processing.
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Shunsuke Tamura, Nobuyuki Hirose, Takako Mitsudo, Nobuhiko Hoaki, Itta Nakamura, Toshiaki Onitsuka, Yoji Hirano
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Jakob Kaiser, Antje Gentsch, Daniela Rodriguez-Manrique, Simone Schuetz-Bosbach
Summary: Motor conflicts arise when we need to quickly overwrite prepotent behavior. Previous studies have come to inconsistent conclusions regarding the neural impact of affective information on conflict processing. Our study indicates that neural conflict processing is primarily driven by the functional relevance of action-related stimuli, not their inherent affective meaning. Furthermore, it sheds light on the role of interconnectivity between ACC and AI for the implementation of flexible behavioral change.
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Summary: This study found that schizophrenia patients have sensory integration deficits which are positively correlated with anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) glutamate levels. Multimodal analysis showed that in a specific network, blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) activation and task-dependent functional connectivity (FC) have opposite correlations between schizophrenia patients and healthy controls.
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Malgorzata Wislowska, Wolfgang Klimesch, Ole Jensen, Christine Blume, Manuel Schabus
Summary: Recent research has found that a wide range of cognitive operations are preserved during sleep in humans. This challenges scientists to understand the functions and mechanisms of these processes, which have mainly been studied in awake individuals. In this study, the focus is on the dynamic changes of brain oscillations and connectivity patterns in response to environmental stimulation during non-REM sleep. The results show that aurally presented names were processed and differentiated by neurons across the wake-sleep spectrum. EEG and MEG signals recorded simultaneously revealed two distinct clusters of oscillatory power increase in response to the stimuli. This study discusses the possible roles of different oscillations during non-REM sleep and aims to develop a unified theory of brain rhythms and their functions during sleep.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
