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Yuan-Jie Xiao, Lidan Wang, Yu-Zhang Liu, Jiayu Chen, Haoyu Zhang, Yan Gao, Hua He, Zheng Zhao, Zhiru Wang
Summary: This study found that neurons in sensory cortices exhibit significant responses to crossmodal stimulation, primarily through the sensory thalamus. These findings suggest the presence of widespread excitatory crossmodal inputs in the sensory cortex, which may play a role in brain functions involving crossmodal information processing or plasticity.
NEUROSCIENCE BULLETIN
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mareike Grotheer, Mona Rosenke, Hua Wu, Holly Kular, Francesca R. Querdasi, Vaidehi S. Natu, Jason D. Yeatman, Kalanit Grill-Spector
Summary: In this study, the development of white matter in infants from 0 to 6 months was investigated using diffusion MRI and quantitative MRI measurements. The researchers found that the longitudinal relaxation rate (R1) of white matter increased over time, with faster development in less mature areas of white matter in newborns.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
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Didhiti Mukherjee, Binghan Xue, Chih-Ting Chen, Minzi Chang, Joseph P. Y. Kao, Patrick O. Kanold
Summary: Retinal deprivation in newborn mice alters the activity and circuitry of the auditory cortex during the precritical period, leading to crossmodal functional changes that persist during the early stages of development.
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Neurosciences
Sanjay N. Awathale, Akash M. Waghade, Harish M. Kawade, Gouri Jadhav, Amit G. Choudhary, Sneha Sagarkar, Amul J. Sakharkar, Nishikant K. Subhedar, Dadasaheb M. Kokare
Summary: The experiment in rats showed that training with light cues can enhance learning and memory formation, possibly related to increased neuronal activity and BDNF expression. Additionally, glutamatergic signaling and dopamine secretion may play a role in memory formation and behavioral changes.
MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Philip Coen, Timothy P. H. Sit, Miles J. Wells, Matteo Carandini, Kenneth D. Harris
Summary: This study shows that the frontal cortex of mice combines auditory and visual information for object localization, and this combination is additive and evolves with learning.
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Neurosciences
Hannah Schulthei, Isma Zulfiqar, Claudio Verardo, Renaud B. Jolivet, Michelle Moerel
Summary: Tinnitus is a clinical condition where a sound is perceived without external source. Homeostatic plasticity (HSP), increasing neural activity as compensation for reduced auditory input after hearing loss, is proposed as a mechanism underlying tinnitus. Animal models show evidence of increased neural activity after hearing loss, but applying these findings to human tinnitus is challenging.
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Anatomy & Morphology
Shuang Jiang, Suraj Honnuraiah, Greg J. Stuart
Summary: This study determines the types of cells in the superficial superior colliculus that receive visual input from the primary visual cortex in mice. The results show that all four cell types in the superficial layers of the superior colliculus receive direct input from the primary visual cortex, with wide-field neurons being the most likely to receive this input.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROANATOMY
(2023)
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Biology
Ya-tang Li, Markus Meister
Summary: The superior colliculus in the brain is a crucial visual processing station that receives input from various types of retinal ganglion cells. Through recording mouse superficial SC neurons, we identified 24 functional types using an unsupervised clustering algorithm. These types can be grouped into two categories: one that responds similarly to retinal ganglion cells and another with more diverse and specialized stimulus selectivity. Cells of the same functional type tend to cluster together in anatomical space, and the visual representation in the SC has lower dimensionality compared to the retina, suggesting a sifting process along the visual pathway.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Siying Li, Gaojie Huang, Zhenling Ma, Chen Qu
Summary: This study examines the impact of social status on trust-related decisions and finds that individuals with higher social status exhibit a bias towards trust-related behaviors.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Luke A. Shaheen, Sean J. Slee, Stephen V. David
Summary: The study found that task engagement can modulate sound coding in the auditory midbrain, with little effect on the central IC but significant modulation in noncentral areas. This led to enhanced responses for target tones compared to distractor noise, increasing neural discriminability between the two.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Andrea Bocincova, Timothy J. Buschman, Mark G. Stokes, Sanjay G. Manohar
Summary: Changes in synaptic strength and neuronal tuning in the prefrontal cortex can occur when there is a need to reassociate features, leading to different neural responses to identical stimuli.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Eric Hoar, Souvik Sahoo, Mostafa Mahdavi, Steven Liang, Shibayan Roy, Hamid Garmestani
Summary: A statistical continuum model utilizing microstructural information is developed to simulate the microstructure evolution of a two-phase Ti-6Al-4V alloy during hot isothermal compression. This model does not rely on finite element methods, making it faster and more resource-efficient for prediction accuracy. The model uses two-point statistics to describe microstructural information related to phase distribution, grain size, and phase/grain morphology, and utilizes macroscopic strain-rate tensor to predict deformation.
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Biology
Hannah M. Oberle, Alexander N. Ford, Deepak Dileepkumar, Jordyn Czarny, Pierre F. Apostolides
Summary: Corticofugal projections from the neocortex to evolutionarily ancient subcortical structures are common in mammalian sensory systems, allowing the cortex to control ascending sensory representations predictively or in a feedback manner. This study focused on the projection from the mouse auditory cortex to the inferior colliculus (IC), revealing that although individual synapses were weak, IC neurons integrated inputs from multiple corticofugal axons to generate reliable depolarizations. Descending signals reached the IC within 30 ms of sound onset and were found to nonlinearly amplify IC neurons' acoustic responses.
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Elsa Lindboom, Aaron Nidiffer, Laurel H. Carney, Edmund C. Lalor
Summary: For decades, auditory neuroscience research has focused on describing how the human brain responds to complex acoustic stimuli. A systems-based approach has been taken, where neurophysiological responses are modeled based on features of the presented stimulus. However, the representation of sound is transformed as it passes through the auditory pathway, leading to fundamental differences between cortical inputs and the raw audio signal.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Anna M. Lavezzi, Riffat Mehboob, Francesco Piscioli, Teresa Pusiol
Summary: The aim of this study was to investigate the involvement of the mesencephalic superior colliculus (SC) in the pathogenetic mechanism of SIDS. In-depth neuropathological investigations showed alterations in the laminar arrangement of the SC deep layers in 69% of SIDS cases, but never in the controls. These SC anomalies represent a new step in understanding the pathogenetic process of SIDS.
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Mauro Ursino, Cristiano Cuppini, Elisa Magosso
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Behavioral Sciences
Elisa Magosso, Caterina Bertini, Cristiano Cuppini, Mauro Ursino
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Neurosciences
Cristiano Cuppini, Ladan Shams, Elisa Magosso, Mauro Ursino
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2017)
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Neurosciences
Cristiano Cuppini, Mauro Ursino, Elisa Magosso, Lars A. Ross, John J. Foxe, Sophie Molholm
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2017)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Mauro Ursino, Cristiano Cuppini, Elisa Magosso
NEURAL COMPUTATION
(2017)
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Mathematical & Computational Biology
Elisa Magosso, Cristiano Cuppini, Caterina Bertini
FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2017)
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Mauro Ursino, Andrea Crisafulli, Giuseppe di Pellegrino, Elisa Magosso, Cristiano Cuppini
FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2017)
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Neurosciences
Mauro Ursino, Cristiano Cuppini, Stefano F. Cappa, Eleonora Catricala
COGNITIVE NEURODYNAMICS
(2018)
Review
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Mauro Ursino, Cristiano Cuppini, Elisa Magosso
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Neurosciences
Liping Yu, Cristiano Cuppini, Jinghong Xu, Benjamin A. Rowland, Barry E. Stein
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2019)
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Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Cristiano Cuppini, Mauro Ursino, Elisa Magosso, Michael J. Crosse, John J. Foxe, Sophie Molholm
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2020)
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Neurosciences
Cristiano Cuppini, Elisa Magosso, Melissa Monti, Mauro Ursino, Jeffrey M. Yau
Summary: Both vision and touch play a role in spatial information processing and show specific interactions in spatial perception. Recent research found that tactile perception can be biased by visual cues even in the absence of visual stimuli, indicating crossmodal learning. A neural network model was used to simulate visuo-tactile learning effects, and it was found that both hand representations and inter-hemispheric inhibitory interactions need to be plastic to fully replicate the effects of visuo-tactile learning.
FRONTIERS IN NEURAL CIRCUITS
(2022)
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Biophysics
Mauro Ursino, Cristiano Cuppini, Elisa Magosso, Ulrik Beierholm, Ladan Shams
MULTISENSORY RESEARCH
(2019)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Mauro Ursino, Cristiano Cuppini, Elisa Magosso
2016 IEEE 2ND INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR SOCIETY AND INDUSTRY LEVERAGING A BETTER TOMORROW (RTSI)
(2016)