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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Elie Rassi, Yi Zhang, German Mendoza, Juan Carlos Mendez, Hugo Merchant, Saskia Haegens
Summary: Based on previous research on content-specific beta synchronization in working memory and decision making, this study hypothesized that beta oscillations support cortical representations by mediating neural ensemble formation. The researchers found that beta activity in monkey dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) and pre-supplementary motor area (preSMA) reflects the content of a stimulus in relation to the task context, regardless of its objective properties. They also discovered two distinct beta-band frequencies consistently associated with different relative categories, which predicted the animals' responses.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Hemanth Mohan, Xu An, X. Hermione Xu, Hideki Kondo, Shengli Zhao, Katherine S. S. Matho, Bor-Shuen Wang, Simon Musall, Partha Mitra, Z. Josh Huang
Summary: This study reveals that the cellular basis of cerebral cortex functional architecture is not well understood. The activity dynamics of subcortical-projecting and intratelencephalic-projecting neurons in the dorsal cortex of mice during different brain states and behaviors were monitored using genetic targeting and wide-field imaging. The results show that these projection neurons process information and their projection patterns are consistent with their activation patterns.
NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
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Medicine, Legal
Sher-Lin Chiam, Itiel E. Dror, Christian D. Huber, Denice Higgins
Summary: This study empirically investigated the biasing effect of irrelevant context information on the forensic odontology method of radiograph-based identification. Strong supportive context significantly increased the odds of making correct decisions. The direction of context suggestion, radiograph match status, and their interactions all impacted participants' decisions.
FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
So Ra Park, Kum-Sik Oh
Summary: This study examines the factors influencing the integration of ESG information by individual investors in their investment decisions. The UTAUT model is used to identify the investment tendencies and factors affecting ESG information integration. Standardization of ESG reporting and evaluation frameworks, as well as corporate communication and stakeholder participation, are recommended to facilitate ESG information integration.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Mark H. Plitt, Lisa M. Giocomo
Summary: The hippocampus contains neural representations capable of supporting declarative memory, with place cells firing in specific locations in different environments. Through large-scale in vivo recordings, it was found that hippocampal remapping across contexts can be precisely predicted by the animal's experience and approximates optimal probabilistic inference. This suggests that place cell remapping allows animals to identify their physical location and estimate the identity of the environment optimally.
NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Plant Sciences
Karolina Jorgensen, Karina E. Clemmensen, Hakan Wallander, Bjorn D. Lindahl
Summary: In this study, ectomycorrhizal fungal communities were characterized in root-excluding ingrowth mesh bags and adjacent fine roots in mature Picea abies forests. Contrary to previous assumptions, genera thought to produce little extraradical mycelium colonized ingrowth bags extensively, while genera associated with ample mycelial production occurred sparsely in the bags. The results suggest that previous assumptions about soil foraging patterns of exploration types may not hold.
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Neurosciences
Simon Musall, Xiaonan R. R. Sun, Hemanth Mohan, Xu An, Steven Gluf, Shu-Jing Li, Rhonda Drewes, Emma Cravo, Irene Lenzi, Chaoqun Yin, Bjoern M. Kampa, Anne K. K. Churchland
Summary: Distinct cortical pyramidal neuron types have unique contributions to behavioral decisions. The interactions among diverse cortical and subcortical areas are important for successful decision outcomes. Investigating the cell types that comprise cortical circuits and their dynamics is crucial for understanding complex behavior.
NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Xin Du, Katayoun Farrahi, Mahesan Niranjan
Summary: Deep neural networks excel in solving challenging pattern recognition problems by forming powerful mappings between inputs and targets, and learning representations through the dynamics of learning on an information plane. Cascade Learning (CL), a method to train deep neural networks layer-by-layer, shows comparable results while saving computation and memory costs. Performance is not linked to information compression; instead, CL can inherit information about targets and gradually specialize extracted features layer-by-layer, making it a useful heuristic in setting the depth of a neural network for accurate classification.
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Business
Kurt Alexander Ackermann, Linda Burkhalter, Thoralf Mildenberger, Martin Frey, Angela Bearth
Summary: The study found that contextual factors such as the type of data requested, the purpose for using the data, the industry sector, the compensation type, and the level of personal identification all significantly influence people's willingness to share private data with companies, with multiple significant interaction effects. Companies may benefit from tuning their requests for customer data according to the specific context in which they operate.
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(2022)
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Computer Science, Cybernetics
Alisa Frik, Julia Bernd, Serge Egelman
Summary: The sharing of information among older adults and their social network has positive effects on their emotional, mental, and physical well-being, as well as independent living and care quality. However, the complexity and lack of transparency in information flow may raise privacy and security concerns. Understanding the factors and context influencing older adults' decisions regarding information sharing is crucial. This article presents empirical evidence and a comprehensive model regarding the contextual factors that shape older adults' decision-making processes and discusses the implications for research, system design, and policy.
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERACTION
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Shawn A. Rhoads, Jo Cutler, Abigail A. Marsh
Summary: This study aimed to organize the prosocial decision-making task space of neuroimaging studies by identifying common and distinct features of these tasks and uncovering three clusters of prosocial decisions known as cooperation, equity, and altruism. Results of a neuroimaging meta-analysis showed that each type of prosocial decisions recruited diverging neural systems, clarifying existing heterogeneity in conceptualizing prosociality and providing insights for future research and task paradigm development.
SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Thomas Forro, Thomas Klausberger
Summary: Hippocampal pyramidal cells represent an animal's position in space together with specific contexts and events. How different types of GABAergic interneurons contribute to these computations is largely unknown. In this study, we recorded and labeled identified interneurons in the intermediate CA1 hippocampus of mice navigating in a virtual reality (VR) maze. Our findings suggest that PV-expressing basket cells reflect contextual changes in the working-memory-related sections of the maze, while some interneurons, including cholecystokinin-expressing cells, show decreased activity during visuospatial navigation and increased activity during reward.
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Neurosciences
Ruihan Yang, Yina Ma, Bao-Bao Pan, Meghana A. Bhatt, Terry Lohrenz, Hua-Guang Gu, Jonathan W. Kanen, Colin F. Camerer, P. Read Montague, Qiang Luo
Summary: Information exchange between brain regions is crucial for understanding social decision-making, but its dynamic nature is often overlooked. This study used a multi-round bargaining game to identify switches between different bargaining strategies in healthy participants and proposed a novel model of dynamic effective connectivity to estimate information flow between key brain regions. The findings suggest that dynamic reconfiguration of the interaction between brain regions supports dynamic bargaining strategies during competitive social interactions.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tim Lauer, Filipp Schmidt, Melissa L-H Vo
Summary: Through two experiments, researchers found that consistent objects in scenes are named more accurately than inconsistent ones, and also discovered the impact of materials on object processing. Furthermore, materials can affect object processing even in the absence of spatial scene structure and object content.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Adriana Debora Piemonti, Mariam Guizani, Meghna Babbar-Sebens, Eugene Zhang, Snehasis Mukhopadhyay
Summary: This study investigates user preferences in conservation decisions and reveals consensus among stakeholders through comparing patterns in decision space. Results indicate a bias towards cover crops in user-preferred designs, with significant differences between alternatives generated by IGA and noninteractive GA. The proposed visualization methods aid in illustrating disagreements among participants and spatial patterns in costs and benefits at the local subbasin scale.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Kristen N. Warren, Molly S. Hermiller, Aneesha S. Nilakantan, Jonathan O'Neil, Robert T. Palumbo, Joel L. Voss
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2018)
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Behavioral Sciences
Aneesha S. Nilakantan, Donna J. Bridge, Stephen VanHaerents, Joel L. Voss
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Neurosciences
Molly S. Hermiller, Stephen VanHaerents, Tommi Raij, Joel L. Voss
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sungshin Kim, Joel L. Voss
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Behavioral Sciences
Ivan Carbajal, Jonathan T. O'Neil, Robert T. Palumbo, Joel L. Voss, Anthony J. Ryals
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2019)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Steven N. Austad, Marcelo A. Wood, Saul A. Villeda, Joel L. Voss, Amar Sahay, Marilyn Albert
NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
(2019)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Aneesha S. Nilakantan, M. -Marsel Mesulam, Sandra Weintraub, Erica L. Karp, Stephen VanHaerents, Joel L. Voss
Correction
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sungshin Kim, Joel L. Voss
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Neurosciences
Jaya L. Padmanabhan, Danielle Cooke, Juho Joutsa, Shan H. Siddiqi, Michael Ferguson, R. Ryan Darby, Louis Soussand, Andreas Horn, Na Young Kim, Joel L. Voss, Andrew M. Naidech, Amy Brodtmann, Natalia Egorova, Sophia Gozzi, Thanh G. Phan, Maurizio Corbetta, Jordan Grafman, Michael D. Fox
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2019)
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Neurosciences
Hillary Schwarb, Curtis L. Johnson, Michael R. Dulas, Matthew D. J. McGarry, Joseph L. Holtrop, Patrick D. Watson, Jane X. Wang, Joel L. Voss, Bradley P. Sutton, Neal J. Cohen
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2019)
Review
Psychology, Developmental
Stuart F. White, Joel L. Voss, Jessica J. Chiang, Lei Wang, Katie A. McLaughlin, Gregory E. Miller
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2019)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Molly S. Hermiller, Erica Karp, Aneesha S. Nilakantan, Joel L. Voss
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2019)
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Neurosciences
Michael Freedberg, Jack A. Reeves, Andrew C. Toader, Molly S. Hermiller, Joel L. Voss, Eric M. Wassermann
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Psychology, Developmental
Anthony J. Ryals, Jonathan T. O'Neil, M. -Marsel Mesulam, Sandra Weintraub, Joel L. Voss
AGING NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITION
(2019)
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Neurosciences
Bianca M. Marin, Stephen A. VanHaerents, Joel L. Voss, Donna J. Bridge