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Bo Yao, Jason R. Taylor, Briony Banks, Sonja A. Kotz
Summary: Growing evidence suggests that theta-band activity in the auditory cortex phase-locks to rhythms of overt speech. This study investigated whether theta activity also encodes the rhythmic dynamics of inner speech by measuring EEG responses to speech quote reading onset. The findings show that direct quote reading is associated with increased theta phase synchrony, suggesting a functional role of theta phase modulation in reading-induced inner speech.
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Biology
Vasileios Dimakopoulos, Pierre Megevand, Lennart H. Stieglitz, Lukas Imbach, Johannes Sarnthein
Summary: This study investigates the direction of information flow between the auditory cortex and hippocampus during working memory tasks. The results reveal that the information flow is from the auditory cortex to the hippocampus while participants hear letters, but it is reversed during the maintenance of these letters in memory.
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Hiroki Noyama, Yuto Yoshikai, Li Bin, Ryuki Iguchi, Kiyoshi Kotani, Yasuhiko Jimbo
Summary: The brain encodes information through the interaction of macro-scale phenomena and micro-scale phenomena, but the interaction between micro- and macro-scale phenomena affecting episodic memory remains unexplained. A new mathematical framework is proposed to predict the conditions under which theta phase precession occurs by constructing models that reproduce micro- and macro-scale phenomena separately and deriving their phase equations. It was found that phase locking or phase shift between micro-scale phase φmicro and macro-scale phase φMacro can reproduce different storage schemes.
IEEJ TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
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Geography, Physical
Ko Nishizawa, Kentaro Izumi
Summary: The occurrence of Phycosiphon reworking trace fossils has increased since the Cretaceous, potentially indicating an effective feeding mode for deposit-feeding Phycosiphon-producers. The higher organic carbon content of the burrow infill within sediments suggests that these deposits are a favorable feeding site. The exact factors driving Phycosiphon-producers to ingest the burrow infill buried within deeper sediments remains unclear. To address this, a new food selection model (PFF model) based on optimal foraging theory was constructed and numerical experiments were conducted using actual geological data. The results indicate that increased amount and/or size of fecal sediments may have driven the ingestion of fecal sediments by small deposit-feeding benthos, supporting the idea that buried fecal sediments serve as efficient feeding sites for deep-sea deposit-feeders since the Cretaceous onwards.
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(2023)
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Denham G. Cook, Peter Jaksons, Maryam Alavi, Alistair Jerrett
Summary: The study found that through supplementary feeding, the abundance and behaviors of fish in a temperate South Pacific estuary showed a highly predictable pattern. Fish numbers and collective behaviors significantly increased during active feeding at the station, but decreased markedly when feeding was stopped.
MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Masashi Yoshida, Choijiljav Chinzorig, Jumpei Matsumoto, Hiroshi Nishimaru, Taketoshi Ono, Mitsuaki Yamazaki, Hisao Nishijo
Summary: Neural mechanisms in the retrieval of stored information in the retrosplenial cortex (RSC) related to stimulus-stimulus associations and memory remain unclear. Through simultaneous recording of RSC neurons and local field potentials (LFPs) in rats, it was found that RSC is involved in discriminating between configural and elemental conditioned stimuli and that memory retrieval of rewarding stimuli is associated with theta oscillation of RSC neurons.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Siyuan Huang, David R. White, Ksenija Marinkovic
Summary: This study found that binge drinkers showed lower event-related theta power during successful memory encoding compared to light drinkers, and theta synchronous activity between frontal and left posterior regions successfully predicted memory recognition in light drinkers, which was negatively correlated with high-intensity drinking in the previous year. No gender differences were observed in any analysis.
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(2022)
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Ecology
Yasmine N. Majchrzak, Michael J. L. Peers, Emily K. Studd, Allyson K. Menzies, Philip D. Walker, Shotaro Shiratsuru, Laura K. McCaw, Rudy Boonstra, Murray Humphries, Thomas S. Jung, Alice J. Kenney, Charles J. Krebs, Dennis L. Murray, Stan Boutin
Summary: Snowshoe hare cycles are a significant ecological phenomenon. Food limitation and predation can interact and affect the survival and reproduction of snowshoe hares.
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Agronomy
Yiqun Zhou, Hao Zheng, Dandan Gao, Jie Zhao
Summary: The population dynamics and feeding preferences of three bacterial-feeding nematodes were evaluated in this study. Different nematode species indeed have distinct feeding preferences. This highlights the deficiencies in the understanding of the feeding behavior and life-history strategies of soil nematodes.
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Ecology
Philip J. Manlick, Seth D. Newsome
Summary: Animals consume resources through multiple energy channels, connecting food webs and driving trophic structure. Stable isotope 'fingerprints' can trace energy flow in wild systems. This study shows that ΔC-13 fingerprints accurately measure energy flow to vertebrate consumers and can estimate multichannel feeding at various temporal scales.
METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Charline Peylo, Elisabeth V. C. Friedrich, Tamas Minarik, Anna Lena Biel, Paul Sauseng
Summary: Top-down predictions based on prior experience help allocate limited attentional resources more efficiently by using mental templates stored in memory. Previous studies have shown increased gamma activity and theta:gamma phase-phase coupling when mental templates meet matching visual stimuli. In this study, researchers investigated how these signatures evolve during the formation of new mental templates and their relation to fidelity. The results showed fidelity-dependent increments of matching-related gamma phase locking and theta:gamma phase coupling over time, with theta:gamma phase synchronization being more important in early learning phases and evoked gamma activity essential for the transition of mental templates into long-term memory.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Viviany Moura Chaves, Cecilia Rocha, Savio Marcelino Gomes, Michelle Cristine Medeiros Jacob, Joao Bosco Araujo da Costa
Summary: Family farming plays a crucial role in school nutrition, but coordinating between school feeding programs and the agricultural sector is challenging. This review identified problems faced by school feeding programs when acquiring food from family farms. The main issues include local food production, marketing and logistics channels, legislation, financial costs, communication and coordination, and the quality of school menus. Insufficient investment in family farming and inefficient logistics are the key problems, and viable solutions involve promoting agricultural policy investment and organizing family farmers.
Review
Food Science & Technology
Fabio Valoppi, Melissa Agustin, Felix Abik, Danila Morais de Carvalho, Jaison Sithole, Mamata Bhattarai, Jutta J. Varis, Anis N. A. B. Arzami, Elli Pulkkinen, Kirsi S. Mikkonen
Summary: As the global population grows, the Earth's capacity to renew resources diminishes, necessitating new approaches to feed the world. Scientists have developed strategies to reduce food loss, improve production, and explore new ingredients, fostering innovation and digitalization in the food sector.
FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Silvia Formica, Carlos Gonzalez-Garcia, Mehdi Senoussi, Daniele Marinazzo, Marcel Brass
Summary: Implementing novel instructions is a complex cognitive ability that requires converting symbolic content into an executable format. Preparing to implement these instructions involves activating motor plans and binding action information to specific contexts. Theta oscillations in the frontal region play a crucial role in establishing synchrony between brain areas.
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Katerina Sdravou, Maria Fotoulaki, Elpida Emmanouilidou-Fotoulaki, Elias Andreoulakis, Giorgos Makris, Fotini Sotiriadou, Athanasia Printza
Summary: Feeding problems are common in typically developing children in Greece, with a significant proportion experiencing food neophobia and low vegetable consumption. While most children display favorable mealtime behaviors, specific feeding behaviors can be improved.
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