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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS
(2023)
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Ahmad Rafsanjani
Summary: Researchers demonstrate a 3D-printed millirobot made of multifunctional metamaterials.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2022)
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Mohammad Peydayesh, Massimo Bagnani, Wei Long Soon, Raffaele Mezzenga
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Mohammad Peydayesh, Massimo Bagnani, Wei Long Soon, Raffaele Mezzenga
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Alexander Gail
Summary: A new study in PLOS Biology presents evidence against the idea that selection and control of action are serial processes carried out by separate neural modules, arguing for an integrated process involving multiple brain regions contributing in distinct ways.
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JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
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Matthew Sheldon
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Jin Ho Lee, Dharmesh Hansora, Jae Sung Lee
Summary: Recycling CO2 into valuable chemicals through photoelectrochemical reduction is a promising approach for achieving carbon neutrality. In a study published in Chem Catalysis, Yap et al. demonstrate that an integrated photoelectrode is essential for efficiently and selectively reducing CO2 to desired products using sunlight as the sole energy source.
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Biology
Antonio Cataldo, Nobuhiro Hagura, Yousef Hyder, Patrick Haggard
Summary: Human perception of touch is influenced by inputs from multiple channels. Contrary to classical theories, it was found that inputs from two sub-modalities of mechanical input channels interact to determine tactile perception. Sustained mechanical pressure was shown to inhibit tingling sensations induced by a bioactive compound, without mediation from nociceptive or affective channels.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
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Summary: The paper explores mathematical models for representing, imaging, and analyzing poly-crystalline materials. Various techniques for converting grain maps into diagram or tessellation representations relying on constrained clustering are introduced. The study demonstrates the significant acceleration of computing generalized balanced power diagrams and their extension for optimizing all relevant parameters. The accuracy of the proposed approaches is compared using a three-dimensional real-world data set of 339x339x599 voxels.
SIAM JOURNAL ON IMAGING SCIENCES
(2023)
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Peter J. Neumann, Sean R. Tunis
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Anantha Divakaruni, Peter Zimmerman
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FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
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Roman Rossi-Pool, Jeronimo Zizumbo, Manuel Alvarez, Jose Vergara, Antonio Zainos, Ranulfo Romo
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(2019)
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(2020)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Roman Rossi-Pool, Antonio Zainos, Manuel Alvarez, Sergio Parra, Jeronimo Zizumbo, Ranulfo Romo
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Roman Rossi-Pool, Antonio Zainos, Manuel Alvarez, Gabriel Diaz-deLeon, Ranulfo Romo
Summary: The study reveals that in the secondary somatosensory cortex (S2), neurons exhibit both invariant sensory responses and perceptual behavior correlated responses. The majority of neurons fall along a continuum of combined sensory and categorical dynamics, showing task context-dependent processing mechanisms. Despite task demands, sensory representations remain unaltered in S2 neurons.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Stefania Sarno, Manuel Beiran, Joan Falco-Roget, Gabriel Diaz-deLeon, Roman Rossi-Pool, Ranulfo Romo, Nestor Parga
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sergio Parra, Hector Diaz, Antonio Zainos, Manuel Alvarez, Jeronimo Zizumbo, Natsuko Rivera-Yoshida, Sebastian Pujalte, Lucas Bayones, Ranulfo Romo, Roman Rossi-Pool
Summary: This study investigates the processing of sensory information in the cortex and finds regional and functional differences. The results demonstrate that neurons in areas 3b and 1 of the primary somatosensory cortex primarily encode tactile modality and show variations in response properties. The study also reveals that neurons in area 3b carry more information about periodic stimulus structure and have faster response and coding latencies compared to neurons in area 1.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Gabriel Diaz-deLeon, Manuel Alvarez, Lucas Bayones, Antonio Zainos, Jeronimo Zizumbo, Sergio Parra, Sebastian Pujalte, Ranulfo Romo, Roman Rossi-Pool, Victor de Lafuente
Summary: This study proposes that the dorsal premotor cortex (DPC) plays a more active role in decision-making than previously thought. By recording neuronal activity in DPC during a vibrotactile categorization task, the study found that DPC neurons exhibited stable categorical responses throughout the task and maintained the same response patterns across different stimulus attributes. Dimensionality reduction analysis revealed strong temporal and categorical representations in DPC neurons without remnants of the stimuli's physical parameters. These findings suggest that DPC plays an important role in decision-making.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
