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Biology
Helen M. Ditz, Julia Fechner, Andreas Nieder
Summary: Neural recordings from crows during a numerosity task reveal the presence of two subsets of neurons involved in complex cognition, namely projection neurons and inhibitory interneurons. Understanding the computational principles of these neural circuits can provide insights into abstract conceptual representation and maintenance in birds.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Abigail Fiske, Carina de Klerk, Katie Y. K. Lui, Liam Collins-Jones, Alexandra Hendry, Isobel Greenhalgh, Anna Hall, Gaia Scerif, Henrik Dvergsdal, Karla Holmboe
Summary: Inhibitory control, a core executive function, develops rapidly from infancy and is supported by the right prefrontal and parietal cortices in 10-month-old infants.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Clement M. Garin, Marie Garin, Leonardo Silenzi, Rye Jaffe, Christos Constantinidis
Summary: The size of the prefrontal cortex in humans is not disproportionately enlarged compared to other catarrhini species. However, humans have the most relatively enlarged frontal and parietal lobes in an infraorder exhibiting a disproportionate expansion of these areas.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Review
Neurosciences
Farshad Alizadeh Mansouri, Mark J. Buckley, Keiji Tanaka
Summary: Trial-by-trial alterations in response time are linked to fluctuations of executive control and lapses of attention. Remarkable homologies in performance-dependent fluctuations of response time between humans and monkeys have been reported, with lesions within orbitofrontal cortex exaggerating control fluctuations. Damage to dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex led to instability of control and disruption of the link with monkeys' upcoming decisions.
PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY
(2022)
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Cell Biology
Ana Cristina Ojalvo-Sanz, Laura Lopez-Mascaraque
Summary: The study revealed that progenitor cells undergo progressive restrictions during neural cell generation, with radial glial cells capable of producing various neural cell types in the cerebral cortex. The potential of individual progenitors to form glial lineages remains unclear. Genetic lineage-tracing methods showed that E14 neural progenitors are a heterogeneous cell population with varying abilities to produce different glial cell types and clonal sizes.
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Immunology
Jan Pieter Konsman, Collin J. Laaker, Kelsey R. Lloyd, Adam Hiltz, Brittany L. Smith, Marissa A. Smail, Teresa M. Reyes
Summary: The study found that adult mice exposed to leukemia chemotherapy in early life showed deficits in recognition memory and executive function. Inflammation-related gene expression changes in the prefrontal cortex and small intestine were associated with executive function deficits in mice.
BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Onur Guentuerkuen, Kaya von Eugen, Julian Packheiser, Roland Pusch
Summary: Research shows that birds and mammals have evolved similar cognitive functions due to the similar pallial structures and neural computational properties inherited from a common ancestor. This evolution has taken place separately in these two vertebrate classes over 315 million years.
CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Nils C. J. Muller, Nils Kohn, Mariet van Buuren, Nadia Klijn, Helene Emmen, Ruud M. W. J. Berkers, Martin Dresler, Gabriele Janzen, Guillen Fernandez
Summary: This study investigated differences in memory performance between children, adolescents, and adults using fMRI and found that differences in executive rather than associative abilities explain these differences. The results suggest that children's executive system is not as mature as in adolescents and adults, and therefore cannot facilitate memory performance in the same way.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Justin M. Fine, David J. -N. Maisson, Seng Bum Michael Yoo, Tyler V. Cash-Padgett, Maya Zhe Wang, Jan Zimmermann, Benjamin Y. Hayden
Summary: An important question in neuroeconomics is how the brain represents the value of offers in a way that allows for comparison while preserving the details that influence value. This study examined neuronal responses in male macaques and found that there was no overlap in neural coding between risky and safe options, even when the options had identical subjective values. However, these regions were linked through a linear transform of their encodings, allowing for comparison of different types of options.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Karina Alicia Bermudez-Rivera, Andres Molero-Chamizo, G. Nathzidy Rivera-Urbina
Summary: This study aimed to examine the effects of cognitive reflection and typical educational interventions on executive functions in teenage students. The results showed that educational interventions could improve executive functions associated with the anterior prefrontal cortex (APF), but may interfere with functions related to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPF).
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Michael C. Freund, Joset A. Etzel, Todd S. Braver
Summary: Cognitive control is crucial for human minds to pursue goals and is closely related to prevalent mental health disorders. Representational similarity analysis (RSA) is a complementary approach that can help us better understand the components of cognitive control theories and be applied in research.
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
(2021)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Francesca Mottarlini, Marco Fumagalli, Fernando Castillo-Diaz, Stefano Piazza, Giorgia Targa, Enrico Sangiovanni, Barbara Pacchetti, Mikael H. Sodergren, Mario Dell'Agli, Fabio Fumagalli, Lucia Caffino
Summary: CBD can be found in the rat brain, specifically in the medial prefrontal cortex, and has a dose-dependent modulation of BDNF, suggesting its potential therapeutic value in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.
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Clinical Neurology
Noemie Auclair-Ouellet, Alexandru Hanganu, Erin L. Mazerolle, Stefan T. Lang, Mekale Kibreab, Mehrafarin Ramezani, Angela Haffenden, Tracy Hammer, Jenelle Cheetham, Iris Kathol, G. Bruce Pike, Justyna Sarna, Davide Martino, Oury Monchi
Summary: The study aimed to characterize the relationship between the action fluency test and personal characteristics, disease factors, cognition, and neural activity in PD patients. The results showed that the action fluency test could identify a subgroup of PD patients with distinct characteristics in terms of sex, age, global cognition, executive functions, and brain activity.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Amanda E. Hernan, J. Matthew Mahoney, Willie Curry, Seamus Mawe, Rod C. Scott
Summary: The study reveals that neurons in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex form a functional network during spatial working memory tasks and are well modulated in time. However, animals with cortical malformation show poorly modulated neurons in time, leading to difficulties in encoding task parameters and integrating into a functional network.
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Neurosciences
Shahab Zareyan, Haolu Zhang, Juelu Wang, Weihong Song, Elizabeth Hampson, David Abbott, Adele Diamond
Summary: This study provides the first evidence of the impact of stress on cognitive skills dependent on the prefrontal cortex, determined by the catechol-O-methyltransferase genotype. In a within-subject crossover design using extremely mild social evaluative stress, it was found that COMT-Val(158) carriers performed better under stress while COMT-Met(158) carriers performed worse. Previous studies had only observed stress impairing cognitive skills of COMT-Met carriers, not improving cognitive skills of COMT-Val carriers.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lena Veit, Galyna Pidpruzhnykova, Andreas Nieder
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2015)
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Anatomy & Morphology
Konstantin Hartmann, Michael Laumann, Paavo Bergmann, Michael Heethoff, Sebastian Schmelzle
JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY
(2016)
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Neurosciences
Konstantin Hartmann, Eric E. Thomson, Ivan Zea, Richy Yun, Peter Mullen, Jay Canarick, Albert Huh, Miguel A. L. Nicolelis
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2016)
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Neurosciences
Lena Veit, Galyna Pidpruzhnykova, Andreas Nieder
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2017)
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Neurosciences
Konstantin Hartmann, Lena Veit, Andreas Nieder
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2018)
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Neurosciences
Lena Veit, Konstantin Hartmann, Andreas Nieder
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2014)
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Zoology
Grace Capshaw, Andrew P. Foss-Grant, Konstantin Hartmann, Juan F. Sehuanes, Cynthia F. Moss
BIOACOUSTICS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SOUND AND ITS RECORDING
(2020)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Annika Stefanie Reinhold, Juan Ignacio Sanguinetti-Scheck, Konstantin Hartmann, Michael Brecht
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Neurosciences
Miguel Concha-Miranda, Konstantin Hartmann, Annika Reinhold, Michael Brecht, Juan Sanguinetti-Scheck
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Konstantin Hartmann, Michael Brecht
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Biology
Lena Veit, Lucas Y. Tian, Christian J. Monroy Hernandez, Michael S. Brainard
Summary: This study demonstrates that Bengalese finches have the ability to learn to modify the probability of specific sequences in response to visual cues, and this modulation persists without external reinforcement. This capacity in songbirds for contextual control over syllable sequencing parallels human cognitive control over speech.