Feeding-induced olfactory cortex suppression reduces satiation Binge feeding commonly leads to overeating. Experiencing flavor during food consumption contributes to satiation. Still, the interactions between flav…

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Loops paper! 💡
@hunglo.bsky.social, Friedrich Johenning & team show that during binge feeding, OT GABA neurons silence piriform cortex → flavors fade, fullness lags and eating continues!

Who knew smell circuits could fuel overeating? 🐭🧋

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Conveying tactile object characteristics through customized intracortical microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex - Nature Communications In this study, three individuals with tetraplegia designed vivid, reliable and object-appropriate sensations with a variety of tactile characteristics using self-selected stimulus parameters that stim...

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What if you could design how touch feels in your brain?

Ceci Verbaarschot & @corticalbionics.bsky.social team show that people can recreate textures like soft fur or cold metal via brain stimulation and recognize objects by sensation
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Movie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundaries Nature Communications - The neural processes involved in memory formation for realistic experiences remain poorly understood. Here, the authors found that ripple-like activity in the human...

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@martamasilva.bsky.social & team show that during movie watching, hippocampal ripples track event boundaries while cortical ripples predict recall, helping turn experience into memory.

Turning life into memory? Your ripples are working overtime 🧠💥 Check out ⬇️

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Disuse-driven plasticity in the human thalamus and putamen Using a 2-week arm and hand casting paradigm with daily brain fMRIs, Chauvin et al. observe subcortical plasticity in humans. The disused motor circuit shows increased functional connectivity and the ...

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@roselynechauvin.bsky.social & team use daily fMRI to show that 2 weeks of arm disuse triggers spontaneous “disuse pulses” and boosts connectivity in motor cortex, thalamus and putamen.

Arm in a cast? Your thalamus rewires 🩼🧠 Check out below ⬇️

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Feedback Scales the Spatial Tuning of Cortical Responses during Both Visual Working Memory and Long-Term Memory Perception, working memory, and long-term memory each evoke neural responses in the visual cortex. While previous neuroimaging research on the role of the visual cortex in memory has largely emphasize...

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This week: Memory precision in visual cortex 👀

@robwoodry.bsky.social, @rewaniw.bsky.social, and team show that top-down memory signals are less precise than perception in early visual areas but get sharper with higher task demands.

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Motor learning refines thalamic influence on motor cortex - Nature Imaging and optogenetics in mice provide insight into the interplay between the primary motor cortex and the motor thalamus during learning, showing that thalamic inputs have a key role in the executi...

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This week: Thalamocortical precision and learning

@takakikomiyama.bsky.social and team reveal how motor learning causes thalamic inputs to M1 to selectively activate neurons involved in learned movements

How does the brain train its own inputs? ⬇️
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Echolocation-related reversal of information flow in a cortical vocalization network - Nature Communications How cortical areas interact during vocalization is not fully understood. Here the authors show that when bats vocalize, the behavioral function of emitted sounds determines the direction of informatio...

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This week: Cortical loops for bat vocalization

@talking-bat.bsky.social & team show that information flow in the frontal-auditory network reverses during echolocation revealing context-dependent cortical dynamics

Feat. fruit bats 🦇
#BatAppreciationDay

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Laminar-specific cortico-cortical loops in mouse visual cortex Ascending and descending cortico-cortical inputs are stronger on projection neurons that project back to the source of the inputs, forming selective interareal loops in deep but not superficial cortic...

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This week: Cortico-cortical loops in mouse visual cortex!

@hediyoungsci.bsky.social and team show feedforward and feedback inputs form looped circuits, targeting return-projecting neurons in deep layers

How are cortical hierarchies wired for recurrence? ⬇️
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Location-specific neural facilitation in marmoset auditory cortex - Nature Communications Repeated stimuli typically suppress neural responses. Here, the authors show that sounds repeatedly delivered from the same spatial location evoke long-lasting neural facilitation and membrane potenti...

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This week: Marmoset auditory cortex & location-specific facilitation

Wang et al. show how repetitive sound boosts neural responses based on location, shedding light on auditory attention and streaming

How does the brain track repeated sounds? Check out ⬇️

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Specific connectivity optimizes learning in thalamocortical loops Thalamocortical loops have a central role in cognition and motor control, but precisely how they contribute to these processes is unclear. Recent stud…

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This week: Thalamocortical loops & learning

@seanescola.bsky.social & team show how corticothalamic connectivity optimizes motor control & working memory in mouse model

How does the thalamus fine-tune cortical activity? Check out! ⬇️

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Distinct roles of PV and Sst interneurons in visually induced gamma oscillations Gamma-frequency oscillations are a hallmark of active information processing and are generated by interactions between excitatory and inhibitory neuro…

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This week: Gamma oscillations & interneuron timing

New study from our loopie! Irene Onorato & @martinavinck.bsky.social show PV & Sst interneurons have distinct phase locking & spike timing during gamma in visual cortex ⬇️

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This week: Human assembloids & thalamocortical loops

@ji-ilkim.bsky.social & @sergiuppasca.bsky.social show how CACNA1G variants disrupt projections and its link to schizophrenia

Do calcium channels shape neural loops? Check out!

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