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Interesting Reviews for Week 28, 2025

Tracking minds in communication. Rubio-Fernandez, P., Berke, M. D., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2025). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 29(3), 269–281.

Pavlovian safety learning: An integrative theoretical review. Laing, P. A. F., Vervliet, B., Dunsmoor, J. E., & Harrison, B. J. (2025). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32(1), 176–202.

The curious case of dopaminergic prediction errors and learning associative information beyond value. Kahnt, T., & Schoenbaum, G. (2025). Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 26(3), 169–178.

Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex. Bein, O., & Niv, Y. (2025). Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 26(3), 141–157.

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Interesting Papers for Week 28, 2025

Cortico-subcortical networks that determine behavioral memory renewal are redefined by noradrenergic neuromodulation. Haubrich, J., Vera, L. D., & Manahan-Vaughan, D. (2025). Scientific Reports, 15, 9692.

The impact of emotion on temporal prediction ability in different timing contexts. Terranova, S., Botta, A., Putzolu, M., Bonassi, G., Cosentino, C., Mezzarobba, S., Ravizzotti, E., Lagravinese, G., Pelosin, E., & Avanzino, L. (2025). Scientific Reports, 15, 9884.

Integration of sensory and fear memories in the rat medial temporal lobe. Wong, F. S., Thomas, A. B., Killcross, S., Laurent, V., Westbrook, R. F., & Holmes, N. M. (2025). eLife, 13, e101965.3.

Two long-axis dimensions of hippocampal-cortical integration support memory function across the adult lifespan. Nordin, K., Pedersen, R., Falahati, F., Johansson, J., Grill, F., Andersson, M., Korkki, S. M., Bäckman, L., Zalesky, A., Rieckmann, A., Nyberg, L., & Salami, A. (2025). eLife, 13, e97658.3.

The neural correlates of novelty and variability in human decision-making under an active inference framework. Zhang, S., Tian, Y., Liu, Q., & Wu, H. (2025). eLife, 13, e92892.4.

Pupillometric signature of implicit learning of statistical regularities. Binda, P., Terzo, C., Turi, M., & Burr, D. C. (2025). Current Biology, 35(6), 1431-1435.e2.

Environmental context influences visual processing in thalamus. Peelman, K., & Haider, B. (2025). Current Biology, 35(6), 1422-1430.e5.

Dopamine and acetylcholine correlations in the nucleus accumbens depend on behavioral task states. Costa, K. M., Zhang, Z., Deutsch, D., Zhuo, Y., Li, G., Li, Y., & Schoenbaum, G. (2025). Current Biology, 35(6), 1400-1407.e3.

Sleep-wake-related changes in intracellular chloride regulate plasticity at glutamatergic cortical synapses. Alfonsa, H., Chakrabarty, A., Vyazovskiy, V. V., & Akerman, C. J. (2025). Current Biology, 35(6), 1373-1381.e3.

Detection and neural encoding of whisker-generated sounds in mice. Efron, B., Ntelezos, A., Katz, Y., & Lampl, I. (2025). Current Biology, 35(6), 1211-1226.e8.

Reward expectation and receipt differentially modulate the spiking of accumbens D1+ and D2+ neurons. Faust, T. W., Mohebi, A., & Berke, J. D. (2025). Current Biology, 35(6), 1285-1297.e3.

Distinct attentional characteristics of neurons with visual feature coding in the primate brain. Zhang, J., Cao, R., Zhu, X., Zhou, H., & Wang, S. (2025). Science Advances, 11(12).

Template-based and saliency-driven attentional control converge to coactivate on a common, spatially organized priority map. Niu, Z., Mordkoff, J. T., & Hollingworth, A. (2025). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51(4), 492–506.

Random rewards reduce task-switch costs. Yu-Chin, C., & Nack, C. A. (2025). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51(4), 475–491.

Predictive reward-prediction errors of climbing fiber inputs integrate modular reinforcement learning with supervised learning. Hoang, H., Tsutsumi, S., Matsuzaki, M., Kano, M., Toyama, K., Kitamura, K., & Kawato, M. (2025). PLOS Computational Biology, 21(3), e1012899.

Pre-training artificial neural networks with spontaneous retinal activity improves motion prediction in natural scenes. May, L., Dauphin, A., & Gjorgjieva, J. (2025). PLOS Computational Biology, 21(3), e1012830.

Development of spatial memory consolidation: A comparison between children and adults. Maier, P. M., Schommartz, I., Iggena, D., Finke, C., Ploner, C. J., & Shing, Y. L. (2025). Developmental Psychology, 61(4), 761–776.

Day-to-day fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based decision-making. Hewitt, S. R. C., Norbury, A., Huys, Q. J. M., & Hauser, T. U. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(12).

Computational memory capacity predicts aging and cognitive decline. Mijalkov, M., Storm, L., Zufiria-Gerbolés, B., Veréb, D., Xu, Z., Canal-Garcia, A., Sun, J., Chang, Y.-W., Zhao, H., Gómez-Ruiz, E., Passaretti, M., Garcia-Ptacek, S., Kivipelto, M., Svenningsson, P., Zetterberg, H., Jacobs, H., Lüdge, K., Brunner, D., Mehlig, B., … Pereira, J. B. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 2748.

Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants. Yates, T. S., Fel, J., Choi, D., Trach, J. E., Behm, L., Ellis, C. T., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2025). Science, 387(6740), 1316–1320.

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Interesting Reviews for Week 27, 2025

Phase separation in the multi-compartment organization of synapses. Zhu, S., Shen, Z., Wu, X., & Zhang, M. (2025). Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 90, 102975.

Neural integration of egocentric and allocentric visual cues in the gaze system. Bharmauria, V., Seo, S., & Crawford, J. D. (2025). Journal of Neurophysiology, 133(1), 109–120.

Neuroevolution insights into biological neural computation. Miikkulainen, R. (2025). Science, 387(6735).

Metacognition in the listening brain. Obleser, J. (2025). Trends in Neurosciences, 48(2), 100–112.

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Interesting Papers for Week 27, 2025

Characterizing Human Disparity Tuning Properties Using Population Receptive Field Mapping. Alvarez, I., Mancari, A., Ip, I. B., Parker, A. J., & Bridge, H. (2025). Journal of Neuroscience, 45(12), e0795242025.

PseudoSorter: A self-supervised spike sorting approach applied to reveal Tau-induced reductions in neuronal activity. Brockhoff, M., Träuble, J., Middya, S., Fuchsberger, T., Fernandez-Villegas, A., Stephens, A., Robbins, M., Dai, W., Haider, B., Vora, S., Läubli, N. F., Kaminski, C. F., Malliaras, G. G., Paulsen, O., & Kaminski Schierle, G. S. (2025). Science Advances, 11(11).

Learning reshapes the hippocampal representation hierarchy. Chiossi, H. S. C., Nardin, M., Tkačik, G., & Csicsvari, J. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(11).

Pattern separation and pattern completion in early childhood. Cohen, S. S., Ngo, C. T., Olson, I. R., & Newcombe, N. S. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(11).

Perturbing human V1 degrades the fidelity of visual working memory. Dake, M., & Curtis, C. E. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 2675.

Electrophysiological signatures underlying variability in human memory consolidation. Duan, W., Xu, Z., Chen, D., Wang, J., Liu, J., Tan, Z., Xiao, X., Lv, P., Wang, M., Paller, K. A., Axmacher, N., & Wang, L. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 2472.

Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain. Ehmsen, J. F., Nikolova, N., Christensen, D. E., Banellis, L., Böhme, R. A., Brændholt, M., Courtin, A. S., Krænge, C. E., Mitchell, A. G., Sardeto Deolindo, C., Steenkjær, C. H., Vejlø, M., Mathys, C., Allen, M. G., & Fardo, F. (2025). Science Advances, 11(11).

Flexible hippocampal representation of abstract boundaries supports memory-guided choice. Esposito, M., Abdul, L. S., Ghouse, A., Rodríguez Aramendía, M., & Kaplan, R. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 2377.

Neural signatures of temporal anticipation in human cortex represent event probability density. Grabenhorst, M., Poeppel, D., & Michalareas, G. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 2602.

A unified neural representation model for spatial and conceptual computations. Haga, T., Oseki, Y., & Fukai, T. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(11).

Cerebellar output shapes cortical preparatory activity during motor adaptation. Israely, S., Ninou, H., Rajchert, O., Elmaleh, L., Harel, R., Mawase, F., Kadmon, J., & Prut, Y. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 2574.

Reactivated thalamocortical plasticity alters neural activity in sensory-motor cortex during post-critical period. Jie, H., Petrus, E., Pothayee, N., & Koretsky, A. P. (2025). Progress in Neurobiology, 247, 102735.

An opponent striatal circuit for distributional reinforcement learning. Lowet, A. S., Zheng, Q., Meng, M., Matias, S., Drugowitsch, J., & Uchida, N. (2025). Nature, 639(8055), 717–726.

Overcoming the limitations of motion sensor models by considering dendritic computations. Luna, R., Serrano-Pedraza, I., & Bertalmío, M. (2025). Scientific Reports, 15, 9213.

Unraveling the neurophysiological correlates of phase-specific enhancement of motor memory consolidation via slow-wave closed-loop targeted memory reactivation. Nicolas, J., King, B. R., Lévesque, D., Lazzouni, L., Leroux, G., Wang, D., Grossman, N., Swinnen, S. P., Doyon, J., Carrier, J., & Albouy, G. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 2644.

The interplay between Hebbian and homeostatic plasticity in the adult visual cortex. Prosper, A., Blanchard, T., & Lunghi, C. (2025). Journal of Physiology, 603(6), 1521–1540.

Synaptic architecture of a memory engram in the mouse hippocampus. Uytiepo, M., Zhu, Y., Bushong, E., Chou, K., Polli, F. S., Zhao, E., Kim, K.-Y., Luu, D., Chang, L., Yang, D., Ma, T. C., Kim, M., Zhang, Y., Walton, G., Quach, T., Haberl, M., Patapoutian, L., Shahbazi, A., Zhang, Y., … Maximov, A. (2025). Science, 387(6740).

The visual representation of 3D orientation in macaque areas STPp and VPS. Wang, R., Zhao, B., & Chen, A. (2025). Journal of Physiology, 603(6), 1541–1566.

Fluorescence detection of dopamine signaling to the primate striatum in relation to stimulus–reward associations. Yan, G., Amita, H., Nonomura, S., Inoue, K., Schultz, W., & Takada, M. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(11).

Mediodorsal thalamus regulates task uncertainty to enable cognitive flexibility. Zhang, X., Mukherjee, A., Halassa, M. M., & Chen, Z. S. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 2640.

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Interesting Reviews for Week 26, 2025

Predictive coding in neuropsychiatric disorders: A systematic transdiagnostic review. Qela, B., Damiani, S., De Santis, S., Groppi, F., Pichiecchio, A., Asteggiano, C., Brondino, N., Monteleone, A. M., Grassi, L., Politi, P., Fusar-Poli, P., & Fusar-Poli, L. (2025). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 169, 106020.

How childhood adversity affects components of decision making. Smith, K. E., (Lillian) Xu, Y., & Pollak, S. D. (2025). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 169, 106027.

Adenosine and Cortical Plasticity. Martínez-Gallego, I., & Rodríguez-Moreno, A. (2025). The Neuroscientist, 31(1), 47–64.

Transfer of Tactile Learning to Untrained Body Parts: Emerging Cortical Mechanisms. Frank, S. M. (2025). The Neuroscientist, 31(1), 98–114.

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Interesting Papers for Week 26, 2025

Pavlovian impatience: The anticipation of immediate rewards increases approach behaviour. Burghoorn, F., Scheres, A., Monterosso, J., Guo, M., Luo, S., Roelofs, K., & Figner, B. (2025). Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 25(2), 358–376.

Locomotion-dependent auditory gating to the parietal cortex guides multisensory decisions. Choi, I., & Lee, S.-H. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 2308.

Structure of activity in multiregion recurrent neural networks. Clark, D. G., & Beiran, M. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(10), e2404039122.

Aging Impacts Basic Auditory and Timing Processes. Criscuolo, A., Schwartze, M., Bonetti, L., & Kotz, S. A. (2025). European Journal of Neuroscience, 61(5).

Experience-dependent dopamine modulation of male aggression. Dai, B., Zheng, B., Dai, X., Cui, X., Yin, L., Cai, J., Zhuo, Y., Tritsch, N. X., Zweifel, L. S., Li, Y., & Lin, D. (2025). Nature, 639(8054), 430–437.

The neural bases of the reach–grasp movement in humans: Quantitative evidence from brain lesions. Di Caro, V., Cesari, P., Sala, F., & Cattaneo, L. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(10), e2419801122.

Reduced temporal and spatial stability of neural activity patterns predict cognitive control deficits in children with ADHD. Gao, Z., Duberg, K., Warren, S. L., Zheng, L., Hinshaw, S. P., Menon, V., & Cai, W. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 2346.

Prioritizing Working Memory Resources Depends on the Prefrontal Cortex. Hallenbeck, G. E., Tardiff, N., Sprague, T. C., & Curtis, C. E. (2025). Journal of Neuroscience, 45(11), e1552242025.

Neural dynamics underlying coordination between training-induced habitual and goal-directed responses. He, M., Wen, W., Hazel, D., & Berning, P. (2025). Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 25(2), 344–357.

Local Differences in Network Organization in the Auditory and Parietal Cortex, Revealed with Single Neuron Activation. Khoury, C. F., Ferrone, M., & Runyan, C. A. (2025). Journal of Neuroscience, 45(11), e1385242025.

Astrocyte Modulation of Synaptic Plasticity Mediated by Activity-Dependent Sonic Hedgehog Signaling. Le, A. D., Fu, M., Carper, A., Zegarowicz, E., Kumar, R., Zacharias, G., & Garcia, A. D. R. (2025). Journal of Neuroscience, 45(11), e1336242025.

Dopaminergic modulation and dosage effects on brain state dynamics and working memory component processes in Parkinson’s disease. Lee, B., Young, C. B., Cai, W., Yuan, R., Ryman, S., Kim, J., Yang, L., Henderson, V. W., Poston, K. L., & Menon, V. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 2433.

Input-driven circuit reconfiguration in critical recurrent neural networks. Magnasco, M. O. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(10), e2418818122.

A general framework for interpretable neural learning based on local information-theoretic goal functions. Makkeh, A., Graetz, M., Schneider, A. C., Ehrlich, D. A., Priesemann, V., & Wibral, M. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(10), e2408125122.

Individual variability of neural computations underlying flexible decisions. Pagan, M., Tang, V. D., Aoi, M. C., Pillow, J. W., Mante, V., Sussillo, D., & Brody, C. D. (2025). Nature, 639(8054), 421–429.

Core dimensions of human material perception. Schmidt, F., Hebart, M. N., Schmid, A. C., & Fleming, R. W. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(10), e2417202122.

Body Ownership and the Motor System: Rapid Facilitation of Embodied Fake Hand Movement on Actual Movement Execution. Shibuya, S., & Ohki, Y. (2025). European Journal of Neuroscience, 61(5).

Mixed recurrent connectivity in primate prefrontal cortex. Sigalas, E., & Libedinsky, C. (2025). PLOS Computational Biology, 21(3), e1012867.

Exploring the transmission of cognitive task information through optimal brain pathways. Wang, Z., Yang, Y., Huang, Z., Zhao, W., Su, K., Zhu, H., & Yin, D. (2025). PLOS Computational Biology, 21(3), e1012870.

Broken time-reversal symmetry in visual motion detection. Wu, N., Zhou, B., Agrochao, M., & Clark, D. A. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(10), e2410768122.

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Interesting Reviews for Week 25, 2025

Chaotic recurrent neural networks for brain modelling: A review. Mattera, A., Alfieri, V., Granato, G., & Baldassarre, G. (2025). Neural Networks, 184, 107079.

The computational perspective: A catalyst for research questions in cognitive neuroscience? Trapp, S., Whitney, D., & Pascucci, D. (2025). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 169, 105966.

Principles governing the effects of sensory loss on human abilities: An integrative review. Kolarik, A. J., & Moore, B. C. J. (2025). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 169, 105986.

Excitation–Inhibition Balance, Neural Criticality, and Activities in Neuronal Circuits. Liang, J., Yang, Z., & Zhou, C. (2025). The Neuroscientist, 31(1), 31–46.

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Interesting Papers for Week 25, 2025

Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin. Cardozo Pinto, D. F., Pomrenze, M. B., Guo, M. Y., Touponse, G. C., Chen, A. P. F., Bentzley, B. S., Eshel, N., & Malenka, R. C. (2025). Nature, 639(8053), 143–152.

Emergence of a Dynamical State of Coherent Bursting with Power-Law Distributed Avalanches from Collective Stochastic Dynamics of Adaptive Neurons. Chan, L.-C., Kok, T.-F., & Ching, E. S. C. (2025). PRX Life, 3(1), 013013.

Fear conditioning modulates the intrinsic excitability of ventral hippocampal CA1 neurons in male rats. Ehlers, V. L., Yousuf, H., Smies, C. W., Natwora, B. R., & Moyer, J. R. (2025). Journal of Neurophysiology, 133(3), 853–867.

Separating cognitive and motor processes in the behaving mouse. Hasnain, M. A., Birnbaum, J. E., Ugarte Nunez, J. L., Hartman, E. K., Chandrasekaran, C., & Economo, M. N. (2025). Nature Neuroscience, 28(3), 640–653.

Neural mechanisms of learned suppression uncovered by probing the hidden attentional priority map. Huang, C., van Moorselaar, D., Foster, J., Donk, M., & Theeuwes, J. (2025). eLife, 13, e98304.3.

Robust encoding of stimulus–response mapping by neurons in visual cortex. Jonikaitis, D., Xia, R., & Moore, T. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(9), e2408079122.

Long-term memory facilitates spontaneous memory usage through multiple pathways. Kumle, L., Kovoor, J., Watt, R. L., Boettcher, S. E. P., Nobre, A. C., & Draschkow, D. (2025). Current Biology, 35(5), 1171-1179.e5.

Error prediction determines the coordinate system used for the representation of novel dynamics. Leib, R., & Franklin, D. (2025). eLife, 14, e84349.

Statistical learning re-shapes the center-surround inhibition of the visuo-spatial attentional focus. Massironi, A., Lega, C., Ronconi, L., & Bricolo, E. (2025). Scientific Reports, 15, 7656.

Hair Cells in the Cochlea Must Tune Resonant Modes to the Edge of Instability without Destabilizing Collective Modes. Momi, A. S., Abbott, M. C., Rubinfien, J., Machta, B. B., & Graf, I. R. (2025). PRX Life, 3(1), 013001.

Decision cost hypersensitivity underlies Huntington’s disease apathy. Morris, L.-A., Horne, K.-L., Manohar, S., Paermentier, L., Buchanan, C. M., MacAskill, M. R., Myall, D. J., Apps, M., Roxburgh, R., Anderson, T. J., Husain, M., & Le Heron, C. J. (2025). Brain, 148(3), 861–874.

Integration of Euclidean and path distances in hippocampal maps. Ottink, L., de Haas, N., & Doeller, C. F. (2025). Scientific Reports, 15, 7104.

Aversive generalization in human amygdala neurons. Reitich-Stolero, T., Halperin, D., Morris, G., Goldstein, L., Bergman, L., Fahoum, F., Strauss, I., & Paz, R. (2025). Current Biology, 35(5), 1137-1144.e3.

Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time. Sehgal, M., Filho, D. A., Kastellakis, G., Kim, S., Lee, J., Shen, Y., Huang, S., Lavi, A., Fernandes, G., Davila Mejia, I., Martin, S. S., Pekcan, A., Wu, M. S., Heo, W. Do, Poirazi, P., Trachtenberg, J. T., & Silva, A. J. (2025). Nature Neuroscience, 28(3), 602–615.

Adaptive chunking improves effective working memory capacity in a prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia circuit. Soni, A., & Frank, M. J. (2025). eLife, 13, e97894.3.

Attention to memory content enhances single-unit spike sequence fidelity in the human anterior temporal lobe. Sundby, K. K., Vaz, A. P., Wittig, J. H., Jackson, S. N., Inati, S. K., & Zaghloul, K. A. (2025). Current Biology, 35(5), 1085-1094.e5.

Acetylcholine modulates prefrontal outcome coding during threat learning under uncertainty. Tu, G., Wen, P., Halawa, A., & Takehara-Nishiuchi, K. (2025). eLife, 13, e102986.2.

The effect of fasting on human memory consolidation. Yang, X., Miao, X., Schweiggart, F., Großmann, S., Rauss, K., Hallschmid, M., Born, J., & Lutz, N. D. (2025). Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 218, 108034.

Neural Correlates of Perceptual Plasticity in the Auditory Midbrain and Thalamus. Ying, R., Stolzberg, D. J., & Caras, M. L. (2025). Journal of Neuroscience, 45(10), e0691242024.

Hippocampal neuronal activity is aligned with action plans. Zutshi, I., Apostolelli, A., Yang, W., Zheng, Z. S., Dohi, T., Balzani, E., Williams, A. H., Savin, C., & Buzsáki, G. (2025). Nature, 639(8053), 153–161.

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Interesting Reviews for Week 24, 2025

Cognitive maps and schizophrenia. Nour, M. M., Liu, Y., El-Gaby, M., McCutcheon, R. A., & Dolan, R. J. (2025). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 29(2), 184–200.

Experience‐driven competition in neural reorganization after stroke. Jones, T. A., Nemchek, V., & Fracassi, M. (2025). Journal of Physiology, 603(3), 737–757.

Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease: spotlight on central cholinergic dysfunction. Ignatavicius, A., Matar, E., & Lewis, S. J. G. (2025). Brain, 148(2), 376–393.

Reward signals in the motor cortex: from biology to neurotechnology. Derosiere, G., Shokur, S., & Vassiliadis, P. (2025). Nature Communications, 16(1), 1307.

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Interesting Papers for Week 24, 2025

Deciphering neuronal variability across states reveals dynamic sensory encoding. Akella, S., Ledochowitsch, P., Siegle, J. H., Belski, H., Denman, D. D., Buice, M. A., Durand, S., Koch, C., Olsen, S. R., & Jia, X. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 1768.

Goals as reward-producing programs. Davidson, G., Todd, G., Togelius, J., Gureckis, T. M., & Lake, B. M. (2025). Nature Machine Intelligence, 7(2), 205–220.

How plasticity shapes the formation of neuronal assemblies driven by oscillatory and stochastic inputs. Devalle, F., & Roxin, A. (2025). Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 53(1), 9–23.

Noradrenergic and Dopaminergic modulation of meta-cognition and meta-control. Ershadmanesh, S., Rajabi, S., Rostami, R., Moran, R., & Dayan, P. (2025). PLOS Computational Biology, 21(2), e1012675.

A neural implementation model of feedback-based motor learning. Feulner, B., Perich, M. G., Miller, L. E., Clopath, C., & Gallego, J. A. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 1805.

Contextual cues facilitate dynamic value encoding in the mesolimbic dopamine system. Fraser, K. M., Collins, V., Wolff, A. R., Ottenheimer, D. J., Bornhoft, K. N., Pat, F., Chen, B. J., Janak, P. H., & Saunders, B. T. (2025). Current Biology, 35(4), 746-760.e5.

Policy Complexity Suppresses Dopamine Responses. Gershman, S. J., & Lak, A. (2025). Journal of Neuroscience, 45(9), e1756242024.

An image-computable model of speeded decision-making. Jaffe, P. I., Santiago-Reyes, G. X., Schafer, R. J., Bissett, P. G., & Poldrack, R. A. (2025). eLife, 13, e98351.3.

A Shift Toward Supercritical Brain Dynamics Predicts Alzheimer’s Disease Progression. Javed, E., Suárez-Méndez, I., Susi, G., Román, J. V., Palva, J. M., Maestú, F., & Palva, S. (2025). Journal of Neuroscience, 45(9), e0688242024.

Choosing is losing: How opportunity cost influences valuations and choice. Lejarraga, T., & Sákovics, J. (2025). Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 124, 102901.

Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus. Li, C., DePiero, V. J., Chen, H., Tanabe, S., & Cang, J. (2025). Current Biology, 35(4), 723-733.e3.

Testing the memory encoding cost theory using the multiple cues paradigm. Li, J., Song, H., Huang, X., Fu, Y., Guan, C., Chen, L., Shen, M., & Chen, H. (2025). Vision Research, 228, 108552.

Emergence of Categorical Representations in Parietal and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex across Extended Training. Liu, Z., Zhang, Y., Wen, C., Yuan, J., Zhang, J., & Seger, C. A. (2025). Journal of Neuroscience, 45(9), e1315242024.

The Polar Saccadic Flow model: Re-modeling the center bias from fixations to saccades. Mairon, R., & Ben-Shahar, O. (2025). Vision Research, 228, 108546.

Cortical Encoding of Spatial Structure and Semantic Content in 3D Natural Scenes. Mononen, R., Saarela, T., Vallinoja, J., Olkkonen, M., & Henriksson, L. (2025). Journal of Neuroscience, 45(9), e2157232024.

Multiple brain activation patterns for the same perceptual decision-making task. Nakuci, J., Yeon, J., Haddara, N., Kim, J.-H., Kim, S.-P., & Rahnev, D. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 1785.

Striatal dopamine D2/D3 receptor regulation of human reward processing and behaviour. Osugo, M., Wall, M. B., Selvaggi, P., Zahid, U., Finelli, V., Chapman, G. E., Whitehurst, T., Onwordi, E. C., Statton, B., McCutcheon, R. A., Murray, R. M., Marques, T. R., Mehta, M. A., & Howes, O. D. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 1852.

Detecting Directional Coupling in Network Dynamical Systems via Kalman’s Observability. Succar, R., & Porfiri, M. (2025). Physical Review Letters, 134(7), 077401.

Extended Cognitive Load Induces Fast Neural Responses Leading to Commission Errors. Taddeini, F., Avvenuti, G., Vergani, A. A., Carpaneto, J., Setti, F., Bergamo, D., Fiorini, L., Pietrini, P., Ricciardi, E., Bernardi, G., & Mazzoni, A. (2025). eNeuro, 12(2).

Striatal arbitration between choice strategies guides few-shot adaptation. Yang, M. A., Jung, M. W., & Lee, S. W. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 1811.

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Interesting Reviews for Week 23, 2025

Modeling the Emergence of Circuit Organization and Function during Development. Lakhera, S., Herbert, E., & Gjorgjieva, J. (2025). Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 17(2), a041511.

The neuroethology of ant navigation. Collett, T., Graham, P., & Heinze, S. (2025). Current Biology, 35(3), R110–R124.

Beyond punishment: psychological foundations of restorative interventions. McAuliffe, K., Marshall, J., & McLaughlin, A. (2025). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 29(2), 149–169.

Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics. Vinck, M., Uran, C., Dowdall, J. R., Rummell, B., & Canales-Johnson, A. (2025). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 29(2), 133–148.

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Interesting Papers for Week 23, 2025

Exploring replay. Antonov, G., & Dayan, P. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 1657.

Excitation-Inhibition Balance Controls Information Encoding in Neural Populations. Barzon, G., Busiello, D. M., & Nicoletti, G. (2025). Physical Review Letters, 134(6), 068403.

Persistent effects of salience in visual working memory: Limits of cue-driven guidance. Constant, M., & Kerzel, D. (2025). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51(2), 153–163.

Prediction of intrinsic and extraneous cognitive load with oculometric and biometric indicators. Ekin, M., Krejtz, K., Duarte, C., Duchowski, A. T., & Krejtz, I. (2025). Scientific Reports, 15, 5213.

Electrophysiological signatures of the effect of context on exploration: Greater attentional and learning signals when exploration is costly. Ferguson, T. D., Fyshe, A., & White, A. (2025). Brain Research, 1851, 149471.

Normative and informational confidence matching. Friedemann, M., Bang, D., & Yeung, N. (2025). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(3), 759–774.

Goals bias face perception. Hu, Y.-F., Heffner, J., Bhandari, A., & FeldmanHall, O. (2025). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(3), 644–657.

A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation. Ji, Z., Chu, T., Wu, S., & Burgess, N. (2025). Current Biology, 35(4), 709-722.e5.

Perceived Multisensory Common Cause Relations Shape the Ventriloquism Effect but Only Marginally the Trial‐Wise Aftereffect. Kayser, C., & Heuer, H. (2025). European Journal of Neuroscience, 61(3).

Atypical hippocampal excitatory neurons express and govern object memory. Kinman, A. I., Merryweather, D. N., Erwin, S. R., Campbell, R. E., Sullivan, K. E., Kraus, L., Kapustina, M., Bristow, B. N., Zhang, M. Y., Elder, M. W., Wood, S. C., Tarik, A., Kim, E., Tindall, J., Daniels, W., Anwer, M., Guo, C., & Cembrowski, M. S. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 1195.

Visual simulation and subjective probability estimation: When seeing is believing. Kirshner, S. N. (2025). Decision, 12(1), 31–42.

Recurring suboptimal choices result in superior decision making. Mondal, S., Lenda, D., & Traczyk, J. (2025). Decision, 12(1), 63–91.

A non-Hebbian code for episodic memory. Pang, R., & Recanatesi, S. (2025). Science Advances, 11(8).

Reinstatement and transformation of memory traces for recognition. Rau, E. M. B., Fellner, M.-C., Heinen, R., Zhang, H., Yin, Q., Vahidi, P., Kobelt, M., Asano, E., Kim-McManus, O., Sattar, S., Lin, J. J., Auguste, K. I., Chang, E. F., King-Stephens, D., Weber, P. B., Laxer, K. D., Knight, R. T., Johnson, E. L., Ofen, N., & Axmacher, N. (2025). Science Advances, 11(8).

Action consequences guide the use of visual working memory. Sahakian, A., Gayet, S., Paffen, C. L. E., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2025). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 51(1), 4–13.

Orthogonal neural representations support perceptual judgments of natural stimuli. Srinath, R., Ni, A. M., Marucci, C., Cohen, M. R., & Brainard, D. H. (2025). Scientific Reports, 15, 5316.

Higher order affordances. Stoffregen, T. A., & Wagman, J. B. (2025). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32(1), 1–30.

Memory modeling of counterfactual generation. Wang, F., Aka, A., He, L., & Bhatia, S. (2025). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 51(2), 255–284.

Latent memory traces for prospective items in visual working memory. Xu, L., Sahakian, A., Gayet, S., Paffen, C. L. E., & Van der Stigchel, S. (2025). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51(2), 164–177.

Rational choices elicit stronger sense of agency in brain and behavior. Yavuz, M., Bonicalzi, S., Schmitz, L., Battich, L., Esmaily, J., & Deroy, O. (2025). Cognition, 257, 106062.

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Interesting Reviews for Week 22, 2025

Neural Plasticity in Migraine Chronification. Fila, M., Derwich, M., Pawlowska, E., & Blasiak, J. (2025). European Journal of Neuroscience, 61(2).

Neuromorphic computing at scale. Kudithipudi, D., Schuman, C., Vineyard, C. M., Pandit, T., Merkel, C., Kubendran, R., Aimone, J. B., Orchard, G., Mayr, C., Benosman, R., Hays, J., Young, C., Bartolozzi, C., Majumdar, A., Cardwell, S. G., Payvand, M., Buckley, S., Kulkarni, S., Gonzalez, H. A., … Furber, S. (2025). Nature, 637(8047), 801–812.

Structural neural plasticity evoked by rapid-acting antidepressant interventions. Liao, C., Dua, A. N., Wojtasiewicz, C., Liston, C., & Kwan, A. C. (2025). Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 26(2), 101–114.

Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future. Hancock, F., Rosas, F. E., Luppi, A. I., Zhang, M., Mediano, P. A. M., Cabral, J., Deco, G., Kringelbach, M. L., Breakspear, M., Kelso, J. A. S., & Turkheimer, F. E. (2025). Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 26(2), 82–100.

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Interesting Papers for Week 22, 2025

Reaching Distance Influences Perceptual Decisions. Assarioti, E. E., van Beers, R. J., Smeets, J. B. J., & van Wijk, B. C. M. (2025). European Journal of Neuroscience, 61(3).

Detection of latent brain states from spontaneous neural activity in the amygdala. Aucoin, A., Lin, K. K., & Gothard, K. M. (2025). PLOS Computational Biology, 21(2), e1012247.

Repeated stress gradually impairs auditory processing and perception. Bisharat, G., Kaganovski, E., Sapir, H., Temnogorod, A., Levy, T., & Resnik, J. (2025). PLOS Biology, 23(2), e3003012.

A neuronal code for object representation and memory in the human amygdala and hippocampus. Cao, R., Brunner, P., Chakravarthula, P. N., Wahlstrom, K. L., Inman, C., Smith, E. H., Li, X., Mamelak, A. N., Brandmeir, N. J., Rutishauser, U., Willie, J. T., & Wang, S. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 1510.

Contextual neural dynamics during time perception in the primate ventral premotor cortex. Díaz, H., Bayones, L., Alvarez, M., Andrade-Ortega, B., Valero, S., Zainos, A., Romo, R., & Rossi-Pool, R. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(6), e2420356122.

Attention Rhythmically Shapes Sensory Tuning. Galas, L., Donovan, I., & Dugué, L. (2025). Journal of Neuroscience, 45(7), e1616242024.

A detailed theory of thalamic and cortical microcircuits for predictive visual inference. George, D., Lázaro-Gredilla, M., Lehrach, W., Dedieu, A., Zhou, G., & Marino, J. (2025). Science Advances, 11(6).

Time Course of Orientation Ensemble Representation in the Human Brain. Gong, X., He, T., Wang, Q., Lu, J., & Fang, F. (2025). Journal of Neuroscience, 45(7), e1688232024.

Comprehensive exploration of visual working memory mechanisms using large-scale behavioral experiment. Huang, L. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 1383.

Hippocampal damage disrupts the latent decision-making processes underlying approach-avoidance conflict processing in humans. Le Duc, W., Butler, C. R., Argyropoulos, G. P. D., Chu, S., Hutcherson, C., Ruocco, A. C., Ito, R., & Lee, A. C. H. (2025). PLOS Biology, 23(2), e3003033.

The geometry of correlated variability leads to highly suboptimal discriminative sensory coding. Livezey, J. A., Sachdeva, P. S., Dougherty, M. E., Summers, M. T., & Bouchard, K. E. (2025). Journal of Neurophysiology, 133(1), 124–141.

Fixational eye movements as active sensation for high visual acuity. Nghiem, T.-A. E., Witten, J. L., Dufour, O., Harmening, W. M., & Azeredo da Silveira, R. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(6), e2416266122.

Inferring when to move. Parr, T., Oswal, A., & Manohar, S. G. (2025). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 169, 105984.

Modular Maximization Theory: A functional account of economic behavior in laboratory animal models with applications to drug-seeking behavior. Sanabria, F., Gildea, M., Gutiérrez, B., Santos, C., & Hibshman, A. (2025). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 169, 106010.

Hexagons all the way down: grid cells as a conformal isometric map of space. Schøyen, V. S., Beshkov, K., Pettersen, M. B., Hermansen, E., Holzhausen, K., Malthe-Sørenssen, A., Fyhn, M., & Lepperød, M. E. (2025). PLOS Computational Biology, 21(2), e1012804.

Active vision in freely moving marmosets using head-mounted eye tracking. Singh, V. P., Li, J., Dawson, K., Mitchell, J. F., & Miller, C. T. (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(6), e2412954122.

The receptive field construction of midget ganglion cells in primate retina. Somaratna, M. A., & Freeman, A. W. (2025). Journal of Neurophysiology, 133(1), 268–285.

Contributions of Attention to Learning in Multidimensional Reward Environments. Wang, M. C., & Soltani, A. (2025). Journal of Neuroscience, 45(7), e2300232024.

A biological model of nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Yoshida, K., & Toyoizumi, T. (2025). Science Advances, 11(6).

Computational mechanism underlying switching of motor actions. Zhong, S., Pouratian, N., & Christopoulos, V. (2025). PLOS Computational Biology, 21(2), e1012811.

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Interesting Reviews for Week 21, 2025

The lateral thalamus: a bridge between multisensory processing and naturalistic behaviors. Yang, M., Keller, D., Dobolyi, A., & Valtcheva, S. (2025). Trends in Neurosciences, 48(1), 33–46.

Neuronal encoding of behaviors and instrumental learning in the dorsal striatum. Varin, C., & de Kerchove d’Exaerde, A. (2025). Trends in Neurosciences, 48(1), 77–91.

Bayesian brain theory: Computational neuroscience of belief. Bottemanne, H. (2025). Neuroscience, 566, 198–204.

The mechanisms of electrical neuromodulation. Balbinot, G., Milosevic, M., Morshead, C. M., Iwasa, S. N., Zariffa, J., Milosevic, L., Valiante, T. A., Hoffer, J. A., & Popovic, M. R. (2025). Journal of Physiology, 603(2), 247–284.

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Interesting Papers for Week 21, 2025

Gustatory cortex neurons perform reliability-dependent integration of multisensory flavor inputs. Allar, I. B., Hua, A., Rowland, B. A., & Maier, J. X. (2025). Current Biology, 35(3), 600-611.e3.

Complex harmonics reveal low-dimensional manifolds of critical brain dynamics. Deco, G., Sanz Perl, Y., & Kringelbach, M. L. (2025). Physical Review E, 111(1), 014410.

Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal–prefrontal circuit. Elston, T. W., & Wallis, J. D. (2025). Nature Neuroscience, 28(2), 374–382.

Applied Motor Noise Affects Specific Learning Mechanisms during Short-Term Adaptation to Novel Movement Dynamics. Foray, K., Zhou, W., Fitzgerald, J., Gianferrara, P. G., & Joiner, W. M. (2025). eNeuro, 12(1), ENEURO.0100-24.2024.

Touch-evoked traveling waves establish a translaminar spacetime code. Gonzales, D. L., Khan, H. F., Keri, H. V. S., Yadav, S., Steward, C., Muller, L. E., Pluta, S. R., & Jayant, K. (2025). Science Advances, 11(5).

A distinct hypothalamus–habenula circuit governs risk preference. Groos, D., Reuss, A. M., Rupprecht, P., Stachniak, T., Lewis, C., Han, S., Roggenbach, A., Sturman, O., Sych, Y., Wieckhorst, M., Bohacek, J., Karayannis, T., Aguzzi, A., & Helmchen, F. (2025). Nature Neuroscience, 28(2), 361–373.

Sensorimotor environment but not task rule reconfigures population dynamics in rhesus monkey posterior parietal cortex. Guo, H., Kuang, S., & Gail, A. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 1116.

Dendritic growth and synaptic organization from activity-independent cues and local activity-dependent plasticity. Kirchner, J. H., Euler, L., Fritz, I., Ferreira Castro, A., & Gjorgjieva, J. (2025). eLife, 12, 87527.3.

Prediction of future input explains lateral connectivity in primary visual cortex. Klavinskis-Whiting, S., Fristed, E., Singer, Y., Iacaruso, M. F., King, A. J., & Harper, N. S. (2025). Current Biology, 35(3), 530-541.e5.

Reconstructing a new hippocampal engram for systems reconsolidation and remote memory updating. Lei, B., Kang, B., Hao, Y., Yang, H., Zhong, Z., Zhai, Z., & Zhong, Y. (2025). Neuron, 113(3), 471-485.e6.

Sensorimotor adaptation reveals systematic biases in 3D perception. Lim, C., Vishwanath, D., & Domini, F. (2025). Scientific Reports, 15, 3847.

Enhanced accuracy in first-spike coding using current-based adaptive LIF neuron. Liu, S., & Dragotti, P. L. (2025). Neural Networks, 184, 107043.

Overwriting an instinct: Visual cortex instructs learning to suppress fear responses. Mederos, S., Blakely, P., Vissers, N., Clopath, C., & Hofer, S. B. (2025). Science, 387(6734), 682–688.

Neural mechanisms of relational learning and fast knowledge reassembly in plastic neural networks. Miconi, T., & Kay, K. (2025). Nature Neuroscience, 28(2), 406–414.

Dynamical constraints on neural population activity. Oby, E. R., Degenhart, A. D., Grigsby, E. M., Motiwala, A., McClain, N. T., Marino, P. J., Yu, B. M., & Batista, A. P. (2025). Nature Neuroscience, 28(2), 383–393.

Dendritic excitations govern back-propagation via a spike-rate accelerometer. Park, P., Wong-Campos, J. D., Itkis, D. G., Lee, B. H., Qi, Y., Davis, H. C., Antin, B., Pasarkar, A., Grimm, J. B., Plutkis, S. E., Holland, K. L., Paninski, L., Lavis, L. D., & Cohen, A. E. (2025). Nature Communications, 16, 1333.

The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations. Trägenap, S., Whitney, D. E., Fitzpatrick, D., & Kaschube, M. (2025). Nature Neuroscience, 28(2), 394–405.

Opposite asymmetry in visual perception of humans and macaques. Tünçok, E., Kiorpes, L., & Carrasco, M. (2025). Current Biology, 35(3), 681-687.e4.

Attention modulates subjective time perception across eye movements. Yan, C., Wang, H., Jiang, X., & Wang, Z. (2025). Vision Research, 227, 108540.

Dissociating the roles of alpha oscillation sub-bands in visual working memory. Zhao, N., & Liu, Q. (2025). NeuroImage, 307, 121028.

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Interesting Reviews for Week 20, 2025

Computational complexity as a potential limitation on brain–behaviour mapping. Ozkirli, A., Herzog, M. H., & Jastrzębowska, M. A. (2025). European Journal of Neuroscience, 61(1).

The sensory valuation account of aesthetic experience. Nadal, M., & Skov, M. (2024). Nature Reviews Psychology, 4(1), 49–63.

How control modulates pain. Habermann, M., Strube, A., & Büchel, C. (2025). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 29(1), 60–72.

Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits. Buabang, E. K., Donegan, K. R., Rafei, P., & Gillan, C. M. (2025). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 29(1), 41–59.