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#JNeurosci: The brain's steady background electrical activity changes with age, but does this happen within a few years. Cazares et al analyzed resting recordings from more than 270 healthy adults tested 2x, ~5 yrs apart, in a large German aging study. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1306-26.2026
Graphs and charts displaying data from a cognitive task performance study.
October 30, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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#JNeurosci: Iyer et al. use a mouse model that mimics neural adaptations observed in people after limb loss. Results suggest the adult brain remains highly plastic and identifies mechanisms by which circuits adapt after changes in sensory experience.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1519-25.2025
November 1, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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This Week in the Journal #JNeurosci | How Somatosensory Cortex Responses to Touch Change Over Time; The Organization of the Human Cortex May Shape Network Function
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/46/43/etwij46432026
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October 28, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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New in #JNeurosci: In mice, the primary visual cortex adapts after adult-onset hearing loss to improve the sharpness of peripheral—but not focal—vision. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0690-26.2026
Scientific graphs and diagrams with data on visual perception, spatial frequency, and contrast.
November 2, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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#JNeurosci: Sousa et al. used mice to assess the relationship between growth hormone release and a brain system that processes nutritional signals and controls both food intake and metabolism.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0632-26.2026
Microscopy images showing neural structures in green and purple with text labels.
October 27, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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#JNeurosci: Weiss et al. show that similar pupil dilations can arise from distinct underlying neuromodulatory states, highlighting adrenergic signaling as a key pathway through which arousal shapes cortical dynamics.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0898-25.2025
October 25, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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#JNeurosci: In humans, emotional meaning strengthens the brain’s prioritization of relevant content from irrelevant in a natural conversation. The timing of this process may depend on the semantic coherence of a conversation between two speakers. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0506-26.2026
Graphs and brain maps showing auditory brain response data and regions.
October 26, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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October 28, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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#JNeursci: Concurrently recording brain activity while people judged motion direction of targets in noisy displays, revealed that participants’ perceptual biases emerged late in the decision-making process, after early sensory processing was complete.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0612-26.2026
Diagram showing motion phases and graphs of motion coherence and blockwise priors.
October 29, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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Tell most people "you're wrong" and the brain sounds an alarm. In autistic people, that alarm is quieter. A new study in JNeurosci found autistic people showed weaker brain responses to negative feedback than non-autistic people.
October 27, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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New in #JNeurosci: Autism dampens brain responses to feedback about performance in a pitch discrimination task. These neural responses are not affected by task difficulty, as is the case in those without autism. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0315-26.2026
Three graphs comparing ERP responses, tone frequency, and percent correct for non-autistics (blue) and ASD (green).
October 26, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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#JNeurosci Viewpoints | The Roles and Uses of Extracellular Vesicles in Neuroimmunologic Diseases
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/46/42/e2310252026
Diagram of cellular vesicle formation, showing apoptotic body, microvesicle, and exosome details with labels.
October 24, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Emotional content can improve how people process conversations
New in JNeurosci, Pyry Heikkinen and colleagues, from the University of Helsinki, explored how emotional meaning influences the way the human brain prioritizes information during…

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Emotional content can improve how people process conversations
New in JNeurosci, Pyry Heikkinen and colleagues, from the University of Helsinki, explored how emotional meaning influences the way the human brain prioritizes information during naturally spoken conversations in a cocktail party setting.
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October 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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📄 New citation of Bonnen et al. (2015)
Beyond Trial-Based Paradigms: Continuous Behavior, Ongoing Neural Activity, and Natural Stimuli
Alexander C. Huk, Kathryn Bonnen, Biyu Jade He · Journal of Neuroscience · 2018
https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1920-17.2018
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October 26, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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What if the brain learned from error predictions rather than prediction errors? New perspective piece by Nicolas Meirhaeghe @nmrghe.bsky.social from Institut des Neurosciences de Timone in #JNeurosci.
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Learning from Error Predictions Rather Than Prediction Errors: A Perspective on Self-Supervised Learning in the Brain
Humans learn by doing and observing but also by imagining the result of simulated actions in their mind. When learning from executed or observed actions, traditional theories posit that behavior impro...
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October 29, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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#JNeurosci: Sherafat et al. used mice to identify a protein (lynx1) in the VTA that may play a role in regulating the rewarding effects of nicotine.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0797-26.2026
Microscopic images showing green Lynx1 and red proteins α4, β2.
October 21, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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#JNeurosci provides a transparent, author-centered, open peer review process. Learn more: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/information-authors#reviewprocess
October 23, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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#JNeurosci highlight of the week: How do people quickly recognize what others may be feeling?
Explore this week’s selection of featured research: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/featured-research
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October 23, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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#JNeurosci: Liu et al used machine learning to combine recordings of brain activity & behavior in a mouse model of epilepsy. This approach IDed unique seizure subtypes distinguished by the behavioral state & subtle differences in the pattern of the EEG.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0280-26.2026
Diagram illustrating EEG and behavior detection in mice with telemetry and video analysis.
October 23, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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This Week in the Journal #JNeurosci | Exploring α-Synuclein's Natural Function; How the Brain Perceives Self-Motion under Sensory Conflict
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.twij.46.42.2026
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October 21, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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#JNeurosci: Findings from Turchetti-Maia, et al. reveal how evolution can use very different molecular mechanisms to achieve the fundamental neural processes that support associative learning and memory. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1676-25.2026
Comparison of control and anisomycin-treated cells under microscope.
October 22, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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Happy to announce our project on intracranial ephys artifacts is finally out 🙈

doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0295-26.2026

It all began with an observation, are neurons across an entire array synchronizing at 1/30 ms resolution in cortex? Identical waveforms? Revolutionary if true, but...

Blueprint!🧵
Example of suspiciously synchronous spikes in neural ephys data. top shows spike time detection across several neurons, bottom shows the high pass filtered signals of the 30kHz recordings, showing the waveforms look extremely similar, with only a difference in amplitude.
October 21, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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#JNeurosci: Brain systems that process faces & voices work together to understand emotions across the senses; some represent emotions similarly whether we see or hear them. When processing faces & voices together, the brain’s response changes. jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0366-26.2026
Diagram showing labeled brain regions and coordinates for auditory and visual decoding.
October 20, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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October 20, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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#JNeurosci: Using computational models of how people learn from feedback, Smith et al. found that L-DOPA changed little across the group as a whole. Its effects instead depended on who took it. Dopamine does not seem to act the same way in everyone.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0261-26.2026
Graphs showing pupil responses comparing placebo and L-DOPA across trials, conditions, and phases.
October 20, 2026 at 2:31 PM