Music perception, pitch, and the auditory system.

abstract：:The crustacean stomatogastric nervous system is a long-standing test bed for studies of circuit dynamics and neuromodulation. We give a brief update on the most recent work on this system, with an emphasis on the broader implications for understanding neural circuits. In particular, we focus on new findings underlinin...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Daur N,Nadim F,Bucher D

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a recently discovered, extensive class of small noncoding RNAs that act as post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression. miRNAs have been implicated in most aspects of animal development and in pathological processes such as cancer. In neurons, miRNAs are expressed at all stages of develop...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Schratt G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vision research has traditionally been studied in stationary subjects observing stimuli, and rarely during navigation. Recent research using virtual reality environments for mice has revealed that responses even in the primary visual cortex are modulated by spatial context - identical scenes presented in different pos...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Saleem AB

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyzing data from experiments involves variables that we neuroscientists are uncertain about. Efficiently calculating with such variables usually requires Bayesian statistics. As it is crucial when analyzing complex data, it seems natural that the brain would "use" such statistics to analyze data from the world. And...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kording KP

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AMPA receptors (AMPARs) mediate the majority of fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the brain. Dynamic changes in neuronal synaptic efficacy, termed synaptic plasticity, are thought to underlie information coding and storage in learning and memory. One major mechanism that regulates synaptic strength involves the...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Anggono V,Huganir RL

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All animals have a fundamental and unavoidable requirement for rest, yet we still do not fully understand the processes that initiate, maintain, and regulate sleep. The larval zebrafish is an optically translucent, genetically tractable model organism that exhibits sleep states regulated by conserved sleep circuits, t...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Barlow IL,Rihel J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals respond to sensory cues emitted by their conspecifics by initiating a repertoire of sex-specific social behaviors, such as mating, fighting, and parental care. These behavioral responses are thought to be largely driven by genetically pre-programmed circuits. However, they can also vary significantly according...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Li Y,Dulac C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotransmitters are released by Ca(2+)-triggered exocytotic fusion of synaptic vesicles. Before fusion, vesicles dock at a specialised presynaptic plasma membrane region, the active zone, where they are primed to a fusion competent state. The nature of this priming reaction has long been enigmatic. Recent evidence d...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Brose N,Rosenmund C,Rettig J

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the presence of neuromodulators in mammalian sensory systems has been noted for some time, a groundswell of evidence has now begun to document the scope of these regulatory mechanisms in several sensory systems, highlighting the importance of neuromodulation in shaping feature extraction at all levels of neur...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hurley LM,Devilbiss DM,Waterhouse BD

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of spatial maps of the ventral sensory-motor cortex (vSMC) dates back to the earliest cortical stimulation studies. This review surveys a number of recent and historical reports of the features and function of spatial maps within vSMC towards the human behavior of speaking. Representations of the vocal tract...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Conant D,Bouchard KE,Chang EF

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabotropic L-glutamate receptors are involved in various forms of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. The use of a new antagonist (LY341495) that blocks all known metabotropic L-glutamate receptors in the brain, together with subtype-selective antagonists, has identified multiple roles both for cloned and novel ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bortolotto ZA,Fitzjohn SM,Collingridge GL

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive development is determined by both genetics and environment. One point of convergence of these two influences is the neural activity-dependent regulation of programs of gene expression that specify neuronal fate and function. Human genetic studies have linked several transcriptional regulators to neurodevelop...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hong EJ,West AE,Greenberg ME

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane Cl- channels perform a variety of functions, including control of excitability in neurons and muscle, cell volume regulation and transepithelial transport. Structurally, three classes of Cl- channels have been identified: ligand-gated, postsynaptic Cl- channels (e.g. GABA and glycine receptors); the cy...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Jentsch TJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heated debate over the level of postsynaptic receptor occupancy by transmitter has not been extinguished - indeed, new evidence is fanning the flames. Recent experiments using two-photon microscopy suggest that the concentration of glutamate in the synaptic cleft does not attain levels previously suggested. In con...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bergles DE,Diamond JS,Jahr CE

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing axons appear to navigate to their targets partly in response to long-range diffusible chemoattractants secreted by target cells. The past year has seen the identification of the first target-derived attractants for developing axons, the netrins. Target-derived diffusible factors have also been implicated in...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kennedy TE,Tessier-Lavigne M

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in multi-electrode recording have brought us closer to understanding how visual information is encoded by populations of retinal ganglion cells. By monitoring the visual responses of many ganglion cells at once, it is now possible to examine how ganglion cells act together to encode a visual scene. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Nirenberg S,Latham PE

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of genetic mutations linked to familial neurodegenerative diseases have made it possible to generate useful transgenic animal models. Studies using these transgenic animals indicate that many familial neurodegenerative diseases, such as motor neuron disease, Alzheimer's disease, prion diseases and trinu...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Lee MK,Borchelt DR,Wong PC,Sisodia SS,Price DL

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of neuronal diversity during development of the nervous system relies on dynamic changes in the epigenetic landscape of neural stem cells and their progeny. Targeted DamID (TaDa) is proving invaluable in identifying the genome-wide binding sites of chromatin-associated proteins in vivo, without fixation,...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： van den Ameele J,Krautz R,Brand AH

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circuitry mediating the integration of reward perception and adaptive behavioral responses has been further refined. Recent developments indicate that the nucleus accumbens has a primary role in motivational circuitry, whereas afferents to the nucleus accumbens, in part, subserve distinct functions. Dopaminergic a...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kalivas PW,Nakamura M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel multigene family has been identified that is likely to encode odorant receptors on olfactory sensory neurons. Further studies on this gene family are likely to shed light on the molecular mechanisms underlying information coding in the mammalian olfactory system. This review is also published in Current Opinio...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Buck LB

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of laboratories have recently refined descriptions of temporal response properties, from the auditory periphery to the midbrain. At many levels of the auditory pathway, the role of inhibition in temporal coding of complex sounds is being explored. In addition, quantitative relationships between physiology and...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Carney LH

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canonically, 'mirror neurons' are cells in area F5 of the ventral premotor cortex that are active during both observation and execution of goal-directed movements. Recently, cells with similar properties have been observed in a number of other areas in the motor system, including the primary motor cortex. Mirror neuro...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Tkach D,Reimer J,Hatsopoulos NG

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly systematic approaches to quantifying receptive fields in primary visual cortex, combined with inspired ideas about functional circuitry, non-linearities, and visual stimuli, are bringing new interest to classical problems. This includes the distinction and hierarchy between simple and complex cells, the m...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bair W

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite considerable skepticism, researchers have found that the patterns of muscle activation that control feeding behaviors of lower vertebrates have been surprisingly conserved during evolution. This tendency for conservation among taxa appears in the face of marked flexibility of motor patterns within individuals....

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wainwright PC

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connections and interactions among distributed brain areas are increasingly recognized as the basis for cognitive operations and a diverse repertoire of behaviors. Analytic advances have allowed for brain connectivity to be represented and quantified at multiple levels: from single connections to communities and netwo...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Mišić B,Sporns O

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long standing goal in motor control is to determine the fundamental output controlled by the CNS: does the CNS control the activation of individual motor units, individual muscles, groups of muscles, kinematic or dynamic features of movement, or does it simply care about accomplishing a task? Of course, the output c...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Tresch MC,Jarc A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mRNA localization and regulated translation take central roles in axon guidance and synaptic plasticity. By spatially restricting gene expression within neurons, local protein synthesis provides growth cones and synapses with the capacity to autonomously regulate their structure and function. Studies in a variety of s...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Martin KC

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Powerful advances in neuroimaging techniques have added to and refined classical descriptions of the neurobiology of language in adults. Recent studies have employed these methodologies to study the nature and extent of plasticity of language-relevant aspects of cerebral organization in adults, in early and late bilin...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Neville HJ,Bavelier D

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the function of the basal forebrain have focused on cholinergic neurons that project to cortical and limbic structures critical for various cognitive abilities. Recent experiments suggest that these neurons serve a modulatory function in cognition, by optimizing cortical information processing and influenci...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Baxter MG,Chiba AA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major issue in development is to understand how local heterogeneities are interpreted to determine specific cell fates. The sense organs of Drosophila provide an accessible system for addressing this issue. Most sense organs comprise four types of cells, and their differentiation is the outcome of a complex developm...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Vervoort M,Dambly-Chaudière C,Ghysen A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00