Cognitive neuroscience articles within Nature Methods

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  • This Month |

    Some researchers have the good fortune of two academic affiliations. Sometimes these affiliations are not exactly within easy commuting distance.

    • Vivien Marx

  • News & Views |

    An approach for integrating the wealth of heterogeneous brain data — from gene expression and neurotransmitter receptor density to structure and function — allows neuroscientists to easily place their data within the broader neuroscientific context.

    • Bradley Voytek

  • Brief Communication |

    Flyception is a tracking and imaging system that enables the monitoring of brain activity in freely walking fruit flies, making the analysis of calcium dynamics possible in studies of neural mechanisms such as those that underlie social behaviors.

    • Dhruv Grover
    • , Takeo Katsuki
    •  & Ralph J Greenspan

  • Brief Communication |

    Functional ultrasound imaging and electroencephalography are combined to assess brain activity in mobile rats. The methodology is applied to the analysis of theta rhythms in a maze task and of epileptic seizures.

    • Lim-Anna Sieu
    • , Antoine Bergel
    •  & Ivan Cohen

  • This Month |

    An avian backpack for discerning individual zebra finches' songs and studying cognition comes to Switzerland via Novosibirsk, Russia.

    • Vivien Marx

  • Brief Communication |

    Communications between animals such as zebra finches can be discriminated with back-attached acceleration recorders. In contrast to microphones, these devices record the carrier's signals only, allowing a more precise analysis of individual vocalizations during social interactions.

    • Victor N Anisimov
    • , Joshua A Herbst
    •  & Alexei L Vyssotski

  • Article |

    LiFE is an algorithm that evaluates human connectome models derived from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and tractography methods. The algorithm achieves this goal by assessing the contribution of all the fiber tracts in a connectome to predict the measured MRI signal.

    • Franco Pestilli
    • , Jason D Yeatman
    •  & Brian A Wandell

  • Research Highlights |

    Machine learning and imaging show what the dreaming brain sees.

    • Vivien Marx

  • Review Article |

    At macroscopic scales, the human connectome comprises anatomically distinct brain areas, the structural pathways connecting them and their functional interactions. Annotation of phenotypic associations with variation in the connectome and cataloging of neurophenotypes promise to transform our understanding of the human brain. In this Review, we provide a survey of magnetic resonance imaging–based measurements of functional and structural connectivity. We highlight emerging areas of development and inquiry and emphasize the importance of integrating structural and functional perspectives on brain architecture.

    • R Cameron Craddock
    • , Saad Jbabdi
    •  & Michael P Milham

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