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Much evidence suggests that the fusiform face area is involved in face processing. In contrast to the accompanying article by Kanwisher, we conclude that the apparent face selectivity of this area reflects a more generalized form of processing not intrinsically specific to faces.
Sea urchin eggs are an experimentally accessible preparation for studying the links between calcium-dependent exocytosis and endocytosis, which may also apply to synaptic vesicles.
By demonstrating that fMRI responses in human MT+ increase linearly with motion coherence and comparing these responses with slopes of single-neuron firing rates in monkey MT, a new paper provides the best evidence so far that fMRI responses are proportional to firing rates.
Grant et. al. use mass spectroscopy to identify new components of the NMDA receptor-associated protein complex, revealing a more complex postsynaptic organization than previously thought.
Only one allelle from the odorant receptor gene family is expressed in each neuron. Transgenic expression of an odorant receptor provides new insight into how this process is regulated.