Habituation articles within Nature Communications

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• Article
  21 December 2023 | Open Access

  Hypothalamic CRH neurons represent physiological memory of positive and negative experience

  How physiological memories are encoded is not fully understood. Here the authors show how physiological memories of aversive and appetitive experience are represented by corticotropin-releasing hormone synthesizing neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and demonstrate that behavioral readouts may not accurately reflect physiological changes invoked by the memory of salient experiences.

  • Tamás Füzesi
  • , Neilen P. Rasiah
  •  & Jaideep S. Bains

• Article
  07 August 2023 | Open Access

  Pinging the brain to reveal the hidden attentional priority map using encephalography

  Past experience with environmental regularities can influence attentional priority. Here the authors show that when observers have learned to expect information in certain locations during a visual search task, such otherwise hidden attentional biases can be visualized through neural responses evoked by the presentation of sudden task-irrelevant visual input (‘pings’).

  • Dock H. Duncan
  • , Dirk van Moorselaar
  •  & Jan Theeuwes

• Article
  29 April 2023 | Open Access

  Single-neuron mechanisms of neural adaptation in the human temporal lobe

  Behavioural adaptation from semantic priming is accompanied by reduced neural activity in bulk-tissue measurements, but the underlying single neuron mechanisms remain unclear. Here, the authors leverage simultaneous intracranial EEG and single neuron spiking recordings in the human medial temporal lobe to unveil differential sharpening and fatiguing mechanisms across different temporal lobe areas.

  • Thomas P. Reber
  • , Sina Mackay
  •  & Florian Mormann

• Article
  16 February 2022 | Open Access

  Brain-wide visual habituation networks in wild type and fmr1 zebrafish

  Habituation is a process in which animals stop responding to repetitive stimuli, and habituation is altered in autism and other conditions. Here, the authors describe visual habituation networks across the zebrafish brain, and find that fmr1 mutants show slower brain-wide and behavioural habituation.

  • Emmanuel Marquez-Legorreta
  • , Lena Constantin
  •  & Ethan K. Scott

• Article
  22 July 2014 | Open Access

  Light and pheromone-sensing neurons regulates cold habituation through insulin signalling in Caenorhabditis elegans

  Cold tolerance in Caenorhabditis elegansis regulated by signalling pathways and neuronal circuits, but the exact mechanisms are unclear. Here the authors show that cold tolerance requires activity from specific light and pheromone-sensing neurons that release insulin to regulate gene expression in the intestine.

  • Akane Ohta
  • , Tomoyo Ujisawa
  •  & Atsushi Kuhara