-
The dominant view in neuroscience treats the brain as the primary computational organ of cognition and emotion, with the peripheral nervous system supplying sensory input and executing motor and autonomic commands. Embodied and interoceptive theories acknowled…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Tree shrews ( Tupaia belangeri ) are increasingly used in comparative neuroscience, yet their respiratory physiology remains poorly characterized. We quantified spontaneous breathing and respiratory rhythm variability in awake adult tree shrews (n = 10; 5 male…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Personalized recommender algorithms are among the most influential design features of modern digital platforms. Yet, most neuroscience research on social media relies on controlled stimuli sets, or associating behaviors with general neuroimaging tasks; these m…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Background: Narrative and psychodynamic therapies have long emphasized the therapeutic value of metaphor, imagery, embodiment, and symbolic enactment. However, the mechanisms through which these processes contribute to enduring identity-level change remain inc…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Adaptive behavior requires acting on sensory evidence that only partially reveals relevant environmental states. Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide a unified framework for this problem by representing perceptual uncertainty as beli…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
The general factor of psychopathology, p, orders people on a broad dimension of psychiatric burden and predicts impairment, developmental risk, and other adverse outcomes. Debate has focused on which latent-variable structure best recovers p, but comparative f…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Organotypic slice cultures (OSCs) are widely used to study cellular properties in a functional and developmental tissue context. With the recent advent of transgenic mouse lines and viral tools we postulated that OSCs may enable the study of multicellular glia…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Emotions are dynamic experiences that unfold over time, yet most affective neuroscience studies have relied on static stimuli and laboratory-based EEG systems. This study examined whether emotional valence and arousal can be reliably decoded using a consumer-g…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Acupuncture is supported by a long clinical tradition and a growing body of mechanistic research, yet the classical meridian system remains difficult to reconcile with conventional anatomical models. The persistent difficulty may arise from a category error: m…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
How the activity and connectivity of the brain support consciousness remains a central question in neuroscience. Recent progress driven by the use of functional MRI has seen growing recognition that large-scale distributed functional organisation of the human …
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
The following review is an integration and synthesis of a subset of the central auditory nervous system (CANS) and auditory processing (AP) literature of the last 25 years. It encompasses many different aspects of AP, and aims to contribute to an auditory neur…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract Attractor models in neuroscience and cognitive dynamics sometimes use deliberately designed topology to produce discrete choices, continuous manifolds, memory states, or temporal patterns. These examples show that topology can shape the attractor land…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Introduction Reduced or lost sensation and movement after a spinal cord injury (SCI) impairs the brain’s ability to accurately localize paralyzed body parts, causing deficits in its internal body map, or “mental body representations” (MBR). These deficits hind…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
A debate is raging in human neuroscience over the foundational principles of cortical organisation, chiefly whether the cortex is best characterised by discrete areas or continuous gradients. Though fuelled by recent insights from in vivo neuroimaging, the deb…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract We introduce the Spectral Basis Interpretable Unit (SBIU)—a univariate function approximator that maps a scalar input to a probability distribution over a learned orthogonal set of basis vectors in a Fourier-encoded feature space. The output is a weig…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract Background: There is high unmet need in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Neflamapimod, showed clinical activity against cognitive and motor endpoints at a dose of 40mg three-times-daily (TID) in a prior phase 2a study in DLB, most prominently in those…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
This work presents ZeroES (Zero Ebrahim Elsayed), the first comprehensive practical implementation of the Zero Pairs Interaction Functional – Unified Spectral Alignment and Coherence – Zigzag Zero–Fractional Zero (ZPIF-USAC-ZZFZ) framework. ZeroES is a multi-d…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
In this viewpoint article, Jennifer Bizley and Daniel Senkowski share their perspectives on past, present, and future developments in research on the roles of functional coupling and neural oscillations in multisensory integration. Drawing on existing studies,…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Cognitive feelings, such as the feeling of knowing, familiarity, presence, reality, confidence, agency, and body ownership, are subjective experiences arising from cognitive processes, playing crucial roles in perception, memory, and decision-making. Despite e…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
A central question in neuroscience is how the brain’s structural connectivity gives rise to its emergent, correlated dynamics. These large-scale dynamical correlations underlie functional networks that support cognitive functions. Here, we identify coupling co…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Response inhibition is one of the most important control processes in the human brain. The study of the basic neural mechanism(s) underlying response inhibition has produced some of the most-cited empirical work in cognitive neuroscience to date, with a large …
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
The integration of social determinants of health (SDH) into neuroscience and brain health research is a critical step in advancing our understanding of the complex interplay between social environments and neurobiological outcomes. However, this integration ra…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract Functional magnetic resonance imaging has revolutionized neuroscience. Traditional analyses focusing on differences in regional activations and pairwise regional interactions (functional connectivity) cannot capture the collective nature of inherently…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Contemporary personal safety tools, including emergency SOS buttons, panic applications and distress call features, share a foundational design assumption: that a person under threat retains the cognitive capacity and motor control necessary to activate a manu…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
In the context of education, attention can be considered the gateway for learning. Cortical attention mechanisms may help explain, in a precise and mechanistic manner, crucial educational modulators that are essential to effective learning and relevant to cons…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Interbrain synchrony (IBS), also referred to as interpersonal neural synchrony (INS), has become a central construct in social neuroscience and beyond. It describes the temporal alignment of neural activity across individuals and has been studied in a range of…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Neuroscience traditionally assumes that amino acid transmitters occupy clear synaptic vesicles, whereas monoamines reside in dense-core vesicles. Using a glutaraldehyde–NaBH₄ epitope-engineering platform enabling ultrastructural detection of small amines, we i…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Despite the dramatic advances made in artificial intelligence (AI) and other fields of computer science towards implementing “intelligent” systems expert in specific tasks, the goal of devising algorithms and machines able to interact with human beings just as…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
How neural representations carrying similar information across brain regions are translated into behavioral control remains a fundamental question in neuroscience. In the primate striatum, whether subregions make overlapping or dissociable computational and ca…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Interpersonal physiological synchrony (IPS), the temporal alignment of autonomic signals across individuals, has been documented across a wide range of contexts, both during reciprocal social interactions—here referred to as reciprocal IPS (R-IPS)—and when ind…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Addiction has traditionally been explained in moral terms, as a failure of discipline repeated onetoo many times. Three decades of neuroscience research complicate that story considerably.Repeated exposure to alcohol and other drugs changes how the brain's rew…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract Substance use disorders, specifically drug abuse/dependence involving controlled substances covered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, have become one of the primary issues of public health and forensic importance i…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
How memories reorganize across brain circuits as they age remains a central question in systems neuroscience. Systems consolidation is thought to progressively shift memory reliance from the hippocampus to distributed cortical networks, yet the contribution of…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Many fundamental mammalian brain functions emerge from the coordinated activity of cells distributed across large, brain-wide networks. To understand these processes in healthy and diseased states, ideally one would simultaneously measure and analyze single-ce…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
SUMMARY A central challenge in systems neuroscience research is to elucidate how distinct neuronal cell types coordinate to produce complex behaviors: an endeavor that requires linking their molecular identity, connectivity and activity patterns in behaving an…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract Early and accurate detection of brain tumors remains one of the most challenging and consequential problems in clinical neuroscience and critical care medicine. Conventional diagnostic pipelines rely heavily on expert radiological interpretation of si…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Intelligence or general cognitive ability (GCA) is fundamental to human behavior and cognition. It impacts important life outcomes like educational success and even health and longevity have been related to differences in GCA. Understanding the biological basi…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Astrocytes are essential regulators of synaptic transmission, brain homeostasis and behavior, and direct astrocyte activation has emerged as a therapeutic target for a broad range of neurological disorders. However, selective activation of astrocytes in vivo c…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
The field of interoception research is currently working towards an understanding of how brain-body states determine human perception, cognition, and behaviour. Recent studies suggest that transient dynamics of arousal neuromodulation and cortical excitability…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a class of artificial neural networks (ANNs). Since the early 2010s, they have been widely adopted as models of primate vision and classifiers of neuroimaging data, becoming relevant for a wealth of neuroscientific fiel…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Visual neuroscience requires precise spatiotemporal projection of optical stimulation onto the retina, especially in experimental mouse models. However, in vivo patterned stimulation in mice is profoundly hindered by the extreme optical power and severe anatom…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
This work introduces the Unified Spectral Alignment Coherence Framework (USAC), a new mathematical framework that uncovers deep connections between prime gaps, dark energy, neural dynamics, and spacetime geometry. At the heart of this framework lies a simple y…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
How the brain's physical geometry gives rise to its flexible functional repertoire remains a central question in neuroscience. Here, we trained three classes of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) on a working-memory task, forming a graded hierarchy of spatial co…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Apathy is a major driver of long-term disability in schizophrenia, yet existing accounts focus on how patients evaluate the cost of action while neglecting their capacity to generate options for action in the first place. Using a brief, culture-fair option gen…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
The rapidly developing research field of brain-body neuroscience faces methodological challenges, as analysts continue to develop new analysis strategies for robust statistics in the absence of established best practices. This quest for robust statistics is fu…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Deep learning models for face recognition are widely adopted in cognitive neuroscience, yet it is not well understood whether their excellent performance means they “see” faces like humans. Here, we collected a substantial dataset of human face-similarity judg…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Human intrinsic curiosity evolved under constraints of time, effort, and risk. Understanding how it is regulated, and harnessing it for well-being and for adaptive agentic artificial intelligence (AI), requires considering the environments in which uncertainty…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract Rhythm is a fundamental aspect of human behaviour, present from infancy and deeply embedded in cultural practices. Rhythm anticipation is a spontaneous cognitive process that typically occurs before the onset of actual beats. While most research in bo…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract An important though less studied element in neuroscience of classroom learning, is translation of laboratory-derived metrics to quantify learning in naturalistic settings. In the current study we sought to test if a common neural metric of visual atte…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract Abstract—Real-world time series superimpose persistent trends and transient flfluctuations whose statistical characters differ markedly. Systems neuroscience documents that the primate cortex handles such multi-scale input through a hierarchy of intri…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
A bstract Understanding the co-evolution of the human brain’s structural scaffold and functional traffic across the adult lifespan remains a fundamental challenge in neuroscience. While age-related degradation in grey matter and functional activation is well-d…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Identifying neural signatures of consciousness remains a central challenge in neuroscience. Sleep offers a tractable model for comparing brain activity in the presence or absence of subjective experience while minimizing behavioral responsiveness confounds. Us…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
A bstract One of the most compelling ideas for bridging neuroscience and artificial neural networks is the establishment of a framework based on three main components: network architecture, optimization mechanism, and loss (or objective) function to be minimiz…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Direct modulation of neural activity with high spatiotemporal precision is a cornerstone in experimental neuroscience. Here, we present a blood-mediated optoacoustic stimulation (BOAS) approach that utilizes blood as an endogenous transducer for brain stimulat…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
The development of neural connections in the brain results from a complex interplay between biological processes and mechanical forces. A key question in neuroscience is how physical forces and the mechanical properties of brain tissue influence the formation …
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
(1) Background: Characterizing causal structures in multivariate time series is a central challenge across neuroscience, economics, and environmental sciences; classical estimators identify which causal relations exist but lack compact descriptors capable of d…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Psychedelics, contemplative practice, and fasting are physiologically unrelated interventions that nevertheless converge, across cultures and centuries, on a common experiential endpoint: the mystical state. Here I propose that this convergence reflects shared…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract Simultaneous ultrasound stimulation and optical imaging in freely behaving animals remains challenging because existing systems are often bulky, incompatible with optical readout, or used in paradigms in which stimulation and recording are temporally …
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract Understanding how network structure emerges from functional demands is a central principle in network physiology and computational neuroscience. A key question remains whether compact computational models can recover the \textit{structure-function} co…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Neurocognitive dysfunction is a core feature of psychiatric, neurodegenerative, and addictive disorders, exerting a profound impact on functional outcome, quality of life, and long-term prognosis. Across conditions, impairments in learning, memory, attention, …
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Background: Policy, research, and education in the EU rely on secular-scientific ontologies, creating an “ontological blindness” that excludes diverse worldviews and more-than-human agency. Current scholarship lacks practical tools to operationalize ontology i…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Volitional intention can bias perception in cases where two or more interpretations of a stimulus are available to us. The neural mechanisms whereby such an intention influences perception are poorly understood. Here we investigated whether intending to see ho…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
We introduce \textbf{ZPIF (Zero Pair Interaction Functional)} as a quadratic spectral framework that explores potential connections between four fundamental puzzles: prime gaps, dark energy, consciousness, and spacetime structure. Departing from classical line…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract Pesticides are commonly used in agriculture to mitigate a wide array of pests. Imidacloprid, the most frequently used neonicotinoid pesticide, has been reported to affect cholinergic signaling of off-target organisms, such as honey bees and nematodes.…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Some aspects of human behavior and cognition depend on focal and selective cortical areas, such as the frontal eye fields or fusiform face area, while others, like semantic knowledge, are broadly distributed across the cortex. Whether higher-level cognitive fu…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Vocabulary acquisition in a second language (L2) is a complex, multifactorial process shaped by individual differences in cognitive, linguistic, and motivational capacities. This paper introduces the Word Learning Capacity Model (WLCM), a developmental and neu…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Genetically encoded fluorescent biosensors have gained traction in neuroscience as continuous, reagentless reporters of cellular activity in situ . These sensors, often soluble, can also provide time-resolution in multiple biosensing form factors: benchtop and…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract We introduce the Eco-Emotion Image ATLAS (E2IATLAS), a normative database of 3,161 nature photographs rated by 2,092 participants from 52 countries on six affective dimensions: valence, arousal, awe, compassion, connectedness, and gratitude. Images we…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract How the human brain generates subjective bodily experience remains a fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience. The cingulate cortex and precuneus (CC/PCu) have been implicated in bodily awareness and self-related processing, yet the functional a…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
The preschool years are crucial for school readiness, with the child-parent attachment relationship providing a foundational context for skill acquisition as part of this transition. Advances in social neuroscience suggest that interpersonal neural synchrony (…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Beat perception—the ability to extract a regular pulse from rhythmic sequences—is a foundational component of human musicality and a key mechanism supporting synchronization, dance, and collective music-making. Research across neuroscience, developmental psych…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
The primary objective of system neuroscience is to understand the functional mapping and its causation in the dynamics of the brain network. Some experimental and methodological studies suggest that functional modularity and its hierarchical information proces…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Ten years ago, two landmark papers discussed open problems in AI research from the standpoint of neuroscience and cognitive science. Today, many of these problems have been solved, mostly without direct inspiration from the study of the human brain. In this pa…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Social anxiety is reliably characterized by biases toward avoidance and aversive learning. Frontal-midline theta (FM-theta) oscillations have been implicated as a key neural mechanism underlying these learning biases. Here we combined a dynamic network neurosc…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
ABSTRACT Understanding dynamic mechanisms underlying cognition remains a major challenge in human neuroscience. Here, we develop, validate, and apply Multivariate Dynamical Systems Identification with Amortized Variational Inference (MDSI-AVI), a novel computa…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Accurate phase tracking of deep-brain activity is critical for effective closed-loop and phase-locked neuromodulation therapies. However, direct access to deep neural phase through intracranial recordings remains clinically restrictive due to the invasiveness.…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract Understanding how a stable structural connectome supports flexible cognition, especially in aging, is a fundamental question in neuroscience. While static structure-function coupling (SFC) is well-studied, the temporal variability of structure-functio…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
The recent adoption of naturalistic paradigms in the psychology and neuroscience of language has necessitated methods for quantifying incremental syntactic processing complexity. However, there is little consensus about how complexity should be quantified. Exi…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
The striking constraints of some human cognitive processes stand in stark contrastto the near limitless capability of others. While we can acquire and flexibly use vast amountsof information, the amount we can process at any one time is often stiflingly limite…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Working memory is a fundamental process that underlies cognition. Accordingly, the neural mechanisms that support working memory performance are of great interest in cognitive neuroscience. We present a publicly accessible dataset comprising 123 healthy adults…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
ABSTRACT Underlying the very notion of choice is the fundamental idea of ‘free-will’, which is challenged by decision-neuroscience aiming to explain and predict choices using interactions of neurons. The question of whether any choice is truly a free-choice an…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract Background and Objective: Reproducible neural time-series analysis re- quires more than preserving code: the scientific interpretation also depends on the exact preprocessing choices, model equations, parameter semantics, numerical settings, random se…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
We present the BCCWJ-Brain dataset, a multi-modal neuroimaging resource comprising functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and electroencephalography (EEG) data recorded from native Japanese speakers reading newspaper articl…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) encompass heterogeneous learning profiles that require additional support in schools. This paper draws on evidence from educational neuroscience to explore how best to support students with SEND. We highlight t…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Static stretching is one of the most widely prescribed interventions in sports medicine, rehabilitation, and exercise science for improving joint range of motion (ROM) and flexibility. Despite decades of research, however, the biological mechanisms underlying …
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
In most muscles, contraction is initiated by neural activation. Some groups of insects break this rule, flapping at frequencies far exceeding the neural drive to their flight muscles. These insects’ muscles (termed asynchronous) produce force in response to st…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Our ability to recollect details from personal past events tends to decline with age, which can affect how we act in the world, communicate with others, and understand ourselves. HippoCamera is a neuroscience-guided smartphone application that aims to mitigate…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract Traditional empathy neuroscience relies heavily on static and repetitive stimuli, which limits the characterization of neural dynamics in naturalistic contexts. Whether EEG microstate analysis, a method applied predominantly in resting-state and clini…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Subcortical structures play a key role in shaping cortical computation through distributed cortico-subcortical networks, yet it remains unclear whether individual differences in subcortical anatomy are reflected in resting-state cortical oscillations. We analy…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Abstract Neuroscience and artificial intelligence, the convergence of neuroscience and artificial intelligence has presented revolutionary sports performance optimization. This paper is a comprehensive Neuro. The AI system based on electroencephalography (EEG)…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
This tutorial seeks to facilitate the use of mobile electroencephalography (EEG) in young children. Mobile EEG allows researchers to investigate neural correlates of behavioral and cognitive processes in ecologically valid settings. While mobile EEG has been w…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
We propose the Sensation Modulating Network (SMN): the cognitive agent conceived as the whole body, organized at every anatomical scale by opponent dynamics, built from Sensation Modulators — tissue that senses and acts through one substrate — paired into Coor…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
SUMMARY Ongoing technological advances will lead to recordings with progressively increasing numbers of neurons, while trial counts may only increase modestly. The analysis of such large-scale data increasingly relies on extracting collective neural population…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
A neural decoder can predict a mental-state label without using information specific to that state. We made auditory-attention attribution falsifiable by requiring candidate evidence to persist in disjoint data, respond to capacity-matched substitutions of phy…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
The Hard Problem of consciousness remains unsolved, as most current models lack explicit causal mechanisms. This paper proposes a novel theoretical framework in which consciousness is conceptualized as a nonlocal field influenced by brain energy dynamics. By i…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Psychedelics, contemplative practice, and fasting are physiologically unrelated interventions that nevertheless converge, across cultures and centuries, on a common experiential endpoint: the mystical state. Here I propose that this convergence reflects shared…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
This study reviews the behavioral techniques that use the properties of visual stimuli to systematically control the activity of specific regions of an observer’s brain and proposes an Augmented Reality (AR) head-mounted display (HMD) that are implemented thes…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools are increasingly used by prospective higher education (HE) applicants seeking guidance on university and programme selection. Despite rapidly expanding use, little is known about how genAI systems may introduce …
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74
-
ABSTRACT Objective High-quality metadata is essential for scientific discovery, yet sparse annotations in rapidly growing repositories leave many biologically relevant details uncaptured. We evaluated whether large language models (LLMs) can accurately infer i…
preprints
2026
置信度 0.74