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Movie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundaries

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Silva, M., Wu, X., Sabio, M., Conde-Blanco, E., Roldán, P., Donaire, A., Carreño, M., Axmacher, N., Baldassano, C., & Fuentemilla, L. (2025). Movie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundaries. Nature Communications, 16(1), 5647. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60788-0

Costly pain avoidance and its impact on the modulation and extinction of visceral pain-related fear

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Labrenz, F., Kalenbach, A., Elsenbruch, S., & Icenhour, A. (2025). Costly pain avoidance and its impact on the modulation and extinction of visceral pain-related fear. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 27001. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10499-9

Predictive processing’s flirt with transcendental idealism

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Wiśniewska, M., Piejka, A., Wolak, T., Scheele, D., & Okruszek, Ł. (2025). Loneliness - not for the faint of heart? Effects of transient loneliness induction on neural and parasympathetic responses to affective stimuli. Social Neuroscience, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2025.2498384

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Passiatore, R., Lupo, A., Sambuco, N., Antonucci, L. A., Stolfa, G., Bertolino, A., Popolizio, T., Suchan, B., & Pergola, G. (2025). Interindividual Variability in Memory Performance Is Related to Corticothalamic Networks during Memory Encoding and Retrieval. The Journal of Neuroscience, 45(19), e0975242025. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0975-24.2025

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Posttraining noradrenergic stimulation maintains hippocampal engram reactivation and episodic-like specificity of remote memory

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Gulmez Karaca, K., Bahtiyar, S., Van Dongen, L., Wolf, O. T., Hermans, E. J., Henckens, M. J. A. G., & Roozendaal, B. (2025). Posttraining noradrenergic stimulation maintains hippocampal engram reactivation and episodic-like specificity of remote memory. Neuropsychopharmacology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-025-02122-2

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