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Michael London, Arnd Roth, Lisa Beeren, Michael Häusser & Peter E. Latham

It is well known that neural activity exhibits variability, in the sense that identical sensory stimuli produce different responses1, 2, 3, but it has been difficult to determine what this variability means. Is it noise, or does it carry important . . . → Read More: Sensitivity to perturbations in vivo implies high noise and suggests rate coding in cortex

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Sachiko Haga, Tatsuya Hattori, Toru Sato, Koji Sato, Soichiro Matsuda, Reiko Kobayakawa, Hitoshi Sakano, Yoshihiro Yoshihara, Takefumi Kikusui & Kazushige Touhara

Various social behaviours in mice are regulated by chemical signals called pheromones that act through the vomeronasal system1, 2, 3. Exocrine gland-secreting peptide 1 (ESP1) is a 7-kDa peptide that is . . . → Read More: The male mouse pheromone ESP1 enhances female sexual receptive behaviour through a specific vomeronasal receptor