Janeth Lessmann

Sep 3, 2024 | pnas.org | Janeth Lessmann |Jonas Geldmann |Javier Fajardo |Pablo A. Marquet

PHYSIOLOGYBall python. Image credit: iStock/dwi septiyana. How python hearts withstand massive mealsConstricting pythons gorge on prey, rapidly increasing their heart rate, mass, and output after the consumption of massive meals. The precise mechanisms underlying the reversible cardiac hypertrophy and output that follow such large but infrequent meals are poorly understood. Claudia Crocini et al.

Aug 30, 2024 | pnas.org | De Haas |Janeth Lessmann |Jonas Geldmann |Javier Fajardo

U. Hasson, I. Levy, M. Behrmann, T. Hendler, R. Malach, Eccentricity bias as an organizing principle for human high-order object areas. Neuron 34, 479–490 (2002). D. J. Kravitz, K. S. Saleem, C. I. Baker, L. G. Ungerleider, M. Mishkin, The ventral visual pathway: An expanded neural framework for the processing of object quality. Trends Cogn. Sci. 17, 26–49 (2013). B. de Haas, A. L. Iakovidis, D. S. Schwarzkopf, K. R. Gegenfurtner, Individual differences in visual salience vary along semantic dimensions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.

Aug 28, 2024 | pnas.org | Janeth Lessmann |Jonas Geldmann |Javier Fajardo |Pablo A. Marquet

As early-career researchers, we are acutely aware that while behavioral science research typically focuses on Western populations, it aims to draw universal conclusions about human behavior. We were still in high school in 2010 when the Heinrich et al. landmark paper “The weirdest people in the world?” argued that research conducted solely on Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) samples might not apply universally (1).

Aug 28, 2024 | pnas.org | Janeth Lessmann |Jonas Geldmann |Javier Fajardo |Pablo A. Marquet

As early-career researchers, we are acutely aware that while behavioral science research typically focuses on Western populations, it aims to draw universal conclusions about human behavior. We were still in high school in 2010 when the Heinrich et al. landmark paper “The weirdest people in the world?” argued that research conducted solely on Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) samples might not apply universally (1).

Aug 27, 2024 | pnas.org | Janeth Lessmann |Jonas Geldmann |Javier Fajardo |Pablo A. Marquet

Orientation-independent-DIC imaging reveals that a transient rise in depletion attraction contributes to mitotic chromosome condensationEdited by Nancy Kleckner, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; received February 14, 2024; accepted July 19, 2024SignificanceMitotic chromosome condensation is an essential process to transmit replicated chromosomes into two daughter cells during cell division.