Authors should initially be in randomized order, with some "false authors" included. Then at the end of the paper we find out who the fake authors were ("I never would have guessed!") and who were the first and senior/corresponding authors ("wow, I thought he was dead").
To encourage readers beyond the abstract, it should also end with exciting leads, e.g., "You won't believe what the mice did next" or "Stay tuned for the big reveal in Discussion"
Journal article abstracts should include "<SPOILER ALERT>" immediately before the results of the study are revealed.
Cool paper digging into circuitry of the median raphe
A subcortical switchboard for exploratory, exploitatory, and disengaged states https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.20.572654v1
To survive in evolving environments with uncertain resources, animals need to dynamically adapt thei
Fans are often surprised to learn that the most deadly species in the Star Trek universe is the hippopotamus.
Please be sure to check you kid's candy this year. I just found another project I have no time for in a Reese's cup
I am guessing that one thing that may be inspiring these ideas is that our attention/awareness/consciousness can move flexibly between modalities, reference frames, etc, suggesting a kind of "flat" integrator. That's where things get very interesting (imho).
But many of the examples you give actually accentuate that it is a hierarchy--either because the structure is computing movement across layers/ reference frames, or because the region (like thalamus) is highly modular, so mirrors the hierarchy.