I would like to announce the Cutting Gardens EEG conference, a new global, decentralized, and sustainable way of organizing conferences. This conference is on EEG methodology and analysis pipelines, and it is comprised of different "gardens" around the globe, taking place from Chile to China.

Our work on goal-directed theta sweeps is out! We found two different types of theta sweeps in the rat hippocampus. During random foraging, left-right alternating sweeps dominated (Vollan, 25). However, during memory-guided navigation sweeps pointing to hidden goal locations emerged with learning.

The massive 7T-fMRI Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD) has been extended to Neuropixels recordings in macaques! Exciting resource for inter-species comparisons by Li et al. @natneuro.nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Also nice News & Views by Kay and colleagues! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social. AI is now offering neuroscience the same deal. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...

Can AI do neuroscience without understanding?

Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles. Artificial intelligence is now offering neuroscience the same deal.

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Can humans actually learn sequential cross-modal statistical regularities? 🧐 Past research says "maybe not," but we think there’s more to the story. Our new paper investigates the confounding factors masking multisensory learning. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 For those in favor or against, it seems like a good one to discuss in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon! #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap. dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D... Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...

🧠 Feature-specific predictive processing: What’s in a prediction error? 🧠 Perspective article w/ Cem Uran, @martinavinck.bsky.social & @predictivebrain.bsky.social now in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social, highlighting recent work on the nature of surprise reflected in visual prediction errors. 🧵👇

High-level visual surprise is rapidly integrated during perceptual inference! 🚨 New paper 🚨 out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Summary 🧵 below 👇

Rapid computation of high-level visual surprise

Health sciences

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Prior knowledge changes sensory processing in the spinal cord?! 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroskyence

Prior knowledge changes initial sensory processing in the human spinal cord

High-frequency signals at a neuronal population level reveal a cognitive influence on sensory processing in the human spinal cord.

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Great article by @kordinglab.bsky.social‬ on "why causal knowledge is pragmatically possible". The best arguments for causation--& only one we need--is pragmatic. Here pragmatic isn't weak/subjective, but connected to actual goals, utility & outcomes in the world. medium.com/@kording/why...

Why Causal Knowledge Is Pragmatically Possible: Bridging Philosophical Skepticism and Scientific…

When we observe the world, we note that events consistently follow one another. As David Hume famously argued in An Enquiry Concerning…

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Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus rdcu.be/d9HOD

Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus

Nature - Insight into the algorithmic form and learning principles underlying cognitive maps in the hippocampus is provided.

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Very happy to announce that the latest work "Anticipating multisensory environments: Evidence for a supra-modal predictive system" from @alepebel.bsky.social @fuentemilla.bsky.social and myself has been published in Cognition! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Anticipating multisensory environments: Evidence for a supra-modal predictive system

Our perceptual experience is generally framed in multisensory environments abundant in predictive information. Previous research on statistical learni…

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Delighted to share our new preprint! with Alec Marantz, David Poeppel and @jeanremiking.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... "Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain" Summary below 👇 1/8

Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Multisensory flicker modulates widespread brain networks and reduces interictal epileptiform discharges www.nature.com/articles/s41... "multi-sensory stimulation may modulate cortical structures to mitigate pathological activity in humans"; #BCI #NeuroTech #epilepsy

Multisensory flicker modulates widespread brain networks and reduces interictal epileptiform discharges - Nature Communications

Repetitive audio-visual stimulation, or sensory flicker, can modulate oscillations in a non-invasive manner. Here the authors demonstrate the potential of flicker in individuals with epilepsy undergoi...

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I recently purchased a standing desk, and it's been the best choice ever! My back is grateful :D

Hi everyone! I've joined BlueSky now. Although I'm not very active on these platforms (sorry, I don't have much time), I'll be reading your messages and sharing those that I find interesting! ;)