We're currently hiring a new director for the renowned UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. The director will be appointed as a Professor in our psychology department: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07814

Director of the Center for Mind and Brain & Professor of Psychology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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My forthcoming book When Death Comes is now listed at Amazon and other book stores. Please consider placing an advance order at your preferred bookseller. Advance sales make a big difference to the life of a book. www.amazon.com/When-Death-C...

When Death Comes: Our Ultimate Transformation

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Three drugs knock you out by different routes and leave the wiring intact. What they wreck is the brain's rhythm, and that turns out to be the point. @earlkmiller.bsky.social #consciousness #neuroscience dailyneuron.com/brain-waves-...

Brain Waves Look Like Exhaust and Behave Like an Engine - Daily Neuron

Three drugs knock you out by different routes and leave the wiring intact. What they wreck is the brain's rhythm, and that turns out to be the point.

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COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)

Excited to share my lab's new preprint. We argue that the majority share of periodic rhythms and 1/f aperiodic features of the scalp EEG power spectrum originate from the non-stationary dynamics of EEG microstates. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Macroscale dynamics of EEG microstates determine the periodic and aperiodic features of the neural power spectrum

The global signal characteristics of scalp-recorded electroencephalography (EEG) are composed of periodic oscillatory rhythms and aperiodic broadband fluctuations that together constitute the neural p...

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Macroscale dynamics of EEG microstates determine the periodic and aperiodic features of the neural power spectrum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.28.741333v1

Why is our attention span limited? In our new paper, my lab tracked the millisecond dynamics of EEG microstates and their links to sustained attention. Microstates explained links between inattention and prestimulus alpha. A thread: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The Maintenance of Attention Over Time Influences the Dynamics of EEG Microstates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.02.716150v1

Excited to share a new preprint from my lab at the University of Kentucky looking at the activity and dynamics of EEG microstates during the maintenance of attention over short and long timescales. biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

My lab has been using a new behavioral task paradigm, first developed by the Engle lab, to investigate sustained attention, mind wandering, and "attention span", independent of changes occurring over the course of task sessions (i.e., time-on-task). You can access our first paper here: rdcu.be/fbbIP

This paper seems like a big deal: BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex. Curious to hear what others think. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex - Nature Neuroscience

Using quantitative brain imaging, the authors show opposite fMRI BOLD signal to metabolic activity due to variable oxygen extraction across the human cortex. This questions the canonical interpretatio...

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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...

Obituary – Jonathan Smallwood

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I wanted to share some exciting new papers: Li et al (sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) demonstrated traveling alpha waves explain the transitions between EEG microstates, and van Es et al. (nature.com/articles/s41...) showed cyclical patterns in transitions between brain networks.

Resolving Whole-Brain Alpha Traveling Waves Across Brain States

Spontaneously emerging traveling waves are present within the spatiotemporal patterns of alpha-band EEG oscillations, but current analysis methods are…

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Please consider applying to the PhD program in the Psychology Department at University of Kentucky to join my lab as a trainee for Fall 2026 admission. Come study attention, mind wandering, mindfulness. Find more information about the PhD program here: psychology.as.uky.edu/grad-prospec...

Join us at the University of Kentucky! We are looking to hire an Assistant Professor of Psychology, whose research program in cognitive neuroscience investigates interactions between cellular and behavioral outcomes in the context of health-related issues. ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600...

Assistant or Associate Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience

The Department of Psychology in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY seeks to fill a tenure-eligible faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor l...

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Fantastic to listen to Abdallah Sher, a student in my lab this year, discuss their research experience here at UK! tinyurl.com/TheOURPodcast

OUR Podcast

Podcast · OUR Podcast · Sharing the research stories of University of Kentucky undergraduates.

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