New study out today in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41..., in which we set out to test whether ultrasound could influence the reward-related learning computations of the nucleus accumbens, building on decades of work on dopaminergic prediction error and reinforcement learning. And it did.

Non-invasive ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human nucleus accumbens impacts reward sensitivity - Nature Communications

This study shows that non-invasive ultrasound to the human nucleus accumbens can modulate deep brain activity and enhance reward-guided learning, offering a potential alternative to invasive neuromodu...

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Happy to share our new publication in BMC Psychiatry. @bmc.springernature.com bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 🗯️ Here, we aimed to map different oculomotor paradigms metrics to key attention systems across psychiatric conditions, including ADHD, ASD, TS, OCD, BPD, DCD, and SSD.

Transdiagnostic eye-tracking biomarkers of inattention across psychiatric disorders: a systematic review - BMC Psychiatry

Attention impairment is a dimensional and heterogeneous trait, distributed continuously across the population. Understanding the pathophysiology of eye movement control offers valuable insight into at...

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Happy to share our new publication in BMC Psychiatry. @bmc.springernature.com bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 🗯️ Here, we aimed to map different oculomotor paradigms metrics to key attention systems across psychiatric conditions, including ADHD, ASD, TS, OCD, BPD, DCD, and SSD.

Transdiagnostic eye-tracking biomarkers of inattention across psychiatric disorders: a systematic review - BMC Psychiatry

Attention impairment is a dimensional and heterogeneous trait, distributed continuously across the population. Understanding the pathophysiology of eye movement control offers valuable insight into at...

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@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖

Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies

Predictions of future events have a major impact on how we process sensory signals. However, it remains unclear how the brain keeps predictions online in anticipation of future inputs. Here, we combin...

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Online Now: Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research

Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research

The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize across tasks and laboratories. We call for community-driven efforts to systematically test and validate connectivity metrics using shared datasets and protocols, aiming to establish robust, replicable frameworks for cognitive and clinical applications.

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Preprint Alert🧑‍💻 In our new study we track hierarchical neurobiological changes 2, 15, 30 minutes post TBS protocols (cTBS, iTBS, Sham) using spDCM under conductance based canonical microcircuit neural mass model🧠📝. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hierarchical neurobiological changes in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and subgenual anterior cingulate cortex connectivity induced by theta-burst stimulation

Recent studies show that left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) stimulation induces acute and persistent changes in the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC), and the degree of sgACC modula...

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For TMS studies to be reproducible and for us to build on each other’s findings, we need to report what we actually did during the experiment. We've built and now are evaluating the TMS-RAT (Reporting Assessment Tool). Check out our website! - built by @thehandlab.bsky.social

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The TMS-RAT v1.0 is now being tested! It's a checklist / guidance tool to help researchers report #TMS studies & to facilitate quantitative comparisons in #systematicreviews & #meta-analyses All the data will be made freely available; an interactive website will be coming. Stay tuned! tms-rat.org

News story on the UCL Brain Sciences website about our recent paper using 7T fMRI to study the communication between hippocampus and neocortex. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Link to the paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... #neuroskyence

Researchers reveal how our brains predict what we’re about to see

Researchers in the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology find that the hippocampus sends signals to the visual cortex to predict what we are about to see.

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Preprint Alert🧑‍💻 In our new study we track hierarchical neurobiological changes 2, 15, 30 minutes post TBS protocols (cTBS, iTBS, Sham) using spDCM under conductance based canonical microcircuit neural mass model🧠📝. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hierarchical neurobiological changes in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and subgenual anterior cingulate cortex connectivity induced by theta-burst stimulation

Recent studies show that left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) stimulation induces acute and persistent changes in the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC), and the degree of sgACC modula...

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Happy to share a new perspective on Loneliness and social conformity: A predictive processing perspective led by Naem Haihambo & Dirk Scheele & his team @ruhr-uni-bochum.de nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠

A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results - Nature Communications

Here, the authors present the Network Correspondence Toolbox, which enables researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their neuroimaging results and widely used brain atlases.

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🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity? Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states. Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d A thread 🧵👇 1/n

We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Predictive coding folks! Found sth new for your presentations😂

Excited to share this perspective with @yaelniv.bsky.social about how schemas might be learned and instantiated via reinforcement learning, latent cause inference, and dimensionality reduction, and what's the medial prefrontal cortex might be doing for all of these www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

A computational account of how schemas are learned through experience is lacking. In this Perspective, Bein and Niv synthesize schema theory and reinforcement learning research to derive computational...

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Spanning spatial scales with functional imaging in the human brain; initial experiences at 10.5 Tesla https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629800v1

Fresh out: a short review article where I give an overview of different ways that across-trial temporal structure is helpful in understanding cognitive models of decision-making osf.io/preprints/ps...

📣 #PhD position announcement📣 (please share) We're seeking applicants for a joint venture with University of St. Andrews (lead by Thomas Otto) exploring how we can optimise measures of #multisensory #perception for remote data collection. Find out more here👇 https://buff.ly/3ZJk131

Check out our work recently published in Scientific Reports 🧠🧑‍💻 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our study explored role of right DLPFC in different explorative strategies, using TMS and Horizon Task.

A causal role of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in random exploration - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - A causal role of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in random exploration

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My paper is out!! 🎉 "Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin", @Nature Here, we show that dopamine and serotonin signals form a gas-brake system for reward in the mammalian brain THREAD ⬇️ 1/n

Just start doing some real tasks with Neurodesk @neurodesk.bsky.social . It's really amazing (at least far better than having dual boot if you are using Windows). Check out if you are working with neuroimaging packages. www.neurodesk.org

A few months ago I started coding numerical questions from this book with Python. Email if you wanna contribute. It could be a good practice though. Check out here: github.com/ArminTi/Baye...

GitHub - ArminTi/Bayesian-Models-of-Perception-and-Action: Solution to problems with python

Solution to problems with python. Contribute to ArminTi/Bayesian-Models-of-Perception-and-Action development by creating an account on GitHub.

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CLaE@claeneuro.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bayesian models of perception and action www.cns.nyu.edu/malab/bayesi...

Bayesian models of perception and action www.cns.nyu.edu/malab/bayesi...

Check out our work recently published in Scientific Reports 🧠🧑‍💻 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our study explored role of right DLPFC in different explorative strategies, using TMS and Horizon Task.

A causal role of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in random exploration - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - A causal role of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in random exploration

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Together, our results demonstrate that a key mechanism through which the brain distinguishes imagination from reality is by monitoring the activity of mid-level sensory cortex. We hope these findings lay the foundations for future research on a generalised reality monitoring system in the brain 13/N

I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵

Join us for the Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org July 14-16 2025 in beautiful Tübingen, Germany. Proposals for symposia can now be submitted. Each symposium should have 4 speakers, and we are looking for symposia across the range from basic to clinical and big data.

Computational Psychiatry Conference

University of Minnesota (July 16-18, 2024)

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Important review paper on the widespread potential for integrative neuroscience (and in particular, the role of computational modelling in bridging levels of analysis) to drive novel treatments for mental illness www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #neuroskyence

The neuroscience of mental illness: Building toward the future

Mental illnesses arise from dysfunction in the brain. Although numerous extraneural factors influence these illnesses, ultimately, it is the science of the brain that will lead to novel therapies. Mea...

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Excited to share our new paper, published on computational psychiatry. doi.org/10.5334/cpsy... This review tries to address possible contributions of the Predictive Processing Framework to the RDoC matrix.

RDoC Framework Through the Lens of Predictive Processing: Focusing on Cognitive Systems Domain | Computational Psychiatry

Computational Psychiatry publishes original research articles and reviews that involve the application, analysis, or invention of theoretical, computational and statistical approaches to mental functi...

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