🧠 Fully funded PhD Opportunity: how the brain recognises & remembers during active visual exploration. @marcsinstitute.bsky.social, Australian domestic applicants only. Closes 31 Oct 2026. Details & apply: tijl.github.io/phdscholarsh...

New paper in eNeuro led by a fabulous undergraduate team in my lab in col. with Ed Silson! Navigation requires linking what you see with your memory. We asked how the functional organization of superior parietal cortex link scene perception with spatial memory. www.eneuro.org/content/13/9...

Scene Perception–Memory Pairing Extends to the Superior Parietal Cortex

Visual scene analysis relies on a set of scene-selective regions in the posterior cerebral cortex (OPA, PPA, MPA), with a paired memory-responsive counterpart located in the anterior (LPMA, VPMA) or o...

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In case it's of interest to anyone, here's a regularly updated list of UK postdoctoral research fellowships - feel free to share/copy sites.google.com/site/blakemo...

Blakemore Lab - Postdoctoral Fellowships

Below is an overview of Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in the United Kingdom, which was originally curated by Professor Rogier Kievit. These have a special focus on psychology, neuroscience, develo...

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Announcing the TMS Multi-Lab Hackathon 2026! We will work collaboratively to solve problems in TMS, EMG & data analysis Matlab / Python / GitHub support 10th to 12th August 2026, Online only, FREE, Multiple timezones Register/more information here: forms.gle/JVCiZCWbFCRX... #TMS #BrainStim ⚡🧠🧲

TMSMultiLab Hackathon, 10-12 August 2026

Express your interest in and preferences for a Summer 2026 Hackathon Event with TMSMultiLab. It will be run entirely ONLINE. There will be multiple sessions (e.g., 3 hours each, two sessions per day)...

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TMSMultiLab is an international network for researchers using #TMS - transcranial magnetic stimulation. There are about 85 of us, over 14 countries. We've written a few papers so far (under review / in prep), but more importantly we hold monthly Meetings: Free to all! github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

📢 Save the date! 🗣️ Spread the word! The multi-disciplinary International Conference on Memory is finally returning in summer 2027 and it's coming to Glasgow!

Now out in Imaging Neuroscience! Using TMS-EEG, we showed that alpha rh-TMS could differentiatially modulate alpha oscillations and aperiodic activity, and then improved representation of visuospatial attention. #TMS #EEG doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Distinct and complementary mechanisms of oscillatory and aperiodic alpha activity in visuospatial attention

Abstract. Alpha oscillations are thought to play a key role in visuospatial attention, particularly through lateralisation mechanisms. However, whether this function is driven purely by oscillatory ac...

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Runhao Lu | 陆润豪@runhaolu.bsky.social · 2y ago

Is alpha in spatial attention pure oscillatory - or aperiodic? New results here based on 3 EEG datasets + TMS-EEG: relative to arrhythmic-TMS, alpha rh-TMS enhanced oscillatory but decreased aperiodic alpha - yet both supported spatial attention via distinct mechanisms.⚡🧠🌊 #neuroscience #TMS #EEG

After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨ osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thrilled to share our new opinion piece—hot off the press—on attentional sampling, co-authored with the magnificent Flor Kusnir and Daniele Re. It captures where our thinking has landed on this topic after years of work. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Attentional sampling resolves competition along the visual hierarchy

Navigating the environment involves engaging with multiple objects, each activating specific neuronal populations. When objects appear together, these populations compete. Classical attention theories...

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New results! We tested different control conditions for rh-TMS entrainment and showed ar-TMS performs best (matching sensory without inducing oscillatory effects). Also explored how rh-TMS/ar-TMS/sham-TMS differentially impact Oscillatory and Aperiodic activity! www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

Optimizing control conditions for entraining neural oscillations using rhythmic TMS

Rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation (rh-TMS) is increasingly used to entrain neural oscillations and probe their causal roles in cognition [1-3]. By delivering pulse trains at specific frequenc...

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I'm getting to announce a lot of new papers this week! This one, led by the fabulous duo of @jadebjackson.bsky.social and @catrionascrivener.bsky.social shows that artefact free concurrent #TMS-fMRI is possible - with surprisingly short interslice gaps.

Jade Jackson (Savun)@jadebjackson.bsky.social · last yr.

Setting up a concurrent TMS-fMRI experiment ⚡🧠? Check out our paper just out on when to deliver TMS pulses between MR slice gaps to avoid signal loss. doi.org/10.1016/j.jn.... Thanks to @catrionascrivener.bsky.social M. Correia M. Mada and @alexwoolgar.bsky.social

Setting up a concurrent TMS-fMRI experiment ⚡🧠? Check out our paper just out on when to deliver TMS pulses between MR slice gaps to avoid signal loss. doi.org/10.1016/j.jn.... Thanks to @catrionascrivener.bsky.social M. Correia M. Mada and @alexwoolgar.bsky.social

Delighted to see this - the culmination of discussions begun by the ocean in Greece (at our international workshop on TMS-fMRI) - now out in print! I learnt a lot, and made many friends, along the way to this one. Next TMS-fMRI workshop will be in Mexico in Sept, EOI at www.tmsfmriworkshop.org

Nature Protocols@natprot.nature.com · last yr.

New Article! Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience

Is alpha in spatial attention pure oscillatory - or aperiodic? New results here based on 3 EEG datasets + TMS-EEG: relative to arrhythmic-TMS, alpha rh-TMS enhanced oscillatory but decreased aperiodic alpha - yet both supported spatial attention via distinct mechanisms.⚡🧠🌊 #neuroscience #TMS #EEG

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2y ago

Distinct and complementary mechanisms of oscillatory and aperiodic alpha activity in visuospatial attention https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.20.644419v1

"...pleased to inform you that your article, "Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience", has now been accepted and sent to our Production department and should soon be published in Nature Protocols."⚡🎈🤘 OG preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🚨PhD opportunity Fall/Winter 2025🚨 Join me in Geneva Switzerland #unige to learn more about colour perception. Using neuroimaging & computational modelling, you'll be working with an international & interdisciplinary team to understand how we transform light into a colourful world!🧠👁️🌈 #neurojobs

Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents

Rhythmic neural activity is considered essential for adaptively modulating responses in the visual system. In this opinion article we posit that visua…

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Setting up an fMRI model and getting hit with collinearity errors? Been there! 😢 Try removing regressors? Orthogonal regressors? Other tricks to resolve collinearity errors? Guess what—those fixes might make things worse. We explore why and propose recommendations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/

I am looking for a post-doc on neuroimaging analysis. Come & join my team at UEA (Norwich, UK). The post is for 32 months starting from April. Norwich is a wonderful & affordable city. ➡Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13... ⏰Deadline: 13 February 2025 Questions: s.rossit@uea.ac.uk

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ALT: a black and white image of a person 's brain with the letters p and s visible

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🚨New paper alert!⚡🧠Using concurrent TMS-EEG & MVPA in a selec attention task, we show parietal alpha rh-TMS (entrainment) specifically and causally enhances spatial attention ('where' info) coded by ERPs and alpha power, but not 'what' info or visual features. www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

Parietal alpha stimulation causally enhances attentional information coding in evoked and oscillatory activity

Selective attention is a fundamental cognitive mechanism that allows people to prioritise task-relevant information while ignoring irrelevant information. Previous research has suggested key roles of parietal event-related potentials (ERPs) and alpha oscillatory responses in attention tasks. However, the informational content of these signals is less clear, and their causal effects on the coding of multiple task elements are yet unresolved.

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Hi TMSMultiLab followers, If you'd like to help re-run & update (& publish) an influential (~30 citations/year) #MetaAnalysis on #ThetaBurst #TMS - which is 20 years old this month - then please get in touch! (you'll need a github account)

Nick Holmes@thehandlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

so there's this very famous method in brain stimulation & it was first published 20 years ago this month, but the original results could not be replicated by the lab that published them, so 7 years later the same lab reported there was no effect of this method, but it was too late as everyone was...

✨New paper @commsbio.bsky.social !! Using MEG/EEG, we investigated domain-general cognitive systems in human brains implemented by aperiodic and oscillatory responses. Great collaboration with @alexwoolgar.bsky.social , John Duncan, and Nadene Dermody. rdcu.be/d34pt

Aperiodic and oscillatory systems underpinning human domain-general cognition

Communications Biology - Using MEG/EEG, this study reports that aperiodic broadband power, rather than oscillations, reflects a core response to diverse cognitive demand that links to the...

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This year’s #CBUMethodsDay videos are now online: ow.ly/h7aa50UqFZ2 The videos of previous years are available here: ow.ly/SNih50UqFZ1 Thank you to everyone who participated or attended. @mrccbu.bsky.social

We're excited to share NaviNIBS, our new open-source tool 🔨 for neuronavigated noninvasive #brainstim 🧠⚡️ 🎉Congrats to our co-director Chris Cline, lead developer of NaviNIBS! We hope to enable new possibilities for innovations in neuronavigation #TMSEEG @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social (1/5)

Hello Brain Stimulation ( #TMS #BrainStim ) folk, we're running a workshop in Birmingham UK to forge a new consensus on using TMS in (experimental psychology) research. We need the brightest and freshest minds to apply! details 👇

TMSMultiLab@tmsmultilab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you doing TMS 🧲 research in or near the UK? Is your diary free 23-25 April 2025? Do you like talking & writing about TMS, coding, sharing data & using github? Yes, yes, yes? Then you have 8 days to apply to attend our Birmingham TMS workshop: Details: github.com/TMSMultiLab/... #BrainStim

Are you concurrent TMS-fMRI curious? Have all of your awkward questions answered with this PHENOMENAL consensus paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf.... Borne out of workshops set in stunning locations by the sea, the fabulously collegiate TMS-fMRI community tells you why you might want to TMS-fMRI!