#JNeurosci: Findings from Leach et al. provide evidence that the frontoparietal cortex influences behaviors, dynamically adjusting communication between brain networks as decisions progress. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0594-26.2026

Couldn't be prouder of Darcy or happier to have her return to the Midwest! Great news for UWM.

Darcy Waller@darcywaller.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m so happy to share that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Fall 2027! I'm incredibly excited to head back to the Midwest, get to work with an incredible group of colleagues, and live in beautiful Madison, WI. 🦡🎊

New preprint from the lab. We think we have a solution (two, actually) to a long-standing problem in the field of response inhibition. Using two different mathematical approaches, we think we can identify long-hypothesized inhibitory 'trigger failure' trials. More in🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Two types of response inhibition failures in humans

Response inhibition is a key control function that allows humans to perform safe, goal-directed behaviors. The dominant behavioral-computational model holds that response inhibition fails when the inh...

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How does the human #brain stop movements under realistic conditions? @janw.bsky.social &co show that a fronto-basal ganglia circuit featuring the #SubthalamicNucleus rapidly engages & releases inhibition of specific movements, depending on environmental context @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/41UKLxR

New work, now out in PLoS Biology. Using intracranial recordings & EEG, we find that the human STN rapidly engages / releases motor inhibition depending on task context, does so in tight accord w/ frontal cortex, and shows little to no lateralization while doing so. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A cortico-subthalamic circuit rapidly engages and releases inhibition of specific movements depending on the environmental context

How does the human brain stop movements under realistic conditions? Using intracranial recordings and multi-variate EEG decoding, this study shows that a fronto-basal ganglia circuit featuring the sub...

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Jan R. Wessel@janw.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New preprint from the lab, led by post-doc @cheolsoh.bsky.social and former post-doc Mario Hervault (now Asst Prof at UGrenoble). The boys used synchronous intracranial recordings from the human subthalamic nucleus & EEG to study β bursts during global & selective response inhibition. Details in 🧵

I reviewed 5+ fMRI papers on response inhibition within roughly the last year, and the same points come up over and over again. So I wrote a short note last week entitled "The unique limitations of BOLD-fMRI in the study of response inhibition". You can read it here. osf.io/preprints/ps...