We had a look at a question I am really excited about: does an individuals intrinsic brain rhythm predict speech tracking and comprehension? And how do speech motor and auditory rhythms work together? by Christina Lubinus, @annekeitel.bsky.social @jonasobleser.bsky.social @davidpoeppel.bsky.social

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · yesterday

Speech comprehension is thought to depend on #auditory - #motor interactions via brain rhythms. This study by @johannarimmele.bsky.social &co links theta and motor rhythms to stronger #speech tracking, the latter among those with high auditory-motor synchronization. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4fDnKY0

Speech comprehension is thought to depend on #auditory - #motor interactions via brain rhythms. This study by @johannarimmele.bsky.social &co links theta and motor rhythms to stronger #speech tracking, the latter among those with high auditory-motor synchronization. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4fDnKY0

Submit to our collection :) This is a fantastic opportunity to publish your work on cortico-subcortical loops

Communications Biology@commsbio.nature.com · 7mo ago

Our Cortical-subcortical brain loops cross-journal collection with @natneuro.nature.com, @natcomms.nature.com, & Scientific Reports is open for submissions 🧠 Curated by our board members @talking-bat.bsky.social, @stefanieliebe.bsky.social, & Markus Rothermel. Check at www.nature.com/collections/...

main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂 looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible. science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

New paper by @avbarchet.bsky.social from Gesa Hartwigsen’s group, @jonasobleser.bsky.social @ae.mpg.de @mpicbs.bsky.social We suggest attentional filtering during comprehension requires target enhancement and distractor suppression at different hierarchical levels www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Attentional engagement with target and distractor streams predicts speech comprehension in multitalker environments

Understanding speech while ignoring competing speech streams in the surrounding environment is challenging. Previous studies have demonstrated that attention shapes the neural representation of speech...

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Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

Our latest preprint! We find that auditory-motor synchronization behavior is related to the weighting of rhythmic versus melodic predictions during music perception, including long-term enculturated predictions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Auditory-motor synchronization determines the use of predictions in music perception

When listening to music, our brain constantly generates predictions about the timing and pitch of upcoming sounds based on the structure of the music. Individual differences in the ability to make suc...

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exciting! this was fun to be part of! thank you @ckeitelsci.bsky.social @annekeitel.bsky.social @satupalva.bsky.social @paulsauseng @sonjakotz for making it happen 🤗

SCONe - Scottish-EU Critical Oscillations Network@scone-neuro.bsky.social · last yr.

/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...

/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...

We have a *permanent* position available for a research engineer (ingénieur de recherche) to work in our new MEG-OPM facility. A strong scientific focus is possible. Speaking French is required. If you're interested, please let me know!

How does the brain track rhythms—and can we hack it? In our new study, just published @plosbiology.org, we dive deeper into neural entrainment—how the brain synchronizes to rhythms in our environment—and explore whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can modulate this process.

Sensory stimuli dominate over rhythmic electrical stimulation in modulating behavior

Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) modulates entrainment to rhythmic auditory stimuli, but the details of this interaction are not clear. This study shows that the effects of tACS dep...

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Very happy to see this out! In this work I demonstrate the potential of OPMs for laminar MEG and investigate the impact of factors such as sensor counts, number of measurement axes, co-registration errors, misestimated forward models… Already looking forward to Imaging Neuroscience’s 2025 collage!

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia Helbling: Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

I hope you enjoy some of the ideas I put forward in “Metacognition in the listening brain”: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro... — out now.

Metacognition in the listening brain

How do you know you have heard right? Metacognition, the ability to assess and monitor one’s own cognitive state, is key to understanding human communication in complex environments. However, the foun...

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Don't forget to join the ‘Max Planck Law | Tech | Society’ Initiative on 28 March for ‘Demystifying AI Interpretability’. @fedeadolfi.bsky.social will explore neural network explainability for a non-technical audience: law.mpg.de/event/demyst...

Demystifying AI Interpretability - Max Planck Law

This talk demystifies neural network interpretability for non-technical stakeholders, distinguishing key concepts and clarifying practical limits through computational meta-theory.

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🧠 In our new article, Martin Meyer & I argue that the lateralization of spoken language is enhanced by top-down processes—such as predictive coding and dimension-selective auditory attention—which engage left-lateralized sensorimotor networks. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A thread 🧵 1/12

Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing

Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…

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I'm very happy that this paper by Francecso Mantegna (now Oxford) and Joan Orpella (now Georgetown) is published. Congrats for some heroic data wrangling! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Unusual experiment (mental imagery of speech planning+MEG) shows cool perspective on speech production

Time-resolved hemispheric lateralization of audiomotor functional connectivity during covert speech production

Covert speech involves the internal generation of articulatory movements and their sensory consequences. While overt speech involves a combination of …

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✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz... looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠

@andreaeyleen.bsky.social has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for her proposal 'DYNALANG: Integrating structure and statistics in language processing: an ecological neural dynamics and manifolds approach'. Read more on our website: mpi.nl/news/erc-con...

We're hiring! My dept at CCNY is looking to hire a computationally minded cognitive neuroscientist at the Full Professor level. Ad here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/.... We'll start reviewing apps soon, but position is open until filled. #neuroscience #psychskisky #academicsky #neuroimaging #compneuro

Just published with Hugo Weissbart! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our new study in Nature Communications reveals how the structure and statistics of language work together to shape neural responses during naturalistic language comprehension! Thread below [1/7]

The structure and statistics of language jointly shape cross-frequency neural dynamics during spoken language comprehension - Nature Communications

This study demonstrates how, during spoken language comprehension, the brain integrates syntactic and statistical features, which mutually but differentially contribute to the phase-amplitude coupling...

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If you are interested in music improvisation and its motor and reward correlates, check our latest paper led by Anna Palumbo: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our YUGE consensus semantic paper is now out in the world. 50+ authors, hot tears, vicious arguments, shattered dreams -- but through the fire has emerged a glossary of terms/constructs to improve communication and promote incremental theory-building in our field. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our work on decoding speech using high-density micro-scale recordings was published today in Nature Communications! We demonstrate the potential of high-spatial sampling technology for future neural speech prostheses. nature.com/articles/s4146… The thread below outlines our main findings.

I ran a workshop on using Empirical Mode Decomposition to analyse oscillations in EEG during #CuttingEEG Frankfurt. I enjoyed the experience the broad discussions afterwards Materials below -> click 'Open in Colab' to run in the browser! #neuroscience #neuroimaging #eeg github.com/AJQuinn/Cutt...

GitHub - AJQuinn/CuttingEMD: An EMD tutorial for CuttingEEG Frankfurt 2023

An EMD tutorial for CuttingEEG Frankfurt 2023. Contribute to AJQuinn/CuttingEMD development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I'm excited to share our preprint on musical rhythm processing 🎵🎵 We show that cortical tracking is influenced by pitch predictability, expertise & enjoyment. 💙 Thanks to @johannarimmele.bsky.social @ckeitelsci.bsky.social and all the others in this huge project 💙 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Do you want to do a phd on #speech and #song and how we use our brain for it #electrophysiology #neuroimaging #motor #rhythm ? Come work with us at the MPI_ae ! Apply here and contact me for questions. e-recruiting.pro/jobposting/7... Please forward to everyone interested!

Looking for nice, enthusiastic academics to work with on a ERC-funded project on inter-area brain communication during perception. I have a 3-year postdoc and a PhD position available. Click link below for information. Feel free to share #neurojobs #neuroscience