Olgerta Asko
@olgasko.bsky.social
🧠 PhD in cognitive neuroscience | predictive brain | EEG | prefrontal cortex | brain lesions | University of Oslo
We’re hosting a hybrid symposium on Neurophysiological mechanisms supporting attention and prediction. 📅 11 June 2026, 09:00–14:00 ECT 📍 Psychology Department, University of Oslo + online www.uio.no/ritmo/englis... All welcome! @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social @uio.no
Neurophysiological mechanisms supporting attention and prediction - RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
RITMO/CTNC hybrid symposium June 11th 2026
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Fascinating new study confirms that having children somehow impacts women’s academic careers more than men’s. Truly groundbreaking… 😅
Nature@nature.com · 4mo agoBecoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ
When birdsong suddenly appears, it affects us, and most often in a positive way🎶🐦 That's our experience from RITMO from when Maham Riaz carried out an experiment on her unsuspecting colleagues😅
When Birds Sing Indoors - Research News
“I didn’t realize how tense I was until the birds started, and then I immediately relaxed.” This was how one study participant described his experience when birdsong filled his workplace.
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Our brains predict the world before it happens🧠 Postdoctoral researcher Vinicius Rezende Carvalho studies how brain rhythms shape predictions and how deep brain recordings can unlock new insight into cognition, perception, and language. @viniciusrc.bsky.social
Vinícius Rezende Carvalho
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The brain turns chaos into meaning🤯🧠 PhD fellow Olgerta Asko studies the prefrontal cortex to understand how we make predictions about the world and transform information into action. @olgasko.bsky.social
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💡🧠New #preprint: we tested whether reward #learning produces lasting, context-general changes in spatial #priority. Using #EEG + #pupillometry, we found strong #reward-learning signals, but weak transfer 4 days later, suggesting limits to persistent, task-general spatial priority #plasticity.
bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 5mo agoStrong Reward Signals, Weak Transfer: Limits of Spatial Priority Map Plasticity Across Task Contexts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.06.710060v1
“Time is intimately tied up with the structure of space and the way things work. It’s not a blank canvas upon which you impose your existence, it’s part of your machinery and existence – the passage of time.” #time #science #curiosity pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/a-v...
A very, very brief history of time
From tracking the heavens to formulating relativity and entropy, understanding time has been a major human endeavour, says a University of Melbourne expert
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We often think of the mind as something that passively perceives an objective world. | https://bit.ly/49UAMxr In this interview, neuroscientist Karl Friston argues that the brain is not a mirror of reality but a prediction machine, constantly constructing the world it experiences. #philsci
How brains construct reality with Karl Friston
We tend to think of the mind as something that passively perceives an objective world. But perception is active, inferential, and deeply shaped by uncertainty. In this interview with the Institute of ...
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AI can speed up research, but it can’t automate science. Pattern-finding isn’t discovery. Humans still decide what counts as evidence, which questions matter, and whether results survive replication and debate into consensus. #AI #Science #Neuroscience #research #philosophy #AIphilosophy
AI cannot automate science – a philosopher explains the uniquely human aspects of doing research
While AI can streamline certain parts of the scientific process, a philosopher argues that it cannot replace human expertise and collaboration.
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If human deliberation is grounded in episodic memory and lived, embodied experience, what would it take for AI to get anything like that grounding? Thank you @arjensenius.bsky.social for a nice article on my trial lecture. #AI #BRAIN #embodiedAI #AIresearch www.arj.no/2026/01/09/g...
From Generalisation to Deliberation
I write about the human ability to move from generalisation to deliberation
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Is AI pretending to be intelligent, or is it really? @blaiseaguera.bsky.social #Technology #Books Researcher and CTO at Google, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, argues that AI's intelligence lies in its ability to make predictions. Read the full article: bigthink.com/books/blaise...
Perhaps you should start the new year with welcoming life's surprises?🤔 Your brain becomes slightly more fine-tuned every time you have an experience that defies your expectations!🧠 Read about @olgasko.bsky.social's research here: www.uio.no/english/rese...
Why You Should Welcome Life's Surprises with Gratitude - Research News
Each time you have an experience that defies your expectations, your brain becomes slightly more fine-tuned.
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From a workshop on collaboration skills, two things stood out as essential foundations of good teamwork: TRUST & COMMUNICATION: 👉Reliability, transparency & a space where it’s safe to ask, challenge & learn. 👉Clarity on goals, roles, expectations & feedback. Strong science is built together!
New preprint from my colleagues @viniciusrc.bsky.social & @ablenkmann.bsky.social: they recorded single neurons in human amygdala, hippocampus, insula & auditory cortex during a multi-feature auditory oddball paradigm (frequency, timing, intensity, location). www.authorea.com/users/100748... #brain
Human single-neuron responses to multi-feature auditory deviants: Evidence from amygdala, hippocampus, insula, and auditory cortex
The ability to detect unexpected sounds within regular acoustic patterns is fundamental to adaptive behavior. This capacity is reflected in the mismatch negativity (MMN) event-related potential and ha...
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Seeing my own child take part in an eye-tracking study today reminded me how hard research is: babies move, get distracted, and don’t follow instructions…yet every single data is precious.🧠👶 A little reminder: research needs participants, stubborn researchers, and funding to exist at all.💙
“…to understand the brain, we might need to challenge our intuitions about how it works - “in the same way that quantum mechanics is challenging to comport with our understanding of physical phenomena in the world.” www.quantamagazine.org/mental-pheno...
Mental Phenomena Don’t Map Into the Brain as Expected | Quanta Magazine
Familiar categories of mental functions such as perception, memory and attention reflect our experience of ourselves, but they are misleading about how the brain works. More revealing approaches are…
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Animals seamlessly combine what they see and hear. This study presents a simple, biologically inspired model that predicts how visual and auditory cues are integrated across humans, monkeys, and rats. 🔗 buff.ly/HfMDRkH
🧪RIP James Watson, one four scientists credited with deciphering the structure of DNA. It was Rosalind Franklin’s X ray diffraction image that revealed the double helix structure.
1/ Want to try your hand at science communication but don’t know where to start? We put together seven tried and tested tips for communicating preprinted research with suggestions and resources that can help you on social media and beyond! #SciComm 🔗 buff.ly/1jesQg5
What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts? We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies. Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroskyence #musicscience
Brain Dynamics of Mental Manipulation
Humans effortlessly juggle their internal thoughts, but the neuronal dynamics that support mental manipulation are largely unknown. Leveraging the high spatiotemporal fidelity of intracranial recordin...
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Our new paper on auditory processing in NREM sleep is online! We study how iERP and HFA responses in the temporal lobe are modulated by slow waves of sleep: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Congratulations to Sigurd Alnes for his brilliant work and to the entire team!
📖A fascinating read on how our mental architecture is shaped more for social cohesion and survival than for discovering objective truth. Evolution has given us a brain that’s brilliant… but maybe not built to find the truth of the word.🌟🧠 #evolution #brain iai.tv/articles/our...
Our brains evolved to survive, not to find truth | Samuel McKee
We like to believe that reason is our pathway to truth. Yet from Popper’s demand for falsifiability to Darwin’s doubt about the mind’s origins, a more unsettling picture is emerging. In an age that pr...
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