What do individual human neurons do when a sound violates expectations? In our new EJN paper, we characterize single- and multi-unit responses to several auditory deviants using microwire recordings from 13 patients. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... #MMN #iEEG #PredictiveProcessing
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@dquiroga.bsky.social
Imagination, working memory, brains, audition, music, (i)EEG, MEG. Postdoc at University of Copenhagen. Former UC Berkeley, Aarhus Uni. Salsa dancer. Colombian. www.neurodavid.com
We are hiring! PhD student in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, investigating the neural mechanisms of auditory imagination: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... Project summary here: lundbeckfonden.com/neuronal-mec... Deadline: July 1st.
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
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We are hiring! PhD student in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, investigating the neural mechanisms of auditory imagination: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... Project summary here: lundbeckfonden.com/neuronal-mec... Deadline: July 1st.
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
jobportal.ku.dk
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience investigating the neuronal mechanisms of auditory imagination with #EEG #iEEG and beyond: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
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Honored to receive a @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social fellowship to study the brain basis of auditory imagination and its dysfunction in schizophrenia with #EEG, #iEEG, single neuron recordings and TMS: lundbeckfonden.com/neuronal-mec... PhD call below #neuroskyence #compneurosky #musicscience
A Neuronal Mechanism for Auditory Imagination
Some people can vividly imagine sounds; others cannot at all. But how does the brain regulate the experience of sounds that come from within? And is there a mechanism that could be exploited to treat ...
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Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology ๐ #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.
#MusicScience AND #NeuroJobs, together at last! I can personally recommend several excellent chocolateries nearby: www.fens.org/careers/job-...
Postdoctoral position studying music processing with iEEG - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
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Implications of recursive Bayesian Sensory Inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.30.696730v1
" 60 per cent of UK university libraries are considering dropping their big deals with the five major academic publisher" Many call for diamond open access. A new organisation with many partners, @ojcollective.bsky.social , is launching in January. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
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๐จ Join me for a hands-on #iElectrodes tutorial at #PracticalMEEG! ๐ Online โข ๐ Thursday, Oct 30 โข 14:00โ17:00 CET ๐ Free but mandatory registration Learn how to localize intracranial #iEEG #SEEG #ECoG electrodes โ and explore many other great toolboxes!
#PracticalMEEG2025 is coming up soon |Oct 28โ30| and weโre full! But good news: lectures will be accessible online for FREE! Join the Toolbox Bouquet on Oct. 30th to explore the latest cutting-edge toolboxes in M/EEG analysis. ๐Free but mandatory registration ๐ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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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#OAweek Support diamond #openaccess scholar-controlled journals, such as those listed at freejournals.org.
Excellent work by @dquiroga.bsky.social! Happy to be part of this great collaboration exploring how the brain manipulates thoughts through music ๐ถ #Neuroscience #MusicScience #CognitiveNeuroscience #iEEG
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
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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Brain Dynamics of Mental Manipulation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683458v1
For all the newcomers, a list of #musicscience researchers bsky.app/profile/did:...
For all the newcomers, here is a starter pack of people to follow on #musicscience, music cognition and related topics. just comment below if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/4oZbDpj #musicskyence
Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
CAIROโAs part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. โI...
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Ever slam on the brakes after seeing a speed trap? Or better yet, slow down ahead in anticipation? In our new paper w/ @anask07.bsky.social in @cp-iscience.bsky.social, we use #iEEG to study the neural basis of reactive and proactive control in medial and lateral PFC. tinyurl.com/4bbwbffv
Randolph is fantastic, and this will be an incredible opportunity to work on cutting edge science! Definitely consider applying
New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that Iโll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below ๐
New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that Iโll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below ๐
"A literature which is made by machines, which are owned by corporations, which are run by sociopaths, can only be a โstereotypeโโโโa simplification, a facsimile, an insult, a fakeโโโof real literature. It should be smashed, and can." -- @nplusonemag.com ๐๐ฝ www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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An insightful & enjoyable conversation with computational cognitive scientists Dr @olivia.science & Prof @irisvanrooij.bsky.social about their paper 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia' Give it a listenโ Share this & the paper w university leadership & administratorsโ
Loved how I got to clarify that the 5 principles in section 4 of the paper were nothing new. They came straight out of The Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, that every scientists in The Netherlands already ought to know. All we did is apply them to AI. www.nwo.nl/en/netherlan...
New paper! Excellent work by Rebecca Jane Scarratt on the neural responses to relaxation music published in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. @musicinthebrain.bsky.social #Musicscience link.springer.com/article/10.3...
๐คHow does the human brain predict unexpected sounds? Our new study shows that the prefrontal cortex doesnโt work as a single unit. Instead, the orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortex make distinct, time-sensitive contributions. #iEEG #BrainLesion #OFC #LPFC doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Predictive encoding of auditory sequences in the human prefrontal cortex
Humans extract regularities from the environment to form expectations that guide perception and optimize behavior. Although the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is central to this process, the relative contrib...
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We're excited to take this step, and to talk to other folks who are interested in experimenting. If you have something you're excited to try, reply here -- and we might even fund it. asterainstitute.substack.com/p/scientific...
Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough
Why we're no longer funding journal publications
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Don't miss the chance to apply to work with Andres. He is a great researcher in the field of predictive processing, working with #iEEG across humans and non-human primates
I am opening one PhD position at the Neuroscience Center @uhneuro.bsky.social, focusing on large-scale neural interactions in perception and prediction (ECoG/LFPs/MEG) across human and non-human primates using comp. modeling and information theory. contact: www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...
Excited to announce a new study from my time at the Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, now available on bioRxiv! Inharmonicity enhances brain signals of attentional capture and auditory stream segregation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #EEG #neuroscience #neuroskyence
Inharmonicity enhances brain signals of attentional capture and auditory stream segregation
Harmonicity is an important feature for auditory perception as it influences pitch processing, memory and hearing in noisy environments. However, the neural substrates of processing harmonic and inhar...
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as an experiment in academic internet stuff I made a 'new-auditory' list for folks interested in audition, hearing, speech, music etc anybody can join at groups.google.com/g/new-audito... the 30-year-old AUDITORY list is v cool but has many drawbacks, not least that it runs on 30-yr-old tech