🚨New paper alert 🚨 Using EEG and decoding analyses we find dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning, both within and across trials 🧠 @auksz.bsky.social @fedemar.bsky.social Caspar Schwiedrzik elifesciences.org/articles/103...

Dissociable dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning

Neural responses during statistical learning reveal dissociable dynamic effects of expectation, supporting the opposing process theory within trials while demonstrating contrasting effects across tria...

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Here is our latest work on newborns and music perception!

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 6mo ago

Does our very human ability to anticipate #musical structure exist at birth? @robertabianco.bsky.social @giacomonovembre.bsky.social &co show that #newborns encode #rhythmic (but not melodic) expectations based on statistical regularities in real #music @plosbiology.org plos.io/4kqKVWg

🚨 Join me for a hands-on #iElectrodes tutorial at #PracticalMEEG! 📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET Learn how to localize intracranial electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes: cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee... #iEEG #ECoG #SEEG

CuttingEEG@cuttingeeg.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Registration for #PracticalMEEG 2025 in Aix-en-Provence (Oct 28–31) is NOW OPEN!🚨 Pick how you want to join: 👩‍💻 Regular participant 🎓 TrainEER (teaching assistant) 🌸 Toolbox Bouquet Florist (online) 🚀Spots go VERY fast—register ASAP! 👉 cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...

🤔How does the human brain predict unexpected sounds? Our new study shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t 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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Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Just a couple days left to apply for this position! Come work with me @fedemar.bsky.social, @predictivebrain.bsky.social & Sonja Kotz to investigate the neural-circuitry underlying of perceptual inference

Floris de Lange@predictivebrain.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨PhD position alert!🚨 Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

Really glad my first MEG paper is out! Orientation-specific sensory signals accompanied falsely perceived gratings, and a shared perceptual confidence code was present on FA and veridical trials. We also found a unique role for increased beta oscillations preceding high confidence FA. Read for more!

Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception

We often mistake visual noise for meaningful images, which sometimes appear as convincing as veridical percepts. This suggests considerable overlap between the mechanisms that underlie false and verid...

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A bit less than 2 weeks left to apply for this position! If you are interested in perceptual decisions, top-down modulations, predictions, laminar fMRI - join us for what will be a great collaborative project!

Floris de Lange@predictivebrain.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨PhD position alert!🚨 Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

New MEG paper by @jhaarsma.bsky.social and @dotproduct.bsky.social‬! Same design and behavioural results as our 7T layer fMRI study (www.jneurosci.org/content/43/4...), but now shedding light on the temporal dynamics of the sensory signals underlying false percepts. #neuroskyence

Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception

We often mistake visual noise for meaningful images, which sometimes appear as convincing as veridical percepts. This suggests considerable overlap between the mechanisms that underlie false and verid...

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Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... by @jhaarsma.bsky.social @dotproduct.bsky.social @peterkok.bsky.social; now let's "mistake" meaningful noise as meaningful images through enhanced reliance on top-down signalling?

Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception

We often mistake visual noise for meaningful images, which sometimes appear as convincing as veridical percepts. This suggests considerable overlap between the mechanisms that underlie false and verid...

jneurosci.org

🚨PhD position alert!🚨 Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

PhD position alert!!! Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Happy to answer any question you may have!

🚨Job alert🚨 We’re recruiting for another PhD position at MaCSBio @macsbio.bsky.social, focused on computational neuroscience. Come work on brain, sound, and computational models, co-supervised by myself and Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply by 18 May 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdhtwuzs

A first look at the location of the ICAC2025 meeting in Maastricht. Registration and abstract submission is now open!

🚨 PhD opportunity alert! 🚨 Passionate about neuroscience? Want to work with cutting-edge tech like ultra-high field MRI and intracranial EEG to study the human brain? Join us and push the boundaries of neuroscience 🧠✨ 📍 @macsbio.bsky.social 📆 2 March 🔗 tinyurl.com/bfjwpmt9 #neurojobs #PhD

New Research Published! I'm excited to share our latest study, led by Sabine Leske, investigating how the brain predicts the sharpness of sounds in rhythmic sequences. 🧠🔊 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Beta oscillations predict the envelope sharpness in a rhythmic beat sequence - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Beta oscillations predict the envelope sharpness in a rhythmic beat sequence

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In September the sky will be similar…and it will be warmer! Join us for ICAC 2025 and enjoy Maastricht with us!

Join us in Maastricht for the 2025 ICAC conference in September! Abstract submission and registration are now open www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/icac2025/int...

The abstract submission and registration for ICAC 2025 in Maastricht is now open! www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/icac2025/int...

Please share! Come work with us in Orlando! The Conscious Audition and Scene Analysis (CASA) Lab at the University of Central Florida is looking to hire a postdoc to work on projects related to the neural basis of auditory perception and cognition. 🧠📈 #EEG 🧠🤖 #consci

Women in Cognitive Science Europe (WICS-E) is organising an online panel discussion on creating an inclusive and anti-racist academia. Free registration & more info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1027101356...

Creating an inclusive and anti-racist academia - Online panel discussion

Join our online panel to learn ways you can help create an anti-racist academia

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My new preprint is out! Using EEG and decoding analyses, we find direct evidence for the Opposing Process Theory of perception, while showing dynamic effects across over time. @auksz.bsky.social @fedemar.bsky.social Caspar Schwiedrzik www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dissociable dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning.

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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There is still time to apply for these positions in Maastricht! A great opportunity if you are looking to start your own lab! www.academictransfer.com/en/344342/tw...

Two vacancies for assistant professors in cognitive neuroscience

We are looking to attract two new tenure track assistant professors to the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience (CN), which is part of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) at Maastricht Un...

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Two new assistant professor positions at the cognitive neuroscience department of Maastricht University. Come join us! More details in the link below! www.academictransfer.com/en/344342/tw...

Two vacancies for assistant professors in cognitive neuroscience

We are looking to attract two new tenure track assistant professors to the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience (CN), which is part of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) at Maastricht Un...

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For an ERC-funded project Rainer Goebel is looking for enthusiastic academics interested in investigating mental imagery using laminar fMRI, AI and BCIs. For details see: www.academictransfer.com/en/342721/ph... www.academictransfer.com/en/342769/po...

PhD positions: Reading the mind's eye

Are you interested in working within a dynamic team to investigate the neural representations and computations underlying visual mental imagery? Do you want to understand why the experienced vividness...

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This week, we share an In Memoriam Editorial by EiC @fmri-today.bsky.social et al. that pays tribute to Dr. Sean Marrett, a neuroscientist and active member of the international brain mapping community doi.org/10.52294/001...

Entrainment Echoes in the Cerebellum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.06.583255v1

Entrainment Echoes in the Cerebellum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.06.583255v1

Historically, researchers have considered the cerebellum a coordinator of motor programs that ensure

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We are looking for an enthusiastic young data scientist with emphasis on collaborative work more than writing own grants! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

My group is looking for a post doc who is passionate about high field layer fMRI methods, time series analysis, or functional contrast mechanisms. fim.nimh.nih.gov/positions-av...

It is really sad how when departments tolerate just one or two bullies, it can completely destroy a place over time, but so many institutes do it anyway 🧪🎢🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How a bullying scandal closed a historic astronomy department

Lund University in Sweden reorganizes in the face of years of accusations against two professors. Lund University in Sweden reorganizes in the face of years of accusations against two professors.

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