Nice Journal club article by @mightyrosequinn.bsky.social & @fsandhaeger.bsky.social on our MEG study into false percepts. They do a great job describing and interpreting our findings (better than we did?). www.jneurosci.org/content/46/2...

False Percepts as a Window onto Visual Processing

Many of us have had that moment—seeing a flash of motion in the periphery, only to turn and realize there was nothing there. Eerily, these “false percepts” can occur without any visual evidence whatso...

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Excited to share that our MEG project is now out in Current Biology! We show how visual content codes relate to motor oscillations in telling time. Huge thanks to Quirin Gehmacher, Peter Kok, Matt Davis and Clare Press (bsky links below).🧵 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in the relationship between memory and prediction, and have a track record of neuroimaging/decoding? Please apply! #NeuroJobs www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3576...

PhD Candidate: Cognitive Computational Neuroscience of Memory and Prediction

Welcome to Maastricht University! Are you fascinated by how the brain remembers and predicts information, and how it can tell apart representations of past and future? At Maastricht University, you wi...

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A “universal” pattern of cortical brain oscillations may be less ubiquitous than previously proposed. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-waves/...

Dispute erupts over universal cortical brain-wave claim

The debate highlights opposing views on how the cortex transmits information.

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Super happy to share my very first first-author paper out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! We show content-specific predictions are represented in an alpha rhythm. It’s been a beautiful, inspiring, yet challenging journey. Huge thanks to everyone, especially @peterkok.bsky.social @jhaarsma.bsky.social

Peter Kok@peterkok.bsky.social · 10mo ago

@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖

@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖

Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies

Predictions of future events have a major impact on how we process sensory signals. However, it remains unclear how the brain keeps predictions online in anticipation of future inputs. Here, we combin...

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Hellohello again! Tomorrow at 5:15pm I’m giving a short talk on our latest MEG study about our very well-loved oscillating perceptual predictions @meguki2025.bsky.social. Come by and talk brains! There are amazing talks and very cool science happening all around! MEGUKI 2025👌

@peterkok.bsky.social and I wrote a book chapter on how layer specific fMRI can shine light on disorders hallmarked by perceptual disturbances. This is part of a series on Perceptual Dysregulation in Psychiatric Nosology edited by @skhalsa.bsky.social and Al Powers link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

How Layer-Specific fMRI Can Contribute to Understanding Perceptual Disturbances Across Psychiatric Disorders

Perceptual disturbances occur across various sensory domains and contribute to significant suffering in numerous psychiatric and neurological conditions. Despite decades of research into the neural me...

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I enjoyed reviewing this study. Fascinating you get improved decoding of feedback signalling on memantine while ketamine is thought to disrupt it (both NMDA-ant). Could subtle differences in ketamine and memantine beyond NMDA-ant be relevant to psychosis? (Memantine being much less psychotomimetic)

Simon van Gaal@svangaal.bsky.social · last yr.

We show that memantine selectively improves neural decoding of attended illusory Kanizsa triangles, revealing NMDA receptor-dependent enhancement of feedback processing. elifesciences.org/articles/100... Thanks to Samuel Noorman @fahrenfort.bsky.social @timostein.bsky.social Jasper Zantvoord

Out now @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, w/ @akalt.bsky.social & @drmattdavis.bsky.social. Are sensory sampling rhythms fixed by intrinsically-determined processes, or do they couple to external structure? Here we highlight the incompatibility between these accounts and propose a resolution [1/6]

Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44... Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology

Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations acr...

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Just a reminder that Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, Winston Groom, works as a copy editor, except that his job entails endlessly “correcting the data” so that the archival record conforms to the Party’s preferred fictions, and what is “known” becomes a principal instrument of conformity.

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...

jneurosci.org

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!

www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3525... New PhD position part of a joint research program between Maastricht and the Radboud University on neural control. Are you interested in predictive processes and perception, and using ultra high field fMRI to study these systems? Apply or get in touch now!

PhD position in biological foundations of neural control

Maastricht University and Radboud University Nijmegen are jointly starting a research program on neural control to understand and restore brain function. In this project we aim to understand the neuro...

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Our study using layer fMRI to study the direction of communication between the hippocampus and cortex during perceptual predictions is finally out in Science Advances! Predicted-but-omitted shapes are represented in CA2/3 and correlate specifically with deep layers of PHC, suggesting feedback. 🧠🟦

Communication of perceptual predictions from the hippocampus to the deep layers of the parahippocampal cortex

High-resolution neuroimaging reveals stimulus-specific predictions sent from hippocampus to the neocortex during perception.

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Symposium on setbacks in science! @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social @roelandheerema.bsky.social Looking forward to share my rocky journey through science with everyone

So, it will be a fascinating day of reckoning with "failure" as a normal part of science. The event is part of Mental Health Awareness Week, which is all about creating a positive research culture! Register for FREE online or in-person attendance here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-...

📢 Fantastic post doc job opportunity in my group and co-supervised by DeepMind's @mariaeckstein.bsky.social - now live! Ad here: tinyurl.com/26rafzdc - deadline May 29th. This is part of a very exciting collaboration with @melgaby.bsky.social and Matt Nour, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social.

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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A large-scale collaborative consensus piece on predictive processing is now online arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 impressively orchestrated by @jeromelecoq.bsky.social

Neural mechanisms of predictive processing: a collaborative community experiment through the OpenScope program

This review synthesizes advances in predictive processing within the sensory cortex. Predictive processing theorizes that the brain continuously predicts sensory inputs, refining neuronal responses by...

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🚨 Available postdoc in my lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social See below 👇 for further details. 🧠 Any Qs feel free to email 📧

Matilde Vaghi@matildevaghi.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 I'm hiring 📣 Join the Vaghi Lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social! We're seeking a postdoctoral researcher with strong fMRI expertise to lead the development of neurocognitive paradigms and use dense-sampling fMRI in the general population and in OCD patients. 🧠 (1/3) cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Today we write in the magazine Curie about the lack of feedback on grant applications, and that it becomes weird when funding agencies require open science but don't provide a single word of feedback on applications. www.tidningencurie.se/debatt/oppen...

Öppen vetenskap borde gälla ansökningar också | Tidningen Curie

Idag får många forskare minimal respons eller ingen alls när de söker forskningsmedel. Men principerna för öppen vetenskap borde praktiseras även vid bedömning av forskningsansökningar, skriver 23 for...

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🤝 The Donders Institute, Radboud University, and Maastricht University are joining forces by establishing a platform for research, education and medical applications. The first project to make use of this platform is #Neural #Control: 👉 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

Radboud University and Maastricht University collaborate for Neural Control Research | Donders Institute

The Donders Institute, the Radboud University and the Faculties of Psychology and Neuroscience and Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of the Maastricht University are launching an innovative platform ...

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📣 I'm hiring 📣 Join the Vaghi Lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social! We're seeking a postdoctoral researcher with strong fMRI expertise to lead the development of neurocognitive paradigms and use dense-sampling fMRI in the general population and in OCD patients. 🧠 (1/3) cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I can officially say I've made it!

I am delighted to announce that I will be starting a new job as assistant professor at @maastrichtu.bsky.social from the beginning of June. Sad to be leaving the @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social after 5 wonderful and inspiring years, but beyond excited to be embarking on this new adventure.

🚨 FINAL CALL: 2 days left to apply for our PhD vacancy! 🚨 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