Jakub Limanowski

@jlimanowski.bsky.social

Professor of biological psychology @unigreifswald.bsky.social. Member @jungeakademie.bsky.social. https://psychologie.uni-greifswald.de/43051/biologische-psychologie/prof-dr-jakub-limanowski/

New lab preprint, in which we find "entrained" parietal oscillations, mid-frontal theta, and somatomotor beta scale with the amount of visuomotor conflict during continuous movement - with potentially different roles in control vs intersensory attention. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Oscillatory correlates of visuomotor control under varying amount of feedback delay

A weighted integration of visual and proprioceptive movement feedback is key for an adaptive body representation by the brain. Previous work has suggested a relationship between alpha and beta oscilla...

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My first first-author paper has just been published. If you are interested in brain stimulation and / or visuo-proprioceptive conflict, check out the paper below. doi.org/10.1007/s110... A big thank you to my amazing co-authors and supervisors, especially @jlimanowski.bsky.social!

Occipital tACS does not modulate manual performance but fixation variability under visuo-proprioceptive conflict - Neurophysiology

The modulation of oscillations at alpha and beta frequency ranges recorded over sensory cortices has been linked to the top-down weighting of sensory information relative to (competing) information from other modalities. Here, using a virtual reality-based hand-target matching task under visuo-proprioceptive conflict, we tested whether alpha-/beta-tACS over the occipital cortex would improve action performance when conflicting visual movement feedback needed to be ignored in favor of proprioception. Participants had to match a target rhythm with either their unseen real hand (RH) grasping movements, or with the movements of a virtual hand (VH) that displayed their actual movements after a constant time delay. Visual movement feedback was, consequently, either task-relevant (VH task) or a distractor (RH task). In a cross-over, double-blind, within-subject design, we applied either low-intensity (2 mA peak-to-peak) transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) at 10 Hz (“alpha”) or 20 Hz (“beta”), or sham, over the occipital cortex during this task. Neither alpha- nor beta-tACS significantly affected hand-target matching performance, but fixation variability in the RH condition significantly decreased during beta-tACS relative to sham stimulation. Thus, despite not directly modulating manual performance, occipital beta-tACS could have facilitated ignoring the mismatching (distracting) visual movement feedback when needed.

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New lab paper by Jonathan Yi & co., where we find some interesting dissociations between detection performance, confidence, and sampling strategies when instructing participants to search for visuomotor matches vs mismatches - in an array of sort-of controlled virtual hands: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Searching for visuomotor matches versus mismatches biases confidence and visual sampling strategies

Abstract. Visuomotor self–other distinction relies on the comparison of forward predictions from one’s motor system with visual movement data. Previous wor

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I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

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