Maciek Szul
@maciekszul.bsky.social
📍 Tübingen, DE ∆ DevComPsy Lab ∆🔬👨💻 🧪∆ decisions, motor control, (laminar) MEG, MRI ∆ not interested in oscillations ∆🤘🤡🚴🏔️ ∆ he/him ∆
Cortical territories compete in developmental space race doi.org/10.53053/HIF...
Cortical territories compete in developmental space race
Sensory and association regions are established through a reciprocal process, according to a new model of cortical development.
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Stop trying to explain what a p-value is in a single sentence (ICYMI) statsepi.substack.com/p/no-you-can...
No, you can't explain what a p-value is with one sentence (Parts I, II)
But I'm going to try and do it in as few as possible. #fml
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From periodic/aperiodic to static/dynamic: rethinking the decomposition of neural power spectra https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.26.740811v1
Our revised eLife paper on laminar alpha/gamma activity (fMRI-EEG) is out! 🎉 Congratulations to Tommy Clausner and René Scheeringa for their incredible work elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Frequency and Laminar Profile of Feature Specific Visual Activity Revealed by Interleaved EEG-fMRI
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New collaborative review of neurophysiological alterations in severe mental illness. 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @crchum.bsky.social @theneuro.bsky.social
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👁️🧠🧪 Vision takes time. But how does visual information flow through the human brain? Our new PLOS Computational Biology paper uses population receptive field (pRF) modelling to bring the spatial precision of fMRI to MEG, revealing the temporal dynamics of visual areas. 📖 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Non-invasive mapping of the temporal processing hierarchy in the human visual cortex
Author summary Vision doesn’t happen instantaneously, but unfolds over time. While we understand a lot about how the brain processes visual space, understanding how the brain processes information ove...
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Protein water, also known as skimmed (0% fat) milk.
Daniel Ekman@dekman.bsky.social · 2w ago”Proteinvatten”. Jag orkar inte.
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2w ago
Turns out that 2-choice tasks strongly underestimate the natural relationships between accuracy, confidence, and RT. This is true both in simulations and empirical data. See our new preprint. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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From a great collaboration with @lorenzoposani.com, @shuqiw.bsky.social, Samuel Muscinelli, Liam Paninski, now in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - Nature
Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.
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Osvaldo is translating the Bayesian Workflow book's case studies to Python, very useful in case you are snake person arviz-devs.github.io/bayesian-wor...
Osvaldo Martin@aloctavodia.bsky.social · 3w agoLook what was waiting on my desk this morning! It's so great to finally see #BayesianWorkflow in print.
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Alessandra Pizzuti, Omer Faruk Gulban, et al: Multimodal laminar characterization of visual areas along the cortical hierarchy doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Spain is showing what Tuchel meant by repeatable, no technical faults, sufficient speed. Really impressive. I still want France to win, but Spain is very solid.
Progress in Computational Psychiatry is is slowed down substantially because researchers (clinicians, cognitive neuroscientists, etc) lack the training in computational modelling and many studies dont follow the best practices in modelling. How can we change this? We've built the CPM toolbox:
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Lénárd Döme@lenarddome.bsky.social · 3w ago📢 Out now in PLOS Comp Biol: **cpm** — a Python library for theory-driven modelling in computational psychiatry. No scikit-learn for mechanistic cognitive models — so we built one: RL, prospect-theory & metacognition, hierarchical Bayes, and as many more as you can code 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
📢 Out now in PLOS Comp Biol: **cpm** — a Python library for theory-driven modelling in computational psychiatry. No scikit-learn for mechanistic cognitive models — so we built one: RL, prospect-theory & metacognition, hierarchical Bayes, and as many more as you can code 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
cpm: A python library for theory-driven modelling in computational psychiatry
Author summary Computational psychiatry is a field that makes extensive use of computational methods to understand mental health. In this field and related disciplines, there is a strong need to desig...
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I was sunning by the pool when the boxes arrived. And here in my hand is my life’s work: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.” Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat—pre-order today! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
I think that this SCA approach will prove quite useful in many applications. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Sparse component analysis: A method that uncovers separable computations within neural population activity
Zimnik et al. provide a new, interpretable, unsupervised dimensionality approach for neural population activity. Their approach, sparse component analysis (SCA), reveals the latent factors correspondi...
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For a long time I felt like there was a hesitation in neuroscience to ascribe anything like a planning function to the various "replay" events we see in the hippocampus, but I think this is rapidly changing. Here's another new entry in human epilepsy patients: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈 🧪
Human hippocampal ripples coordinate planning sequences and compositional representations in neocortex - Nature Neuroscience
Human hippocampal ripples and replay interact with the prefrontal cortex to update mental representations online, letting the brain compositionally combine familiar elements in new ways for flexible p...
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Officially, Portugal and Argentina are in mind prison, keeping "legends" on the pitch while having shit hot talent on the bench.
I like how every far right party has realizes all they need to do is weaponize the mid life crisis bsky.app/profile/core...
Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 4w agocan't stop laughing at this Poilievre: "We will reinstill a warrior culture, not a woke culture."
“move from preprint to peer-reviewed publication leaves the central claims of most abstracts intact, indicating preprints are a reliable source…papers that were never posted as preprints were retracted at roughly twice the rate of those that were…” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Tracking claim changes from preprint to publication across 72,644 biomedical studies using large language models
Preprints now disseminate a large share of biomedical research before peer review. Because they have not yet passed peer review, some scientists regard preprint claims as unverified or potentially unr...
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Oh no, poor human raw chicken breast. Longevity movement is a grift, and I cannot help but to have a reaction when it backfires on a grifter.
Mary Gillis@marygillis.bsky.social · last mo.A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.
Cancer: Stay focused this week on the things that really matter, like escalating your feud with the neighbors into a proper duel.