🧠New preprint - Thalamocortical orchestration of human theory of mind Combining 7T fMRI and intracranial sEEG, we show that the human thalamus plays a critical role in supporting naturalistic mentalizing by regulating cortical DMN computations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thalamocortical orchestration of human theory of mind

Reasoning about others' thoughts or beliefs is central to human social behavior. This ability, known as theory of mind (ToM), has been primarily attributed to cortical regions of the default network (...

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Thanks to Kshipra Guranandan, my notebook on how to design efficient fMRI experiments (for activity, connectivity and pattern analysis) is now available in Python as a Jupyter notebook (as well as previous Matlab): github.com/RikHenson/fM...

GitHub - RikHenson/fMRIefficiency

Contribute to RikHenson/fMRIefficiency development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Neuroscientist Dr. Brenda Milner is recognized as one of the fundamental founders of modern cognitive neuropsychology. She proved the hippocampus is essential for forming long-term "declarative" memory (facts, names & events). She was born #OTD in 1918--she's 108 years old today! #WomenInSTEM

New paper out: Led by super grad student Jim Zhang and in collaboration with Greg Cogan, we review and synthesize Insights into the neural mechanisms supporting cognitive stability and flexibility from human intracranial electroencephalography. For free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nRYWY3M3p...

Exciting work on how frontopariatal and default networks cooperate to support flexible, goal-directed behavior! Congrats to @veronicadiveica.bsky.social and the team!

Veronica Diveica@veronicadiveica.bsky.social · 3w ago

The default network is often thought to interfere with the selective deployment of attention—but our new @pnas.org paper shows a different story… 👉 Find the paper here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 1/🧵

#OHBM2026 Excited to share my first postdoc project w/ Nathan Spreng et al. at the MNI! Looking at human thalamocortical circuits underlying naturalistic theory of mind, using BOTH 7T fMRI and sEEG. 📌 Poster #3205 ⏰ Wed 17th, 12:45–13:45 & Thu 18th, 13:45–14:45 Looking fwd to seeing you there!

Sneak peek of my talk/poster at #OHBM2026 🧠 Looking forward to sharing our work on selective attention: 🎤 Talk - Wed 17th, Oral Session on Higher Cognitive Functions, 3:45–5:00 pm 📌 Poster #3024 - Wed 17th, 13:45–14:45 & Thu 18th, 14:45–15:45 Hope to see you there!

New paper from the lab! "Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus - Nature

In the hippocampus, complex processing of sensory stimuli occurs even in the unconscious state.

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Hi Zappers! Starting today (May 1st, Beltane) TMSMultiLab will be semi-automatically posting links to interesting TMS papers. They'll come from a Google Alert, not be comprehensive & will be biased towards scientific research rather than clinical application. We hope it helps! If not: reply! ⚡🧠🧲

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 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.

Using time-resolved EEG/MEG decoding?🧠 Here’s a new approach! No feature engineering (decode from raw signals), but capturing info that standard decoding often misses (oscillatory/aperiodic activity, connectivity). Lightweight, INTERPRETABLE, and easy to use. (1/6) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

***Please forward to interested colleagues*** The call for symposia (deadline 15 April) and abstracts (deadline 1 May) for Biomag 2026 in Beijing (23-25 Aug) is now open: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn

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Nick Holmes@thehandlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

For anyone skeptical about the effect of repetitive #TMS... "Effects of 'inhibitory' protocols did not survive sham-normalization" 😐 Reassessing the neurophysiological effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: A systematic review and comparative meta-analysis doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Neuromodulatory neurons are extremely susceptible to stress. I argue that their fragility is an inherent weak point, the breaking of which directly leads to Alzheimer’s Disease. I discuss this idea and its implications in a recently published perspective piece: dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz....

The neuromodulatory fragility hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

Sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with numerous risk factors, yet its precise cause remains unclear. Here, we describe a novel framework for AD pathogenesis, whereby diverse risk factor...

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Soon hiring a lab manager! Looking for someone who is really interested in language neuroscience, who is organised, motivated, a great communicator, and who works well in a research team. Express interest by submitting this form: tinyurl.com/glysn-labman... Reposts appreciated!

Great work by Roni Tibon (not on BlueSky) - surprising that negligible difference in fMRI correlates of semantic vs episodic retrieval?

School of Psychology, University of Nottingham@notts-psych.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, a new study found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep. But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

Aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in humans - Nature Communications

How aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in human brain and impacts on ripple detections is not fully understood. Here authors show that ripple detections should be driven by the 1/f noise, whic...

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After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried

If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

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📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ajay D. Halai, Marta M. Correia, et al: Comparing the effect of multi-gradient echo and multi-band fMRI during a semantic task doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition? A Perspective by Matthew C. Rosen & David J. Freedman #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition? - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Both localized and distributed views on the functional organization of the brain have been put forward. In this Perspective, Rosen and Freedman examine the degree to which these two views account for ...

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Runhao Lu, Elizabeth Pollitt & Alexandra Woolgar: Distinct and complementary mechanisms of oscillatory and aperiodic alpha activity in visuospatial attention doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Please repost: another kind of Black-Friday deal!

Special issue of Neuropsychologia celebrating the career of John Duncan. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... #neuroscience

We just published a paper in PNAS, showing microstructural changes to the hippocampus in aging and presymptomatic Alzheimer's disease - in humans, in vivo. We continue to show the value of structural MRI beyond simply measuring large-scale atrophy! Read here: ow.ly/1NvV50XkXnX

Quantitative MRI of the hippocampus reveals microstructural trajectories of aging and Alzheimer’s disease pathology | PNAS

Hippocampal degeneration is a feature of both normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Prior to macroscopic degeneration, microstructural changes...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences@pnas.org · 9mo ago

The search for early signs of Alzheimer's disease continues: Brain scans reveal microstructural changes in the hippocampus that signal early stages of the disease, including demyelination, increased iron deposition, and changes in water content. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/1NvV50XkXnX

New pontification piece with @awestbrook.bsky.social and Jean Daunizeau, just out in TICS: Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly? (or why does it hurt to think) never written a review paper before in my life, that was a new and unusual experience

Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly?

A widespread observation is that people avoid mentally effortful courses of action, and much recent work examining cognitive effort has explained subjective effort evaluation – and, consequently, pref...

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🚨New Results! Really excited to share this work - Feedback doesn’t just signal right or wrong, it reorganizes population geometry of learning targets in vlPFC, moving representations toward future retrieval states. Notably, oscillations (TG-PAC & beta) gate when this transformation occurs. 🧵👇

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Neural dynamics in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex underlie learning from feedback https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.16.688684v1

Exciting news from the chairs of Biomag 2026, Prof. Jiahong Gao and Prof. Huan Luo — the conference website is now live: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn The meetings take place in Beijing, 23–25 August 2026. Save the date and start thinking about ideas for posters and symposia! Please share with colleagues

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Now out in Imaging Neuroscience! Using TMS-EEG, we showed that alpha rh-TMS could differentiatially modulate alpha oscillations and aperiodic activity, and then improved representation of visuospatial attention. #TMS #EEG doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Distinct and complementary mechanisms of oscillatory and aperiodic alpha activity in visuospatial attention

Abstract. Alpha oscillations are thought to play a key role in visuospatial attention, particularly through lateralisation mechanisms. However, whether this function is driven purely by oscillatory ac...

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Runhao Lu | 陆润豪@runhaolu.bsky.social · last yr.

Is alpha in spatial attention pure oscillatory - or aperiodic? New results here based on 3 EEG datasets + TMS-EEG: relative to arrhythmic-TMS, alpha rh-TMS enhanced oscillatory but decreased aperiodic alpha - yet both supported spatial attention via distinct mechanisms.⚡🧠🌊 #neuroscience #TMS #EEG