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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 10d

@matthiasmichel.bsky.social and I are beavering away reading and responding to all the excellent commentaries on our BBS paper outlining an evolutionary account of visual consciousness.

In the meantime, if you missed our target article, it's available here:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 11d

PCI Psychology! psych.peercommunityin.org

PCI Psychology

Peer Community in Psychology

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 9d

We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 13d

Intervening on a central node in a network likely does little given that its connected neighbors will "flip it back" immediately. Happy to see this position supported now.

"Change is most likely [..] if it spreads first among relatively poorly connected nodes."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less

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Zach Rosenthal @zachrosenthal.bsky.social · 17d

Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology

Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature

Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 16d

In this video, Andy Jahn discusses the latest developments in #SPM, the latest release #SPM25 and our recent #SPM Homecoming with the wonderful @corticalpete.bsky.social, @liviasimela.bsky.social and @johmedr.bsky.social.

youtu.be/VqzvUPV7pk8?...

SPM Homecoming & SPM25 | Prof. Peter Zeidman, Dr. Olivia Kowalczyk & Dr. Johan Medrano

YouTube video by Andy's Brain Tube

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Jingnan Du @jingnandu.bsky.social · 16d

Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner

Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · 27d

Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Jul 17

8/ In contrast to standard power calculations, our results suggest that jointly optimizing sample size and scan time can boost prediction accuracy while cutting costs. For more complex study design, you can check out our calculator: thomasyeolab.github.io/OptimalScanT...

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Jul 17

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social

AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements...

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Juliette Brook @juliettebrook.bsky.social · May 6

Dreaming of a dataset that tracks mood, sleep & activity to better understand affective instability (AI)…AND paired with advanced MRI? 🤯
Check out our new bioRxiv preprint for a 13–23 y/o community sample (n=10 and growing!) with multi-echo fMRI, EMA & actigraphy: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Apr 25

A putative neural correlate of mood!

One big (scandalous?) idea, simple analyses, and the STRONGEST brain/behavior correlation I've EVER seen (which is shocking, given that it's mood).

Work with: You-Ping Yang, @catrinahacker.bsky.social and Veit Stuphorn.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The representation of mood in primate anterior insular cortex

Understanding how the brain reflects and shapes mood requires resolving the disconnect between behavioral measures of mood that can only be made in humans (typically based on subjective reports of hap...

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Josh Gertler @joshuagertler.bsky.social · Apr 22

A quick thought: My lab published 2 papers showing increased apathy in those with Parkinson’s on SSRIs, (and apathy is also associated with WM deficits). Probably unique neurotransmitter interactions in PD, but there are some hints at similar effects in other populations doi.org/10.1017/neu....

Apathy associated with antidepressant drugs: a systematic review | Acta Neuropsychiatrica | Cambridge Core

Apathy associated with antidepressant drugs: a systematic review - Volume 35 Issue 4

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Sam Krimmel @samkrimmelneuro.bsky.social · Apr 10

It's shocking how little is known about the brainstem red nucleus. In our new paper “The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action” out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social we show that current thinking on the red nucleus is in need of a serious upgrade. rdcu.be/ehbOy

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Karl Friston News @karlfristonnews.bsky.social · Apr 7

Comment: "Can a single brain cell be surprised?"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can a single brain cell be surprised? - Nature Communications

A recent study by Buonomano et al. reports two important contributions; namely, empirical evidence for prediction error-like responses in single cells, using ex vivo preparations and optogenetics. Sec...

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Mar 26

It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠

A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results - Nature Communications

Here, the authors present the Network Correspondence Toolbox, which enables researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their neuroimaging results and widely used brain atlases.

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Jan 24

Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula...

The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵

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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · Mar 23

#gFC - scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

‪Test–retest reliability and predictive utility of a macroscale principal functional connectivity gradient‬

‪AR Knodt, ML Elliott, ET Whitman, A Winn, A Addae, D Ireland, R Poulton, S Ramrakha, A Caspi, TE Moffitt…‬, ‪Human brain mapping, 2023‬ - ‪Cited by 14‬

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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · Mar 23

ManyShortT1s - direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Precision brain morphometry using cluster scanning

Abstract. Measurement error limits the statistical power to detect group differences and longitudinal change in structural MRI morphometric measures (e.g., hippocampal volume, prefrontal cortical thic...

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Mar 14

Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - really pleased that this paper with Henry Potter is now published in the European Journal of Neuroscience 😊

Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience

The search for neural mechanisms of behaviour often relies on a synchronic, driving view of causation, where neural activity drives more neural activity, which eventually drives behaviour. The real c...

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CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · Mar 10

Nature Neuroscience

The architecture of the human default mode network explored through cytoarchitecture, wiring and signal flow

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The architecture of the human default mode network explored through cytoarchitecture, wiring and signal flow - Nature Neuroscience

The default mode network (DMN) is implicated in cognition and behavior. Here, the authors show that the DMN is cytoarchitecturally heterogeneous, it contains regions receptive to input from the sensor...

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · Mar 6

Can we use brain scans to identify biologically distinct "autisms"? And If so, how?

In our latest cross-species study 🐭👨 with @iitalk.bsky.social we dive into these questions!

Find out more here 👇👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · Feb 21

Excited to see this now out in the world!

We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Distorted learning from local metacognition supports transdiagnostic underconfidence - Nature Communications

Individuals with symptoms of anxiety and depression exhibit persistent underconfidence. Here, the authors show that distortions in learning from local metacognition can explain how underconfidence is ...

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Feb 24

I don’t know how I missed this. A group in Beijing have developed an effective brain-inspired vision chip for autonomous machines, robotics, and AI that was inspired by our perception/action account of ventral-dorsal visual processing in primate cerebral cortex.🧪🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A vision chip with complementary pathways for open-world sensing - Nature

Inspired by the human visual system, a vision chip with primitive-based complementary pathways is developed to overcome the power and bandwidth wall of vision systems, achieving fast, precise, robust&...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Feb 22

The FDA recently approved a novel pain medication developed by Vertex, Journavx (suzetrigine)

www.fda.gov/news-events/...

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FDA Approves Novel Non-Opioid Treatment for Moderate to Severe Acute Pain

The FDA approved Journavx (suzetrigine) 50 mg oral tablets, a first-in-class non-opioid analgesic to treat moderate to severe acute pain in adults.

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