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Dr Jen Ryan @drjenryan.bsky.social · 2d

Memory problems will change how you see the world...literally 👀

Across two new papers, we examined the eye movement patterns of younger adults, older adults, individuals with mild cognitive impairment, and amnesic cases.

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Gregor Thut @gregorthut.bsky.social · 13d

Open postdoc position👈
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).

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Tobias Staudigl @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social · 25d

Also on the way to #ICON2025 in beautiful Porto?

Check the lab’s latest work:
@xiongbowu.bsky.social: Talk in SY16, Tuesday 9.00, room Boavista;
Aditya Chowdhury: Poster P1.11, Tuesday 10.45
@julia-sc.bsky.social: Poster P3.18, Wednesday 10.45
@tafgmcb.bsky.social: Poster 4.32, Wednesday 15.30

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Julio Hechavarria @talking-bat.bsky.social · 27d

If you are interested in 🧠 LOOPS this is for YOU.

We are curating an article collection on cortico-subcortical interactions in the vertebrate brain. Participating journals include @commsbio.nature.com @natneuro.nature.com @natcomms.nature.com & SciRep.

We look fwd to your contributions!!

LOOPs_spp2411 @brainloops.bsky.social · 27d

🌀 Join the Loop! 🌀

Submit to @natureportfolio.nature.com’s Loops Collection on circuits, feedback & cycles, guest-edited by our own Loops crew @talking-bat.bsky.social , Markus Rothermal & @stefanieliebe.bsky.social

📅 Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 ‼️
🔗 www.nature.com/collections/...

Submit now! 🧠🔁

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · Aug 25

Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory!

We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events - Nature Communications

When people recall a movie, their eye movements and brain activity resemble those observed during the viewing. These behavioral and neural reactivations are linked through a common process, likely ref...

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Lluís Fuentemilla @fuentemilla.bsky.social · Aug 7

Excited to share our new publication on the influence of odor perception on memory. Congratulations to @joantarridav.bsky.social for initiating this fascinating line of research in our lab.

Joan Tarrida @joantarridav.bsky.social · Aug 6

🧠👃 Can a _brief smell_ change how we remember something seconds later?

We used EEG + memory testing to show that odors trigger sustained brain activity—and shape memory for events happening after the smell disappears.

#Neuroscience #Olfaction
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Tobias Staudigl @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social · Jul 31

Very excited about this work and very proud of @xiongbowu.bsky.social who did it all:

Based on 4 independent data sets (incl. EEG/iEEG, eye tracking, gaze manipulation & memory), we advocate for a new perspective on the function of the brain's dominant rhythm 🧠

Check Xiongbo's thread for more 👇

Xiongbo Wu @xiongbowu.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨 New preprint alert!

Excited to share our latest work on alpha/beta activity, eye movements, and memory.

Across 4 experiments combining scalp EEG/iEEG with eye tracking, we show that alpha/beta activity directly reflects eye movements, and only indirectly relates to memory.

👇 Highlights (1/7):

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jul 30

Low-frequency brain oscillations reflect the dynamics of the oculomotor system: a new perspective on subsequent memory effects https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667451v1

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Xiongbo Wu @xiongbowu.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨 New preprint alert!

Excited to share our latest work on alpha/beta activity, eye movements, and memory.

Across 4 experiments combining scalp EEG/iEEG with eye tracking, we show that alpha/beta activity directly reflects eye movements, and only indirectly relates to memory.

👇 Highlights (1/7):

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jul 30

Low-frequency brain oscillations reflect the dynamics of the oculomotor system: a new perspective on subsequent memory effects https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667451v1

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LMU München @lmumuenchen.bsky.social · Jul 15

Two #LMU projects receive ERC #ProofOfConcept Grants!
🌿 Silke Robatzek is pursuing a novel approach in plant protection strategies.
🧠 @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social optimizes deep brain stimulation with functional markers.
#LMU #ERC #ResearchInThePractice Read more here: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

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Jan Kamiński @jankaminski.bsky.social · Jul 9

Our new work! We show items in working memory—whether attended or not—are maintained by persistent neural firing. Crucial evidence for the activity-silent vs. persistent activity debate. This study includes the first human single-neuron recordings in Poland! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unattended working memory items are coded by persistent activity in human medial temporal lobe neurons - Nature Human Behaviour

Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe.

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Marta Silva @martamasilva.bsky.social · Jul 1

🧠 Paper out!

We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that:

🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries
🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall

Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories!

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Movie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundaries

Nature Communications - The neural processes involved in memory formation for realistic experiences remain poorly understood. Here, the authors found that ripple-like activity in the human...

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Marit Petzka @maritpetzka.bsky.social · Jun 27

Interested in whether sleep and (a)periodic EEG activity increase the probability to have an insight? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Thanks to @anikaloewe.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social & Maria Tzegka for a great teamwork. I really enjoyed it!

Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excited to share our latest work spearheaded by @anikaloewe.bsky.social & @maritpetzka.bsky.social. 20 min naps increased the chance to solve an insight task if sleep reached N2 stage; but the EEG spectral slope was the best predictor of insight dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
#compneuro #psychscisky

N2 sleep promotes the occurrence of ‘aha’ moments in a perceptual insight task

Sleep supports memory consolidation, but can it also facilitate memory reorganization? This study reveals that N2 sleep, but not N1 sleep during a nap, increases the likelihood of having an 'aha' mome...

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BottiniLab @bottinilab.bsky.social · Jun 9

📢 BottiniLab is hiring!

Join our ERC-funded team in Trentino to study memory, attention & cognitive maps (fMRI, MEG, EEG, iEEG).

🧠 3 postdocs, 3 PhDs, 2 RAs
🌍 Int’l, dynamic lab
🗓️ Deadline: July 10, 2025
📍Workplace: g.co/kgs/Ysyne4V
🔗 Info & how to apply: pdf.ac/2Ppzmw

#ERC #NeuroscienceJobs

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Anika Löwe @anikaloewe.bsky.social · Jun 27

Super happy to see our latest work out in @plosbiology.org : N2 sleep during short naps increased the likelihood of insight in a decision task. The steepness of the spectral slope best predicted insight, beyond sleep stages alone. With dream team @maritpetzka.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jun 27

That "Aha!" moment... Can sleep facilitate memory reorganization? @nicoschuck.bsky.social @anikaloewe.bsky.social @maritpetzka.bsky.social &co reveal that N2 #sleep (but not N1) increases likelihood of having an 'aha' moment about a previous #DecisionMaking task @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k8F2v3

A single illuminated light bulb among many unlit ones. Image credit: Pixabay user ColiN00B.

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Hannah Payne @hannahpayne.bsky.social · Jun 11

My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature!

When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️

The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar

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Lucas C Parra @lcparra.bsky.social · Jun 9

Evidence in support of the "Brain from the inside out":

Response to movies is dominated by intrinsic brain dynamics. The dynamic itself is barely alternatered by the task of watching movies.

Human intracranial recordings from 5000 electrodes, now out in eLife.

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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Andrea Sanchez Corzo @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social · Jun 9

Curious about how your brain’s excitability aligns with your breath, even while asleep? Check out our new preprint!!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A great collaboration between @tschreiner.bsky.social 's lab and @danlikesbrains.bsky.social 's lab.
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Respiratory coordination of excitability states across the human wake-sleep cycle

While the respiratory rhythm is increasingly recognized as a key modulator of oscillatory brain activity across the wake-sleep cycle in humans, very little is known about its influence on aperiodic br...

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Thomas Schreiner @tschreiner.bsky.social · Jun 9

Born from a collaboration with @danlikesbrains.bsky.social ’s team, this project shows how your breathing shapes brain excitability across the entire wake–sleep cycle. Huge shoutout to everyone involved — go check it out! 💥

#neuroskyence

Andrea Sanchez Corzo @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social · Jun 9

Curious about how your brain’s excitability aligns with your breath, even while asleep? Check out our new preprint!!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A great collaboration between @tschreiner.bsky.social 's lab and @danlikesbrains.bsky.social 's lab.
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Respiratory coordination of excitability states across the human wake-sleep cycle

While the respiratory rhythm is increasingly recognized as a key modulator of oscillatory brain activity across the wake-sleep cycle in humans, very little is known about its influence on aperiodic br...

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Jacob Lab @jacob-lab.bsky.social · Jun 7

Major update to our preprint. Led
by @xuanyuwang.bsky.social, we show that the mesoscopic functional organization of the primate PFC reflects individual cognitive strategies and mnemonic abilities. 🧠 doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Functional organization of the primate prefrontal cortex reflects individual mnemonic strategies

Modular organization, the division of the cerebral cortex into functionally distinct subregions, is well established in the primate sensorimotor cortex, but debated in the cognitive association cortex...

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Ambra Ferrari @ambrafer.bsky.social · Jun 6

Big changes to the ERC funding schemes!
Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on:
📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD
📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes

With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · May 13

I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊

Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc

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ckerren.bsky.social @ckerren.bsky.social · Apr 29

🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences.

We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

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Thomas Schreiner @tschreiner.bsky.social · Apr 24

Excited to share our new study on how respiration modulates neural dynamics during successful memory retrieval—led by @estebanbt.bsky.social, alongside the exceptional team of @fabian31415.bsky.social, @maritpetzka.bsky.social, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, and @bstaresina.bsky.social. 👇

Esteban @estebanbt.bsky.social · Apr 24

Very excited to share the first preprint of my PhD thesis!

Together with @tschreiner.bsky.social, we investigated how respiration coordinates signature neural expressions of successful remembering during memory retrieval. 🫁🧠

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Apr 23

Respiration shapes the neural dynamics of successful remembering in humans. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649286v1

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Esteban @estebanbt.bsky.social · Apr 24

Very excited to share the first preprint of my PhD thesis!

Together with @tschreiner.bsky.social, we investigated how respiration coordinates signature neural expressions of successful remembering during memory retrieval. 🫁🧠

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Apr 23

Respiration shapes the neural dynamics of successful remembering in humans. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649286v1

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Matthias Gruber @mjgruber.bsky.social · Apr 11

Interested in curiosity and metacognition in childhood and adolescence? Join us at Cardiff University (UK) for a Postdoc position in an international collaboration with @yanafandakova.bsky.social (Germany) and @pyoudeyer.bsky.social (France). Please repost! #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

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