Tom Hartley
@tomhartley.me.uk
Former Academic. Neuroscience/Psychology. Starting a new company to make audio software and to produce and mix records.
hartleydsp.com
Interests: Programming, Recording and mixing music; The Beatles; currently learning to play drums.
tomhartley.me.uk
hartleydsp.com
Interests: Programming, Recording and mixing music; The Beatles; currently learning to play drums.
tomhartley.me.uk
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THeVerb 0.4.2 Developer Overview - Free Beta Download Available
YouTube video by Tom Hartley
youtu.be
Explaining my new reverb plugin. If you listen in headphones you can hear the spatial effect as I move the sound source (my commentary) around the sound stage. Beta now available for download at hartleydsp.com.
youtu.be/uphGUiiXepw
youtu.be/uphGUiiXepw
Reposted by Tom Hartley
Explaining my new reverb plugin. If you listen in headphones you can hear the spatial effect as I move the sound source (my commentary) around the sound stage. Beta now available for download at hartleydsp.com.
youtu.be/uphGUiiXepw
youtu.be/uphGUiiXepw
THeVerb 0.4.2 Developer Overview - Free Beta Download Available
YouTube video by Tom Hartley
youtu.be
February 2, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Explaining my new reverb plugin. If you listen in headphones you can hear the spatial effect as I move the sound source (my commentary) around the sound stage. Beta now available for download at hartleydsp.com.
youtu.be/uphGUiiXepw
youtu.be/uphGUiiXepw
Explaining my new reverb plugin. If you listen in headphones you can hear the spatial effect as I move the sound source (my commentary) around the sound stage. Beta now available for download at hartleydsp.com.
youtu.be/uphGUiiXepw
youtu.be/uphGUiiXepw
THeVerb 0.4.2 Developer Overview - Free Beta Download Available
YouTube video by Tom Hartley
youtu.be
February 2, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Explaining my new reverb plugin. If you listen in headphones you can hear the spatial effect as I move the sound source (my commentary) around the sound stage. Beta now available for download at hartleydsp.com.
youtu.be/uphGUiiXepw
youtu.be/uphGUiiXepw
Reposted by Tom Hartley
One of the ongoing, more redeeming qualities of social media is its ability, when properly structured, to bubble up the joyous creativity of everyday people.
February 1, 2026 at 3:45 PM
One of the ongoing, more redeeming qualities of social media is its ability, when properly structured, to bubble up the joyous creativity of everyday people.
I suspect a lot of this is because people want to do exploratory research, instinctively knowing that exploration is critical for theory development and hypothesis generation, but can't get it published unless they pay lip service to NHST.
January 30, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I suspect a lot of this is because people want to do exploratory research, instinctively knowing that exploration is critical for theory development and hypothesis generation, but can't get it published unless they pay lip service to NHST.
Reposted by Tom Hartley
A shorter ad-style video of THeVerb showing off its new UI features and my "Top of the Pops" style editing techniques.
youtu.be/kE0cg5dz2YI
youtu.be/kE0cg5dz2YI
THeVerb UI Teaser
YouTube video by Tom Hartley
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 PM
A shorter ad-style video of THeVerb showing off its new UI features and my "Top of the Pops" style editing techniques.
youtu.be/kE0cg5dz2YI
youtu.be/kE0cg5dz2YI
Reposted by Tom Hartley
Updates demo for my new reverb plugin which I hope to release commercially later this year. It's currently in the early beta testing stage. If you're feeling adventurous you can even download it and try it out yourself (VST3, Windows x64) at hartleydsp.com.
youtu.be/SaQIuaRgO0M
youtu.be/SaQIuaRgO0M
THeVerb Demo 0.4.2 - Spatial Detail: Bypass
YouTube video by Tom Hartley
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Updates demo for my new reverb plugin which I hope to release commercially later this year. It's currently in the early beta testing stage. If you're feeling adventurous you can even download it and try it out yourself (VST3, Windows x64) at hartleydsp.com.
youtu.be/SaQIuaRgO0M
youtu.be/SaQIuaRgO0M
Interesting paper! I think you might be interested in this: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Becky Gilbert also looked at EEG correlates in our rhythmic rehearsal probe task in her excellent thesis etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/83...
Temporal precision and the capacity of auditory–verbal short-term memory
The capacity of serially ordered auditory–verbal short-term memory (AVSTM) is sensitive to the timing of the material to be stored, and both temporal processing and AVSTM capacity are implicated in...
www.tandfonline.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Interesting paper! I think you might be interested in this: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Becky Gilbert also looked at EEG correlates in our rhythmic rehearsal probe task in her excellent thesis etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/83...
Reposted by Tom Hartley
Now out in iScience: Alpha power indexes working memory load for durations
How does the brain store 'durations' in working memory?
👇👇👇
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Collaborative effort between @brainthemind.bsky.social and MNE-Python/INRIA.
How does the brain store 'durations' in working memory?
👇👇👇
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Collaborative effort between @brainthemind.bsky.social and MNE-Python/INRIA.
January 29, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Now out in iScience: Alpha power indexes working memory load for durations
How does the brain store 'durations' in working memory?
👇👇👇
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Collaborative effort between @brainthemind.bsky.social and MNE-Python/INRIA.
How does the brain store 'durations' in working memory?
👇👇👇
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Collaborative effort between @brainthemind.bsky.social and MNE-Python/INRIA.
Reposted by Tom Hartley
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
A shorter ad-style video of THeVerb showing off its new UI features and my "Top of the Pops" style editing techniques.
youtu.be/kE0cg5dz2YI
youtu.be/kE0cg5dz2YI
THeVerb UI Teaser
YouTube video by Tom Hartley
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 PM
A shorter ad-style video of THeVerb showing off its new UI features and my "Top of the Pops" style editing techniques.
youtu.be/kE0cg5dz2YI
youtu.be/kE0cg5dz2YI
Updates demo for my new reverb plugin which I hope to release commercially later this year. It's currently in the early beta testing stage. If you're feeling adventurous you can even download it and try it out yourself (VST3, Windows x64) at hartleydsp.com.
youtu.be/SaQIuaRgO0M
youtu.be/SaQIuaRgO0M
THeVerb Demo 0.4.2 - Spatial Detail: Bypass
YouTube video by Tom Hartley
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Updates demo for my new reverb plugin which I hope to release commercially later this year. It's currently in the early beta testing stage. If you're feeling adventurous you can even download it and try it out yourself (VST3, Windows x64) at hartleydsp.com.
youtu.be/SaQIuaRgO0M
youtu.be/SaQIuaRgO0M
Reposted by Tom Hartley
The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal!
Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵(1/6)
Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵(1/6)
Attention-like regulation of theta sweeps in the brain's spatial navigation circuit
Spatial attention supports navigation by prioritizing information from selected locations. A candidate neural mechanism is provided by theta-paced sweeps in grid- and place-cell population activity, which sample nearby space in a left-right-alternating pattern coordinated by parasubicular direction signals. During exploration, this alternation promotes uniform spatial coverage, but whether sweeps can be flexibly tuned to locations of particular interest remains unclear. Using large-scale Neuropixels recordings in freely-behaving rats, we show that sweeps and direction signals are rapidly and dynamically modulated: they track moving targets during pursuit, precede orienting responses during immobility, and reverse during backward locomotion — without prior spatial learning. Similar modulation occurs during REM sleep. Canonical head-direction signals remain head-aligned. These findings identify sweeps as a flexible, attention-like mechanism for selectively sampling allocentric cognitive maps. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. European Research Council, Synergy Grant 951319 (EIM) The Research Council of Norway, Centre of Neural Computation 223262 (EIM, MBM), Centre for Algorithms in the Cortex 332640 (EIM, MBM), National Infrastructure grant (NORBRAIN, 295721 and 350201) The Kavli Foundation, https://ror.org/00kztt736 Ministry of Science and Education, Norway (EIM, MBM) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences; NTNU, Norway (AZV)
www.biorxiv.org
January 28, 2026 at 10:03 AM
The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal!
Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵(1/6)
Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧵(1/6)
The one that always makes me most suspicious is Facebook. So many people saying, "Oh no, it's just that they have so much tracking data." I will not be surprised if they have been listening somehow.
Google has agreed to pay $68M to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged the technology giant's voice assistant had illegally recorded users (even if they didn’t activate it with “Hey Google”) and then shared their private conversations with advertisers.
January 27, 2026 at 8:20 AM
The one that always makes me most suspicious is Facebook. So many people saying, "Oh no, it's just that they have so much tracking data." I will not be surprised if they have been listening somehow.
Reposted by Tom Hartley
🧵1/12 What if the DMN, limbic system, hippocampus, neural oscillations, gradients, dementia syndromes, mixed pathology, and aphantasia all fall out of the same generative brain computation? 🤯#endalz
Introducing #SLOD (preprint): a new #NeuroAI framework w/ @drbreaky.bsky.social
Introducing #SLOD (preprint): a new #NeuroAI framework w/ @drbreaky.bsky.social
a man in a suit is making a funny face and says `` mind blown '' while standing in a bar .
ALT: a man in a suit is making a funny face and says `` mind blown '' while standing in a bar .
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January 18, 2026 at 9:38 PM
🧵1/12 What if the DMN, limbic system, hippocampus, neural oscillations, gradients, dementia syndromes, mixed pathology, and aphantasia all fall out of the same generative brain computation? 🤯#endalz
Introducing #SLOD (preprint): a new #NeuroAI framework w/ @drbreaky.bsky.social
Introducing #SLOD (preprint): a new #NeuroAI framework w/ @drbreaky.bsky.social
Reposted by Tom Hartley
January 23, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Perfect! Let it be known!
January 23, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Perfect! Let it be known!
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Not only do I remember it but I have documented it for posterity! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39698925/ (search for your name)
Unweaving the Cognitive Map: A Personal History - PubMed
I have been incredibly fortunate to have worked in the field of hippocampal spatial coding during three of its most exciting decades, the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. During this time I had a ringside view of some of the foundational discoveries that were made which have transformed our understanding of …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 23, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Not only do I remember it but I have documented it for posterity! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39698925/ (search for your name)
Any or all of these would have worked better for me, but of course they would be worse for those who win grants under the current system and thus go on to become research leaders (pro VC research, grant board, reviewer).
January 22, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Any or all of these would have worked better for me, but of course they would be worse for those who win grants under the current system and thus go on to become research leaders (pro VC research, grant board, reviewer).
Also I remember a very fiery/exciting meeting; not a journal club with Bob Muller; I really enjoyed it even if Bob did not believe our (prescient) simulations.
January 21, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Also I remember a very fiery/exciting meeting; not a journal club with Bob Muller; I really enjoyed it even if Bob did not believe our (prescient) simulations.
I will insist that I spotted grid cells in a Moser lab paper prior to the Hafting one, and mentioned it in our journal club. I think @katejj.bsky.social remembers, but no one else backs me up! I am not claiming I should've got the Nobel Prize of course. That is for others to say. :-)
January 21, 2026 at 1:41 PM
I will insist that I spotted grid cells in a Moser lab paper prior to the Hafting one, and mentioned it in our journal club. I think @katejj.bsky.social remembers, but no one else backs me up! I am not claiming I should've got the Nobel Prize of course. That is for others to say. :-)
True, although I think we had a healthy balance of scepticism and open-mindedness, a lot of respect and admiration for work coming out of (some) other labs, and a fair amount of self-directed constructive criticism, too. Not a bad place to learn.
January 21, 2026 at 12:57 PM
True, although I think we had a healthy balance of scepticism and open-mindedness, a lot of respect and admiration for work coming out of (some) other labs, and a fair amount of self-directed constructive criticism, too. Not a bad place to learn.
I also think that there's some natural variation in trait levels of scepticism versus open-mindedness. The strongly sceptical can be an advantage in a balanced team, if they can reign in the destructive tendency. As Nicole says it can kill the spirit.
January 21, 2026 at 9:00 AM
I also think that there's some natural variation in trait levels of scepticism versus open-mindedness. The strongly sceptical can be an advantage in a balanced team, if they can reign in the destructive tendency. As Nicole says it can kill the spirit.
My suspicion from dealing with Reviewer 2 over a 30-year career was that PIs can contribute by supporting balance in e.g., journal clubs. I think new generations of GLPs are raised at PhD/postdoc level, when trainees are encouraged to be destructively critical of other labs' work.
Let's talk about "grumpy lab person". Many labs have them. With an eye to keeping science at its most rigorous, they cross the line into criticism that's too harsh. They are the ones who risk killing your scientific spirit. They are reviewer 2. /1
January 21, 2026 at 8:55 AM
My suspicion from dealing with Reviewer 2 over a 30-year career was that PIs can contribute by supporting balance in e.g., journal clubs. I think new generations of GLPs are raised at PhD/postdoc level, when trainees are encouraged to be destructively critical of other labs' work.
Reposted by Tom Hartley
Let's talk about "grumpy lab person". Many labs have them. With an eye to keeping science at its most rigorous, they cross the line into criticism that's too harsh. They are the ones who risk killing your scientific spirit. They are reviewer 2. /1
January 21, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Let's talk about "grumpy lab person". Many labs have them. With an eye to keeping science at its most rigorous, they cross the line into criticism that's too harsh. They are the ones who risk killing your scientific spirit. They are reviewer 2. /1