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Alejandro Blenkmann @ablenkmann.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 Join me for a hands-on #iElectrodes tutorial at #PracticalMEEG!
📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET
Learn how to localize intracranial electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes:
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#iEEG #ECoG #SEEG

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Alejandro Blenkmann @ablenkmann.bsky.social · Aug 29

🤔How does the human brain predict unexpected sounds?
Our new study shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t work as a single unit. Instead, the orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortex make distinct, time-sensitive contributions. #iEEG #BrainLesion #OFC #LPFC
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Predictive encoding of auditory sequences in the human prefrontal cortex

Humans extract regularities from the environment to form expectations that guide perception and optimize behavior. Although the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is central to this process, the relative contrib...

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Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social · Aug 28

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

PhD Candidate: cognitive computational neuroscience of individual differences

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Joost Haarsma @jhaarsma.bsky.social · Jun 20

Just a couple days left to apply for this position! Come work with me @fedemar.bsky.social, @predictivebrain.bsky.social & Sonja Kotz to investigate the neural-circuitry underlying of perceptual inference

Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚨PhD position alert!🚨
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

PhD position in biological foundations of neural control

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Joost Haarsma @jhaarsma.bsky.social · Jun 10

Really glad my first MEG paper is out! Orientation-specific sensory signals accompanied falsely perceived gratings, and a shared perceptual confidence code was present on FA and veridical trials. We also found a unique role for increased beta oscillations preceding high confidence FA. Read for more!

Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception

We often mistake visual noise for meaningful images, which sometimes appear as convincing as veridical percepts. This suggests considerable overlap between the mechanisms that underlie false and verid...

www.jneurosci.org

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Federico De Martino @fedemar.bsky.social · Jun 10

A bit less than 2 weeks left to apply for this position! If you are interested in perceptual decisions, top-down modulations, predictions, laminar fMRI - join us for what will be a great collaborative project!

Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚨PhD position alert!🚨
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

PhD position in biological foundations of neural control

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · Jun 10

New MEG paper by @jhaarsma.bsky.social and @dotproduct.bsky.social‬! Same design and behavioural results as our 7T layer fMRI study (www.jneurosci.org/content/43/4...), but now shedding light on the temporal dynamics of the sensory signals underlying false percepts. #neuroskyence

Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception

We often mistake visual noise for meaningful images, which sometimes appear as convincing as veridical percepts. This suggests considerable overlap between the mechanisms that underlie false and verid...

www.jneurosci.org

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · Jun 10

Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... by @jhaarsma.bsky.social @dotproduct.bsky.social @peterkok.bsky.social; now let's "mistake" meaningful noise as meaningful images through enhanced reliance on top-down signalling?

Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception

We often mistake visual noise for meaningful images, which sometimes appear as convincing as veridical percepts. This suggests considerable overlap between the mechanisms that underlie false and verid...

www.jneurosci.org

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Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚨PhD position alert!🚨
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

PhD position in biological foundations of neural control

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Federico De Martino @fedemar.bsky.social · Jun 3

PhD position alert!!!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Happy to answer any question you may have!

PhD position in biological foundations of neural control

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Michelle Moerel @mmoerel.bsky.social · Apr 15

🚨Job alert🚨
We’re recruiting for another PhD position at MaCSBio @macsbio.bsky.social, focused on computational neuroscience. Come work on brain, sound, and computational models, co-supervised by myself and Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social

🗓️ Apply by 18 May
🔗 tinyurl.com/bdhtwuzs

PhD candidate in Auditory Computational Neuroscience

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Federico De Martino @fedemar.bsky.social · Mar 24

We are very lucky…I am looking forward to June and seeing you here in Maastricht!

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The International Conference on Auditory Cortex @icac2025.bsky.social · Feb 20

A first look at the location of the ICAC2025 meeting in Maastricht.
Registration and abstract submission is now open!

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Michelle Moerel @mmoerel.bsky.social · Feb 19

🚨 PhD opportunity alert! 🚨

Passionate about neuroscience? Want to work with cutting-edge tech like ultra-high field MRI and intracranial EEG to study the human brain?

Join us and push the boundaries of neuroscience 🧠✨

📍 @macsbio.bsky.social
📆 2 March
🔗 tinyurl.com/bfjwpmt9

#neurojobs #PhD

PhD candidate in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience

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Alejandro Blenkmann @ablenkmann.bsky.social · Feb 19

New Research Published!

I'm excited to share our latest study, led by Sabine Leske, investigating how the brain predicts the sharpness of sounds in rhythmic sequences. 🧠🔊

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Beta oscillations predict the envelope sharpness in a rhythmic beat sequence - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Beta oscillations predict the envelope sharpness in a rhythmic beat sequence

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The International Conference on Auditory Cortex @icac2025.bsky.social · Feb 16

In September the sky will be similar…and it will be warmer! Join us for ICAC 2025 and enjoy Maastricht with us!

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Federico De Martino @fedemar.bsky.social · Feb 11

Join us in Maastricht for the 2025 ICAC conference in September! Abstract submission and registration are now open

www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/icac2025/int...

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The International Conference on Auditory Cortex @icac2025.bsky.social · Feb 11

The abstract submission and registration for ICAC 2025 in Maastricht is now open!

www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/icac2025/int...

ICAC 2025 - - Maastricht UniversityMaastricht UniversityMaastricht UniversityMaastricht University

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Andrew (Andy) Dykstra @adykstra.bsky.social · Aug 23

Please share! Come work with us in Orlando! The Conscious Audition and Scene Analysis (CASA) Lab at the University of Central Florida is looking to hire a postdoc to work on projects related to the neural basis of auditory perception and cognition. 🧠📈 #EEG 🧠🤖 #consci

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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · Oct 14

Women in Cognitive Science Europe (WICS-E) is organising an online panel discussion on creating an inclusive and anti-racist academia. Free registration & more info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1027101356...

Creating an inclusive and anti-racist academia - Online panel discussion

Join our online panel to learn ways you can help create an anti-racist academia

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Hannah McDermott @hannahmcdermott.bsky.social · Sep 6

My new preprint is out! Using EEG and decoding analyses, we find direct evidence for the Opposing Process Theory of perception, while showing dynamic effects across over time.
@auksz.bsky.social @fedemar.bsky.social Caspar Schwiedrzik

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

Dissociable dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning.

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

www.biorxiv.org

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Federico De Martino @fedemar.bsky.social · Sep 7

There is still time to apply for these positions in Maastricht! A great opportunity if you are looking to start your own lab!

www.academictransfer.com/en/344342/tw...

Two vacancies for assistant professors in cognitive neuroscience

We are looking to attract two new tenure track assistant professors to the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience (CN), which is part of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) at Maastricht Un...

www.academictransfer.com

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Federico De Martino @fedemar.bsky.social · Aug 12

Two new assistant professor positions at the cognitive neuroscience department of Maastricht University.
Come join us!
More details in the link below!

www.academictransfer.com/en/344342/tw...

Two vacancies for assistant professors in cognitive neuroscience

We are looking to attract two new tenure track assistant professors to the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience (CN), which is part of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) at Maastricht Un...

www.academictransfer.com

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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · Jun 27

For an ERC-funded project Rainer Goebel is looking for enthusiastic academics interested in investigating mental imagery using laminar fMRI, AI and BCIs. For details see:
www.academictransfer.com/en/342721/ph...
www.academictransfer.com/en/342769/po...

PhD positions: Reading the mind's eye

Are you interested in working within a dynamic team to investigate the neural representations and computations underlying visual mental imagery? Do you want to understand why the experienced vividness...

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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · May 17

This week, we share an In Memoriam Editorial by EiC @fmri-today.bsky.social et al. that pays tribute to Dr. Sean Marrett, a neuroscientist and active member of the international brain mapping community doi.org/10.52294/001...

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