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Martina Saltafossi @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social · Jan 12

New year, new preprint out! 🧨
'Respiration facilitates behaviour during multisensory integration'

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

Great team effort w/ Andrea Zaccaro, Mauro Gianni Perrucci, Marcello Costantini, @danlikesbrains.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social

#Neuroskyence #Interoception

Respiration facilitates behaviour during multisensory integration

The brain processes information from the external environment alongside signals generated by the body. Among bodily rhythms, respiration emerges as a key modulator of sensory processing. Multisensory ...

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Nia Soler @niasoler.bsky.social · 21d

LinkedIn va a entrenar –o ya lo está haciendo– su IA generativa con los datos de sus usuarios. Para "impedir" esto hay que ir a [configuración]>>>[privacidad de datos]>>>[datos para mejorar la IA generativa] y desactivar esta opción que está habilitada por defecto.

Actualización de las condiciones y uso de datos de LinkedIn

A partir del 3 de noviembre de 2025, usaremos algunos de tus datos de LinkedIn para mejorar nuestra IA que genera contenido con el fin de mejorar tu experiencia, a menos que decidas autoexcluirte en los ajustes. Además, vamos a actualizar nuestras condiciones. Consulta las novedades y cómo gestionar tus datos.

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Cognitive Neuroscience Society @cogneuronews.bsky.social · 28d

Just a whiff of certain smells can instantly take me back to my childhood... Read a new Q&A with Joan Tarrida Vidal about the lasting cognitive effects of smell:
#scicomm #neuroscience #science

The Lasting Cognitive Effect of Smell on Memory

Researchers, exploring what happens in the brain after exposure to certain smells, found that that even brief odor cues have a lasting effect

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Xiaojin Ma @xiaojinma.bsky.social · Jun 20

I recorded a step-by-step tutorial of programming experiments in PsychoPy for undergrad thesis students in my lab. Sharing it here for anyone new to programming in psychology, or those transitioning to PsychoPy from other software. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMJX...

using PsychoPy to build a cognitive psychology experiment from scratch

YouTube video by Xiaojin Ma

www.youtube.com

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Joan Tarrida @joantarridav.bsky.social · Aug 6

Summary:
– Brief odors → lasting brain activity
– Unpleasant odors → stronger neural persistence
– These states shape later memory confidence

Smells fade fast—but not in the brain.
👃🧠💭
📝 direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
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Odor-induced Sustained Neural Activity during Memory Encoding

Abstract. How long do the neural and cognitive effects of a brief odor experience last? This study investigated whether short exposures to pleasant and unpleasant odors can induce sustained changes in...

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Joan Tarrida @joantarridav.bsky.social · Aug 6

The odor-triggered brain state didn’t blend with the image—it lingered until the picture arrived, affecting encoding.
🧠 These emotionally charged states act as context bridges, biasing later memory formation.

#Cognition #EEG #Memory
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Joan Tarrida @joantarridav.bsky.social · Aug 6

Using LDA, we decoded odor identity from EEG during the 6s delay.
✔️ BUT vs AIR: 5.4s of significant decoding
✔️ CAR vs AIR: 4.4s + late cluster
⏳ Odor neural states were maintained.
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Joan Tarrida @joantarridav.bsky.social · Aug 6

EEG showed that odors triggered sustained ERP activity, lasting seconds after odor offset.
❗Unpleasant odors (Butanol) led to stronger and longer responses.
This effect didn’t overlap with picture ERPs.
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Joan Tarrida @joantarridav.bsky.social · Aug 6

Participants smelled pleasant (Carvone) or unpleasant (Butanol) odors.
6s later, they saw a picture.
A day later: recognition test.
Unpleasant odors didn’t boost accuracy—but they _increased confidence_ in memory.
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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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Joan Tarrida @joantarridav.bsky.social · Aug 6

We combined EEG and a memory task to test whether pleasant and unpleasant odors trigger lasting neural states.

After a 6s delay, participants saw an image to encode.
📅 A day later, they did a surprise recognition test.

Goal: Do brief odors influence long-term memory?
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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.

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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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Pablo Marcos-Manchón @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social · Jul 25

🧠🚨 How does the brain represent what we see? Is visual input transformed to form these representations in similar ways across people and even AI models like DNNs?

We explore these questions using fMRI and large-scale representational alignment analyses.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2507.13941

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Convergent transformations of visual representation in brains and models

A fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience is what shapes visual perception: the external world's structure or the brain's internal architecture. Although some perceptual variability can be trac...

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Joan Tarrida @joantarridav.bsky.social · Jul 27

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨 We’re running a short self-report study on how BREATHING interacts with your daily life 🫁🌍

We're struggling to find participants and would truly appreciate your help; it only takes a few minutes.

👉 You can participate here: shorturl.at/rwwXc

🙏 Feel free to share the link with others. Thank you!

Breathing Through Your Day: A Brief Reflection Survey

You move, interact, speak, listen, think, and feel. Life unfolds through a rich variety of experiences and tasks.

test.uib.es

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Joan Tarrida @joantarridav.bsky.social · Jul 17

Teniu pensat publicar la tercera part properament?

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Dec 4

Nice Commentary in @elife.bsky.social on new discovery linking Beta rhythms and the dopamine system:

Brain Activity: Unifying networks of a rhythm
elifesciences.org/articles/104...

#neuroskyence #dopamine #beta-waves

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CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · Nov 8

Nature Neuroscience

Interoceptive rhythms in the brain
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interoceptive rhythms in the brain - Nature Neuroscience

Engelen et al. review in animals and humans how the CNS senses cardiac, respiratory and gastric rhythmic activity, and detail the range of cognitive functions impacted, from perceptual detection up to...

www.nature.com

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Marc Sabio Albert @msabio.bsky.social · Oct 11

Very happy to announce that the latest work "Anticipating multisensory environments: Evidence for a supra-modal predictive system" from @alepebel.bsky.social @fuentemilla.bsky.social and myself has been published in Cognition!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Anticipating multisensory environments: Evidence for a supra-modal predictive system

Our perceptual experience is generally framed in multisensory environments abundant in predictive information. Previous research on statistical learni…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Joan Tarrida @joantarridav.bsky.social · Mar 8

Go check it out if you want to know more about how brief exposure to odor cues induced sustained neural activity in humans, with distinct effects on memory formation along the pleasantness dimension.

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Joan Tarrida @joantarridav.bsky.social · Mar 8

I would like to extend my gratitude to all the contributors who made this possible. @fuentemilla.bsky.social , Josep Marco-Pallarés, Manuel Moreno, Jordi Vidal and David Panyella.

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Joan Tarrida @joantarridav.bsky.social · Mar 8

I am excited to share the findings from our lab's first-ever study on odor, titled 'Odor-induced persistent neural activity in associative encoding in humans.'
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Odor-induced persistent neural activity in associative encoding in humans

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

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luzbavassi.bsky.social @luzbavassi.bsky.social · Jan 30

Very excited to share the “The Segregation-To-Integration Transformation (SIT) Model of Memory Evolution”, with @fuentemilla.bsky.social

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jan 22

🧪 Scientist?

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📃 Here’s a list of +200 science-related feeds and their hashtags.

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Emma Segura @emminorchord.bsky.social · Jan 3

As part of my research, I need as many people as possible to respond and spread the word about this online survey on Natural Singing! Can you help me?
Link to the survey: ubpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Thank you!

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