Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Matt Euler

@matteuler.bsky.social

700 followers 370 following 41 posts

Clinical neuropsychologist and EEG researcher, studying relations between neural dynamics and cognitive ability, and possible translational applications. Just science in this feed. #EEG #neuropsychology #neuroscience

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Matt Euler @matteuler.bsky.social · Mar 21

New paper from our lab! We examined how different pre-processing decisions affect measurements of #EEG mid-frontal theta (MFT) power and latency in correlational studies
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ko4ncAwkr...

authors.elsevier.com

2 1

Reposted by Matt Euler

Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Feb 18

Found this and couldn't resist ..

3 16 62

Reposted by Matt Euler

Alex Williams @itsneuronal.bsky.social · Jul 31

Easy two part solution.

(a) NIH should run its own journal, in house, that pays reviewers for their time and waives all publication fees for any NIH funded project.

(b) Publication fees for any other journal are then not an allowable budget line on NIH grants.

Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Jul 31

NIH wants to hear from you. No really.

Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-138: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs NOT-OD-25-138. NIH

grants.nih.gov

3 2 11

Reposted by Matt Euler

Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 13d

In reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular:

The joy.

One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...

Huntington's progression slowed by experimental gene therapy

An experimental gene therapy slowed Huntington’s by up to 75 percent in a small clinical trial. While not a cure, it may give patients longer lives.

www.sciencenews.org

12 250 1K

Reposted by Matt Euler

Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 15d

✨✨ New paper out in JPSP! ✨✨

Despite rich theory on links between temperament and personality, they're rarely studied together. This has left major unaddressed questions.

We tackled these questions by looking at how temperament and personality develop together from ages 10-26.

Brief thread...

1 13 51

Reposted by Matt Euler

Steven Paul Woods @stevenpaulwoods.bsky.social · 15d

Pre-clinical risk of ADRD is associated with higher levels of intra-individual variability, according to one of Neuropsychology's most cited papers of 2024.

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

@apajournals.bsky.social

APA PsycNet

psycnet.apa.org

2 3

Reposted by Matt Euler

Cory Inman @brainscout.bsky.social · 17d

Excited to share our new eLife paper from our lab's first Ph.D. graduate, Dr. Justin Campbell! In this paper, Justin explored the effects of direct electrical stimulation to the human amygdala on single-unit activity throughout the brain. We'd love to hear your thoughts!

Human single-neuron activity is modulated by intracranial theta burst stimulation of the basolateral amygdala

Firing rate analyses revealed neurons throughout the hippocampus, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, and anterior cingulate cortex in humans that exhibited heterogeneous responses to intracranial theta b...

elifesciences.org

1 9 36

Reposted by Matt Euler

Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 20d

The multimodal sky's the limit now with Brainstorm.

Now featuring PET data integration with electrophysiology and MRI.
neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/T...

Open source, free, for anyone interested (>50,000 users registered so far, >4,500 studies published.)

1 5 15

Reposted by Matt Euler

INS Student Liaison Committee @ins-slc.bsky.social · 21d

🌟INS Conference Travel Awards🌟

✈️Financial support for travel to INS Philadelphia 2026!!

✍️Applications will be accepted between September 5 and October 15

👀More details: the-ins.org/about-ins/in...

2 2

Reposted by Matt Euler

Melissa Lamar PhD @drmlamar.bsky.social · 21d

Late breaking abstract submissions open for #INS @ins-slc.bsky.social @neuropsychblog.bsky.social Submit and share the link below:

ins-2026-philadelphia.oa-event.com

Home

ins-2026-philadelphia.oa-event.com

2 2

Reposted by Matt Euler

Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 21d

In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research

The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…

www.sciencedirect.com

2 28 87

Reposted by Matt Euler

Thomas Luo @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social · 22d

How does the brain decide? 🧠

Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc.

After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up.

rdcu.be/eGUrv

Transitions in dynamical regime and neural mode during perceptual decisions - Nature

Simultaneous recordings were made of hundreds of neurons in the rat frontal cortex and striatum, showing that decision commitment involves a rapid, coordinated transition in dynamical regime and neura...

www.nature.com

14 96 250

Matt Euler @matteuler.bsky.social · 22d

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1 1

Reposted by Matt Euler

Michael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social · 23d

To shunt or not to shunt, that is the (NPH) question? The first large randomized trial of shunting for normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) just dropped in NEJM, and there was clear benefit for walking, and it favored the group receiving shunts. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

3 3

Reposted by Matt Euler

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 23d

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates.

For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.

“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

50 180

Matt Euler @matteuler.bsky.social · 26d

👀 "The lowest quality studies reported the biggest effects for growth mindset interventions. The higher the study quality was, the lower the effect was."

Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · 26d

Is This the End of the Growth Mindset Theory? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Is This the End of the Growth Mindset Theory?

Growth mindset interventions targeted at improving students’ academic achievements are common. A new study shows that they have little to no actual effect.

www.psychologytoday.com

Reposted by Matt Euler

Editors of Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 New article in #NCONSC

Longitudinal characterization of electroencephalography features in consciousness recovery following severe traumatic brain injury: a case series study in male patients
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

#consciousness
🧠🧪💤

4 8

Reposted by Matt Euler

Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · Sep 7

ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!)

This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313).

What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think.

(🧵 1/5)

Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · Sep 6

Imagine you have Big 5 personality scores from over 300,000 people. You designate the scores in the "mean +/- 0.25 SDs" range for each trait (~20%) as the average range.

QUESTION: How many people in this >300K sample do you think fall in the average range for ALL 5 TRAITS?

What's your answer?

A figure from Simply Psychology illustrating Big Five personality traits: agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience.

This figure comes from:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/big-five-personality.html

13 49 130

Reposted by Matt Euler

Language and Memory Aging Lab @lamalab.bsky.social · Aug 25

🚨Pre-print alert!🚨 osf.io/preprints/ps...
The first paper from our NIDCD-funded study examining the effects of aging, acoustic challenge, and hearing loss on language-related ERPs. w/ Jack Silcox, David Strayer, Sarah Ferguson, and Karen Bennett. Check it out!

4 7

Reposted by Matt Euler

#EEGManyLabs @eegmanylabs.bsky.social · Aug 20

#EEGManyLabs website is now live: eegmanylabs.org
A home for our global effort to test the replicability of influential EEG findings, share resources, improve methods in cognitive neuroscience, and grow an open, connected community.

eegmanylabs

eegmanylabs.org

1 36 54

Reposted by Matt Euler

Jin Ke @jinke.bsky.social · Aug 20

New preprint! 🧠

Our mind wanders at rest. By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we show these thoughts are reflected in brain network dynamics and contribute to pervasive links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior (1/10).
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behavior

Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC)-brain connectivity observed when people rest with no external tasks-predicts individual differences in behavior. Yet, rest is not idle; it involves streams...

www.biorxiv.org

4 23 66

Reposted by Matt Euler

Yuri Pavlov @ugpavlov.bsky.social · Aug 20

After a couple of years in the making, we are thrilled to launch the new home for #EEGManyLabs: eegmanylabs.org

3 11

Reposted by Matt Euler

Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · Aug 15

Great to see this all spelled out -- In Defense Of The Amyloid Hypothesis

www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-defense...

In Defense Of The Amyloid Hypothesis

A guest post by David Schneider-Joseph

www.astralcodexten.com

2 2 6

Reposted by Matt Euler

Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 15

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

11 110 360

Matt Euler @matteuler.bsky.social · Aug 14

Really cool and important work. Individual differences strike again!

Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · Aug 14

The lateral prefrontal cortex 🧠— which we think of as critical for goal driven behavior + is a target for psychiatric treatments— is fundamentally different in individuals relative to the group averages we’ve often studied.

👇see preprint and thread, led by Zach Ladwig
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Image of brain networks in a group average and individual LPFC. Individuals show:
1) smaller FP network
2) more interdigitation
3) conserved motifs
4) idiosyncratic features
This was validated with task and rest fMRI

Reposted by Matt Euler

Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Aug 7

Wow: tenure letter writers’ publication records (h-index) are better predictors of tenure decisions than candidates’ own publication record.

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · Aug 7

Another paper from the same group: "External review letters are more closely related to letter writer characteristics than candidate productivity."

External review letters in academic promotion and tenure decisions are reflective of reviewer characteristics

We examine validity and bias in external review letters (ERLs) in academic settings. ERLs play a critical role in promotion and tenure (P&T) decisions…

www.sciencedirect.com

4 22 69