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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 19d

Our new study - pseudoneglect is partly explained by structural hemispheric asymmetries in putamen 👇👇👇

Tara Ghafari @ghafaritara.bsky.social · 19d

🧠✨ Preprint alert!

Ever noticed how most people (without realizing it) tend to see the left side of space a bit more strongly? In our new study, we show that this subtle quirk—called pseudoneglect—is linked to the asymmetry of putamen, a deep subcortical structure.

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

Hemispheric laterality of the putamen predicts pseudoneglect

Healthy individuals tend to exhibit a subtle leftward attentional bias, a phenomenon termed pseudoneglect. While this bias is thought to reflect a right-hemisphere dominance when allocating spatial at...

www.biorxiv.org

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 23d

In an EEG study spearheaded by Marlena Baldauf, we show that 8-month-old babies’ visual systems resonate at 4Hz (theta rhythm) — unlike adults, who resonate around 10Hz (alpha).

👶🧠 echoes at 4Hz
👩‍🦰🧠 echoes at ~10Hz

Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Infant Brains Tick at 4Hz - Resonance Properties of the Developing Visual System

Neural rhythms of the infant brain are not well understood. Testing the rhythmic properties of the adult visual system with periodic or broadband visual stimulation elicited neural resonance phenomena...

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · Sep 1

Important findings from @katduecker.bsky.social : faster visual search for a target among distractors predicted by stronger alpha; ie a case where alpha benefits visual processing

Katharina Duecker @katduecker.bsky.social · Aug 30

At long last, the pre-print to our MEG study + RIFT study and the final paper from my Ph.D with @olejensen.bsky.social We show that strong pre-search alpha oscillations are associated with faster responses in visual search www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@thechbh.bsky.social #neuroskyence

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Deng Pan @dengpan.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.

Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · Jun 26

Join our team! We're looking for a Research Assistant to support OPM-MEG research on reading in children and adults at the Oxford Centre for Human Activity in the Neuronal Oscillations group (www.neuosc.com). Deadline 22nd July. For details see lnkd.in/e2qvCP9b

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · Jun 16

www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/st-catz-host...

St Catz Hosts International Workshop on Next-Generation Brain Imaging - St Catherine's College

In early June, researchers from the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA) ran a highly successful four-day international workshop...

www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · Jun 12

In our new MEG/RIFT study from @thechbh.bsky.social by
@katduecker.bsky.social , we show that feature-guidance in visual search alters neuronal excitability in early visual cortex —supporting a priority-map-based attentional mechanism.
rdcu.be/eqFX7

Guided visual search is associated with target boosting and distractor suppression in early visual cortex

Communications Biology - Magnetoencephalography in human participants paired with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging reveals that excitability in early visual cortex is modulated to boost targets...

rdcu.be

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · Jun 10

Day 2 of the OPM-FLUX (www.neuosc.com/fluxtoolkit2...) toolkit at University of Oxford hosted at St Catz. We have 32 bright participants from 7 countries learning how to apply OPM-MEG in cognitive and clinical neuroscience

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · May 30

Our latest study on reading using MEG, eyetracking and Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging headed by Yali Pan from @thechbh.bsky.social : Parallel and dynamic attention allocation during natural reading
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Parallel and dynamic attention allocation during natural reading

During natural reading, attention constantly shifts across words, yet how linguistic properties (e.g., lexical frequency) impact the allocation of attention remains unclear. In this study, we co-regis...

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · May 27

During saccades, visual objects are first processed in the parafovea, then in the fovea upon fixation. Does this repeated exposure cause repetition suppression or information accumulation? MEG work by Syanah Wynn suggests both as a consequence of neural sharpening.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · May 20

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!

PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

(please share widely)

Language and Computation in Neural Systems

We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...

lacns.github.io

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Ayelet Landau @ayeletlandau.bsky.social · May 15

📣cog neuro postdoc opportunity! Interested in studying attention & exploration w/ cutting edge M/EEG? 🧠care about making vision science a bit more naturalistic? 🌱LandauLab is hiring! We seek resourceful, curious and creative researchers who can join the newly forming London-based [email protected]! ...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · May 15

Hands-on training at University of Oxford using OPM in cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Deadline 23/05/2025

Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · Apr 12

We are delighted to announce the first OPM-FLUX toolkit to be held 9th-12th June 2025 at St. Catherine's College at University of Oxford: neuosc.com/fluxtoolkit2...

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · May 8

Oscar Ferrante from @thechbh.bsky.social and his colleagues Rony Hirschhorn and Alex Lepauvre on Brain Inspired, reflecting on the Cogitate collaboration and the recent Nature paper.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · May 7

In this episode of “Brain Inspired,” Paul Middlebrooks talks with Oscar Ferrante, Rony Hirschhorn and Alex Lepauvre about putting integrated information and global neuronal workspace theories of consciousness to the test. Listen now: www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Oscar Ferrante, Rony Hirschhorn and Alex Lepauvre discuss putting integrated information and global neuronal workspace theories of consciousness to the test

The trio is part of the adversarial collaboration launched to test various theories of consciousness, a project known as COGITATE.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · May 8

And a wonderful podcast on Brain Inspired by the excellent postdocs/PhDs from the COGITATE team (@arc-cogitate.bsky.social) reflecting on their experience of being part of the adversarial collaboration on consciousness
braininspired.co/podcast/211/

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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · May 8

Interesting and timely editorial in Nature on the importance of adversarial collaborations
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Make science more collegial: why the time for ‘adversarial collaboration’ has come

Bringing together proponents of rival theories to test their ideas against each other can advance science — but only if all sides can accept that they might be wrong.

www.nature.com

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Apr 28

The 2025 edition of MEG UKI will be hosted by UCL 16-18th July. This year we include a multimodal day on naturalistic neuroscience! Abstract submission is also now open. meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/

MEG-UKI 2025 | UCL London | 16–18 July – MEG UKI

meguk.ac.uk

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Laura Dugué @lauradugue.bsky.social · May 2

Researchers in France are working on creating a french network of researchers to organize interaction, communication and training in #Computational_Neuroscience. If you are a CompNeuro working in France, consider joining, and registering to our mailing list: listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/subscrib...

rt_neurocomp - réseau français de neurosciences computationnelles - subscribe

listes.services.cnrs.fr

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ARC-COGITATE @arc-cogitate.bsky.social · Apr 30

Our @nature.com paper is out! Bringing together 2 major theories of consciousness - Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) - in an unprecedented collaboration. Here’s the story of how we advanced theory testing in neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Yamil Vidal @yamilvidal.bsky.social · Apr 30

I'm so happy for the friends I made working on this project, and proud of the work we have put together

ARC-COGITATE @arc-cogitate.bsky.social · Apr 30

Our @nature.com paper is out! Bringing together 2 major theories of consciousness - Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) - in an unprecedented collaboration. Here’s the story of how we advanced theory testing in neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Rony @ronyhirsch.bsky.social · Apr 30

I lost count of how many times I said, “I’ll believe it when I see it", and here we are. It's been a privilege to be part of @arc-cogitate.bsky.social and to learn from such brilliant people (especially grateful to @liadmudrik.bsky.social for the opportunity to join this massive project)

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Apr 30

The 1st major study from @arc-cogitate.bsky.social
is out today in @nature.com—a landmark collaboration testing theories of consciousness through rigorous, preregistered science. Data & tools shared openly.
Contributed from @mcgillumedia.bsky.social @theneuro.bsky.social
nature.com/articles/s41...

Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness - Nature

Multimodal results (iEEG, fMRI and MEG) of predictions from integrated information theory and global neuronal workspace theory align with some predictions of both theories on visual consciou...

www.nature.com

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ARC-COGITATE @arc-cogitate.bsky.social · May 1

We’re grateful for the ongoing support from @anilkseth - in particular for his generous and nuanced recent article in @nautil.us :
“Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness”

nautil.us/inside-the-b...

Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness

The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself

nautil.us

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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · May 2

What is consciousness? A global team of researchers, including Chair of Translation Cognitive Neuroscience Professor Ole Jensen, put two top theories to the test. Find out how they fared: buff.ly/5IU1BH0

"This adversarial collaboration has not only provided crucial understanding of how consciousness emerges in the brain but has also revealed a novel and powerful methodology for conducting science, one that we will undoubtedly incorporate into our future MEG investigations on cognitive and clinical neuroscience." Professor Ole Jensen, Chair of Translation Cognitive Neuroscience

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