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Gregor Thut @gregorthut.bsky.social · 11d

Open postdoc position👈
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).

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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…

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Veronica Diveica @veronicadiveica.bsky.social · 29d

🧠 Interested in how the brain constructs and uses meaning?
 In my Journal Club piece for @natrevpsychol.nature.com, I summarize the Controlled Semantic Cognition Framework by Lambon Ralph et al. — a leading model of how the brain represents and flexibly applies semantic knowledge.

👉🏼 rdcu.be/eE31i

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Sep 5

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

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Dirk Gütlin @gutlin.bsky.social · Aug 28

Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles

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Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles - Nature Neuroscience

The human brain cycles through a repertoire of brain networks on a 1-second timescale during rest and tasks. This cycling appears to allow periodic engagement of essential cognitive functions, with th...

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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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Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social · Aug 26

Best luck with your new life in London! 😀

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Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social · Aug 21

Absolutely amazing work with great value! - A systematic review of aperiodic neural activity in clinical investigations

Tom Donoghue @tomdonoghue.bsky.social · Aug 21

I've updated my literature review of studies of aperiodic neural activity in clinical disorders, adding ~30 papers, taking it to 177 reports across 38 disorders!

It's got a review of results so far, discussion of themes & issues, & recommendations for future work!

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

A systematic review of aperiodic neural activity in clinical investigations

Aperiodic neural activity - activity with no characteristic frequency - has increasingly become a common feature of study, including in clinical work. Reports investigating aperiodic activity from pat...

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SCONe - Scottish-EU Critical Oscillations Network @scone-neuro.bsky.social · Jul 22

/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Brain rhythms in cognition -- controversies and future directions

Brain rhythms seem central to understanding the neurophysiological basis of human cognition. Yet, despite significant advances, key questions remain unresolved. In this comprehensive position paper, w...

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Ignacio Saez, PhD @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social · Jul 21

How is prefrontal neural activity refined as we age?

Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com‬! This study, from Elizabeth Johnson, uncovers how subtle changes in neural 'noise' impact our attention, memory, and cognition through development.

Proud to have contributed!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · Jul 10

In a new popular science book, The Animal and the Thinker, John Duncan explains how the balance of instinct and reason answers big human questions. Right and wrong. Ambition and fulfilment. Women and men. Law and democracy. A psychologist’s perspective on “the meaning of life”

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Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social · Jul 8

Incredible efforts from our brilliant Part II student Isabelle Woods Rogan, and great supervision from Prof Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social @mrccbu.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social

Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social · Jul 8

New results! We tested different control conditions for rh-TMS entrainment and showed ar-TMS performs best (matching sensory without inducing oscillatory effects). Also explored how rh-TMS/ar-TMS/sham-TMS differentially impact Oscillatory and Aperiodic activity!
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

Optimizing control conditions for entraining neural oscillations using rhythmic TMS

Rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation (rh-TMS) is increasingly used to entrain neural oscillations and probe their causal roles in cognition [1-3]. By delivering pulse trains at specific frequenc...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · Jun 27

Cooperating brain systems and intelligent behaviour: Special issue in honour of John Duncan. Because John is very special.
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Neuropsychologia | Cooperating brain systems and intelligent behaviour: Special issue in honour of John Duncan | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Throughout his distinguished career, John Duncan has made numerous influential contributions to understanding the behavioural and brain basis of attention and intelligence. John’s ideas, invariably co...

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Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · May 27

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

Funded PhD opportunity.pdf

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · May 28

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - Nature

This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · May 12

Check out our new special issue on cognitive flexibility @coolscontrol.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l4vl8MqMi...

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Ryan M.C. Law @rmc-law.bsky.social · Apr 15

New preprint ✨ w/ @olafhauk.bsky.social and Matt Lambon Ralph @mrccbu.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @gatescambridge.bsky.social

The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) seems crucial for both semantic memory and semantic composition. How to make sense of this neuroanatomical alignment? 🧠

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Apr 12

A common framework for semantic memory and semantic composition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.11.648390v1

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Bernhard Staresina @bstaresina.bsky.social · Apr 7

join us at @oxexppsy.bsky.social | @ox.ac.uk!

Katrijn Schruers @katschruers.bsky.social · Apr 7

We're excited to share that our lab is hiring for the position of Lab Manager/Research Assistant. A great opportunity to join our lab!

You can find full details and apply via the link below:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN515/r...

Please feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested!

Research Assistant/Lab Manager at University of Oxford

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Assistant/Lab Manager on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social · Apr 8

🚨Abstract submission ddl has been extended to 15th April!

Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social · Apr 2

🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & REGISTRATION🚨
Join us in Cambridge for "Exploring Interdisciplinary Frontiers: Cognitive Science, Computational Modelling & AI", sponsored by @acceleratescience.bsky.social @cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
🗓️ 9–10 May 2025 | Hybrid format
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Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social · Apr 2

@camneuro.bsky.social @cambraincns.bsky.social @mrccbu.bsky.social @eng.cam.ac.uk @campsydept.bsky.social

Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social · Apr 2

🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & REGISTRATION🚨
Join us in Cambridge for "Exploring Interdisciplinary Frontiers: Cognitive Science, Computational Modelling & AI", sponsored by @acceleratescience.bsky.social @cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
🗓️ 9–10 May 2025 | Hybrid format
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Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social · Mar 31

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Mar 26

It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠

A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results - Nature Communications

Here, the authors present the Network Correspondence Toolbox, which enables researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their neuroimaging results and widely used brain atlases.

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Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social · Mar 25

Thank you, Catriona! 😊