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Yuranny Cabral-Calderin @ycabral.bsky.social · 19h

Looking forward to discussing our results on neural and behavioral entrainment to auditory rhythms and tACS. See you today at 4 PM CEST.

LOOPs_spp2411 @brainloops.bsky.social · 20h

🧠🎶 Reminder! It’s TODAY!!

The LOOPs webinar is today at 4 PM CEST! Join @ycabral.bsky.social for Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment.

Join us: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

#LOOPsWebinar #Neuroscience #AuditoryPerception #SPP

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LOOPs_spp2411 @brainloops.bsky.social · 6d

LOOPs webinar is back after the summer break! 🔄🎉
Don’t miss @ycabral.bsky.social on Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment uncovering how neural oscillations shape auditory perception.🧠🎶

🗓️ Oct 8th, 2025
🕓 4 PM CEST
📍 Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 9d

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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Nicolas Mathevon @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social · 28d

Nice article about our paper published today in @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface.

#bioacoustics

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Babies’ cries can make humans physically hotter, research finds

When in distress, babies produce chaotic wails which have pronounced effects on humans, including changes in facial temperature

www.theguardian.com

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Yuranny Cabral-Calderin @ycabral.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations Jerome! This is fantastic 👏

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Johanna Rimmele @johannarimmele.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our latest preprint! We find that auditory-motor synchronization behavior is related to the weighting of rhythmic versus melodic predictions during music perception, including long-term enculturated predictions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Auditory-motor synchronization determines the use of predictions in music perception

When listening to music, our brain constantly generates predictions about the timing and pitch of upcoming sounds based on the structure of the music. Individual differences in the ability to make suc...

www.biorxiv.org

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Robert Rosenbaum @robertrosenbaum.bsky.social · Sep 3

The University of Notre Dame is hiring 5 tenure or tenure-track professors in Neuroscience, including Computational Neuroscience, across 4 departments.

Come join me at ND! Feel free to reach out with any questions.

And please share!

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Yuranny Cabral-Calderin @ycabral.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations!

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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · Sep 4

The rig for conducting intracellular recordings from the 🐝🧠 is getting in shape. If you are interested using it here in Würzburg 🇩🇪 contact me. We have an open PhD position expected to be filled until spring 2026.
www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio...

#neurethology

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Sep 4

Applications open for fully funded 4-yr positions in the unique interdisciplinary program of the @maxplanck.de School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for science at the forefront of fundamental & applied research, mentored by a network of world renowned researchers.🧪
cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 27

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation

Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

www.medrxiv.org

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Desmond Oathes, PhD @desmondoathes.bsky.social · Aug 21

Preprint introducing our whole brain causal connectivity maps in >N80 participants according to single pulse interleaved TMS/fMRI. dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🧠 ⚡ 🔭

Causal Connectivity Maps Derived from Single-Pulse Interleaved TMS/fMRI

Here we employed interleaved single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation with functional MRI (spTMS/fMRI) to generate causal activation maps targeting the left hemisphere according to two sets of p...

dx.doi.org

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Laetitia Grabot @lgrabot.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚀New paper out! With @lauradugue.bsky.social & @kirstenpetras.bsky.social, we show that traveling waves seen in EEG/MEG sensors might reflect real waves on the brain’s visual cortices—not just artifacts. Based on a MEG-EEG dataset with visually triggered traveling waves.
tinyurl.com/st4bkday

Locally induced traveling waves generate globally observable traveling waves

Cortical traveling waves have been proposed as a fundamental mechanism for neural communication and computation. Methodological uncertainties currently limit the interpretability of non-invasive, extr...

www.jneurosci.org

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Yuranny Cabral-Calderin @ycabral.bsky.social · Jul 5

Also check out P222 – Oscillatory Phase Alignment in Auditory Perception on Tuesday from 16:30–17:30 by Hassan Al-Turany, if you are curious about #synchronization of #bodily signals to #auditory #rhythms and their contribution to #conscious auditory #perception.

Yuranny Cabral-Calderin @ycabral.bsky.social · Jul 5

On my way to #ASSC28!
Excited for a week of great science and new connections.
Find me on Monday, 16:30–17:30, to talk about #Blindsight, #bodily #rhythms, and #decoding #visual #awareness.
P126 – Neurophysiological correlates of consciousness: Insights from Blindsight
@assc28.bsky.social

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Brain Networks @brainnetleipzig.bsky.social · Jul 2

🚨 New paper alert from Weise et al.!

"A leadfield-free optimization framework for transcranially applied electric currents"

🔋 Optimize TES, TIS, ECT & TTFields without fixed leadfields
🧠 Electrode placement adapts to individual anatomy
💻 Now available in SimNIBS!

doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jul 2

How does the brain sample the #visual environment in space and time? @iraposo.bsky.social &co show that two distinct temporal patterns (rhythmic oscillations & aperiodic timescales) predict attention-guided behavior @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ThTKVy

Behavioral timescales increase when multiple locations are sampled. Left: Schematic of task designs. Participants fixated a central cross and were presented with a cue, which indicated the location participants should covertly attend to. After a variable cue-target interval a target appeared in either the cued or non-cued location and participants responded with a button press. In the first task participants only had to sample two locations, while in the second task, participants had to sample four locations. Second left: demeaned, time-resolved RTs as a function of the cue-target interval for one exemplary participant (two locations: red; four locations blue). Second right: power spectrums with different peak frequencies. Right: the autocorrelation function and the respective timescales.

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Yuranny Cabral-Calderin @ycabral.bsky.social · Jul 1

Thank you!

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Daniel Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · Jun 30

New preprint with amazing work from @nchalas.bsky.social:

How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :)

#neuroskyence

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

Respiration as a dynamic modulator of sensory sampling

Respiration dynamically modulates sensory perception by orchestrating transient states of the brain and the body. Using simultaneous recordings of high-density magneto-encephalography (MEG), respirati...

www.biorxiv.org

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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Jun 20

For auditory processing aficionados: new from Y Sun, O Ghitza & G Michalareas
tracking rate of periodicity is achievable without sharp acoustic edges or consistent phase alignment to envelope. consistent with assuming distinct processes for phase and rate tracking
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...

Complex Impact of Stimulus Envelope on Motor Synchronization to Sound

The human brain tracks temporal regularities in acoustic signals faithfully. Recent neuroimaging studies have shown complex modulations of synchronized neural activities to the shape of stimulus envel...

www.jneurosci.org

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LOOPs_spp2411 @brainloops.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧠🔄 #NeuroThursday

@roselynechauvin.bsky.social & team use daily fMRI to show that 2 weeks of arm disuse triggers spontaneous “disuse pulses” and boosts connectivity in motor cortex, thalamus and putamen.

Arm in a cast? Your thalamus rewires 🩼🧠 Check out below ⬇️

🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Disuse-driven plasticity in the human thalamus and putamen

Using a 2-week arm and hand casting paradigm with daily brain fMRIs, Chauvin et al. observe subcortical plasticity in humans. The disused motor circuit shows increased functional connectivity and the ...

www.cell.com

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · Dec 13

Happy to share my second paper with Peter Dayan on our decision-theoretic approach to perceptual multistability (see the tweeprint of the first paper here x.com/neuroprincip...).

Paper:
A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

x.com

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Benjamin Gagl @benjamingagl.bsky.social · Jun 11

Wir brauchen ein sofortiges #Waffenverbot für Privatpersonen – damit sich eine schreckliche Tat wie #Graz nicht wiederholen kann. Jetzt Appell an Innenminister Karner und die Bundesregierung unterzeichnen: actions.aufstehn.at/waffenverbot...

Privates Waffenverbot jetzt!

Der Amoklauf an einer Grazer Schule zeigt, dass das Waffengesetz in Österreich viel zu locker ist. Das muss sich ändern! Fordere jetzt mit uns ein Waffenverbot für Privatpersonen.

actions.aufstehn.at

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · Jun 7

1/ Can AI be conscious? My Behavioral & Brain Sciences target article on ‘Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism’ is now open for commentary proposals. Deadline is June 12. Take-home: real artificial consciousness is very unlikely along current trajectories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Call for Commentary Proposals - Conscious artificial intelligence and biological

Call for Commentary Proposals - Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism

www.cambridge.org

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Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics @ae.mpg.de · Jun 10

🧠 Our #brain is part of us—yet still a mystery. A new study from our Institute reveals how it syncs with rhythmic #sounds and how electrical currents can influence this.

Dive deeper: s.gwdg.de/kj7cxy
@ycabral.bsky.social

A man in black and white seen from behind with blond hair and a hoodie, with blue and white cables attached to his head. To the right and left of his ears are fine wavy lines in blue, pink, and orange.

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