Can we really measure replay in humans using MEG with current methods? In our most recent paper we simulated replay under realistic conditions via a novel hybrid approach with astonishing results.
we're delighted that it has now been published @elife.bsky.social!
elifesciences.org/articles/108...
Excited to announce our new paper in Trends in Cognitive Science (TICS) on the importance of naturalistic body movements and mobile immersive virtual reality to the study of cognition! Check it out!
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Want a dataset to test ideas on neural basis of decision making or how areas interact as we make choices? Check out our data published today @rudebecklab.bsky.social. >16,000 single neurons from 22 anatomically confirmed areas in macaques performing a decision task. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A learning-evoked slow-oscillatory architecture paces population activity for offline reactivation across the human medial temporal lobe www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02...
🔔PREPRINT: Sleep ripples drive single-neuron reactivation for human memory consolidation
1/9: How does sleep support human memory consolidation? To test this, we recorded hundreds of neurons in the human medial temporal lobe (MTL) across learning, wakefulness, and sleep.
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What are the systems in neuroscience that we really have something that we can call “explanation” at all relevant levels, other than reflexive feed-forward like circuits.
Here are a few that I would argue are getting there. Obviously not complete explanations but genuinely satisfying.
I had a lot of fun – and learned a lot – talking to the one and only György Buzsáki on @stimulatingbrains.org the other day – check it out here 👇👇
I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.
First ever public presentation of single cell evidence for non-spatial grid cells by Elena Gutierrez, Seb Veselic from Steve Kennerley lab. Steve an I have been dreaming of this moment for nearly 10 years. #sfn25
RIP efficient coding 😜
Read CAN President Douglas Zochodne's letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney highlighting the importance of Neuroscience research and the CIHR Project Grant shortfalls.
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This post really put together the pieces in a way that floored me. Everything is about to change and we have to confront that reality causalinf.substack.com/p/claude-cod...
2025 in @natcomms.nature.com
“Low frequency oscillations - neural correlates of stability & flexibility”
Theta/alpha oscillations can aid cortical information transfer in-silico - a mechanism in line with MEG network state transitions in several working memory tasks
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Whether the system can be flexibly redirected to prioritize specific locations has been unclear. Using large-scale #Neuropixels recordings in freely behaving rats, we find that both sweeps – and the internal direction signals driving them – are dynamically modulated moment by moment. (4/6)
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Great work by Roni Tibon (not on BlueSky) - surprising that negligible difference in fMRI correlates of semantic vs episodic retrieval?
Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep.
But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Holly Schofield, Matthew J. Brookes, et al:
Towards a 384-channel magnetoencephalography system based on optically pumped magnetometers
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Totally agree and the point is well taken. On a bayes account, although a negative result doesn’t prove ‘unnecessary’ it does lower the posterior p that C is necessary (depends on prior, n, etc. etc.)
Not easy (circuit out of a brain can’t behave). But wouldn’t up/do
wn modulation of a specific circuit (e.g. w/ opto) tightly controlling a behaviour (e.g. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....) show ‘production sufficiency’ (to borrow from the TINS paper)?
Wouldn't demonstrating joint necessity/sufficiency for a set of circuit satisfy "causal production" as in TINS, below? Perhaps I misunderstood, but this seems like it fits that definition of causality (production) in distributed systems. Happy to be corrected if I’m missing anything!
The necessity/sufficiency distinction seems important here. A lesion in C with no effect tells you C is not necessary for b, but nothing about sufficiency (although brain stim in C could clarify). Likewise, C2 might be unnecessary when lesioned alone, but the set {C, C2} could be jointly necessary.
In my view there will be many such circuits, but if you don’t know how to look for them it will seem like everything is everywhere. But this view is not very fashionable at the moment. It will return. And then it will be unfashionable again :)
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Well this is exciting!
The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!
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Prob a small effect, but the FAQ mentions they excluded multi-disciplinary journals from the sample. Some of these journals (esp. PNAS, Nat comms, etc.) tend to publish imaging > EEG afaik, it may partially reflect a shift in where imaging gets published…
Nature research paper: Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces
go.nature.com/4ocRj3n
Oh man. Science Neural Circuits would be my new favorite journal.
Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao.
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