Spiking the mind: Rethinking the role of cortical feedback in visual mental imagery - PubMed Recent research has revealed similarities between visual mental imagery and visual perception. Visual imagery is supported by cortical feedback involving multiple visual areas, including the primary v...

Excellent review by Pearson and team on how imagery is implemented through modulatory rather than excitatory top-down signals to visual cortex: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41973795/

📢**PhD position #NeuroJobs **
I'm looking for a PhD candidate to work on infraslow rhythms in neurophysiological data. Application deadline: 20th May.
Please see here for details: benediktzoefel.wixsite.com/home/phd

Monkey auditory neurons "did not show enhanced responses to unexpected stimulus repetitions, contrary to predictive-coding theory. However, they did show enhanced responses to unexpected stimulus omissions." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

My kid loved it, great work!

⚽ Next Men's First Team match ⚽

Last game of the season - get here early 🔥

📍 Old Spotted Dog Ground, E7 9NP
🚇 7 stations nearby
🎟️ £5 | pay what you can concessions | free U13s
🍻 3 bars, Fusion food

www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/04/15/m...

Nadine Dijkstra - Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain YouTube video by MIT Consciousness Club

Nadine Dijkstra's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciv....

Congratulations Daniel, hugely well deserved of course!

Birkbeck academic awarded 2025 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship Dr Daniel Yon, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at Birkbeck, has been announced as a recipient of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.

Really delighted to have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship by the @britishacademy.bsky.social , which I’ll be using to work on a new book about the human imagination 🧠

My institution is offering training to students on "building your personal brand." This feels yuck to me... Am I being naive/idealistic? What happened to the highest ideals of the academy, the impersonal quest for truth, and all that?

Neural mechanisms of predictive processing: a collaborative community experiment through the OpenScope program This review synthesizes advances in predictive processing within the sensory cortex. Predictive processing theorizes that the brain continuously predicts sensory inputs, refining neuronal responses by...

Exactly one year after sharing this gigantic review arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614, we just shared 56TB of data with the world: Entirely new experiments described in the review. And more is coming...

"it is possible to predict the firing rate of units to a given word based on responses to other words by leveraging their similarities in semantic space, demonstrating that the unconscious hippocampus has access to abstract semantic relationships between words." (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)

Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Categorization, the grouping of objects, living organisms, actions or events into equivalence clusters, is fundamental to adaptive behaviour. In this Perspective, Barrett and Miller discuss evidence t...

Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain — a Perspective by Lisa Feldman Barrett & Earl K. Miller

@lisafeldmanbarrett.com @earlkmiller.bsky.social

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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

The Obleser lab will be hiring soon!

New postdoc (fully funded) and
new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded).

Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct.
Watch out for official announcements!
Please be in touch.

auditorycognition.com
obleserlab.com
hoerhanse.de
lemmi.uni-luebeck.de

Neural circuits encode prior knowledge of temporal statistics - Nature Neuroscience This study shows that cerebellar circuits learn and encode prior probabilities of event timing. Cell-type-specific neural activity reflects environmental statistics and guides predictive motor behavio...

Our work on how neural circuits in the cerebellum encode prior probabilities led by Julius Koppen is out now in Nature Neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big thanks to Julius Koppen & the whole team! And dedicated to all of us who found inspiration in Bayesian theories of the brain!

The famous @danieljamesyon.bsky.social??

The contribution of default mode network areas to visual perception Visual perception and accompanying sensory activity are strongly shaped by top-down influences. Although several sources of this influence have been thoroughly examined in the research literature, one...

Very interesting sounding paper on the role of the default mode network in visual perception by Ujhelyi, Korda & Zaretskaya. The authors propose that the DMN provides top-down information from memory and semantic knowledge to guide perception. #neuroskyence

Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

Home This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations.

🚨 Announcing another edition of the Metacognitive Science satellite in NYC, August 2nd 2026 (day before CCN) 🧠 🧪

Abstract submission is now open and closes May 15th!

metacognitivescience.org

Co-organised with @meganakpeters.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social @dobyrahnev.bsky.social

Super excited to share this preprint! How do we disentangle underlying structure from the particular features of a learning episode to benefit future learning? We find that memory reactivation during sleep promotes this structure abstraction process.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We’ve got an exciting new thing to share! We have causal evidence (using TMR) that memory reactivation during sleep promotes abstract understanding of underlying structure, allowing transfer learning in a new domain with zero superficial feature overlap with the learned one.

I have now read this paper and it's great -- and it also provides evidence more generallu for a visual object space axis code in human ventral temporal cortex. #visionscience #neuroskyence

This tenure denial is absurd! Larisa is extremely productive, has an NSF CAREER, and won multiple early career awards, among other accolades.

It pains me to think about what she’s going through, having gone through a similar experience at that department (Columbia Psychology) 3 years ago.

The dominance of large-scale phase dynamics in human cortex, from delta to gamma The phase of cortical activity, measured in the gray matter, is organized at multiple spatial scales, with the largest scales explaining most variance in phase at a given temporal frequency.

Cortex is rhythmic: Brain rhythms coordinate over large distances. The strongest phase organization spans up to 8–16 cm of cortex.
The dominance of large-scale phase dynamics in human cortex, from delta to gamma
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
#neuroscience

New: Communities face spiralling fuel prices, exacerbating transport poverty and car dependence - and many need car-free alternatives for short trips. I've spoken to successful greenway campaigners, and produced a toolkit! so others can help assemble low-carbon transport routes in their areas

13' GOAL!!! CCFC take the lead! Marta Boiro's free kick on the edge of the box is blocked by Dulwich's defensive wall, but Leigha Bradding-Butler is quickest to the loose ball and fires home

Clapton CFC 1 Dulwich Hamlet Res 0

Matchday!

Growing List of Orban Loyalists Defecting Before Critical Election

Rat's jumping off the sinking ship in Hungary. It can't happen soon enough here.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/w...

It's not always easy being an Arsenal fan.......

Clapton CFC Men's First Team low-key friendly on Saturday vs Apollo London - Clapton Community FC The Clapton CFC Men's First Team have a free weekend so have arranged a low-key friendly againstApollo London, who are unbeaten all season.

No league game for Clapton CFC Men's First Team today so we've arranged a low-key friendly against Apollo London.

📍 Old Spotted Dog Ground, E7 9NP
🕑️ Kick off 2pm
🎟️ Free entry
🍻 Bar 12 to 6 but clubhouse area closed
❌️ No food or merch stalls

www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/04/11/c...

Clapton Community FC vs Dulwich Hamlet Reserves takes place on Sunday, April 12 2026 with a 2pm kick off at the Old Spotted Dog Ground, 212 Upton Lane, Forest Gate, East London, E7 9NP.

⚽ Next Women's First Team match ⚽

Last home game of the season on Sunday - come on down.

📍 Old Spotted Dog Ground, E7 9NP
🚇 7 stations nearby
🎟️ £5 | pay what you can concessions | free U13s
🍻 Caribbean food

www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/04/09/m...