Great work from @alexanderhuth.bsky.social and team! Widespread, bilateral #semantic representations in #aphasia decoded by fMRI.
This aligns very well with our recent #single #unit findings:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Language BCIs for aphasia are absolutely within reach!
#neuroskyence 🧪
Researchers at our university observed visual signal flow in a specific thalamocortical pathway, supporting key aspects of the 1981 Nobel Prize model by Hubel and Wiesel and refining the understanding of cortical processing: go.tum.de/450857
#Neuroscience #VisualPerception
📷A.Eckert
Submit your abstract until May 15 for the "Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience" conference in Amsterdam (Sept 7-10, 2026) to get the latest update on in-vivo neuro-methods from a brilliant lineup of keynote and panel speakers: monitoringmolecules.org/invited-spea... Please repost!
Congratulations!
A special part of this long journey has been the close collaboration with the Department of #Neurosurgery @tum.de (Jens Gempt, Arthur Wagner, Bernhard Meyer). This project would not have been possible without that partnership, bringing together clinical insight, technical expertise and a common goal
In short, this is evidence for well-structured, organized language processing in the right hemisphere, with considerable symmetry to the left.
Our findings also open new directions for developing #neurorehabilitation strategies and #BCI #technology for people who are lost for words.
Single-neuron activity and population dynamics were predictable using large language model (LLM) embeddings.
Semantic features preferentially accounted for prefrontal activity, and phonological features for parietal activity.
Right-hemispheric frontoparietal neurons robustly participated in comprehension, retrieval and articulation of words, the core operations of language.
Distinct subpopulations encoded lexical, word-level information in a highly task-specific manner, despite correlated firing across tasks.
Led by @lauraschiffl.bsky.social and Lisa Held, this study represents the largest dataset of its kind, with #microelectrode recordings from more than 10,000 neurons collected over ten months in an individual with #aphasia (chronic language impairments) following #stroke
Today, we’re thrilled to report “A right-hemispheric language network at single-neuron resolution”, the first systematic investigation into the #single #neuron correlates of #language functions in the #right #hemisphere of the #human #brain. #neuroskyence 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
To accommodate applicants and PIs attending Cosyne, we’ve extended the MCN application deadline to Sunday, Mar 22.
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🧠 Join us on June 12th at the @mpiforbi.bsky.social for the 3rd Munich Brain Day! 12 speakers, PhD & postdoc poster session and lots of networking.
Free event — but only 100 poster slots available, so submit early!
➡️ Register now: munichbrainday.com/registration/
📸 Pictures by Magdalena Warner
Germany has the opportunity to extend its strength as an engineering powerhouse into medicine and the life sciences. Vasilis Ntziachristos explains how this can be achieved using three key levers.
A comment by Vasilis Ntziachristos @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social
www.helmholtz.de/en/newsroom/...
Please spread the word🔊My lab is looking to hire two international postdocs. If you want to do comp neuro, combine machine learning and awesome math to understand neural circuit activity, then come work with us! Bonn is such a cool place for neuroscience now, you don't want to miss out.
As of January 1st, I’m tenured 🎉
I’m incredibly grateful to my lab for their ideas and persistence, to my colleagues at @tum.de for such a supportive and stimulating environment, and to my mentors whose guidance continues to shape how I think, teach and lead.
#academia #tenure #neuroskyence 🧪
My highlight of 2025: the first #microelectrode #BCI for spinal cord injury in Europe! 🦾⚡️🧠
🎥 (feature in German)
www.ardmediathek.de/video/gesund...
#SfN25 is drawing to a close. The pace of progress is mind-boggling! I am deeply grateful for the many encounters with friends and colleagues, old and new, and the excitement we shared. A conference is only as good as the people attending. We had a blast! 💥 See you next year! #neuroskyence
📢#Postdoc opportunity in human T cell immunology in the Zielinski lab at the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk. @erc.europa.eu
Official announcement coming up soon. DM me if you want to explore the regulation of human tissue resident T cells. #postdoc #immunology
The team will be at #SfN25 in San Diego. Come for a chat at our posters. We have #human #single #units, #microstimulation, #miniscopes and much more! 🧠🧪 #neuroskyence
The disruptive advances we are seeing in #neurotechnology must be accompanied by ethical frameworks, such as the one adopted yesterday by @unesco.org
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
Nice feature in #TIME #magazine about how brain-computer interfaces are about to change our lives #neuroskyence 🧪
time.com/7330887/brai...
We are hiring! 🎓🧫 🧬
#PhD studentship available in #Immunology at #CambridgeUniversity to investigate a new killer function of human T cells.
📅 Application deadline: 3rd December 2025
more information: lnkd.in/dxq6yMay
#findaPhD @ERC_Research
Our #BCI work was featured in #Tagesthemen, Germany’s most important newscast. Check it out 👇🏻 www.tagesschau.de/tagesthemen/...
Thanks for the feature. We’re very happy to play a part in advancing implanted #BCIs in Europe! 🧠🦾
A big push for #BCI and #neurotechnology in Europe! We implanted our second microelectrode array #BCI @tum.de. Huge thanks to our pioneer and to fantastic colleagues in #Neurosurgery and #Robotics #Machine #Intelligence 🧠🦾🧪 #neuroskyence @neuroengineering.bsky.social
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...
Thank you very much for hosting me in Maastricht @cherff.bsky.social and team! It was fun to present our newest on language processing.
And big congrats to Maxime Verwoert on passing her PhD defense! She can now add her name to the wall of fame! #neuroskyence 🧠🧪
New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇
Fantastic news! Congratulations, Jule! 🎉👏🏻
Looking forward to this!
(coming Tuesday)
