In EEG + HEP analyses, I sometimes see independent components with similar oscillatory time courses and wonder if I can safely remove them or if I'm "throwing out the baby with the bathwater." But you are right, single channel + high amplitude likely is just pulsation.
Cool! I always wonder if it's a pure artifact or could there be neuronal contribution? Does it get more pronounced if the electrode is closer to vessels?
If you want to explore the data yourself, you can filter and recreate figures in the interactive shiny app!
paulsteinfath.shinyapps.io/her-systemat...
Our review about methods used in Heartbeat Evoked Responses research is out at Psychophysiology ✨!
We hope it will be a helpful resource for the community:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Methods research is cool🤩. This work suggests that hexadirectional modulation in fMRI is not a specific signature of grid-cell activity and may arise from alternative mechanisms (variance, nonlinearities, analysis). We need more validation of existing methods, especially for non-invasive recordings.
'A dual-function framework of interoception: the information and coordination modes of interoceptive signaling'
by Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Marie Loescher (@marieloescher.bsky.social) & Anthony Clément
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Here we gooo!
Will fMRI become obsolete for measuring striatal reward signals?
Probably not anytime soon…
Still, in our latest paper, we use AI to take a step toward decoding striatal reward signals from EEG — maybe nudging the fMRI monopoly just a little :)
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
How dynamics arise from the structure is my biggest interest. In this study, we started with a small step and asked how structure constrains dynamics. Spoiler: would that it were so simple… (1/6)
Heute noch Thema Vereinbarkeit (Familie & Beruf). Das ist mir auch deshalb wichtig, weil ich selbst als Doktorandin so gut wie keine Professorinnen mit Kind(ern) als Vorbild hatte, mir das aber gewünscht hätte. Meine Karriere sieht auf dem Papier jetzt wie ein "Vorzeigemodell" für Vereinbarkeit aus.
main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂
looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.
science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
If the brain operates in a critical regime, it's said to be beneficial for information manipulation. In this paper, criticality of motor cortex of Parkinson’s disease patients was compared with controls. So patients' brain is closer to (not farther from) the critical point, regardless of the meds.🆒🆒
New results!
Ephaptic coupling can explain variability in neural activity
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Work led by @pinotsislab.bsky.social
#neuroscience
Richard McElreath: It must not be overlooked that junior researchers DO NOT TRUST US. We, the directors, are a big part of the problem. We made this system, we remake it every year, and we benefit from it. What can we do to credibly signal our commitment to reform a corrupt research culture? My conversations with junior scientists in the society has taught me that directors are too often either indifferent or hostile to science reform. We cannot hope to convince our prize winning colleagues. Their egos are immune. But we can replace retirements with researchers who care more about integrity than their own prestige. This is important both for earning the trust of the junior researchers who really do the research in the MPG and for attracting excellent future directors and starting to earn the trust of the public. So I suggest two strong signals to our junior researchers (and the public): (1) we will reform recruitment and promotion at all levels to eliminate proxies like citation counts and journal brands in favor of reliability and sustainability; (2) we will make open science skills a core part of scientific training, through the graduate schools at a minimum, as conditions for the central funding. The most ambitious thing we could do, as hinted at in item 5 above, is to meaningfully invest in metascientific research. As the largest basic research organization in the world, the MPG is uniquely suited to studying research and its products from a broad perspective that includes the humanities, the sciences, and policy. Governments are already involved in science reform. Someone should study it in an organized and sustained way.
The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.
This week is ideal to draft your submission for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 so that you can let it rest over the (potential) holidays and finalise it first thing in 2026 (deadline: January 8, 2026). 😉
Looking forward to seeing you there and - in case - happy holidays! 🎄🧠🫀🫁
Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year:
www.gao-unit.com/join-us/
If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!
I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
Neuroscientists of the bluest sky:
I'm trying to identify seminal papers that have reshaped our understanding of brain-body connections (could be in any system).
Which papers come to mind?
#neuroskyence
Noise as a Signal – Moritz Gerster, Vadim Nikulin & Arno Villringer analysed data from 119 patients & discovered a new electrical signature of #Parkinson’s Disease, now published in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social: www.cbs.mpg.de/2412209/2025...
#parkinsontherapy #clinicalstudy
Now out in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social!
📖 Read the open-access article: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
#Neuroscience #Neurology #Parkinsonsdisease #Parkinsons #DeepBrainStimulation #DBS #Neurotechnology #Neuromodulation #Neurophysiology #BasalGanglia #OpenScience #Reproducibility
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Emma Bailey, Falk Eippert, et al:
Evaluating cardiac noise correction approaches for non-invasive electrophysiology of the human spinal cord
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Illustrators call is out! Anyone who knows illustrators in Leipzig area! Tell them! All the info on this website: lauramayer.space/Science-Stre...
As part of the Toolbox Bouquet, @studenova.bsky.social and I will host a workshop on simulations of M/EEG activity and connectivity with the MEEGsim toolbox! You’re very welcome to join us on Oct 30th between 2 and 5pm 😉
More details will follow soon 🔜
Fresh from the press 🍃
In this article, we put forward a framework for understanding goal-directed and habitual control. We propose how interactive loops in the brain & shortcuts between them may shape our behavior – and that of Transformers. Looking forward to your thoughts💡
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
Find something the insula is not a hub for challenge.
We're looking for examples of #RegisteredReports with a publicly available Stage 1 manuscript and #OpenData that use one of the following statistical tests! If you know of one, please link it below! (See next post for list of tests)
Villringer et al. Figure 1. Conceptual framework for brain–body states
Villringer et al. Figure 2 Brain–body micro-, meso-, and macro-states can be distinguished on the basis of their duration and reversibility
'Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health'
by Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin & Michael Gaebler @mbe-lab.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com @mpicbs.bsky.social sky.social
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
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...
It can be so frustrating to read STS research. Here are Bartscherer and Reinhart osf.io/rbyt6_v1/ Look at their flawed logic: Replication is *used as a career strategy*. The evidence? People were not known for earlier research. The clear confound? ECR’s drove the replication movement! 1/x
📢Fully Funded PhD position in Barcelona!
I'm excited to announce that I’m opening a PhD position at @idibaps.bsky.social, Barcelona!
We'll investigate the role of bodily signals in autobiographical memory, using virtual reality, EEG and TMS, in healthy volunteers and patient populations.
If you're contemplating new study to start,
Cause you want to couple the brain to the heart,
And you search for clear analytical steps,
That give you a good estimation of HEPs.
This review uncovered how most people act,
When they heart reaction from data extract.
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.
