Effects of Expectation, Attention, and NMDA Receptor Blockade on Feedforward and Feedback Processing Perception is increasingly viewed as an inferential process wherein sensory inputs are integrated with prior expectations. We employed time-resolved decoding on electroencephalography (EEG) data ( n  ...

Just out! Expectations modulate stimulus-evoked recurrent, but not feedforward, processing, and this is attention-dependent. NMDA-dependent feedback specifically supports perceptual integration (illusory contours), rather than mediating expectations (base rate). www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1...

Just published my "Programming for Psychologists" course! 👩‍💻 github.com/Naubody/prog...

Designed for Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience Master's students starting their programming journey at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social.

Feel free to share! Feedback welcome!

Sensory processing sensitivity: theory, evidence, and directions

Review by Corina Greven, MacKenzie Trupp (@mactrupp.bsky.social), Judith Homberg, & Heleen Slagter (@haslagter.bsky.social)

Free access before Dec 23: tinyurl.com/43y9yzcb

Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...

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

Four interesting methods & stats winter courses at Leiden University also open to researchers and PhD candidates who are not affiliated with us.

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/social-be...

it is time to make my biyearly post because I put a preprint out🎉🍾😀. we (w/ @svangaal.bsky.social, Z. van den Hurk, @timostein.bsky.social & @fahrenfort.bsky.social) attempted to replicate a classic unconscious priming study by Vorberg et al. (2003) using a single-subject Bayesian approach.

🌙 Early-career sleep researchers & clinicians: Share your challenges attending Sleep Europe conferences!

💤 Quick survey by ESRS ECN & EDIC to improve accessibility & networking opportunities.

⏱️ A few minutes
📅 Deadline: Nov 22
🔗 warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Aperiodic EEG Activity Provides a Linear, Bidirectional, and Spatially Uniform Marker of Subjective and Objective Vigilance in Humans, Both Within and Across States Vigilance is increasingly conceived as a continuum, ranging from full alertness to deep sleep. Despite its fundamental role in cognition, behaviour, and health, reliable physiological markers of vigil...

Aperiodic EEG Activity Provides a Linear, Bidirectional, and Spatially Uniform Marker of Subjective and Objective Vigilance in Humans, Both Within and Across States www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share the first project of my PhD at #ASSC28, on how voluntary strategies modulate the reading response and how this relates to suggestibility and metacognitive efficiency.

Appreciation to my collaborators, and to @fahrenfort.bsky.social for his support and supervision on this project.

A causal role of the NMDA receptor in recurrent processing during perceptual integration Memantine selectively improves neural decoding of attended illusory contours, revealing NMDA receptor-dependent enhancement of feedback processing in human visual perception.

We show that memantine selectively improves neural decoding of attended illusory Kanizsa triangles, revealing NMDA receptor-dependent enhancement of feedback processing.

elifesciences.org/articles/100...

Thanks to Samuel Noorman @fahrenfort.bsky.social @timostein.bsky.social Jasper Zantvoord

Masterstage bij de Sleep & Cognition-groep - Nederlands Herseninstituut - KNAW | Master the mind

Nieuwe stage vacature! 🧠 🛌

Ben jij geïnteresseerd in de werkingsmechanismes van slapeloosheid? De Sleep & Cognition-groep is op zoek naar een enthousiaste en gedreven stagiair(e).

Lees hier meer 👇 herseninstituut.nl/stages/maste...

Writing a scientific paper or thesis? Over the years, I’ve gathered my favorite practical writing tips. I hope you find them helpful!

Check them out: dlwiki.nin.nl/Writing_and_...

#AcademicWriting #SciComm #WritingTips 🖊️🧪 🧠

Very happy this is finally out 🎉. In this paper, we show that conf. reports are biased by a visual illusion, an asymmetrical base rate and a payoff scheme. Crucially, we show that only the visual illusion affects subj. experience, suggesting decision bias leaks onto confidence reports.

⚠️ Come see our new preprint, in which we (@degeelab.bsky.social, Jasper Zantvoord, @psterzer.bsky.social, @fahrenfort.bsky.social & @svangaal.bsky.social) show that phasic (task-evoked) and tonic (baseline) arousal distinctly shape human decision bias! (1/6)

dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs....

I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago.
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pupil size reveals arousal level fluctuations in human sleep - Nature Communications Arousal levels regulate sleep, but accurate noninvasive measures are lacking. Here, a novel method is introduced to track pupil-indexed arousal levels during human sleep, revealing pupil size changes ...

Pupil size reveals arousal level fluctuations in human sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Visual feature processing in a large stroke cohort: evidence against modular organization Visual features form a crucial stage between sensory input and higher-level object recognition. The conventional model of visual processing posits that qua

1/5 New study challenges modular view of visual processing! academic.oup.com/brain/advanc... Analysis of 307 stroke patients shows mid-level visual processing are distributed across neural networks rather than confined to specific brain regions.

What is sleep exactly? Global and local modulations of sleep oscillations all around the clock Wakefulness, non-rapid eye-movement (NREM) and rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep differ from each other along three dimensions: behavioral, phenomenologi…

Our review on *Local Sleep* is finally out!

We cover the emerging notion that sleep can be a local brain phenomenon across wakefulness and sleep.
And the consequences for cognition and consciousness.

Check it out!
tinyurl.com/bdh64ck3

Non-REM parasomnia experiences share EEG correlates with dreams https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.10.565325v1 Sleepwalking and related parasomnias result from sudden and incomplete awakenings out of slow wave s

Non-REM parasomnia experiences share EEG correlates with dreams www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11....

19 - Machine learning for cognitive neuroscience Tutorials from the Cutting Gardens 2023 conference - Ghent edition

In today's EEG newsletter I share our MNE tutorials from the Cutting Gardens 2023 conference:

tinyurl.com/bdf49j2z

We covered Pre-processing, Machine Learning and the HMP toolbox for discovering cognitive stages (very cool).

Also many new vacancies. Have fun!

#EEG #neuroskyence #Neuroscience

my first paper ever is out now in PNAS 🎉🔥!! (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠) (w/ Simon van Gaal, @juliaha.bsky.social, @smfleming.bsky.social and @fahrenfort.bsky.social) we introduced a novel method to distinguish between effects in subjective experience from effects in decision-making. let me know what you think!