TDLM-Resting-State Simulation How sensitive is TDLM really? Can we actually find replay when we know it is present?

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...

how does his brain do it ? #neuroscience #memory #sport Nelson Dellis 6x US memory champion YouTube video by Roselyne Chauvin

The 6x US memory champion – Nelson Dellis – can memorize a deck of cards in 40 seconds and knows the first 10K digits of pi.
To figure out how, he let us peak inside his brain. Here is what we learned in our precision brain mapping study www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Here's a striking visual illusion - the 9 purple dots.

Focus your eyes on the top left dot. That one is more purple than the others, right? Now try another dot... that one becomes the purple one! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41744429/

Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, we found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02390-4

You still have two weeks to register for COGNESTIC, 14-25 September 2026. We provide training in state-of-the-art methods for neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking, especially for early-career researchers. For more info:
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I grew up a kilometre from MTR in one direction and Vidyarthi Bhavan in the other. That's better food culture in a 1km radius than entire countries have. (-: (BLR have plenty of slop, too, but you'd rather look at the most beautiful masala dosa in the world in your timeline.)

Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx

Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought - Nature Reviews Neuroscience The capacity to prevent unwanted thoughts is important for cognitive function and mental health. Anderson et al. describe insights into the neural mechanisms of the inhibitory control of thought that ...

Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought — a Review by Michael C. Anderson, Maite Crespo-Garcia & S. Subbulakshmi

@memorycontrol.bsky.social‬

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

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

🚨This is the most exciting step of my scientific career🚨

25 yrs ago I started a life long interest in navigation, maps & brains

I've collected data from >4 m people in 195 nations in SeaHeroQuest

In 3 weeks we set off on an ocean voyage to study the amazing spatial skills of Marshallese sailors:

Now out in Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com : “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought - Nature Reviews Neuroscience The capacity to prevent unwanted thoughts is important for cognitive function and mental health. Anderson et al. describe insights into the neural mechanisms of the inhibitory control of thought that ...

How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital function.@mrccbu.bsky.social sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Excited to share our new study on how respiration modulates neural dynamics during successful memory retrieval—led by @estebanbt.bsky.social, alongside the exceptional team of @fabian31415.bsky.social, @maritpetzka.bsky.social, @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social, and @bstaresina.bsky.social. 👇

Cutting international bachelor programs threatens psychological science » Eiko Fried Two days ago, four Dutch universities announced discontinuing their English-speaking psychology bachelor programs (1, 2). I will briefly explain (1) how this decision came to be, (2) why this is such ...

Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government.

Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea.

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Happy to share our new paper on the inhibition of memory retrieval in dissociative amnesia, with @dcdace.bsky.social, Hirokazu Kikuchi, Nobuhito Abe &, Jun Kawaguchi, Mike Kopelman & @memorycontrol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S003...

Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties - Communications Biology Rapid temporal modulation added to music affects attentional performance and brain activity; parametric manipulation of this added modulation reveals rates that differentially affect individuals with ...

Music helps attentional focus. I hope so. I'm not going to stop listening to music when I work.
Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#neuroscience

A thread🧵 on application systems for postdoc jobs in the UK (applies to my university, but I've seen others and they're similar).

I have seen (too many times) good applicants who don't seem to understand how recruitment is done on our side - not their fault! it's a privilege! - so here's how

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

@mrccbu.bsky.social are happy to announce Cognitive Neuroimaging Skills Training In Cambridge (#COGNESTIC) on 15-26 Sep 2025. We will provide training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and related methods. Look here for more information: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects Episodic events are typically retrieved and forgotten holistically. If you recall one element (e.g., a person), you are more likely to recall other el…

Happy publication day to us! New paper just landed:

The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition 🧪

I have not seen a starter pack for the study of brain rhythms. So, here's a start.
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Paper accepted!!!

The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects

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#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

As part of an exciting new UKRI-funded interdisciplinary study of the vividness of memory, we are recruiting two post-doctoral researchers, one in cognitive neuroscience (www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48823/) and one in intellectual and cultural history (www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48767/). Please share!

🚨Long-awaited revised preprint thanks to rigorous and helpful reviewers🚨. We validated LDA approach, obtained reactivation to index neural reinstatement, and updated inferential models w @alexamorcom.bsky.social, Matt Plummer + new co-author Ivor Simpson
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... . Summary👇🧵

Submitted my first paper today and released it as a preprint! Murray, E., Goebel, S. M., & @aidanhorner.bsky.social (2024). More Steps, Same Effect: Spacing Increases the Retention of Mathematics Procedures of Varying Complexity. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Kuppuraj Bishop Study Visit Grants This scheme was set up in 2020 by Professor Dorothy Bishop, in memory of Kuppuraj, a postdoc from India who worked with her on a study visit. It aims to help finance postgraduate and postdoctoral r…

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Grant helps finance postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers from the ‘Global South’ working in experimental psychology to complete a study visit in a lab hosted by an EPS member
Deadline is 1st December.

I’m going to keep repeating this: ChatGPT was designed to do the impressive feat of making a computer produce a natural sounding response to a question (or other prompt). It was not designed to provide factual answers to questions.

Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep Memories are sometimes best forgotten, but how do our brains weaken unwanted details of the past? We propose a theoretical framework in which memory r…

New "forum" (short opinion piece) with Scott Cairney is out and available to read at your pleasure!

Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep

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How are multiple interconnected memories reactivated during #sleep? We've published our opinions, but here I'd like to highlight recent findings from other groups. Tl;dr: multiple memories can be (almost) simultaneously reactivated & shared contexts drive this reactivation 1/8

Differential Mnemonic Contributions of Cortical Representations during Encoding and Retrieval Abstract. Several recent fMRI studies of episodic and working memory representations converge on the finding that visual information is most strongly represented in occipito-temporal cortex during the...

Fun new paper on meaning & memory in the brain.

Retrieval is often seen through the lens of encoding success, but we find a unique "flip" in which the parietal ctx mediates enc failure but retrieval success. Cool implications for theories of parietal function.

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Got Butterflies in your Stomach? 😵‍💫 I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social ! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date 🧵👇www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06....