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The call for symposia (deadline 15 April) and abstracts (deadline 1 May) for Biomag 2026 in Beijing (23-25 Aug) is now open:

biomag2026.scimeeting.cn

New EEG study with collaborators at Beijing Normal University: during visual load children with ADHD (unlike controls), fail to downregulate aud MMN, show enhanced P3a and increased frontal theta. MMN latency vs amplitude dissociate inattention vs hyperactivity.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1mLPI3AZg~...

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Exciting news from the chairs of Biomag 2026, Prof. Jiahong Gao and Prof. Huan Luo — the conference website is now live: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn The meetings take place in Beijing, 23–25 August 2026. Save the date and start thinking about ideas for posters and symposia! Please share with colleagues

Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the human brain | PNAS Speech comprehension involves transforming an acoustic waveform into meaning. To do so, the human brain generates a hierarchy of features that conv...

CogNeuroLanguage: new by @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & @jeanremiking.bsky.social (w Alec Marantz & me) shows how the brain maintains-updates continuously unfolding lang hierarchy during comprehension, anchoring ling theories to biological implementation
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #neuroskyence

Decoding with multivariate pattern analysis is superior for optically pumped magnetometer-based magnetoencephalography compared to superconducting quantum interference device-based systems Background: Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) has become an increasingly important method for decoding distributed brain activity from neural electrophysiological recordings by leveraging both temp...

Decoding performance (MVPA) better for OPM-MEG than SQUID-MEG 😎. The improved spatial specificity of OPM-MEG due to the reduced brain-sensor distance is key. And more sensors (beyond 40) don't improve decoding.
Preprint from our recent @thechbh.bsky.social study: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fast hierarchical processing of orthographic and semantic parafoveal information during natural reading - Nature Communications Combining MEG, eye-tracking, and representational similarity analysis, this study shows that readers rapidly and sequentially extract orthographic and semantic information from upcoming words before fixation, supporting efficient reading.

Ever wonder how you read so fast? Your brain gets a head start—processing the next word before your eyes move. Our MEG + eye tracking study out in Nature Communications study from @thechbh.bsky.social reveals orthographic & semantic previews predicting reading speed www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new study - pseudoneglect is partly explained by structural hemispheric asymmetries in putamen 👇👇👇

Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…

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...

Infant Brains Tick at 4Hz - Resonance Properties of the Developing Visual System Neural rhythms of the infant brain are not well understood. Testing the rhythmic properties of the adult visual system with periodic or broadband visual stimulation elicited neural resonance phenomena...

In an EEG study spearheaded by Marlena Baldauf, we show that 8-month-old babies’ visual systems resonate at 4Hz (theta rhythm) — unlike adults, who resonate around 10Hz (alpha).

👶🧠 echoes at 4Hz
👩‍🦰🧠 echoes at ~10Hz

Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Important findings from @katduecker.bsky.social : faster visual search for a target among distractors predicted by stronger alpha; ie a case where alpha benefits visual processing

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.

Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

Join our team! We're looking for a Research Assistant to support OPM-MEG research on reading in children and adults at the Oxford Centre for Human Activity in the Neuronal Oscillations group (www.neuosc.com). Deadline 22nd July. For details see lnkd.in/e2qvCP9b

St Catz Hosts International Workshop on Next-Generation Brain Imaging - St Catherine's College In early June, researchers from the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA) ran a highly successful four-day international workshop...

www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/st-catz-host...

Guided visual search is associated with target boosting and distractor suppression in early visual cortex Communications Biology - Magnetoencephalography in human participants paired with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging reveals that excitability in early visual cortex is modulated to boost targets...

In our new MEG/RIFT study from @thechbh.bsky.social by
@katduecker.bsky.social , we show that feature-guidance in visual search alters neuronal excitability in early visual cortex —supporting a priority-map-based attentional mechanism.
rdcu.be/eqFX7

Day 2 of the OPM-FLUX (www.neuosc.com/fluxtoolkit2...) toolkit at University of Oxford hosted at St Catz. We have 32 bright participants from 7 countries learning how to apply OPM-MEG in cognitive and clinical neuroscience

Parallel and dynamic attention allocation during natural reading During natural reading, attention constantly shifts across words, yet how linguistic properties (e.g., lexical frequency) impact the allocation of attention remains unclear. In this study, we co-regis...

Our latest study on reading using MEG, eyetracking and Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging headed by Yali Pan from @thechbh.bsky.social : Parallel and dynamic attention allocation during natural reading
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

During saccades, visual objects are first processed in the parafovea, then in the fovea upon fixation. Does this repeated exposure cause repetition suppression or information accumulation? MEG work by Syanah Wynn suggests both as a consequence of neural sharpening.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!

PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

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UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

📣cog neuro postdoc opportunity! Interested in studying attention & exploration w/ cutting edge M/EEG? 🧠care about making vision science a bit more naturalistic? 🌱LandauLab is hiring! We seek resourceful, curious and creative researchers who can join the newly forming London-based team@ucl.ac.uk! ...

Hands-on training at University of Oxford using OPM in cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Deadline 23/05/2025

Oscar Ferrante from @thechbh.bsky.social and his colleagues Rony Hirschhorn and Alex Lepauvre on Brain Inspired, reflecting on the Cogitate collaboration and the recent Nature paper.

And a wonderful podcast on Brain Inspired by the excellent postdocs/PhDs from the COGITATE team (@arc-cogitate.bsky.social) reflecting on their experience of being part of the adversarial collaboration on consciousness
braininspired.co/podcast/211/

Make science more collegial: why the time for ‘adversarial collaboration’ has come Bringing together proponents of rival theories to test their ideas against each other can advance science — but only if all sides can accept that they might be wrong.

Interesting and timely editorial in Nature on the importance of adversarial collaborations
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The 2025 edition of MEG UKI will be hosted by UCL 16-18th July. This year we include a multimodal day on naturalistic neuroscience! Abstract submission is also now open. meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/

Researchers in France are working on creating a french network of researchers to organize interaction, communication and training in #Computational_Neuroscience. If you are a CompNeuro working in France, consider joining, and registering to our mailing list: listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/subscrib...

Our @nature.com paper is out! Bringing together 2 major theories of consciousness - Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) - in an unprecedented collaboration. Here’s the story of how we advanced theory testing in neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm so happy for the friends I made working on this project, and proud of the work we have put together

I lost count of how many times I said, “I’ll believe it when I see it", and here we are. It's been a privilege to be part of @arc-cogitate.bsky.social and to learn from such brilliant people (especially grateful to @liadmudrik.bsky.social for the opportunity to join this massive project)

Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness - Nature Multimodal results (iEEG, fMRI and MEG) of predictions from integrated information theory and global neuronal workspace theory align with some predictions of both theories on visual consciou...

The 1st major study from @arc-cogitate.bsky.social
is out today in @nature.com—a landmark collaboration testing theories of consciousness through rigorous, preregistered science. Data & tools shared openly.
Contributed from @mcgillumedia.bsky.social @theneuro.bsky.social
nature.com/articles/s41...

Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself

We’re grateful for the ongoing support from @anilkseth - in particular for his generous and nuanced recent article in @nautil.us :
“Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness”

nautil.us/inside-the-b...