Quantifying rhythmic and arrhythmic brain activity is a hot 🥵 topic. But how independent are the two components from one another? 🤔 In my latest work with @smfleming.bsky.social & @matlandry.bsky.social, I explore the relationship between the two. (1/4)

New study ✨! ⍺ regulates perceptual switches during binocular rivalry: ⍺↓ before dominant percepts, ↑ before mixed percepts + PO connectivity shifts from top-down to feedforward after perceptual alternations Led by Janine Mendola @mcgill.ca, w/ E Mokri & @jasondasilvac.bsky.social

🚨The first paper of my postdoc is out now in @elife.bsky.social! 🚨 We explored the role of attention in planning. Thank you 🙏 to the reviewers for their helpful comments & suggestions. Keep your 👀 peeled for additional analyses and our response. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

🧠 New preprint: Why do deep neural networks predict brain responses so well? We find a striking dissociation: it’s not shared object recognition. Alignment is driven by sensitivity to texture-like local statistics. 📊 Study: n=57, 624k trials, 5 models doi.org/10.1101/2025...

After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨ osf.io/preprints/ps...

Very proud to share this one🥹! We show that personalized signatures of brain activity are heritable and relate to the expression of specific genes. That means my brain-fingerprint is very similar to my twin brother's! #ResearchIsMeSearch🧠 🧬 ♊️

🧬🧠 Our latest study shows that individual brain dynamics are partly written in our genes. We found that heritable neurophysiological traits align with adult cortical gene expression and psychological function. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca

Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on 4 inhibitory control tasks, Lee et al. show that more than 1000 trials/participant are necessary to reduce within-subject variability and improve the reliability of the congruency effect. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨Excited to share my first preprint from my postdoc with @smfleming.bsky.social! 🚨 We explore how attention shapes simplified mental representations for planning. We show that inductive biases characteristic of attentional selection shape how we plan. Check it out: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠🔦🤖

Want to present at MEG-UKI but funding is a barrier? We’re offering a limited amount of travel bursaries for presenters to help cover the cost of: - Registration - Accommodation - Travel expenses Click the link below to find out more: meguk.ac.uk/apply-for-bu...

Deadline approaching, only 6 days left! Follow the link below to submit your abstract: meguk.ac.uk/abstract-sub...

Drumroll please... 🥁 Abstract submission for MEG-UKI 2025 is now open!!! All the details can be found meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/ We are looking forward to welcoming you to London!

How do neurophysiological traits that characterize individuals evolve across the lifespan? Check it out: 👶🧒🧑🧓🧠 with the amazing @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social @alexwiesman.bsky.social & Margot Taylor www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵(1/3)

New preprint! 📢 We combine MEG and neuromelanin-sensitive MRI of the locus coeruleus to show a noradrenergic basis for altered alpha rhythms in #Parkinson's disease w/ Victoria Madge, Ted Fon, Alain Dagher, Louis Collins, and @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats to newly minted Dr. Jason da Silva Castanheira! @jasondasilvac.bsky.social 🧑‍🎓!!!

As if my name isn’t long enough already, I added PhD to it today!

We are recruiting for a Marie Curie "CODE" PhD student 💻🧠🚨 (sites.google.com/view/confide...) The project will focus on neurocomputational approaches to information seeking, offloading and metacognitive control across the lifespan www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Deadline 22 Feb, pls share!

New paper(!) on the neurochemistry of structural and functional cortical changes in #Parkinson's disease w/ fantastic collaborators @jasondasilvac.bsky.social Ted Fon and @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social Now published OA in @ANA_journals: 📰https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.26871 🧵👇 (1/8)

Postdoc in our lab! Last day to apply! Please apply if interested - don’t worry about supporting docs or anything. (Apologies for the awkward timing on the deadline - it was an HR thing.)

Initial submission of my PhD thesis ✅ If Mariah Carey tops the Spotify charts next week, y’all will know why… #AllIWantForChristmasIsAPhD

New collab work driven by the magic duet @matlandry.bsky.social + @jasondasilvac.bsky.social just published in @OxUniPress Cerebral Cortex. Parsing out the neurophysiological substrates of ⬆️ vs. ⬇️ attention.

Very excited to share this work (it’s been a long time in the making). Here we show that both top-down 📖 and bottom-up ‼️attention modulate 🧠alpha-band activity, which partially explains the interference between the two attention systems when oriented 👀to opposite spatial locations.

Went to see Mariah Carey’s Christmas show and submitted a manuscript this week. I’m feeling accomplished! 😌

Relationships between brain signal variability and executive function change as a function of life stage. So glad to finally get this out! direct.mit.edu/netn/article...

So happy to be a part of this paper! Go read all about our results. A big OBRIGADO to @AlexWiesman for including me 😇😌

Hello Bluesky/Twitter refugees! For my first post, I invite you to check out the latest work by @garedaba.bsky.social and myself where we look at thalamocortical gradients in human and mouse brains 🌈🧠🐭🌈 In short, we highlight evidence for a supra-nuclear axis of thalamocortical organisation

Integrating multimodal and multiscale connectivity blueprints of the human cerebral cortex in health and disease journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #neuroimaging #neuroscience

I think I just created a feed for EEG in neuroscience. Add #EEG to your EEG or MEG related posts to make it appear in the feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Hello sky-people🕊️! I'm Jason, a cognitive neuroscientist PhD candidate at McGill University. I study attention, consciousness, and individual differences aka brain-fingerprints 🧠. I bake a mean croissant and can quote Mariah Carey on cue #PsychSciSky #neuroscience