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Associate Editor at Nature Communications. Cognitive Neuroscience. Neuroimaging.
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Hayoung Song
16 days ago
Attention fluctuates over time and across contexts—how is this reflected in the brain?🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we show that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects changes in attention. Out in
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Geometry of neural dynamics along the cortical attractor landscape reflects changes in attention - Nature Communications
Attention fluctuates over time and across contexts—how is this reflected in the brain? Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, Song and colleagues show that the geometry of neural dynamics alo...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69041-8
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Max Elliott
26 days ago
Are you interested in detecting brain changes in individuals with higher precision over shorter intervals? Check out our new paper in Nature Communications. With Randy Buckner,
@jingnandu.bsky.social
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Florent Le Moël
about 1 month ago
We usually assume 🐜 ants 🐜 learn views when facing their goal, but our data shows that it is not necessarily the case! We combined field experiments with a biologically constrained model to show how a two-stage neural circuit (MB -> CX) could allow this:
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The joy I empathically share with authors when sending out an acceptance - I call that manuscript by proxy
#editor
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Headed to
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Nature Portfolio
about 1 month ago
Extending previous findings of brain changes in a first pregnancy, a study in Nature Communications shows that a second pregnancy uniquely alters women’s brains, involving both a further fine-tuning of first-pregnancy effects and distinct changes in other networks.
#Neuroskyence
#medsky
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The effects of a second pregnancy on women’s brain structure and function - Nature Communications
Extending their previous findings of brain changes in a first pregnancy, the authors show that a second pregnancy uniquely alters women’s brains, involving both a further fine-tuning of first-pregnancy effects and distinct changes in other networks.
https://go.nature.com/3OBHu2Y
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Springer Nature
about 1 month ago
Brain scans of young horses show that prolonged contact with their mothers supports brain development, social behaviour, and lower stress, reports @natcomms.nature.com:
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#AnimalBehaviour
#AnimalWelfare
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An emerging field - cowgnitive neuroscience
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow
Osuna-Mascaró and Auersperg report flexible, multipurpose tool use in a cow, expanding the known range of mammalian tool users and underscoring overlooked cognitive capacities in livestock.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01597-0
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The neuroscience team at Nature Communications is hiring a new editor to be based in either Shanghai or Pune with experience in computational neuroscience or neuroimaging!
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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Communications
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Communications Location: Shanghai or Pune - Hybrid working model Application Deadline: 29th January 2026 About Springer Nature Springer Nature is one of ...
https://springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/de-DE/SpringerNatureCareers/job/Shanghai/Associate-or-Senior-Editor--Nature-Communications_JR104920
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Just ahead of the year of the horse - the most detailed horse brain atlas to date and preliminary evidence for default mode network organization!
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Jessica Royer
3 months ago
Very happy to see this last thesis paper in press
@natcomms.nature.com
! We combine intracranial EEG with multimodal MRI to study how interregional similarity in neurophysiology relates to different network scales ⚡ 🧠 Full story 👇
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Paul Klauser
3 months ago
The biochemical organisation of the brain revealed through the use of fast whole-brain 3D proton MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI). Fantastic work led by
@fedlucchetti.bsky.social
, based on a brain imaging technique developed by Antoine Delattre-Klauser!
@fbm-unil.bsky.social
@snf-fns.ch
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Anders M Fjell
4 months ago
Very impressed with
@didacvp.bsky.social
's work in
@natcomms.nature.com
, the most thorough mapping of longitudinal memory-atrophy relationships in normal aging, showing both global and memory-specific associations, which grow stronger with age. Early accsess here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Marco Aqil
5 months ago
Our new paper is out in Nature Communications!
nature.com/articles/s41...
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
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Nature Portfolio
5 months ago
Dance styles engage the brain in different ways depending on the movements, aesthetics, and emotions associated with the dance, according to a study in Nature Communications.
go.nature.com/4i8eLO2
#Neuroskyence
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Nature Reviews Neurology
6 months ago
Reduced brain structural similarity is associated with maturation, neurobiological features, and clinical status in schizophrenia
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Reduced brain structural similarity is associated with maturation, neurobiological features, and clinical status in schizophrenia - Nature Communications
Individuals with schizophrenia show reduced structural similarity in temporal, cingulate, and insular lobes, especially those with worse cognition and symptoms, affecting late maturing association areas with low metabolism and high neurotransmission.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63792-6
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Janik Goltermann
7 months ago
🧠Out now
@natcomms.nature.com
! Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵
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Sahar Ahmad
8 months ago
📢 The new cross-journal Collection “Lifespan changes in the human brain” with
@commsbio.nature.com
,
@natcomms.nature.com
,
@natneuro.nature.com
, and Scientific Reports is now open for submissions! 📭 🌍 Learn more:
www.nature.com/collections/...
#Neuroscience
#Brain
#Lifespan
#Neuroimaging
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Lifespan changes in the human brain
This cross-journal collection invites submissions that investigate human brain changes across all or multiple stages of life, from in-utero to older age.
https://www.nature.com/collections/efhdahehdi
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Nature Portfolio
7 months ago
Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. A study in Nature Communications shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion and the prominent role of odours in food reward. 🧪
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Tastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula - Nature Communications
Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. This study shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion and the prominent role of odours in food reward.
https://go.nature.com/41TTn8k
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Putu Agus Khorisantono
7 months ago
Excited to share my first postdoc project in collaboration with
@jseubert.bsky.social
and
@margaveldhuizen.bsky.social
, now published with
@natcomms.nature.com
, where we describe a potential mechanism for flavour integration in the insula.
#NeuroSkyence
#FlavourScience
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Tastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula - Nature Communications
Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. This study shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion a...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63803-6
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Toomas Erik Anijärv
7 months ago
I am very excited to let you know that my first PhD study has now been published in Nature Communications. 🧠📄 See the link to the article or read a summary in the post below! ⬇️
#alzheimersdisease
#tau
#amyloidbeta
#neuroimaging
#MRI
#PET
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Developmental cognitive neuroscientists - I'll be attending
#FluxCongress2025
in Dublin this week. Say hello!
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Dani Beck, PhD
8 months ago
Now published 🍾🎉
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Matthias Nau
8 months ago
Excited to share our new paper w/
@cibaker.bsky.social
in
@natcomms.nature.com
linking active vision & memory! We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall.
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Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events - Nature Communications
When people recall a movie, their eye movements and brain activity resemble those observed during the viewing. These behavioral and neural reactivations are linked through a common process, likely ref...
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People’s brains aged faster during the COVID pandemic — even the uninfected
Study of nearly 1,000 people showed that brain ageing was not linked to infection status, but cognitive decline was.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02313-3
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Decade + long work at UNC here - we longitudinally link prefrontal thickness peaks at 12 months to 8-12 yr working memory performance + activation!
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Lukas Goede
11 months ago
Tremor is a common symptom across many neurological disorders. But is there a shared tremor circuit across disorders - one that could guide treatment, regardless of diagnosis? We think: yes. Our study is out now in
@natcomms.nature.com
: 🔗
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Marieke Weijs
11 months ago
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excited to see this out in
@natcomms.nature.com
today! This paper builds on the lab's work on self-regulation of arousal through pupil-based biofeedback. We assessed several markers of cortical and cardiac arousal in a pure self-regulation and dual task setting.
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Modulating cortical excitability and cortical arousal by pupil self-regulation - Nature Communications
Weijs, Missura, Potok et al. showed in this study with brain stimulation and electrophysiological methods that self-regulation of pupil size via pupil-based biofeedback modulates cortical excitability...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59837-5
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Jonathan Winawer
12 months ago
“Human V4 size predicts crowding distance”.
@jankurzawski.bsky.social
, now Assistant Professor at U Maastricht, led a big effort over a few years. We used individual differences in object recognition and the size of brain maps to identify a perceptual bottleneck.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Human V4 size predicts crowding distance - Nature Communications
Across 49 observers, we found large variations in crowding distance and retinotopic map size. These measures covary, conserving a 1.4-mm cortical crowding distance in the human V4 map. This links the ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59101-w
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Yannick Becker
12 months ago
Hey Arcuate freaks and geeks! I first contacted Erin in 2019. I was working on my PhD in France on communication correlates of homologous language regions in primates. But what about their interconnections? The article:
rdcu.be/eifzU
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Individual variation in the chimpanzee arcuate fasciculus predicts vocal and gestural communication
Nature Communications - Here, authors reveal the anatomy of the chimpanzee arcuate fasciculus predicts use of intentional, communicative gestures and sounds. The chimpanzee arcuate is not...
https://rdcu.be/eifzU
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Sam Krimmel
11 months ago
Had a great time speaking with Sydney about our most recent paper out now in
@natcomms.nature.com
@macwoodburn.bsky.social
. Paper link here:
rdcu.be/ehbOy
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Boris Bernhardt
12 months ago
in press
@natcomms.nature.com
🌟 "Multimodal gradients unify local and global cortical organization" 7T MRI + cytoarchitectonics reveal a sensory-paralimbic axis of areal specialization & integration led by superstar Yezhou Wang & a terrific team of friends & colleagues ▶️
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Nature Human Behaviour
12 months ago
New study by Yin et al. charts early brain development (0-6 yrs) using fMRI, revealing key connectivity patterns tied to cognitive abilities.
#earlybraindevelopment
#braincharts
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Charting brain functional development from birth to 6 years of age - Nature Human Behaviour
Yin et al. harmonized 1,091 fMRI scans across five imaging cohorts to map developmental trajectories of brain functional connectivity in early childhood, revealing early brain development and its link...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02160-2
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Sam Krimmel
12 months ago
It's shocking how little is known about the brainstem red nucleus. In our new paper “The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action” out now in
@naturecomms.bsky.social
we show that current thinking on the red nucleus is in need of a serious upgrade.
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We are hiring an editor (expertise: neurological disorders, epidemiology) to join the neuroscience team
@naturecomms.bsky.social
! Reach out if you'd like to chat about the position.
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Associate or Senior Editor (neurological disorders & epidemiology), Nature Communications
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor (Neurological disorders & Epidemiology), Nature Communications Organisation: Nature Portfolio Locations: Beijing, Jersey City, London, Nanjing, New York, Phil...
https://springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SpringerNatureCareers/details/Associate-or-Senior-Editor--neurological-disorders---epidemiology---Nature-Communications_JR102719?q=Editorial+and+Publishing&locationCountry=29247e57dbaf46fb855b224e03170bc7
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