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Associate Editor at Nature Communications. Cognitive Neuroscience. Neuroimaging.
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📢 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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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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Putu Agus Khorisantono
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Excited to share my first postdoc project in collaboration with
@jseubert.bsky.social
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@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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Toomas Erik Anijärv
18 days 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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Dani Beck, PhD
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Now published 🍾🎉
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Matthias Nau
30 days 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...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62375-9
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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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Lukas Goede
4 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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Marieke Weijs
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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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Jonathan Winawer
5 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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Yannick Becker
5 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...
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Mac Woodburn, PhD
Sam Krimmel
4 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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Boris Bernhardt
5 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
5 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
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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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Sam Krimmel
6 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...
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