What makes an artwork beautiful, and can your brain's response decode such hidden dimensions of aesthetic appeal? We built a framework to find out 🎨 🧠 @natcomms.nature.com @cognizelab.bsky.social First author: @neocosmliang.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroaesthetics #DefaultMode

Can you make your life feel “longer” in retrospect? Add a dose of change and novelty in the present to later expand memories of your past. Excited to share our work on how dopamine-related processing bends memory to reflect the passage of distinct events. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/can...

One of our top-rated posts on @altmetric.com this past week was published open access in @natcomms.nature.com. You can read 'Human brain changes after first psilocybin use' here: spklr.io/63324EzOPG

Major new psychedelics paper out today by the wizards at (largely) Imperial College London. - Psychedelic naive subjects had their first dose of psilocybin - Follow-ups up to one-month - Brain, cognitive, and emotional measures Check out the paper for more! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/Excited to share our new paper: Spatiotemporal dynamics of the human cortical functional hierarchy across the lifespan t.co/nCR62ldB50 @MingruiXia @YongHe @ShuyuLi @debinz.bsky.social @TengdaZhao......

Really excited to share first published paper of the year! Thank you to @uclbrainscience.bsky.social for highlighting: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc.... We found different organisational changes in Lewy body disease patients with dementia versus those with intact cognition, using structural gradients.

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 @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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, and others. Link - doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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

The joy I empathically share with authors when sending out an acceptance - I call that manuscript by proxy #editor

Headed to #CNS2026 in Vancouver for the rain and brains! Say hey if you’re there!

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 🧪

Brain scans of young horses show that prolonged contact with their mothers supports brain development, social behaviour, and lower stress, reports @natcomms.nature.com: spklr.io/63325D4ulh #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalWelfare

An emerging field - cowgnitive neuroscience www.cell.com/current-biol...

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! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/de-DE/Spring...

Just ahead of the year of the horse - the most detailed horse brain atlas to date and preliminary evidence for default mode network organization!

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 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

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...

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. 🧵

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 🧪

Reduced brain structural similarity is associated with maturation, neurobiological features, and clinical status in schizophrenia www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠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🧵

📢 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

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. 🧪

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 doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/10

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

Developmental cognitive neuroscientists - I'll be attending #FluxCongress2025 in Dublin this week. Say hello!

Now published 🍾🎉

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. doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵1/9

Decade + long work at UNC here - we longitudinally link prefrontal thickness peaks at 12 months to 8-12 yr working memory performance + activation!

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... 🧵 A thread.

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.

“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...

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

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

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 ▶️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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...

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. rdcu.be/ehbOy

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. springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...