Hippocampal stimulation reveals causal role of persistent neural activity in human working memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.20.671301v1

Excited to share our new paper on theta-phase locking of single neurons during human spatial memory: www.nature.com/articles/s41... With @lukaskunz.bsky.social, Joshua Jacobs, and our colleagues from the University of Freiburg

How reliable is OPM-MEG, and how does it compare to other neuroimaging modalities? 🤔 In a new preprint with ‪@s-michelmann.bsky.social‬, we evaluate the reliability of OPM-MEG within & between individuals, and compare it to fMRI & iEEG during repeated movie viewing. 🧠 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

In this Article, Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe. @jankaminski.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

How does our brain learn that thunder follows lightning? We don't just remember two separate events; we build a predictive model to anticipate the world. My research dives into this very question: how we learn and predict the order of events. 🧵👇 1/9 #neuroscience #memory #sleep

How does sequence learning reshape item representations? We found that the brain incorporates high-level successor representations even outside the sequence task. This process is supported by slow-wave sleep. Great work by @xianhuihe.bsky.social and the team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sleep strengthens successor representations of learned sequences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.11.658893v1

New study of the lab showing that sleep preserve sound representations geometry in the auditory cortex but intermittently blocks the transfer of sensory information, possibly to provide both opportunities for surveillance and offline processing. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Born from a collaboration with @danlikesbrains.bsky.social ’s team, this project shows how your breathing shapes brain excitability across the entire wake–sleep cycle. Huge shoutout to everyone involved — go check it out! 💥 #neuroskyence

Just published my first paper! Really grateful to everyone at the plasticity lab @oxcin.bsky.social who made this possible. huge thanks to my co-authors — couldn’t have done it without you. If you want to check it out: 📄 paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 Can mice estimate the distance to an odour source? New work led by Cristina Marin and colleagues, jointly supervised by @andreas-t-schaefer.bsky.social at the @crick.ac.uk and myself. Spoiler alert: Yes, they can! Read the paper here: bit.ly/43A9tF9 Short 🧵 below

Hi Bluesky! First post here. Kicking things off with a new preprint. 🧠 Using human iEEG + pharmacology, we asked: is hippocampal theta required for retrieval? Turns out it’s not. Instead, it may reflect a reinstated encoding mode. Thread below. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper out in SLEEP @sleepjournals.bsky.social! In his study, Jude Thom shows how cortical regions excited by tDCS before sleep express more spindles during subsequent sleep. doi.org/10.1093/slee... @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxcin.bsky.social @ukri.org

Very excited to share the first preprint of my PhD thesis! Together with @tschreiner.bsky.social, we investigated how respiration coordinates signature neural expressions of successful remembering during memory retrieval. 🫁🧠 🧵(1/8)

www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1... Excited to see this out (now in print). A fantastic collaboration by former student Rudolf Degen and current PhD student Victoria Switacz, who did an amazing job closing the deal on this one. Give it a read if you like, but beware - it's nerdy ephys at its best.

🚨new paper alert Blind mice use stereo olfaction, comparing smells between nostrils, to maintain a stable sense of direction. Blocking this ability disrupts their internal compass. Kudos to @kasumbisa.bsky.social! Another cool chapter of the Trenholm-Peyrache collab😉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great and comprehensive review by Adriano Tort and colleagues on respiratory involvement in both rodent and human brain activity. Can't help but be intrigued by the complexities of time scales, mechanisms, and behavioural relevance. Long and exciting road ahead. 🧠🟦 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to see my PhD work in the Fleischmann lab at Brown University @carneyinstitute.bsky.social published in @natureneuro.bsky.social! -Single-cell genomics of the mouse olfactory cortex reveals contrasts with neocortex and ancestral signatures of cell type evolution nature.com/articles/s41...

We're excited to share that our lab is hiring for the position of Lab Manager/Research Assistant. A great opportunity to join our lab! You can find full details and apply via the link below: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN515/r... Please feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested!

🎉 Big shoutout to our amazing lab members who presented their posters at #CNS2025! 🎉 So great to see @mskehl.bsky.social , @manqisha.bsky.social , @xianhuihe.bsky.social and Mathew Thomas Kollamkulam showcasing their hard work and research! 🧠 Some behind-the-scenes shots of them in action 👇

What a great start to #CNS2025! @manqisha.bsky.social kicked of the first session with her Data Blitz on ‘Coupled sleep rhythms in the human hippocampus support memory consolidation’

The Staresina Lab is ready for CNS 2025 in Boston!🇺🇸 If you are around come and check out our work at the following poster sessions: Poster Session C Poster C16: Coupled sleep rhythms in the human hippocampus support memory consolidation - Sha, Manqi

Preprint alert! 🚨 1/ How does deep sleep reshape our memories? Our new study shows that slow-wave sleep (SWS) reorganises episodic memory networks, shifting recall from the parietal cortex to the anterior temporal lobe (ATL). With Polina Perzich and @bstaresina.bsky.social . A thread below👇

Slow wave sleep supports the reorganisation of episodic memory networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644966v1

Science Alert 🚨: Our paper is now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social - We show that the firing phase of neurons in human MTL doesn’t reflect the order of events, challenging a long-standing theory of human memory. nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01893-7

In our recent @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social forum article www.cell.com/trends/neuro..., we highlight respiration's potential role in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation. With the fabulous @tschreiner.bsky.social and @estebanbt.bsky.social

Happy to share our new preprint on cognitive maps and human spatial memory! Led by @lauranett.bsky.social, together with @timaguth.bsky.social and @philippbuchel.bsky.social Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Task for easy re-use: github.com/BonnSpatialM... Code: github.com/BonnSpatialM...

Human sleep spindles track experimentally excited brain circuits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.07.631687v1

Can you predict the future? Your brain and your eyes can. 🧵 I had the honour of writing a @currentbiology.bsky.social Dispatch in which I discuss exciting new findings from @philippbuchel.bsky.social, Klingspohr, Kehl & Staresina (2024). Read the Dispatch here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 1/3

Unlike the primary sensory brain areas that process sights and sounds, the one that decodes scents also responds to other stimuli, such as images and words associated with an odor, according to a study published today in Nature. By @avaskham.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/sensory-syst...

🔊Major Breakthrough Researchers from @UniklinikBonn @unibonn.bsky.social @rwth.bsky.social reveal how single neurons respond to smells, images & words! This study in @natureportfolio.bsky.social bridges the gap between animal & human olfactory research!👃 📖 www.nature.com/articles/s41...