🧠🔊 New preprint! How does the brain organise natural sound categories? In our new fMRI study, we show that auditory cortex arranges sounds along continuous functional gradients, where acoustic and semantic structure are integrated into a shared representational space. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We really need to start naming things in neuro stuff like "the sonic hedgehog pathway"

This looks great! Excellent work by @davidghaydock.bsky.social et al.

Ever heard of EEG microstates? Usually defined as cluster centres of topography, the dynamics of MS sequences are referred to as "syntaxes". Our new review discusses syntax methods and show how they could be better associated with the underlying EEG signal: 🧵👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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No disrespect but saying that perception of the world is a brain-based best guess is like saying that a wave is the ocean's best guess about what water should do. Brain and world aren't separate things making predictions about each other - they're inseparable aspects of the same dynamic process.

Picking a journal to publish our work sometimes felt like a headache. High fees and private, for-profit governance remain the (terrifying) norm. But this is changing: Aperture is a recent neuroimaging journal that is community-driven, low cost, and strives for high quality. See ⬇️

You need to put a watermark on these before someone nicks them and starts using them in TikTok's that have nothing to do with brain science

IMO the big breakthroughs won’t just come from advancing temporal and spatial resolution, but from achieving naturalistic recordings during dynamic, embodied interactions. Until we can move away from highly restrictive and overly reductive passive stimulation we won’t fully grasp mechanism.

Brain video 25b: #blender #blender Fight the scanner: part 2