Hellohello #ICON2025! Please come and have a chat with me today at 10.45am about some content-specific alpha fluctuations! 🤓

At long last, the pre-print to our MEG study + RIFT study and the final paper from my Ph.D with @olejensen.bsky.social We show that strong pre-search alpha oscillations are associated with faster responses in visual search www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @thechbh.bsky.social #neuroskyence

Very proud to share this one🥹! We show that personalized signatures of brain activity are heritable and relate to the expression of specific genes. That means my brain-fingerprint is very similar to my twin brother's! #ResearchIsMeSearch🧠 🧬 ♊️

very cool stuff from brilliant people, an absolute must-read!!🫶

Hellohello again! Tomorrow at 5:15pm I’m giving a short talk on our latest MEG study about our very well-loved oscillating perceptual predictions @meguki2025.bsky.social. Come by and talk brains! There are amazing talks and very cool science happening all around! MEGUKI 2025👌

Out now @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, w/ @akalt.bsky.social & @drmattdavis.bsky.social. Are sensory sampling rhythms fixed by intrinsically-determined processes, or do they couple to external structure? Here we highlight the incompatibility between these accounts and propose a resolution [1/6]

NEW DEADLINE: Friday 20th June 🚨 MEG‑UKI 2025 lands in London (16–18 July)! A 3-day deep dive into the brain—naturalistic neuroscience, OP-MEG, cutting-edge methods, and real-world impact. Keynotes by Dominik Bach & Jamie Ward. Art, abstracts, and more! Register here: meguk.ac.uk/registration/

Finally out in @commsbio.nature.com ! Using MEG and Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) in a classic visual search paradigm we show that neuronal excitability in V1 is modulated in line with a priority-map-based mechanism to boost targets and suppress distractors!

Now published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Open Access link: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Beautiful paper by the brilliant @jhaarsma.bsky.social exploring how false and veridical percepts converge and diverge. Turns out both share content-specific and confidence signals; and hellohello pre-stimulus alpha... what are you up to with false percepts?

Looking for a PhD in #psychology or #cogneuro ? I’m recruiting a fully-funded @leverhulme.ac.uk PhD student to join my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. If you’re interested in metacognition, learning, social cognition and culture I’d love you to apply 🧠👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ330/p...

Our study using layer fMRI to study the direction of communication between the hippocampus and cortex during perceptual predictions is finally out in Science Advances! Predicted-but-omitted shapes are represented in CA2/3 and correlate specifically with deep layers of PHC, suggesting feedback. 🧠🟦

I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

News story on the UCL Brain Sciences website about our recent paper using 7T fMRI to study the communication between hippocampus and neocortex. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Link to the paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... #neuroskyence

🚨Excited to share my first preprint from my postdoc with @smfleming.bsky.social! 🚨 We explore how attention shapes simplified mental representations for planning. We show that inductive biases characteristic of attentional selection shape how we plan. Check it out: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠🔦🤖

New paper out in @plosbiology.org w/ Charlie, @phil-johnson.bsky.social, Ella, and Hinze 🎉 We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule! tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c

This was looooads of fun! Thank you so much everyone for the amazing and interesting chats.🫶 Also @pieterbarkema.bsky.social has a very cool talk on Monday @ 11.15am on some yummy layer-specific fMRI of postdictive perception.🙀 #VSS2025

Hellohello! Come say hi today, 3:00-5:00pm, Banyan Breezeway (16.322). How does the brain hold onto predictions before something even happens? We show that predicted shape info lives in pre-stimulus alpha-band oscillations (10–11Hz), and biases perception without boosting sensitivity.🧠 #VSS2025

A large-scale collaborative consensus piece on predictive processing is now online arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 impressively orchestrated by @jeromelecoq.bsky.social

Hey cognitive scientists I asked lovable.dev to make me a 2-arm bandit RL task 2 prompts and 3 minutes later 🤯🤯🤯🤯 Play it: preview--cosmic-bandit-quest.lovable.app Think of the hours and grad student tears saved 😅 Yes lovable I accept your sponsorship terms

We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

Meet the Team: @benjyb.bsky.social is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow on ETHOS. He is helping @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social test the richness of higher-order representations using MEG. See more about Benjy here www.arc-ethos.org/news and on his website benjybarnett.github.io

Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share that our paper 'Distinguishing Neural Correlates of Prediction Errors on Perceptual Content and Detection of Content' is now published! With @smfleming.bsky.social, @peterkok.bsky.social and heroic scanning during the pandemic by Oliver Warrington! direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

How do neurophysiological traits that characterize individuals evolve across the lifespan? Check it out: 👶🧒🧑🧓🧠 with the amazing @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social @alexwiesman.bsky.social & Margot Taylor www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵(1/3)

I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵

A really nice write up of the recent studies looking at how the human brain handles the unique number zero! Featuring some words and work by me and @smfleming.bsky.social, as well as many others. Check it out👇0️⃣🧠 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

We are now on Bluesky! 🧠 While we have appreciated the capacity to engage with colleagues on X, we have collectively decided to leave the platform because we feel Bluesky will be a more optimal platform for our scientific discourse.

More months ago than I'm willing to admit, I shared results from our MEG study suggesting that priority maps in feature-guided search are modulated by alpha. I'm happy to finally share part 1 of the corrected follow-up, in which we control for confounds by time-on-task:

Our paper on multiplexing by oscillations in an ANN is now out in its peer-reviewed glory in PLOS Comp Bio with Marco Idiart, Marcel van Gerven & @olejensen.bsky.social Hugely improved thanks to three very thorough reviewers! Let us know what you think! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Very happy to report that this paper is out now in Cognition! Expectations about stimulus presence and stimulus content work together to influence perceptual judgments. authors.elsevier.com/c/1joLo2Hx2x... #neuroskyence #compneuro #VisionScience

I'm super grateful to the conference and symposium organisers for inviting me to give a talk. It was an exciting opportunity, and I truly enjoyed sharing our work on predictions being represented in pre-stimulus alpha oscillations with such an engaged audience at MMN 2024. Yaaay!

Thank you so much, #BACN24, for selecting me as one of the winners of the poster competition! I'm incredibly excited to receive this poster prize (as you could clearly tell from the photo🙃).

hello-hello! Please come have a chat with me about my ECVP 2024 poster on prediction signals being conveyed in pre-stimulus alpha oscillations today 26th August between 3pm and 4.30pm! 👀

I am excited to share our new paper “Confidence ratings do not distinguish reality and imagination” with @matanmazor.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social ! A thread: 1/10 jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Ever wondered how your brain predicts what’s coming next when you listen to someone talk? Our new MEG study reveals how predictions of syllables/words and their timing are integrated in cortical networks www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Starting in a couple of hours!

hello-hello! Come have a chat with me about my CNS poster on prediction signals being conveyed in pre-stimulus alpha oscillations on Tuesday 16th April 8:00-10.00! 👀

At @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social , we’re recruiting two new permanent Lecturers. We’re especially interested in recruiting in cognitive neuroscience and/or computational modelling 🧠 If you’d like to know about life & science at Birkbeck - please get in touch! 🧠🟦 cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Lots of Oliver's blood sweat and tears in this new preprint. We found BOLD signals reflecting predicted-but-omitted shapes in the CA23 and pre/para-subiculum subfields of the hippocampus, as well as the parahippocampal cortex. #neuroskyence #compneurosky 1/2

📢 ERC-funded PhD in our team 📢. Curious about the mechanisms underlying learning and perception? Wish to study them via modelling and neuroimaging? This may be for you! Email me qus. Please circulate 🙏 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...   #HiSciSky #neuroskyence #PsySciSky

Super excited to share the very first preprint from my PhD: Pre-stimulus alpha oscillations encode stimulus-specific visual predictions. [1/8] #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #compneurosky biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Hello bluesky! Lucky to be included among incredible women at the FIL to mark #InternationalWomensDay! Here's a glimpse into who I am! #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Very excited to share the second preprint from my PhD – Creating something out of nothing: Symbolic and non-symbolic representations of sensory absence. In the paper, @smfleming and I set out to characterise the neural representation of the number zero in the human brain. A 🧵!

Will I see something, and if so, what will it be? I am excited to share my very first paper, in collaboration with @jhaarsma.bsky.social , @smfleming.bsky.social and @peterkok.bsky.social. 🧵https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.22.581334v1