How is the semantic content of a movie processed by our brains? 🧠🎬 We decode characters, events, & other features and investigate how populations and single neurons represent movie features. Check my poster @sfn.org #sfn25! Sat. Nov 15, 6:45-8:45pm, Hall E, poster S5 Wed. Nov 19, 9-10am, poster NN5

I’m really excited to be part of this collaboration that started with a chat at the poster of @treber.bsky.social and @humansingleneuron.bsky.social at SfN in 2018 (!) Katharina and everyone involved did a really fantastic job at using adaptive sampling to learn about semantic tuning in human MTL.

🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe 1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning? In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Neurons in the medial temporal lobe do not fire in sequence to object presentation. A working memory experiment revealed theta-locked firing without item order. RNNs mirror this pattern, suggesting memory relies on phase coding, not replay. @stefanieliebe.bsky.social @humansingleneuron.bsky.social

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

Paper Alert 🚨: New work from our own loopie @stefanieliebe.bsky.social & @humansingleneuron.bsky.social in Nature Neuroscience! They show that neuron firing phase in human MTL does not reflect event order challenging a key memory theory. Read more ⬇️ #Neuroscience #Memory #MTL #spp

Coming to #NWG Göttingen and interested in single neurons, LFP, & human memory? Check out our upcoming symposium! 🧠 Investigating memory using human single-neuron recordings 📅 Fri. 28/3, 11:30-13:30 | 📍 Hall 8 @neurowissg.bsky.social Co-org w/ @ilonavieten.bsky.social