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Jörn Diedrichsen

@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social
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Brains, Data and Science Prof in Computational Neuroscience at Western University Cerebellum and Motor Control

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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New preprint from the lab. A long-overdue fMRI study on bimanual movement direction encoding: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @alighavampour.bsky.social, @andpru.bsky.social, @jjodx.eurosky.social
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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 19/06/2026
This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out superlab.ca/posts/2026-06-19-list33… @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor
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Caroline Nettekoven @carobellum.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Come chat with me at poster #2085 about rest and task differences (and similarities) for precision mapping! #OHBM26 @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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Trends in Cognitive Sciences @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Online planning of sequential actions Review by Jörn Diedrichsen (@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social), Mehrdad Kashefi (@mkashefi.bsky.social), Amin Nazerzadeh, & J. Andrew Pruszynski (@andpru.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/2p9nbnbx
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I will miss #OHBM2026 this year, but if you go make sure you see these four amazing posters from current and former members of the lab !
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Natural behavior unfolds as a continuous stream of actions. Because these actions often occur in rapid succession, the brain must prepare multiple future actions while the current action is being executed. Our TICS piece explores how this works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We started studying sequence learning by looking into how a fixed sequence is learned. However, in real life, the problem for the brain is to put together flexible sequences on the fly - which provides a completely new perspective: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... With @andpru.bsky.social
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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 05/06/2026
This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out superlab.ca/posts/2026-06-05-list33… @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
SUITPy 2.1 is here - a Python-version of our toolbox for cerebellar isolation, normalization, atlassing, and flatmap visualization. The processing pipeline now works fully automatically from birth to old age. suitpy.readthedocs.io www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Double act with @actlab.bsky.social at Cinet in Osaka. Cerebellum and Cognition. Doing paired talks is certainly good for a lively discussion…
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
For those going to @ncmsociety.bsky.social annual meeting next week, come check out our posters! @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org. I know that @mnlmrc.bsky.social @sivanjo.bsky.social @alighavampour.bsky.social @arminpanjehpour.bsky.social and Amin are excited show you what they've done.
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Wonderful work by Amin!
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
How similar are two activity patterns? We all know that low correlations don't mean that they are necessarily dissimilar – our measurements could be noisy. So how do you correct for this? Our slightly nerdy, but hopefully useful preprint takes a deep dive: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what @actlab.bsky.social and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution.... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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How does the cerebellum contribute to cognitive functions?
The role of the cerebellum in motor functions is well understood. But why is the same circuitry engaged in functions such as working memory, language, and social cognition? This Unsolved Mystery looks...
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
For nearly two decades resting-state fMRI has ruled supreme. And resting-state is suprisingly powerful. But we can do so much better by using broad batteries of tasks with the right design. Here a double-punch delivered by two papers from @carobellum.bsky.social and @basselarafat.bsky.social!
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handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 23/03/2026
The MultiTaskBattery toolbox is live: 20+ implemented tasks, object-oriented design and a battery optimizer built in! Docs: multitaskbattery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Github: github.com/DiedrichsenL... With @carobellum.bsky.social Jinkang Derrick Xiang @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social 🙌
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GitHub - DiedrichsenLab/MultiTaskBattery
Contribute to DiedrichsenLab/MultiTaskBattery development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The cutting edge work is thanks to investment from partners like @braincanada.bsky.social @westernu.ca @schulichmeddent.bsky.social and our amazing collaborators who use these systems to understand the brain.
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
As eLife editor, it has been exciting and we are in a new steady state: quality of papers remains high, variance has dropped; work during the editorial phase has gone up tremendously; review quality is excellent and has improved. Kudos to @behrenstimb.bsky.social and the leadership team.
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
After nearly 11 years of learning how to be more polite and how to portage a canoe i became a proud Canadian today. In a time where some political leaders think they can threaten whole nations it seems more meaningful than ever to become part of a free, friendly and peaceful nation.
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Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Today I received a note from a grad student who lives in Tehran. Her note gives you firsthand experience of what it’s like to live in a city that is being bombed, and what it’s like to be young and feel despair about your future. rezashadmehr.blogspot.com/2026/03/hope...
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Essays on neuroscience
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Now out in Journal of Neuroscience: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... How are motor memories and sensory information combined when you are playing the piano? Congrats to Amin and Medha! I know having a paper out may seem small and insignificant against all that happens in the world right now!
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Integration of memory and sensory information in skilled sequence production
Sequential movements rely on two information sources: external sensory cues and internal memory representations. Although often both sources jointly drive sequential behavior, previous research has pr...
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
@carobellum.bsky.social really wanted to know how well resting-state correlations can predict which areas co-activate over a wide array of tasks. It turns out that you are better off running a short Multi-task battery, even if the tasks are completely different from the ones you want to predict!
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Language areas in the cerebellar mapped by @coltoncasto.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/language/cer... Very consistent with @carobellum.bsky.social functional atlas, but providing deeper details. By now the "terra incognita" of the cerebellum isn't so "incognita" anymore!
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Cerebellum responds to language like cortical areas
One of four language-responsive cerebellar regions may encode meaningful information, much like the cortical language network in the left hemisphere, according to a new study.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Incredibly hard and heroic work by @rhodricusack.bsky.social, @clionaod.bsky.social and many other just out in Nature Neuroscience: Visual categorization in the ventral stream can is present in 2-month old already. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Infants have rich visual categories in ventrotemporal cortex at 2 months of age - Nature Neuroscience
Using infant fMRI, the authors show that, by 2 months of age, representations in high-level visual cortex encode visual categories that align with deep neural networks, and lateral object-selective re...
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The first Canadian paper from @sivanjo.bsky.social: when we started this work, I thought the cerebellar articulation areas would just look like the speech area in M1. Not so. Check it out! @coltoncasto.bsky.social
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Great collboration from @mnlmrc.bsky.social: Multivoxel fMRI and neuropixel recordings show sensorimotor prediction errors in M1 / S1 in the input, but not in the spiking of output neurons! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... With @andpru.bsky.social @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @gribblelab.org
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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 19/12/2025
🥳 Happy holidays everyone, the list will be back in January 🎉
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
If you are an MRI researcher interested in moving to 🇨🇦 for $500k a year or $1M a year for 8 years with a possibility of renewal at a reduced rate, take a look at our equipment cfmm.uwo.ca and this program www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl... . MSK, neuroscience, cardiac, cancer applications all encouraged!
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Canada Impact+ Research Chairs - Canada.ca
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 05/09/2025
This is an amazing success story. We are happy to have published several papers there - it really has become the top neuroimaging journal within just two years. Kudos to all who had the courage to make it happen!
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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦 @gribblelab.org · 28/11/2025
This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out superlab.ca/posts/2025-11-28-list31… @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
A new paper from the lab featuring an elegant set of experiments to explore whether and how reaction times relate to sequence planning -- stellar work by @arminpanjehpour.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Also out today in PNAS: Anwesha Das shows in this thorough paper that "micro-offline gains" in sequence learning do not reflect consolidation of a motor memory - they also happen in random sequences. With @eazanon.bsky.social and Max-Philip Stenner (Magdeburg). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I'm really proud of being part of this paper - an amazing success for us in the Western Sensorimotor Superlab with @andpru.bsky.social @gribblelab.org! Congrats Jon!
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
C.S. Lewis responding to a letter from an American schoolgirl asking him for some writing advice. (Worth reading? ✅️)
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Andre Marquand @amarquand.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Come work with us! we are hiring a scientific software developer! www.radboudumc.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy - Research Software Engineer for Real-World Data
Join the forefront of healthcare innovation at Radboudumc as a research software engineer! We are seeking a passionate and driven individual to ...
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We will have an NHP position open at @westernu.ca this year. Posting is coming soon. If you're interested about our setup and the opportunities here, feel free to get in touch.
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Variance partitioning is used to quantify the overlap of two models. Over the years, I have found that this can be a very confusing and misleading concept. So we finally we decided to write a short blog to explain why. @martinhebart.bsky.social @gallantlab.org diedrichsenlab.org/BrainDataSci...
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Exited to share tomorrow new updates on trying to figure out how the neocortex and cerebellum talk to each other. Work by @carobellum.bsky.social, Ali Shabazi, and others in the lab!
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Amazing new paper - such a pleasure to be involved! With so much and clean neuropixel data - analysis becomes a completely different game…
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Western University @westernu.ca · 23/08/2025
Four #WesternU faculty members were recognized by the Ontario government with Early Researcher Awards. Congratulations to Liliana Alvarez, Thomas DeFalco, Yalda Mohsenzadeh and Lyle Muller. 👏 #PurpleAndProud
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Early Researcher Awards recognize Western faculty - Western News
Early Researcher Awards from Ontario government fund four Western faculty projects tackling youth impaired driving, plant resilience, dementia and memory
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assafbreska.bsky.social @assafbreska.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations tinyurl.com/5dku4du9 @timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social please repost 🙏
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PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation
Job Offer from August 11, 2025
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Please repost. The Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping is looking for a Preclinical MRI physicist (9.4T and 15.2T Bruker Advance Neo). You will join a team of 14 dedicated staff in Canada's National Ultra-high field MRI platform who also operate 3T and 7T human scanners in the same facility.
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
And Functional Fusion is our Python toolbox and Data-sharing framework that allows you to have fMRI contrast maps from ~200 subjects and ~450 different tasks for any arbitrary atlas space (surface, volume, ROI) at your finger tips in a few minutes. functional-fusion.readthedocs.io
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Functional Fusion Framework — Functional Fusion Framework v.1.0 documentation
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Just in time we also released 2 important toolboxes that make it easy to collect fMRI contrast from many tasks efficiently from the same subject: The MultiTaskBattery project (multitaskbattery.readthedocs.io) allows you to pick the tasks you want and be at the scanner within 1 hr!
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Multi Task Battery experiments — MultiTaskBattery v.0.9.0 documentation
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Are broad task batteries better than resting-state fMRI to learn something general about the human brain? If you are at #CCN2025 come by @basselarafat.bsky.social and @carobellum.bsky.social poster on Tuesday and Wednesday! @cogcompneuro.bsky.social
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Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Impressive new paper by @nikospriovoulos.bsky.social. Clearly pushing the limits of what we can do with in-vivo imaging for the highly folded human cerebellum. Especially interesting is the careful characterization of cerebellar vasculature. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Figure 3d,e: Superficial arteries (red) and veins (blue).
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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
New high resolution fMRI paper describing the capabilities and challenges of 9.4T fMRI in the cerebellum. By van der Zwaag et al., (@highonfield.bsky.social, @nikospriovoulos.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1002/mrm....
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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob... If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!
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