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Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz

@juancamiload.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher at @AaltoUniversity @abc_aalto Interested in M/EEG and 2-Person Neuroscience (2PN).

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026
So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?
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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · 18/09/2026
Get ready! *MindBrainBody Symposium* 2027 Keynotes are confirmed 🥳 @hakwan.bsky.social (online) @maramather.bsky.social @camillanord.bsky.social Hyeongdong Park Asya Rolls 📆 March 17-19, 2027 📍Berlin & online 📬 Submit by Dec 10, 2026 (!) 🔗 mindbrainbody.de (official announcement soon)
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Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz @juancamiload.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Excited to share our new paper with Patrick Sothmann, Riitta Hari, and Lauri Parkkonen, now published in PLOS ONE! “Inter-brain functional connectivity: Are we measuring the right thing?” doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz @juancamiload.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Happy to be part of this Special Issue in Oxford Open Neuroscience. Feel free to reach out if you have questions, and share widely! 👇 "Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Interpersonal Synchrony" 📅Deadline: June 15th, 2026 🔗https://tinyurl.com/Interpersonalsync
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Quentin Moreau @quentinmoreau.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
📣 Special Issue coming out in Oxford Open Neuroscience! 📣 With @samgilbert.bsky.social, Sarah Boukarras, @ryssamoffat.bsky.social, and @juancamiload.bsky.social , we're putting together a collection focused on moving beyond descriptive accounts of synchrony! academic.oup.com/oons/pages/c...
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Lioba Enk @liobaenk.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This morning, @egorxen.bsky.social @utu.fi #adenosine modulates sensation mappings and subjective #emotion ratings, providing a first look at their total-body #PET analyses! ⭐️ #neuroskyence #neuroscience #MindBrainBody #interoception #MBBS2026 #MBB
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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Registration now open ! Free and hybrid - full info below www.aalto.fi/en/events/sm...
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Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz @juancamiload.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🧠Excited to share our new paper with @NiclasKaiser — an invited contribution to Psychiatria Fennica! "Rethinking mental health through emerging relational frameworks: A review of multi-person approaches". Available here: www.psykiatriantutkimussaatio.fi/wp-content/u...
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SINe Lab @sinelabdtu.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling
People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...
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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research
The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…
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Trends in Cognitive Sciences @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Online Now: The cognitive side of communication in social insects
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The cognitive side of communication in social insects
Social insects rely on multiple communication channels. These channels have traditionally been considered innate, eliciting stereotyped responses. However, recent research has shown that cognitive modulation occurs in communication contexts long assumed to be entirely genetically encoded, thus revealing a previously unrecognized cognitive plasticity in social insect communication.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 02/08/2025
🧠🥬 Your gut really does talk to your brain A new study links stronger stomach–brain synchrony to worse mental health. Anxiety, depression, and stress all showed ties to this gut-brain rhythm. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #Gut #SciComm 🧪
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Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health - Nature Mental Health
Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...
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Dr Cyril Pernet @cyrilrpernet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
cool ! www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding
Chang et al. report that during imagery attempts, those with validated aphantasia have decreased perceptual BOLD response and higher ipsilateral imagery response. Imagery content could be decoded usin...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 30/07/2025
allowing such views to pass uncritically. The core traps here with AI are what @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and I outline (based on our previous work) in a forthcoming short publication, distilled into the table below: bsky.app/profile/iris...
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Matt Perich @mattperich.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world! 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
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A neural manifold view of the brain - Nature Neuroscience
Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed how neural population activity underlying behavior can be well described by topological objects called neural manifolds. Understanding how nature, nurture...
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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
New paper out ! 😎 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
A History of Metaphorical Brain Talk in Psychiatry by Kenneth Kendler "describing the disturbed mental processes in psychiatric illness in terms of brain function in ways that appear to be explanatory but actually have little to no explanatory power" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry
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Victoria Southgate @vhsouthgate.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy - Nature Communications
A classic feature of human memory is that we remember information better when it refers to ourselves. Here, the authors show that before the emergence of self-concept, infants instead remember informa...
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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
@assc28.bsky.social In Crete already for @ASSC2025? Lucky you ! 😎 Check out our poster tomorrow brilliantly led by Altea Vanni and Jan Pohl 👇🏼 How people (dis)connect from their bodies impacts the way people form joint agencies with human and artificial others ! See you there !
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Dirk Gütlin @gutlin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Is criticality a unified setpoint of brain function? #ComplexSystems #Neuroskyence www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Is criticality a unified setpoint of brain function?
Hengen and Shew propose that criticality—a state with scale-invariant dynamics—is a universal computational setpoint of healthy brains. Their meta-analysis of two decades of research reconciles contra...
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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This! 👉 Inter-Brain Neural Dynamics in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning
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Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems - Nature
Shared inter-brain neural dynamics, reflecting aspects of social interaction including self and other’s behaviours, arise in GABAergic neurons of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of socially interact...
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Athena Demertzi @ademertzi.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
For those joining us at the #ASSC28, mind to download the app for a comfortable navigation and easy networking with peers during the conference days. Soon!
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 23/06/2025
Rethinking excitation/inhibition balance in the human brain — a Comment article by Roi Cohen Kadosh #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rethinking excitation/inhibition balance in the human brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The balance between neural excitation (E) and inhibition (I) shapes cognition, development and brain-based disorders. Electroencephalography and magnetic resonance spectroscopy allow non-invasive quan...
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Maciek Szul @maciekszul.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🚨🚨🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨🚨🚨 Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
Overview of the simulation strategy and analysis. a) Pial and white matter boundaries
surfaces are extracted from anatomical MRI volumes. b) Intermediate equidistant surfaces are
generated between the pial and white matter surfaces (labeled as superficial (S) and deep (D)
respectively). c) Surfaces are downsampled together, maintaining vertex correspondence across
layers. Dipole orientations are constrained using vectors linking corresponding vertices (link vectors).
d) The thickness of cortical laminae varies across the cortical depth (70–72), which is evenly sampled
by the equidistant source surface layers. e) Each colored line represents the model evidence (relative
to the worst model, ΔF) over source layer models, for a signal simulated at a particular layer (the
simulated layer is indicated by the line color). The source layer model with the maximal ΔF is
indicated by “˄”. f) Result matrix summarizing ΔF across simulated source locations, with peak
relative model evidence marked with “˄”. g) Error is calculated from the result matrix as the absolute
distance in mm or layers from the simulated source (*) to the peak ΔF (˄). h) Bias is calculated as the
relative position of a peak ΔF(˄) to a simulated source (*) in layers or mm.
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 Looks like an interesting paper about brain-wide processes. Sure to generate discussion. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroscience #neuroskyence
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Konstantina Kilteni @kkilteni.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
New article out at Science Advances! Three challenges, five questions, and multiple implications of tickle. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @dondersinst.bsky.social @ki.se @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #ERCResearch #ticklelab
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The extraordinary enigma of ordinary tickle behavior: Why gargalesis still puzzles neuroscience
Tickle sensation remains one of the biggest unresolved mysteries in neuroscience—one that scientists are only beginning to unravel.
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Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The craziest paper I have ever done is this thought experiment with Albert Gidon and Matt Larkum. In the first journal, reviewer 1 recommended that we should not try to publish this; reviewer 2 called it "wacky". Thanks for the motivation: A sequel is coming up! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Does brain activity cause consciousness? A thought experiment
The authors of this Essay examine whether action potentials cause consciousness in a three-step thought experiment that assumes technology is advanced enough to fully manipulate our brains.
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
We wrote this Neuroview to get the word out about the extremely exciting and important NIH funded work happening in the pain field and how it has the potential to really change pain treatment in the coming years www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... We did not imagine how rapidly things would be dismantled.
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Human pain neuroscience and the next generation of pain therapeutics
The recent approval of suzetrigine for acute pain treatment highlights both the success of targeting peripheral sensory neurons for pain management and the potential of developing new pain therapies p...
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
👏 White matter microstructure and macrostructure brain charts across the human lifespan | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Lovely work — and yet another proof that perceptual integration, likely based on recurrent connections, can occur without awareness during the attentional blink. See also www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Perceptual integration without conscious access | PNAS
The visual system has the remarkable ability to integrate fragmentary visual input into a perceptually organized collection of surfaces and objects...
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Hanlu He @hanluhe.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
First time at #SANS2025! Thrilled to hear about all the fascinating work and to present our own from @sinelabdtu.bsky.social @ale-dabr.bsky.social!
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻'𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲? We introduce the idea of "importance" in terms of the extent to which a region's signals steer/contribute to brain dynamics as a function of brain state. Work by @codejoydo.bsky.social elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Brain dynamics and spatiotemporal trajectories during threat processing
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 24/04/2025
Wow!! I did not forsee ecological psychology and affordances being the winning bid for this! Very exciting, with a great team behind it too.
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Harri Harju @harriharju.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Interested in neuroimaging? Or know someone who is? Join our imaging course this September 1st - 5th! Topics covered span from data acquisition all the way to visualisation of results. More info available at emotion.utu.fi/neurocourse/
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 11/04/2025
Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle (new from Adriano Tort and colleagues) #neuroskyence 🧠🫁 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Synchrony between neuronal activity and the respiratory cycle has been observed in numerous brain regions and across many species. Tort et al. discuss the mechanisms by which brain activity is modulat...
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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
While the world burns, we cook up a new preprint! doi.org/10.1101/2025... Biophysical modeling is a key tool to derive mechanistic insights into the brain. These models are governed by biologically meaningful parameters (unlike artificial neural networks), but the dirty secret ... 1/N
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Bahne Bahners @bahnebahners.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🚨 🥁 Preprint alert: The Deep Brain Stimulation Response Network in Parkinson’s Disease Operates in the High Beta Band ->> www.researchgate.net/publication/... <<--
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Wow! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Human high-order thalamic nuclei gate conscious perception through the thalamofrontal loop
Human high-order thalamic nuclei activity is known to closely correlate with conscious states. However, it is not clear how those thalamic nuclei and thalamocortical interactions directly contribute t...
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Olaf Hauk @olafhauk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I put some introductory #EEG / #MEG videos together, based on our introduction to #neuroimaging at the @mrccbu.bsky.social : youtube.com/playlist?lis.... They should cover the most common aspects of EEG/MEG analysis, including pre-processing, source estimation and functional connectivity.
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Introduction to EEG/MEG data analysis - YouTube
Introduction to EEG/MEG data analysis playlist featuring multiple videos split into topics set out below. Presented by Olaf Hauk from the MRC CBU. EEG/MEG me...
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Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz @juancamiload.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🚀 New Paper Alert! 🧠 Excited to share our new perspective paper with Niclas Kaiser 📝 “The ConNECT approach: toward a comprehensive understanding of meaningful interpersonal moments in psychotherapy and beyond” 🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.3389/fnhu...
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Frontiers | The ConNECT approach: toward a comprehensive understanding of meaningful interpersonal moments in psychotherapy and beyond
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Ana Tajadura-Jiménez @anatajadura.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
ML & signal processing experts! Join the BODYinTRANSIT challenge at #MLSP2025 to decode body perception from biosignals. Predict perceived weight changes using physiological & kinematic data. Register by April 1: bodyintransit.eu/bit-data-com... @erc.europa.eu @divulgauc3m.bsky.social
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
1/ "A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness" is out now! it was a joy to coauthor this commentary with Àlex Gómez-Marin @behaviOrganisms for @NatureNeuro, in which we try find some positive lessons in the clash over IIT www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩 Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365... Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
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MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration
We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...
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SINe Lab @sinelabdtu.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Our "two-brain microstates" paper is out in Journal of Neuroscience Methods! 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... With open access code: lab.compute.dtu.dk/glia/two-bra... We present a new hyperscanning-EEG method, to detect both synchronous and asymmetric inter-brain spatiotemporal dynamics
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Two-brain microstates: A novel hyperscanning-EEG method for quantifying task-driven inter-brain asymmetry
The neural mechanisms underlying real-time social interaction remain poorly understood. While hyperscanning has emerged as a popular method to better …
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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
New preprint! ⬇️🤩 We find a reduced self-other distinction in psychosis 😶‍🌫️, including increased neural activity during self-touch 🧠, reduced latency differences already at the *spinal cord* level 😲, and diminished interoceptive accuracy 🫀. #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky
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Bodily Self-Dysfunction in Psychosis: Altered Neural and Spinal Response to Self-produced Sensations
Psychosis is often characterized by disturbances in the sense of self, with patients frequently misattributing self-produced sensations to external sources. While somatic hallucinations and mispercept...
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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Our methodological review on Measures and Models of Brain-Heart Interactions 🧠🫀 is now available as early access in IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering @embs.org. with Luca Faes, @fdevicofallani.bsky.social and Mario Chavez @neurodynamicslab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1109/RBME...
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Measures and Models of Brain-Heart Interactions
Exploring brain-heart interactions within various paradigms, including affective computing, human-computer interfaces, and sensorimotor evaluation, has demonstrated enormous potential in biomarker dev...
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Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
New preprint! How choice and motor mimicry affect affiliation: An fNIRS Study: osf.io/preprints/psya… We tested how being mimicked in choice or motor movements affects affiliation and neural activity in temporal and parietal brain regions during in-person interactions.
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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
How important are your #postdoc years in the likelihood of you staying & succeeding in #academia? In our newly published paper in @pnas.org, "Postdoc Publications and Citations Link to Academic Retention and Faculty Success," we study the journey of #CareerSuccess of ~45,000 #postdocs. 🧵1/7
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Evan Lewis-Healey @evanlhealey.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
🚨 Hot off the press! 🚨 Our new preprint explores the dose-dependent neural and subjective effects of smoked freebase DMT 🌌 🧠 Insights into brain dynamics 🌟 Phenomenology in focus 📖 Check it out: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Full breakdown below [1/20] 👇
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Time-resolved neural and experience dynamics of medium- and high-dose DMT
N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a potent and fast-acting psychedelic drug that induces a radical reorganisation of the contents of consciousness, comprising the dissolution of time and space and perce...
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