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Rong Bi

@rongbi.bsky.social
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Postdoc @Uni Oxford |Interested in motivation, effort and decision | 🧠 fMRI, ultrasound stimulation

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Rong Bi @rongbi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Very excited to share our first effort-learning paper in @plosbiology.org! Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors @Jan Grohn, @thepsychologist.bsky.social and to my co-senior authors @mkflugge.bsky.social and @lilweb.bsky.social, for all their effort on this fun project. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Johannes Algermissen @johalgermissen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Very happy our first paper using ultrasound stimulation (TUS) to stimulate the human amygdala (BLA) got out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social today! 🎉🥳🔊Great FUN with co-first authors @mirunmigyu.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social in @mkflugge.bsky.social 's lab! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Low-intensity focused ultrasound to human amygdala reveals a causal role in ambiguous emotion processing and alters local and network activity
The amygdala shows abnormal metabolism in depression, a disorder marked by altered emotion, motivation, and learning. Yet its causal role in these pro…
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Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I'm still missing lots of transcranial ultrasound neuromod folks on BlueSky, so trying to create a starter pack that I hope we can add many people to in the next weeks... please spread the word and let me know who I have missed out! go.bsky.app/EjjWSUy
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Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A potential role for the thalamus in demixing cortical signals while providing a low-dimensional pathway for cortico-cortical communication New paper from Halassa lab in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Prefrontal transthalamic uncertainty processing drives flexible switching - Nature
By examining neural responses from tree shrews performing hierarchical decision tasks with rule reversals, the authors identify a thalamocortical mechanism for regulating cognitive flexibility.
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