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Unfortunately, I can't attend #SfN2022 in person this year, but you can still find my virtual poster presentation on creative problem-solving (079.02) until mid-December - please drop me a message if you have any questions!

The next virtual layer-fMRI dinner will be centered around the theme "What can we learn about cortical layers using laminar fMRI?" and will take place on December 7, 2022. Flyer: laminauts.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/fifth_…

Interesting new preprint: using electrophysiology in monkey V1, they replicate the finding that non-stimulated portions of V1 carry information about stimuli shown in the surround (which had previously been found using fMRI in human V1)

A new Opinion paper on the potential cellular mechanisms that contribute to the emergence of sudden insights during creative problem solving, conceptualising insight as a mental shortcut during mental navigation. Such a timely paper, can’t wait to read it - congrats, Jaan Aru!

Very happy to have been part of this project! We find that feedback to V1 and V2 contains episodic memory but not semantic memory information.

For those, who could not make it to the layer-fMRI dinner today and/or want to watch it again; here are the recordings: youtube.com/playlist?list=… Thanks everyone for the great session today.

New layer-fMRI paper by Raimondo et al. on developing Spin-echo line scanning for extremely high resolution fMRI. They find that it has benefits for selecting specific lines only, but it is not (yet) sensitive enough to be used for fMRI activity detection doi.org/10.1007/s10334…

Sometimes neurons in V1 are activated by the context even if there is nothing in their receptive field. We find that activity is strongest if the context suggest that there is a figure (e.g. a grey disc). Interested? Read paper of Lisa Kirchberger et al. science.org/doi/full/10.11…

AI vs. Human Creativity: A new study compared human-generated ideas to ideas from 5 AI models, including ChatGPT. Results showed no differences in originality. 9.4% of humans surpassed the most creative AI, GPT-4 arxiv.org/abs/2303.12003

New layer-fMRI paper looking into entorhinal cortex. Thy find that superficial layers are more engaged for memory encoding, while deeper layers are more engaged for memory retrieval. Exciting study by Zhang et al. using a T2-prep sequence: doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO…

There has been a lot of progress in our understanding of how the brain organises relationships in cognitive maps. But how is this knowledge used when guiding novel choice? Work with Tankred Saanum, Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI, Nico Schuck & DoellerLab now in Nature Neuroscience rdcu.be/c83tL

Javier Javier Ortiz Tudela and I wrote a short opinion paper in which we hypothesize that rather than being an ‘episodic memory disorder’, #aphantasia might be due to differences in the ‘what’ stream of visual processing. You can find it here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This is published now as journal article: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… Congratulations Emily Thomas, @PeterKokNeuro, Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social et al. There is also a commentary that comes along with it: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

New layer-fMRI paper looking into imaginary and perceived faces. By Tony Carricarte et al. cell.com/iscience/fullt…

The ground truth about the human fMRI occlusion paradigm revealed by rodent 🐁2P imaging - Super excited about this Human Brain Project collaboration with Koen Seignette at Christiaan Levelt lab multispecies multiscale CCNi_UofGlasgow. Preprint and Tweetorial below: spoiler: L2/3 are contributing!

Ahoy Psych and CogNeuro community! We have openings for PhD and Postdocs. Are you interested in the impact of semantic congruity in (visual) cognition? Find more about my new ERC project and the positions at: sites.google.com/view/connects-…. Spread the word!

Happy to have been part of this project led by Belén montabes de la cruz on the processing of auditory feedback in early cortical areas in aphantasic participants, now out in Current Biology

Our study led by Marco Badwal is now out in #JNeuro SfN Journals. Check out Martin Hebart's thread below for a summary! jneurosci.org/content/early/…