Decision, Action, and Neural Computation (DANC) lab

cool people, follow them!

I built a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods.

1️⃣ follow/subscribe to: @neuromethods.bsky.social
2️⃣ like the post with your favorite method
➡️ get a shiny methods label in your profile/posts. 🌟

Thrilled to share this work, spearheaded by the Danc lab (led by James Bonaiuto) @danclab.bsky.social, in collaboration with us, especially Matteo Maspoli @mattgmasp.bsky.social and Danila Shelepenkov @shpen.bsky.social, and other groups who share the belief that MEG still has untapped potential!

The Cognition & Brain Dynamics lab is no on BlueSky!

fig 2 in Guest, O., & Martin, A. E. (2021). How Computational Modeling Can Force Theory Building in Psychological Science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(4), 789-802. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620970585

I'm looking back at this paper written 2019 & published 2021 with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: How Computational Modeling Can Force Theory Building in Psychological Science (pdf: oliviaguest.com/doc/guest_ma...) We presented a positive view and kind, if I do say so myself, compatibilist stance. 1/

This is too real

various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools

📆 updated for 2026!

list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Cartographier l’activité cérébrale de façon précise avec la magnétoencéphalographie | Cortex Mag – Cerveau, cognition et neurosciences pour tous La magnétoencéphalographie (MEG) permet d’observer l’activité magnétique du cerveau en temps réel mais sa faible résolution spatiale en limite l'usage. Des chercheurs de l'ISC-MJ de Lyon montrent aujo...

Grâce à des travaux sur la #MEG laminaire développés dans le laboratoire du Dr. Bonaiuto, il est possible d'estimer l'activité neuronale à différents niveaux de profondeur des couches #corticales. On vous raconte comment.
@isc-mj.bsky.social @danclab.bsky.social

www.cortex-mag.net/cartographie...

Also btw, the predictions are orthogonal

A spherical prediction machine

Beta Burst Waveform Diversity: A Window onto Cortical Computation - Holly Rayson, Quentin Moreau, Solene Gailhard, Maciej J. Szul, James J. Bonaiuto, 2025 Neural activity in the beta band is increasingly recognized to occur not as sustained oscillations but as transient burst-like events. These beta bursts are div...

An accessible overview on why beta band activity is best seen as a diverse set of events and not an oscillation, along with cortico-subcortical network responsible for specific waveform shape. @hollyrayson.bsky.social @quentinmoreau.bsky.social Solène Gailhard @danclab.bsky.social

@hollyrayson.bsky.social @quentinmoreau.bsky.social Solène Gailhard @maciekszul.bsky.social

Our group has been looking at beta bursts for the last 5 years, but we do it a little differently than most - we group into types them based on their waveforms. In this open access article we lay out why and what we think this might mean
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#neuroskyence

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Congrats dude!

Congratulations!!

I make sure to control the christmas playlist and this is on it every year

It's out out. Saying that your favourite signal is an oscillation is not enough, it would be good to quantify to what extent.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Siqi Zhang, James J. Bonaiuto, et al:

Multi-scale parameterization of neural rhythmicity with lagged Hilbert autocoherence

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Our article on lagged Hilbert autocoherence is out: direct.mit.edu/imag/article... Just because you do a TF transformation on your signal doesn't mean that it's an oscillation. Siqi Zhang @maciekszul.bsky.social Sotirios Papadopoulos, @alimassera.bsky.social, @hollyrayson.bsky.social
#neuroskyence

Judging by some reviewer comments I've recently received, the future is now

I think we're on track to find out, like it or not

A figure with 3 panels. Top: A plot of log-evidence for an experimental effect over peristimulus time, as inferred using vRSA. Bottom-left: a condition-by-condition matrix of regression parameters. Bottom-right: condition-by-condition matrix estimated by the vRSA model.

Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]

recon-all --please

There's still time to apply! #neurojobs

schematic of fetal OPM-MEG

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣

Please get in touch to hear more!

Thanks so much for the invitation and what a cool logo! Looking forward to it!

It's just a way to split bursts into groups based on their waveform similarity along that PCA dimension. It's not the best way, and there may not be discrete groups - more of a continuum, but it useful. We're always looking for better ways to do it.

Good point, but in this case it wouldn't be so informative because we lack temporal dynamics in this task. Beta power is lower than baseline when performing actions. The cool stuff is in the waveform-specific burst rates