Decision, Action, and Neural Computation (DANC) lab

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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

I'm co-organising a #CNS2026 symposium with @adykstra.bsky.social - "Non-invasive meso-scale dynamics of perception and cognition", including @darcywaller.bsky.social and @lonikefaes.bsky.social. If you're a member, please vote for it and help us make this happen!

What Darcy said! If you're a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member and want to learn at #CNS2026 how MEG and fMRI can yield circuit-level insight into perception and cognition, vote for our symposium! Co-organized by laminar MEG guru @danclab.bsky.social. Vote here! www.cogneurosociety.org/account-login/

If you’re a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member, check out and vote on the great lineup of symposia for 2026, and plz consider our symposium “Non-invasive meso-scale dynamics of perception and cognition”, organized by @adykstra.bsky.social including James Bonauito and @lonikefaes.bsky.social!

Dude I got an anarchy symbol tattoo on my arm like 2 years ago to match the equality symbol on my other arm that I did stick-and-poke style when I was 16. Stop trying to age gracefully

Simulations are fun! Especially with the right tools😉.
@willenjoy.bsky.social and I (with support from Mina Jamshidi) made a toolbox for simulating EEG/MEG data
meegsim.readthedocs.io
I put together a quick simulation using it for this short clip. Took me 10 minutes (no, really!)
#brainmovies

Congrats!

Sf-what?

This was a fun paper to work on! Thanks to Andy for coordinating this. It made me think more deeply about where we might be able to go with laminar MEG, and I learned a lot in the process! #neuroskyence

🚨Postdoc job offer🚨
Are you interested in beta bursts? Want to help drive methods for laminar inference with MEG? Now hiring a postdoc: run head-cast MEG experiments, help build our laMEG toolbox, and collaborate across Lyon–Marseille–Strasbourg. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please repost! 🧠📈

Infant Brains Tick at 4Hz - Resonance Properties of the Developing Visual System Neural rhythms of the infant brain are not well understood. Testing the rhythmic properties of the adult visual system with periodic or broadband visual stimulation elicited neural resonance phenomena...

In an EEG study spearheaded by Marlena Baldauf, we show that 8-month-old babies’ visual systems resonate at 4Hz (theta rhythm) — unlike adults, who resonate around 10Hz (alpha).

👶🧠 echoes at 4Hz
👩‍🦰🧠 echoes at ~10Hz

Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Precise temporal localisation of M/EEG effects with Bayesian generalised additive multilevel models Time-resolved electrophysiological measurements such as those obtained through magneto- and electroencephalography (M/EEG) offer a unique window onto the neural activity underlying cognitive processes...

Happy to share a new preprint in which @paulbuerkner.com and I introduce a novel model-based approach for precisely estimating the onset and offset of M/EEG effects!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

YouTube video by Alex '350' Zoidberg - LinkedIn

youtu.be/XOLak7xRYGA?...

I had to bring my dog to a retreat talk once, and she barked at someone who came in late. It was hilarious. I don't have kids myself, but I say bring them!

Beta burst waveform extraction using novel 4He-OPMs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.10.663870v1

Beta burst waveforms in PD! We find that specific types of beta bursts are rate-modulated by l-dopa, and STN-cortical connectivity during these burst types is related to clinical improvement. Fantastic work by Hasnae Agouram with @pierpasorre.bsky.social 🧠📈

Volume conductor models for magnetospinography - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Volume conductor models for magnetospinography

Pleased to see this paper finally published. We investigated which conductive models are appropriate for source analysis of spine electrophysiology. Turns out modelling the bone is quite important! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out Jan's poster if you're at @meguki2025.bsky.social Great work! I'm so pleased to see these results replicated independently, even with a different type of MEG scanner!

I’m sure you’ve always wondered how reliable Granger causality of source reconstructed MEG really is. Better yet, you surely wonder how to improve it. You’re in luck, I’ve just arrived at @meguki2025.bsky.social to discuss it. All jokes aside, meet me at poster 38 if you’re interested. 👋🏼🧠

Paul, I did not know that you were such a monster

Now to introduce another student to emacs and pit them against each other

When I was a kid we called it the stingray shuffle

happy that our article about mu & alpha rhythm waveform shape in development is now finally out in the open: doi.org/10.1162/jocn...

oscillation frequency changes across development (one of the most robust findings in the oscillation world). in this work, we also look at waveform shape changes.

And huge thanks to James Bonaiuto of @danclab.bsky.social - their fantastic laminar MEG toolbox laMEG paved the way to SPM-Python! github.com/danclab/laMEG

The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025

So cool to see this taking off! Soon laMEG won't have to support our own compiled version of SPM