Department of Imaging Neuroscience

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, March 6th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be James R Booth giving a talk entitled "Does IQ matter for the brain basis of reading skill?" In person or online.

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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, February 27th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Roland Zahn giving a talk entitled "Translational cognitive neuroscience of mood disorders: implications for novel treatments and stratification" In person or online.

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The human brain reimagined: Eleanor Maguire, transforming understanding of neuroscience Eleanor Maguire transformed our understanding of human memory and how we approach neuroscience research, inspiring generations of scientists and paving the way for some of our biggest breakthroughs.

We are delighted to see departmental alumni Eleanor Maguire, and her former PhD student Sir Demis Hassabis, honoured in the UCL Faces project, as part of UCL’s bicentenary celebrations. Read about their valuable contributions on the UCL Faces webpage.

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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, February 13th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Oiwi Parker Jones giving a talk entitled "Decoding speech non-invasively"

In person or online. For more information:
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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, February 6th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Maria Herrojo Ruiz giving a talk entitled "Uncertainty in decision-making and motor learning in anxiety"

In person or online. For more information:
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Preprint alert!!! We recorded directly from the human ventral tegmental area (VTA), the principal source of cortical dopaminergic innervation, while patients performed an instrumental learning task. 🧵👇

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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, January 30th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Michael Browning giving a talk entitled "Mechanisms and actions of dopaminergic agonists in the treatment of depression"

In person or online. For more information:
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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, January 23rd, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Ayelet Landau giving a talk entitled "Rhythmic attention negotiates competition along the visual hierarchy"

In person or online. For more information:
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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, January 16th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Janneke Jehee giving a talk entitled "Uncertainty in perceptual decision-making"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

EU funding awarded to Imaging Neuroscience PI — Department of Imaging Neuroscience European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant awarded to Peter Kok

We are pleased to share that Peter Kok has been awarded the Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)!

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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, December 12th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Mathias Pessiglione giving a talk entitled "Origins and consequences of cognitive fatigue"

In person or online. For more information:
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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, December 5th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Andrew MacAskill giving a talk entitled "A role for ventral hippocampus in hidden state inference"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, November 28th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Tricia Seow giving a talk entitled "Biases in belief and simulation in obsession-compulsion"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

The Transmitter’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025 We recognize the outstanding achievements of 25 neuroscientists who stand to shape the field for years to come.

Congratulations 👏👏👏 to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social who has been selected as one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social Rising Stars of Neuroscience, 2025!

⭐️🧠🌏🤩💫

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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, November 14th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Adrien Doerig giving a talk entitled "LLMs as models of high level perceptual processing"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, November 7th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Simon Van Gaal giving a talk entitled "Linking global state fluctuations and recurrent processing to conscious perception in humans"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, October 24th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Terence Sanger, MD, PhD.

This talk will be online only. 12 Queen Square Seminar room (4th Floor) will be available if you need a space to watch the stream. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

Major dementia breakthrough could turbocharge UK diagnosis rates EXCLUSIVE: Scientists have found a way to dramatically accelerate one of the key tests used to diagnose the condition.

🗞️ Front page news of The Express today: @uclqsion.bsky.social scientists have developed a method for producing “ultra-fast” MRI scans, slashing the time patients need to spend in the machine from 20-30 minutes to less than 7 minutes. @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, October 17th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Prof Andreas Nieder giving a talk entitled "From Monkeys to Humans: The Neurons Behind Our Sense of Number"

All welcome, in person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert!

This Friday, October 3rd, the brain meeting speaker will be Prof Li Su giving a talk entitled "Digital twin models that talk the talk and walk the walk"

All welcome, in person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

YouTube video by Andy's Brain Tube SPM Homecoming & SPM25 | Prof. Peter Zeidman, Dr. Olivia Kowalczyk & Dr. Johan Medrano

In this video, Andy Jahn discusses the latest developments in #SPM, the latest release #SPM25 and our recent #SPM Homecoming with the wonderful @corticalpete.bsky.social, @liviasimela.bsky.social and @johmedr.bsky.social.

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Peter Bandettini notes SPM “catalyzed more progress towards understanding the human brain than perhaps any other discovery or methodological advance in neuroimaging”. He also urges continuous revisiting of assumptions and their validity. Excellent food for thought as our #SPM Homecoming kicks off!

Klaas Enno Stephan notes “Three decades is an unusually long period for a purely academic software to exist, enjoy enormous popularity, and stay at the top of the game”. Go #SPM, go #MethodsTeam members, past and present, from all around the world! 🧠🌏

In an associated commentary Ed Bullmore notes that #SPM “achieved scientific impact on an unprecedented scale” and “was a leader in open science before open science was a thing”.

Thank you, Ed! 🤩🧠

SPM—30 years and beyond Abstract. This paper marks the 30th anniversary of the Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) software and the journal Cerebral Cortex: two modest milestones

“From mapping to explaining brain function: the generative theoretical ambition of SPM” - our article in Cerebral Cortex forms part of our 30(ish) year celebration of SPM.

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A busy conference room with many delegates seated around tables, several screens positioned around the sides of the room and a female speaker standing at the front next to a lectern giving a presentation.

Absolutely delighted to be at @meguki2025.bsky.social at lovely Mary Ward house, London.

Really enjoyed talk by Stephanie Mellor (Zurich/UCL) about ambulation with OPMs. The tech is evolving fast!

Thanks to hosts @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social for organising. Looking forward to this 🙂

And finally Poster 1583 at #OHBM2025 – Peter Zeidman from the FIL will present methods for efficiently estimating the shape of the BOLD response, titled “Optimizing the timing of fMRI experiments for estimating BOLD non-linearities”. [7/7]

Poster 1323 at #OHBM2025 - Suvadeep Maiti from the FIL will present his important work validating cluster-level inference based on random field theory correction, for 1D and 2D electrophysiological data in SPM. [6/7]

Saturday 11:42 at #OHBM2025 - Software demonstration by Yael Balbastre from UCL EP, on "A scalable computational framework for large-scale imaging of neural circuits" - producing wiring diagrams of mammalian brains at unprecedented scales. [5/7]