Olgerta Asko

Sources: Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05133-8), National Human Genome Research Institute (https://www.genome.gov/ human-genome-project), The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/18/dna-fingerprinting-30-years-on), National Institutes of Health (https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/testing/genetictesting), Science (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/337/6096/816).

🧪RIP James Watson, one four scientists credited with deciphering the structure of DNA.

It was Rosalind Franklin’s X ray diffraction image that revealed the double helix structure.

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Brain Dynamics of Mental Manipulation Humans effortlessly juggle their internal thoughts, but the neuronal dynamics that support mental manipulation are largely unknown. Leveraging the high spatiotemporal fidelity of intracranial recordin...

What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts?

We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.

Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#neuroskyence #musicscience

Figure from Alnes et al., 2025

​Our new paper on auditory processing in NREM sleep is online! We study how iERP and HFA responses in the temporal lobe are modulated by slow waves of sleep:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to Sigurd Alnes for his brilliant work and to the entire team!

Our brains evolved to survive, not to find truth | Samuel McKee We like to believe that reason is our pathway to truth. Yet from Popper’s demand for falsifiability to Darwin’s doubt about the mind’s origins, a more unsettling picture is emerging. In an age that pr...

📖A fascinating read on how our mental architecture is shaped more for social cohesion and survival than for discovering objective truth. Evolution has given us a brain that’s brilliant… but maybe not built to find the truth of the word.🌟🧠
#evolution #brain

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From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.

We praise innovation, yet starve the science that makes it possible. The history of discovery shows a simple truth: transformative breakthroughs arise from questions without immediate utility. Support curiosity, not just impact!!!🔬🧠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#research #curiosity #science

🚨 Join me for a hands-on #iElectrodes tutorial at #PracticalMEEG!
📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET
Learn how to localize intracranial electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes:
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#iEEG #ECoG #SEEG

🧠🚨The first brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour has been created!

Read the study here: lnkd.in/dh8hwxjw

#brain #neuroscience #nature #brainmapping #behavior

«As statistical machines, the models make predictions by generalizing on the basis of learnt associations, leading them to produce answers that are plausible, but sometimes wrong.»

Pioneering journal eLife faces major test after loss of impact factor The open-access title’s bold publishing model has brought long-bubbling conflicts to the fore.

📉 Big shift in publishing: eLife has lost its Impact Factor, raising debate over its bold open-review model, and the continuing dominance of traditional metrics.

🔗 Full story in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing @elife.bsky.social

Neural mechanisms of predictive processing: a collaborative community experiment through the OpenScope program This review synthesizes advances in predictive processing within the sensory cortex. Predictive processing theorizes that the brain continuously predicts sensory inputs, refining neuronal responses by...

A large-scale collaborative consensus piece on predictive processing is now online arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 impressively orchestrated by @jeromelecoq.bsky.social

🧠🎶 New research shows your brain doesn’t just hear sounds, it reshapes itself in real time.
Scientists at Aarhus University & Oxford developed FREQ-NESS, a new method to map brain networks by their frequencies.

#Neuroscience #Brainwaves #MusicAndTheBrain

How humans became upright: key changes to our pelvis found Nature - Genetic and anatomical data reveal how the human pelvis acquired its unique shape, enabling our ancestors to walk on two legs.

Researchers have mapped the key structural changes in the pelvis that enabled early humans to first walk on two legs and accommodate giving birth to a big-brained baby

go.nature.com/4n5h71m

Predictive encoding of auditory sequences in the human prefrontal cortex Humans extract regularities from the environment to form expectations that guide perception and optimize behavior. Although the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is central to this process, the relative contrib...

🤔How does the human brain predict unexpected sounds?
Our new study shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t work as a single unit. Instead, the orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortex make distinct, time-sensitive contributions. #iEEG #BrainLesion #OFC #LPFC
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Science in one picture 🧠🔬😁
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