Prof. John Kelleher, Chair of CompSci @tcddublin.bsky.social @ ADAPT Director, delivered his inaugural lecture “Aging, Artificial Intelligence, and Outcomes: Modeling Age in Stroke Risk and Patient Prognosis” to a full house last week in the TrinityBusinessSchool: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...

Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe The Medial Temporal Lobe (MTL) is key to human cognition, supporting memory, emotional processing, navigation, and semantic coding. Rare direct human MTL recordings revealed concept cells, which were ...

🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe

1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:

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🚨 Just over a week left to register for the #CNSP2025 Online Workshop (details in post below)! 🚨

Link to the workshop registration form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Cortical tracking and brain rhythms. Here are 3 opinion papers, all published independently in the last couple of weeks. Wow.. we really need answers!

(Lalor's lab) osf.io/preprints/os...

(Nicola Molinaro) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(many labs) arxiv.org/pdf/2507.15639

(7/n) Great work from Sara Carta, in close collaboration with co-supervisors Alejandro Lopez Valdes, Emina Alickovic, Johannes Zaar. Thanks to Demant Fonden, Eriksholm Research Centre, @researchireland.ie for your support!

(6/n) Here we also looked into envelope tracking vs. lexical processing, and investigated how lexical context is updated during an attention switch.

(5/n) Indeed, there are lots of considerations that we discuss. For instance, the cortical tracking doesn't go to zero after a switch, as unattended streams are processed to an extent. (e.g., elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...).

(4/n) This phenomenon might be key to our ability to explore other conversations (before switching) while listening to a given speaker

(3/n) We found a clear asymmetry in this transition, with the engagement starting much earlier than the engagement. This leads to a brief moment where both speakers are encoded in the human cortex.

(2/n) The intuition is quite simple. When switching from a speaker A to a speaker B, the cortical tracking of A and B should decrease (disengagement) and increase (engagement) respectively. That's one key principle that BCIs for auditory attention decoding have been using

Simultaneous cortical tracking of competing speech streams during attention switching Successful speech communication in multi-talker scenarios requires a skilful combination of sustained attention and rapid attention switching. While the neurophysiology literature offers detailed insi...

New lab preprint! "Simultaneous cortical tracking of competing speech streams during attention switching". We studied what happens in our brains when switching attention from one speaker to another. We found a quite exciting result (continues) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today is the 103rd anniversary of the explosion and fire which destroyed the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922, in the opening engagement of the Civil War. To mark the date, we are releasing over 175,000 historical documents on our site. Read more here:

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Deadline today! #neurojobs #psychjobs #lingjobs #langsky

Places for the CNSP Hackathon are quickly filling up and we have already awarded the travel grants. We still have another couple of spots open at the regular rate (€130), so please register soon if you are interested before they are gone! Link to website and registration below 👇 #CNSP2025

We have a *permanent* position available for a research engineer (ingénieur de recherche) to work in our new MEG-OPM facility. A strong scientific focus is possible. Speaking French is required. If you're interested, please let me know!

My team is participating in 10 fun conference/workshop events over the next few weeks (e.g., VCCA, CogHear, ICAC, CNSP, ISAAR). Find where you can connect with us on my lab website diliberg.net (bottom of the page)

The deadline has been extended to the 10th June. There are still a couple of spots available. Apply before it's sold out! EEG/fNIRS/hyperscanning/TRFs/Speech/Music/Ping pong!

🚨 We're hiring!

We are seeking an excellent academic to join our staff as an Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Psychology.

To apply 👉
my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!

PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

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inspired by all the brilliant work from auditory visual processing and groups from @cnspworkshop.bsky.social

EEG of the Dancing Brain - new paper out! 🧠🕺

Thrilled to share our latest work on disentangling the neural basis of real-time social dance!!

www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...

A full @giacomonovembre.bsky.social NPA Lab production 🎬

#dance #socialinteraction #hyperscanning #motioncapture

Over 190 researchers attended the 4th ADAPT Annual Scientific Conference #AASC2025

Congrats to all presenters, in particular winners:
Best Overall Contribution: Delaram Golpayegani TCD
Best Student Contribution: Emily Ip TCD
Best Poster: Sami Ul Haq DCU
@researchireland.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social

Two fantastic events! A hackathon in person, satellite of Auditory Cortex. And an online workshop. Have a look!

🚨Registration now open for #CNSP2025 Workshop!
Date: 2–3 September 2025
Location: Online (Zoom)
Registration Fee: €30 (financial support available)
Registration Deadline: 31 August 2025
For more information and to register, follow the link: cnspworkshop.net/workshops.html

What cities can learn from the brain - Nature Human Behaviour Given its ability to manage a multitude of functions in support of survival, the dynamics and organization of the brain offer the city — another confluence of structures and processes — lessons for ur...

neuroscience x urban design? fascinating
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There are more complex models of speech production (DIVA, hierarchical state feedback control) that are likely more accurate. But for students with no background, I introduce a basic framework that (a) highlights different stages of speech production and (b) feedback. (1/) 🧵

#neuroscienceoflanguage

Join us as an Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology. my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

Metacognition in the listening brain How do you know you have heard right? Metacognition, the ability to assess and monitor one’s own cognitive state, is key to understanding human communication in complex environments. However, the foun...

I hope you enjoy some of the ideas I put forward in “Metacognition in the listening brain”: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro... — out now.

Very happy to see this out! In this work I demonstrate the potential of OPMs for laminar MEG and investigate the impact of factors such as sensor counts, number of measurement axes, co-registration errors, misestimated forward models…
Already looking forward to Imaging Neuroscience’s 2025 collage!

Temporal Structure of Music Improves the Cortical Encoding of Speech This study demonstrates that regular musical rhythms can act as a temporal guide for brain oscillations, enhancing synchronization with the speech envelope. This effect was observed across different ...

Happy to share my very first first-author paper! In this study, we show that rhythms can shape how our brains track speech (in very simple words). Work with Marina Kalashnikova, @nicolaml.bsky.social and Mikel Lizarazu.

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