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🚨 New preprint from our lab 🚨

We show that portable, contact-free MMG with OPMs can decode fine finger movements and recover EMG-like muscle activation patterns 🧲🖐️

Huge credit to the team for pushing MMG closer to real-world applications

Link and 🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Visual features underlying neural selectivity for natural stimuli Neural activity is selective for the identity and semantic category of natural visual stimuli. In human neuroimaging, this selectivity can be investigated using multivariate pattern analysis. The resu...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨 🆕 Preprint 🚨

How does the brain represent natural images?

Using MEG + multivariate analysis, we disentangle contributions of retinotopy, spatial frequency, shape, and texture

Together, our results reveal how visual features jointly and dynamically support human object recognition.

link 👇

An artifact-robust framework for measuring tCS effects during stimulation Objective: Transcranial current stimulation (tCS) is a promising technique to non-invasively modulate human brain activity. However, stimulation artifacts in EEG and MEG recordings severely hinder the...

🚨 Check out our new preprint 🚨

A novel artifact-robust framework to investigate online effects of transcranial current stimulation (tCS).

Further, we test this approach in an MEG study 🧲🧠 and find neural interaction between tCS and flickering visual stimulation.

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

The most gorgeous moonrise over river Neckar at the end of the very inspiring Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 🙌, thank you for having me, @snstuebingen.bsky.social! #SNS2025

🔵 Tübingen SNS 2025 - That’s a wrap! 🔵

Two inspiring days full of groundbreaking talks and great discussions about systems #neuroscience! 🧠

A huge thank you to all our speakers, presenters, and participants for making #SNS2025 such a success 🙌

See you next year in Tübingen! 💙

📸 Highlights below!

✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we have Floris de Lange (@predictivebrain.bsky.social)

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

#neuroskyence

✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we also have Sylvia Schröder (@sylviaschroeder.bsky.social), from University of Sussex

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

#neuroskyscience

✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we have Tim Kietzmann (@timkietzmann.bsky.social)

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky #NeuroAI

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📢 Deadline extended! 📢

The registration deadline for #SNS2025 has been extended to Sunday, September 28th!

Register here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/reg...

PS: Students of the GTC (Graduate Training Center for Neuroscience) in Tübingen can earn 1 CP for presenting a poster! 👀

✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we have Simone Ebert (@simoneebert.bsky.social) & Jan Lause (@janlause.bsky.social), from Hertie AI Institute, University of Tübingen

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

#neuroskyscience

✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Next speaker to present is Arthur Lefevre, from University of Lyon

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

#neuroscience #neuroskyscience

✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Next speaker to present is Mara Wolter, PhD student at University of Tübingen in Yulia Oganian lab

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

🔵 Tübingen SNS2025 🔵

Over the next few days, we’ll be introducing you to the brilliant scientists who will be deliver their talks at #SNS2025!

✨ Get ready to meet our speakers! ✨

We are starting with Liina Pylkkänen, from New York University

💬 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

🔵Tübingen SNS 2025🔵

Registration is still open for the #SNS2025 event on 6-7 October!

Join us for plenary lectures 🗣️, poster sessions📊and social events 👥 about system neuroscience!🧠

Registration at meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025

Check out our new preprint on convolutional recurrent neural networks trained for image classification and evaluated on out-of-distribution robustness

Spoiler alert: simply adding top-down feedback connections was not enough to achieve robust vision!

Link 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2508.07115

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Are top-down feedback connections enough for robust vision?

We found ConvRNN with top-down feedback exhibiting OOD robustness only when trained with dropout, revealing a dual mechanism for robust sensory coding

with @marco-d.bsky.social, Karl Friston, Giovanni Pezzulo & @siegellab.bsky.social

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Check out our posters at the #CCN2025!

🔹 Ema Zezelic
Exploring the Neural Basis of Stimulus-Driven Overconfidence

🔹 Tobias Ludwig
Multi-task Learning in the Human Brain

🔹 Paul Hege
The Causal Structure of Band-limited Dynamics in the Human Cortex

Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭

go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒,

work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social

Check out our new preprint on spatial hearing👂 in humans and deep neural networks

We found that humans exhibit more robust sound localization than models when probed with out-of-distribution sounds, like those lacking primary interaural cues!

Link 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Full thread 🧵👇

Check out our new preprint on the encoding mechanisms of temporal prediction errors during tactile-motor associations in the human 🧠

We found preferential encoding for action-oriented errors, encoded in motor space!

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

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🧠⏱️ New preprint!
We found that temporal prediction errors are more strongly encoded when an overt response is required, and this encoding occurs in motor rather than sensory space.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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📢 Exciting News!

Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium #SNS2025 will happen on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October! 🎉

Plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events with leading experts in the field 🧠

registration 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025

See you there! 👋

Excited for this in early October!

🔵 Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2025 is here! 🔵

#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠

Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣

registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/

🔴 NEW PAPER 🔴

Check out our new paper in Journal of Neural Engineering lead by @nimanoury.bsky.social

"Detecting single motor-unit activity in magnetomyography"

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iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Abstract choice representations during stable choice-response associations - Communications Biology Human magnetoencephalography reveals neural representations of perceptual choices that are abstracted from motor-responses even during stable choice-response associations. This suggests a general role...

Fresh off the press - our latest publication on abstract choices with @siegellab.bsky.social @fsandhaeger.bsky.social @nimanoury.bsky.social @ezezelic.bsky.social at @commsbio.nature.com
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Check our latest in which we leverage shape metrics to compare neural geometry across regions, sessions or subjects and how their differences predict behavior.

w/ Nejatbakhsh, Duong, @sarah-harvey.bsky.social, Brincat, @siegellab.bsky.social, @earlkmiller.bsky.social & @itsneuronal.bsky.social

🚨 New paper from the lab out in
@natcomputsci.bsky.social!

Check out the STST algorithm for generating cool videos for vision research in biological and artificial systems

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🔵 NEW PAPER 🔵

Spatiotemporal Style Transfer #STST is out on #NatureComputationalScience!

STST as a framework for dynamic visual stimulus generation to study brain and machine vision

feat. @siegellab.bsky.social
paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
code: github.com/antoninogrec...

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