@jflockton.bsky.social
Cog Neuro PhD @york.ac.uk 🧠 Using MEG/OPM & EEG - interested in Predictive Coding, AI/ML, Consciousness, & ASMR
Thanks to @cfaa.bsky.social for having me speak at their AI symposium, & @heasutherland.com for joining me in our panel session on the science and considerations around AI use across different human-computer interactions. Glad to have met some lovely experts across a range of sectors using AI! ✈️ 👩💻 ⚓
30.09.2025 10:55 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social
Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Does predictive coding work in SPACE or in TIME? Most neuroscientists assume TIME, i.e. neurons predict their future sensory inputs. We show that in visual cortex predictive coding actually works across SPACE, just like the original Rao+Ballard theory #neuroscience
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Excellent weekend at #HTLGI25 enjoying some in-tents debates on philosophy, neuroscience, and AI, in London. Highlights included Alex O'Connor hosting a vibrant discussion ft. Karl Friston & Susan Schneider on the structure of consciousness, and Hilary Lawson's views on language and reality👌
22.09.2025 09:09 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My first #BACN conference was brilliant - from sensory representations to rhythmic stimulation... and from touch to space-time! Happy to have met some wonderful minds and already looking forward to Brighton next year! 🧠
12.09.2025 18:01 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Behold, the first preprint from my PhD! A novel theoretical model proposing that ASMR's neural mechanism and therapeutic potential involves predictive coding of CT-touch in peripersonal space. 🧠
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Check out our shiny app for Bayesian power analysis of interoceptive psychophysics!
05.09.2025 07:41 — 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0🧠✨ Exciting new research alert! ✨🧠
Did you know that catecholamines can reduce choice history biases in perceptual decision-making? 🧐🔍
Paper: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
With @donnerlab.bsky.social and @swammerdamuva.bsky.social
Graphical summary of the analysis pipeline
Decreased similarity within the anterior insula cortex drives group differences between patients with MDD and healthy control participants. This difference is illustrated by shift functions and compared to control regions in the temporal cortex.
Patients with depression can be robustly classified based on functional connectivity profiles, and the accuracy improves with increasing symptom severity.
New preprint...and this one is truly EPIC 🚨.
Using a large group of patients with depression and healthy controls (N>800), we show differences in the functional segregation of insular subnetworks. And we can use it to classify!
Led by @glassybrain.bsky.social #neuroskyence 🩺
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Our multi-sensory integration Neuro-AI paper is now published in J Neurosci
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
We make predictions based on general knowledge and/or specific memories. Different brain areas are active when these distinct predictions are violated – and hippocampus selectively responds to prediction errors based on episodic memory.
Cool work by @chrismbird.bsky.social @ayab.bsky.social et al!
I'm looking forward to speaking about the human in human-AI teaming at the @cfaa.bsky.social symposium next month; touching on topics of prediction, decision-making, and trust, informed by neuroscience, in relation to safe and effective autonomy.
28.08.2025 15:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
