Alejandro Blenkmann
@ablenkmann.bsky.social
Neuroscientist | PI of AudioPred at @UniOslo-RITMO.bsky.social
Studying predictive processing & developing intracranial EEG methods
Personal page: https://bit.ly/aBlenkmann
#cognition #iEEG #SEEG #perception #attention #neuroscience #predictiveprocessing
Studying predictive processing & developing intracranial EEG methods
Personal page: https://bit.ly/aBlenkmann
#cognition #iEEG #SEEG #perception #attention #neuroscience #predictiveprocessing
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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...
doi.org
🤔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...
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...
🚨 Join me for a hands-on #iElectrodes tutorial at #PracticalMEEG!
📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET
💐 Free but mandatory registration
Learn how to localize intracranial #iEEG #SEEG #ECoG electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes!
📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET
💐 Free but mandatory registration
Learn how to localize intracranial #iEEG #SEEG #ECoG electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes!
#PracticalMEEG2025 is coming up soon |Oct 28–30| and we’re full!
But good news: lectures will be accessible online for FREE! Join the Toolbox Bouquet on Oct. 30th to explore the latest cutting-edge toolboxes in M/EEG analysis.
💐Free but mandatory registration 👇
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But good news: lectures will be accessible online for FREE! Join the Toolbox Bouquet on Oct. 30th to explore the latest cutting-edge toolboxes in M/EEG analysis.
💐Free but mandatory registration 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🚨 Join me for a hands-on #iElectrodes tutorial at #PracticalMEEG!
📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET
💐 Free but mandatory registration
Learn how to localize intracranial #iEEG #SEEG #ECoG electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes!
📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET
💐 Free but mandatory registration
Learn how to localize intracranial #iEEG #SEEG #ECoG electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes!
Excellent work by @dquiroga.bsky.social!
Happy to be part of this great collaboration exploring how the brain manipulates thoughts through music 🎶
#Neuroscience #MusicScience #CognitiveNeuroscience #iEEG
Happy to be part of this great collaboration exploring how the brain manipulates thoughts through music 🎶
#Neuroscience #MusicScience #CognitiveNeuroscience #iEEG
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
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
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...
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Excellent work by @dquiroga.bsky.social!
Happy to be part of this great collaboration exploring how the brain manipulates thoughts through music 🎶
#Neuroscience #MusicScience #CognitiveNeuroscience #iEEG
Happy to be part of this great collaboration exploring how the brain manipulates thoughts through music 🎶
#Neuroscience #MusicScience #CognitiveNeuroscience #iEEG
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇
🚨 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:
cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...
#iEEG #ECoG #SEEG
📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET
Learn how to localize intracranial electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes:
cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...
#iEEG #ECoG #SEEG
September 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
🚨 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:
cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...
#iEEG #ECoG #SEEG
📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET
Learn how to localize intracranial electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes:
cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...
#iEEG #ECoG #SEEG
🤔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...
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...
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...
doi.org
August 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
🤔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...
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...
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
PhD Candidate: cognitive computational neuroscience of individual differences
PhD Candidate: cognitive computational neuroscience of individual differences
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
August 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social
M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9
@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social
please repost 🙏
M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9
@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social
please repost 🙏
PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation
Job Offer from August 11, 2025
tinyurl.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social
M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9
@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social
please repost 🙏
M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9
@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social
please repost 🙏
Great perspective about elife publishing model and who controls the scientific publishing system
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sfdora.org/2025/07/30/s...
Why are indexers unable to see that peer review can be more than a thumbs up or a thumbs down? | DORA
Journals and peer review are unlikely to change for the better if the companies that operate scientific indexes and citation databases continue to stifle innovation. At eLife we believe that the conte...
sfdora.org
August 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Great perspective about elife publishing model and who controls the scientific publishing system
sfdora.org/2025/07/30/s...
sfdora.org/2025/07/30/s...
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
This study establishes how aperiodic activity, a ubiquitous signal linked to neural noise, develops in localized brain regions and illuminates the development of prefrontal control during adolescence in the development of attention and memory.
The development of aperiodic neural activity in the human brain - Nature Human Behaviour
This study establishes how aperiodic activity, a ubiquitous signal linked to neural noise, develops in localized brain regions and illuminates the development of prefrontal control during adolescence in the development of attention and memory.
www.nature.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This study establishes how aperiodic activity, a ubiquitous signal linked to neural noise, develops in localized brain regions and illuminates the development of prefrontal control during adolescence in the development of attention and memory.
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
Evidence in support of the "Brain from the inside out":
Response to movies is dominated by intrinsic brain dynamics. The dynamic itself is barely alternatered by the task of watching movies.
Human intracranial recordings from 5000 electrodes, now out in eLife.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Response to movies is dominated by intrinsic brain dynamics. The dynamic itself is barely alternatered by the task of watching movies.
Human intracranial recordings from 5000 electrodes, now out in eLife.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
June 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Evidence in support of the "Brain from the inside out":
Response to movies is dominated by intrinsic brain dynamics. The dynamic itself is barely alternatered by the task of watching movies.
Human intracranial recordings from 5000 electrodes, now out in eLife.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Response to movies is dominated by intrinsic brain dynamics. The dynamic itself is barely alternatered by the task of watching movies.
Human intracranial recordings from 5000 electrodes, now out in eLife.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
PhD position alert!!!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Happy to answer any question you may have!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Happy to answer any question you may have!
PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
June 3, 2025 at 4:54 AM
PhD position alert!!!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Happy to answer any question you may have!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Happy to answer any question you may have!
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
🚨PhD position alert!🚨
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!
PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
June 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
🚨PhD position alert!🚨
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!
Don't miss the chance to apply to work with Andres.
He is a great researcher in the field of predictive processing, working with #iEEG across humans and non-human primates
He is a great researcher in the field of predictive processing, working with #iEEG across humans and non-human primates
I am opening one PhD position at the Neuroscience Center @uhneuro.bsky.social, focusing on large-scale neural interactions in perception and prediction (ECoG/LFPs/MEG) across human and non-human primates using comp. modeling and information theory. contact: www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...
Large-scale interactions in perception and prediction across species | HiLIFE – Helsinki Institute of Life Science | University of Helsinki
Andres Canales-Johnson research group
www.helsinki.fi
May 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Don't miss the chance to apply to work with Andres.
He is a great researcher in the field of predictive processing, working with #iEEG across humans and non-human primates
He is a great researcher in the field of predictive processing, working with #iEEG across humans and non-human primates
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Can humans learn sensory regularities that are irrelevant to ongoing behavior? Yes, and we reveal the predictive coding mechanisms behind their acquisition
Our results support uncertainty minimization over environmental state transitions as a core objective of brain function
🧵👇
Can humans learn sensory regularities that are irrelevant to ongoing behavior? Yes, and we reveal the predictive coding mechanisms behind their acquisition
Our results support uncertainty minimization over environmental state transitions as a core objective of brain function
🧵👇
May 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Can humans learn sensory regularities that are irrelevant to ongoing behavior? Yes, and we reveal the predictive coding mechanisms behind their acquisition
Our results support uncertainty minimization over environmental state transitions as a core objective of brain function
🧵👇
Can humans learn sensory regularities that are irrelevant to ongoing behavior? Yes, and we reveal the predictive coding mechanisms behind their acquisition
Our results support uncertainty minimization over environmental state transitions as a core objective of brain function
🧵👇
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
Nature Communications
Hippocampal-entorhinal cognitive maps and cortical motor system represent action plans and their outcomes
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Hippocampal-entorhinal cognitive maps and cortical motor system represent action plans and their outcomes
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Hippocampal-entorhinal cognitive maps and cortical motor system represent action plans and their outcomes - Nature Communications
When interacting with the environment, humans are able to weigh and select between multiple alternative actions. Here, the authors show that this ability is supported by map-like representations of th...
idp.nature.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Nature Communications
Hippocampal-entorhinal cognitive maps and cortical motor system represent action plans and their outcomes
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Hippocampal-entorhinal cognitive maps and cortical motor system represent action plans and their outcomes
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Excited to share our new paper just out in Scientific Reports!
🧠🎧 Using intracranial EEG, we show how the human brain automatically encodes patterns in random sounds– without attention or explicit awareness.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Excited to share our new paper just out in Scientific Reports!
🧠🎧 Using intracranial EEG, we show how the human brain automatically encodes patterns in random sounds– without attention or explicit awareness.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Direct brain recordings reveal implicit encoding of structure in random auditory streams - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Direct brain recordings reveal implicit encoding of structure in random auditory streams
doi.org
May 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Excited to share our new paper just out in Scientific Reports!
🧠🎧 Using intracranial EEG, we show how the human brain automatically encodes patterns in random sounds– without attention or explicit awareness.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Excited to share our new paper just out in Scientific Reports!
🧠🎧 Using intracranial EEG, we show how the human brain automatically encodes patterns in random sounds– without attention or explicit awareness.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
I can’t find any details about this scheme in English, but apparently more detailed info will be made available next month
April 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I can’t find any details about this scheme in English, but apparently more detailed info will be made available next month
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
🚀 Excited to share our new Advanced Science paper!
With @leonardobonetti.bsky.social, we present FREQ-NESS: a novel method to map the brain’s functional organisation as a landscape of frequency-specific networks. 🧠
#Neuroscience #MEG #BrainNetworks #AuditoryProcessing #FREQNESS
Thread below 🧵 👇
With @leonardobonetti.bsky.social, we present FREQ-NESS: a novel method to map the brain’s functional organisation as a landscape of frequency-specific networks. 🧠
#Neuroscience #MEG #BrainNetworks #AuditoryProcessing #FREQNESS
Thread below 🧵 👇
April 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🚀 Excited to share our new Advanced Science paper!
With @leonardobonetti.bsky.social, we present FREQ-NESS: a novel method to map the brain’s functional organisation as a landscape of frequency-specific networks. 🧠
#Neuroscience #MEG #BrainNetworks #AuditoryProcessing #FREQNESS
Thread below 🧵 👇
With @leonardobonetti.bsky.social, we present FREQ-NESS: a novel method to map the brain’s functional organisation as a landscape of frequency-specific networks. 🧠
#Neuroscience #MEG #BrainNetworks #AuditoryProcessing #FREQNESS
Thread below 🧵 👇
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
Job alert 🚨 another fully PhD position in Maastricht, this time with a more computational neuro focus, in the lab of Michelle Moerel @mmoerel.bsky.social and under my co-supervision. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
PhD candidate in Auditory Computational Neuroscience
PhD candidate in Auditory Computational Neuroscience
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
April 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Job alert 🚨 another fully PhD position in Maastricht, this time with a more computational neuro focus, in the lab of Michelle Moerel @mmoerel.bsky.social and under my co-supervision. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
If you're ever curious what's going on at RITMO, you can have a look at our events page:
Events
- RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.uio.no
March 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
If you're ever curious what's going on at RITMO, you can have a look at our events page:
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...
Important and painful
Important and painful
How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary
YouTube video by DW Documentary
www.youtube.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...
Important and painful
Important and painful
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
We show here that neural travelling waves may not indicate the direction of information flow - counter to the common interpretation.
To recover information flow,
the conventional phase-based methods should be supplemented by causal inference techniques like Granger causality
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To recover information flow,
the conventional phase-based methods should be supplemented by causal inference techniques like Granger causality
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"What do neural travelling waves tell us about information flow?"
A new preprint is out, with Antoine Grimaldi, Fredo Chavane and @martinavinck.bsky.social
"What do neural travelling waves tell us about information flow?"
A new preprint is out, with Antoine Grimaldi, Fredo Chavane and @martinavinck.bsky.social
What do neural travelling waves tell us about information flow?
In many behavioral conditions, neural activity propagates within and across brain regions as traveling waves, revealing the importance of analyzing spatiotemporal dynamics in electrophysiological data...
www.biorxiv.org
February 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
We show here that neural travelling waves may not indicate the direction of information flow - counter to the common interpretation.
To recover information flow,
the conventional phase-based methods should be supplemented by causal inference techniques like Granger causality
1/2
To recover information flow,
the conventional phase-based methods should be supplemented by causal inference techniques like Granger causality
1/2
New Research Published!
I'm excited to share our latest study, led by Sabine Leske, investigating how the brain predicts the sharpness of sounds in rhythmic sequences. 🧠🔊
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
I'm excited to share our latest study, led by Sabine Leske, investigating how the brain predicts the sharpness of sounds in rhythmic sequences. 🧠🔊
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Beta oscillations predict the envelope sharpness in a rhythmic beat sequence - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Beta oscillations predict the envelope sharpness in a rhythmic beat sequence
doi.org
February 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
New Research Published!
I'm excited to share our latest study, led by Sabine Leske, investigating how the brain predicts the sharpness of sounds in rhythmic sequences. 🧠🔊
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
I'm excited to share our latest study, led by Sabine Leske, investigating how the brain predicts the sharpness of sounds in rhythmic sequences. 🧠🔊
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Reposted by Alejandro Blenkmann
Job alert 🚨 fully funded PhD position in auditory cognitive neuroscience available in Maastricht vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
PhD candidate in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
PhD candidate in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
February 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Job alert 🚨 fully funded PhD position in auditory cognitive neuroscience available in Maastricht vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...