Benedikt Zoefel
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Benedikt Zoefel
@benediktzoefel.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist, CNRS Toulouse. Brain oscillations, auditory system, temporal predictions, brain stimulation.
Lab: https://benediktzoefel.wixsite.com/home
If you're looking for a PhD and you're interested in the cerebellum, predictions, language, and MEG, please apply by 1st March! We have two open positions.

More details here:
benediktzoefel.wixsite.com/home/phd
January 28, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Reposted by Benedikt Zoefel
🚨 New paper in @pnas.org to end 2025 with a bang!🚨

Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

with Esteban Munoz-Musat, @arthurlecoz.bsky.social @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache

Illustration: Ana Yael.

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December 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Reposted by Benedikt Zoefel
⚠️ New paper alert and what a way to end 2025! 🎉
Happy to share our story “Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals.” published today in Nature Neuroscience.

Sleeping dragons 🦎 and functional ultrasound!
Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eWJHb 1/8
Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals
Nature Neuroscience - Bergel et al. show that an infraslow rhythm connecting the brain and body during sleep is shared by lizards, mammals and birds, revealing an ancestral process and reshaping...
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December 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A call is open from Toulouse University for post-doctoral fellowships co-financed by MSCA-COFUND. If you're interested in applying for this to join the lab, please reach out to brainstorm projects!

tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/aap/atout-at...
AToUT – Attractivité de l’Université de Toulouse – TIRIS – Toulouse's Science In and For Society
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Reposted by Benedikt Zoefel
Excited to share our new research revealing automatic categorization of rhythm in human brain activity!
Led by @francescabarbero.bsky.social, @tomaslenc.bsky.social and the Rhythm and Brains Lab, in collaboration with @norijacoby.bsky.social, Rainer Polak and @manuelvarlet.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Reposted by Benedikt Zoefel
deadline 23 June!! Please re-bleat(??) widely!
June 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Reposted by Benedikt Zoefel
Out now @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, w/ @akalt.bsky.social & @drmattdavis.bsky.social.

Are sensory sampling rhythms fixed by intrinsically-determined processes, or do they couple to external structure? Here we highlight the incompatibility between these accounts and propose a resolution [1/6]
June 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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!
June 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM