Johanna Rimmele
@johannarimmele.bsky.social
cognitive neuroscientist @ae.mpg.de @CLaME_NYU
New paper by @avbarchet.bsky.social from Gesa Hartwigsen’s group, @jonasobleser.bsky.social @ae.mpg.de @mpicbs.bsky.social We suggest attentional filtering during comprehension requires target enhancement and distractor suppression at different hierarchical levels
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Attentional engagement with target and distractor streams predicts speech comprehension in multitalker environments
Understanding speech while ignoring competing speech streams in the surrounding environment is challenging. Previous studies have demonstrated that attention shapes the neural representation of speech...
www.jneurosci.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
New paper by @avbarchet.bsky.social from Gesa Hartwigsen’s group, @jonasobleser.bsky.social @ae.mpg.de @mpicbs.bsky.social We suggest attentional filtering during comprehension requires target enhancement and distractor suppression at different hierarchical levels
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
lacns.github.io
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
Our latest preprint! We find that auditory-motor synchronization behavior is related to the weighting of rhythmic versus melodic predictions during music perception, including long-term enculturated predictions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Auditory-motor synchronization determines the use of predictions in music perception
When listening to music, our brain constantly generates predictions about the timing and pitch of upcoming sounds based on the structure of the music. Individual differences in the ability to make suc...
www.biorxiv.org
September 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Our latest preprint! We find that auditory-motor synchronization behavior is related to the weighting of rhythmic versus melodic predictions during music perception, including long-term enculturated predictions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
exciting! this was fun to be part of! thank you @ckeitelsci.bsky.social @annekeitel.bsky.social @satupalva.bsky.social @paulsauseng @sonjakotz for making it happen 🤗
/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Brain rhythms in cognition -- controversies and future directions
Brain rhythms seem central to understanding the neurophysiological basis of human cognition. Yet, despite significant advances, key questions remain unresolved. In this comprehensive position paper, w...
doi.org
July 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
exciting! this was fun to be part of! thank you @ckeitelsci.bsky.social @annekeitel.bsky.social @satupalva.bsky.social @paulsauseng @sonjakotz for making it happen 🤗
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/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Brain rhythms in cognition -- controversies and future directions
Brain rhythms seem central to understanding the neurophysiological basis of human cognition. Yet, despite significant advances, key questions remain unresolved. In this comprehensive position paper, w...
doi.org
July 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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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
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!
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How does the brain track rhythms—and can we hack it?
In our new study, just published @plosbiology.org, we dive deeper into neural entrainment—how the brain synchronizes to rhythms in our environment—and explore whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can modulate this process.
In our new study, just published @plosbiology.org, we dive deeper into neural entrainment—how the brain synchronizes to rhythms in our environment—and explore whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can modulate this process.
Sensory stimuli dominate over rhythmic electrical stimulation in modulating behavior
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) modulates entrainment to rhythmic auditory stimuli, but the details of this interaction are not clear. This study shows that the effects of tACS dep...
journals.plos.org
June 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
How does the brain track rhythms—and can we hack it?
In our new study, just published @plosbiology.org, we dive deeper into neural entrainment—how the brain synchronizes to rhythms in our environment—and explore whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can modulate this process.
In our new study, just published @plosbiology.org, we dive deeper into neural entrainment—how the brain synchronizes to rhythms in our environment—and explore whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can modulate this process.
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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!
Already looking forward to Imaging Neuroscience’s 2025 collage!
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia Helbling:
Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
January 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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!
Already looking forward to Imaging Neuroscience’s 2025 collage!
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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.
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...
www.cell.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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.
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Don't forget to join the ‘Max Planck Law | Tech | Society’ Initiative on 28 March for ‘Demystifying AI Interpretability’. @fedeadolfi.bsky.social will explore neural network explainability for a non-technical audience: law.mpg.de/event/demyst...
Demystifying AI Interpretability - Max Planck Law
This talk demystifies neural network interpretability for non-technical stakeholders, distinguishing key concepts and clarifying practical limits through computational meta-theory.
law.mpg.de
March 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Don't forget to join the ‘Max Planck Law | Tech | Society’ Initiative on 28 March for ‘Demystifying AI Interpretability’. @fedeadolfi.bsky.social will explore neural network explainability for a non-technical audience: law.mpg.de/event/demyst...
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🧠 In our new article, Martin Meyer & I argue that the lateralization of spoken language is enhanced by top-down processes—such as predictive coding and dimension-selective auditory attention—which engage left-lateralized sensorimotor networks.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A thread 🧵 1/12
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A thread 🧵 1/12
Predictive coding and dimension-selective attention enhance the lateralization of spoken language processing
Hemispheric lateralization in speech and language processing exemplifies functional brain specialization. Seminal work in patients with left hemispher…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🧠 In our new article, Martin Meyer & I argue that the lateralization of spoken language is enhanced by top-down processes—such as predictive coding and dimension-selective auditory attention—which engage left-lateralized sensorimotor networks.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A thread 🧵 1/12
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A thread 🧵 1/12
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I'm very happy that this paper by Francecso Mantegna (now Oxford) and Joan Orpella (now Georgetown) is published. Congrats for some heroic data wrangling!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unusual experiment (mental imagery of speech planning+MEG) shows cool perspective on speech production
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unusual experiment (mental imagery of speech planning+MEG) shows cool perspective on speech production
Time-resolved hemispheric lateralization of audiomotor functional connectivity during covert speech production
Covert speech involves the internal generation of articulatory movements and their sensory consequences. While overt speech involves a combination of …
www.sciencedirect.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I'm very happy that this paper by Francecso Mantegna (now Oxford) and Joan Orpella (now Georgetown) is published. Congrats for some heroic data wrangling!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unusual experiment (mental imagery of speech planning+MEG) shows cool perspective on speech production
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unusual experiment (mental imagery of speech planning+MEG) shows cool perspective on speech production
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✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz...
looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
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December 13, 2024 at 1:13 AM
✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz...
looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
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@andreaeyleen.bsky.social has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for her proposal 'DYNALANG: Integrating structure and statistics in language processing: an ecological neural dynamics and manifolds approach'. Read more on our website: mpi.nl/news/erc-con...
December 3, 2024 at 2:45 PM
@andreaeyleen.bsky.social has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for her proposal 'DYNALANG: Integrating structure and statistics in language processing: an ecological neural dynamics and manifolds approach'. Read more on our website: mpi.nl/news/erc-con...
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We're hiring! My dept at CCNY is looking to hire a computationally minded cognitive neuroscientist at the Full Professor level. Ad here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/.... We'll start reviewing apps soon, but position is open until filled.
#neuroscience #psychskisky #academicsky #neuroimaging #compneuro
#neuroscience #psychskisky #academicsky #neuroimaging #compneuro
Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
November 27, 2024 at 3:51 AM
We're hiring! My dept at CCNY is looking to hire a computationally minded cognitive neuroscientist at the Full Professor level. Ad here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/.... We'll start reviewing apps soon, but position is open until filled.
#neuroscience #psychskisky #academicsky #neuroimaging #compneuro
#neuroscience #psychskisky #academicsky #neuroimaging #compneuro
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Just published with Hugo Weissbart!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new study in Nature Communications reveals how the structure and statistics of language work together to shape neural responses during naturalistic language comprehension!
Thread below [1/7]
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new study in Nature Communications reveals how the structure and statistics of language work together to shape neural responses during naturalistic language comprehension!
Thread below [1/7]
The structure and statistics of language jointly shape cross-frequency neural dynamics during spoken language comprehension - Nature Communications
This study demonstrates how, during spoken language comprehension, the brain integrates syntactic and statistical features, which mutually but differentially contribute to the phase-amplitude coupling...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2024 at 9:02 AM
Just published with Hugo Weissbart!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new study in Nature Communications reveals how the structure and statistics of language work together to shape neural responses during naturalistic language comprehension!
Thread below [1/7]
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new study in Nature Communications reveals how the structure and statistics of language work together to shape neural responses during naturalistic language comprehension!
Thread below [1/7]
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If you are interested in music improvisation and its motor and reward correlates, check our latest paper led by Anna Palumbo: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 12, 2024 at 9:25 PM
If you are interested in music improvisation and its motor and reward correlates, check our latest paper led by Anna Palumbo: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our YUGE consensus semantic paper is now out in the world. 50+ authors, hot tears, vicious arguments, shattered dreams -- but through the fire has emerged a glossary of terms/constructs to improve communication and promote incremental theory-building in our field. osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
December 16, 2023 at 3:05 PM
Our YUGE consensus semantic paper is now out in the world. 50+ authors, hot tears, vicious arguments, shattered dreams -- but through the fire has emerged a glossary of terms/constructs to improve communication and promote incremental theory-building in our field. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Our work on decoding speech using high-density micro-scale recordings was published today in Nature Communications! We demonstrate the potential of high-spatial sampling technology for future neural speech prostheses.
nature.com/articles/s4146…
The thread below outlines our main findings.
nature.com/articles/s4146…
The thread below outlines our main findings.
https://nature.com/articles/s4146…
November 6, 2023 at 7:05 PM
Our work on decoding speech using high-density micro-scale recordings was published today in Nature Communications! We demonstrate the potential of high-spatial sampling technology for future neural speech prostheses.
nature.com/articles/s4146…
The thread below outlines our main findings.
nature.com/articles/s4146…
The thread below outlines our main findings.
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I ran a workshop on using Empirical Mode Decomposition to analyse oscillations in EEG during #CuttingEEG Frankfurt. I enjoyed the experience the broad discussions afterwards
Materials below -> click 'Open in Colab' to run in the browser!
#neuroscience #neuroimaging #eeg
github.com/AJQuinn/Cutt...
Materials below -> click 'Open in Colab' to run in the browser!
#neuroscience #neuroimaging #eeg
github.com/AJQuinn/Cutt...
GitHub - AJQuinn/CuttingEMD: An EMD tutorial for CuttingEEG Frankfurt 2023
An EMD tutorial for CuttingEEG Frankfurt 2023. Contribute to AJQuinn/CuttingEMD development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 2, 2023 at 3:55 PM
I ran a workshop on using Empirical Mode Decomposition to analyse oscillations in EEG during #CuttingEEG Frankfurt. I enjoyed the experience the broad discussions afterwards
Materials below -> click 'Open in Colab' to run in the browser!
#neuroscience #neuroimaging #eeg
github.com/AJQuinn/Cutt...
Materials below -> click 'Open in Colab' to run in the browser!
#neuroscience #neuroimaging #eeg
github.com/AJQuinn/Cutt...
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I'm excited to share our preprint on musical rhythm processing 🎵🎵 We show that cortical tracking is influenced by pitch predictability, expertise & enjoyment.
💙 Thanks to @johannarimmele.bsky.social @ckeitelsci.bsky.social and all the others in this huge project 💙
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💙 Thanks to @johannarimmele.bsky.social @ckeitelsci.bsky.social and all the others in this huge project 💙
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 21, 2023 at 8:24 AM
I'm excited to share our preprint on musical rhythm processing 🎵🎵 We show that cortical tracking is influenced by pitch predictability, expertise & enjoyment.
💙 Thanks to @johannarimmele.bsky.social @ckeitelsci.bsky.social and all the others in this huge project 💙
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💙 Thanks to @johannarimmele.bsky.social @ckeitelsci.bsky.social and all the others in this huge project 💙
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Do you want to do a phd on #speech and #song and how we use our brain for it #electrophysiology #neuroimaging #motor #rhythm ? Come work with us at the MPI_ae ! Apply here and contact me for questions.
e-recruiting.pro/jobposting/7...
Please forward to everyone interested!
e-recruiting.pro/jobposting/7...
Please forward to everyone interested!
October 16, 2023 at 8:35 AM
Do you want to do a phd on #speech and #song and how we use our brain for it #electrophysiology #neuroimaging #motor #rhythm ? Come work with us at the MPI_ae ! Apply here and contact me for questions.
e-recruiting.pro/jobposting/7...
Please forward to everyone interested!
e-recruiting.pro/jobposting/7...
Please forward to everyone interested!
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Looking for nice, enthusiastic academics to work with on a ERC-funded project on inter-area brain communication during perception. I have a 3-year postdoc and a PhD position available.
Click link below for information.
Feel free to share
#neurojobs #neuroscience
Click link below for information.
Feel free to share
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Back to the Future
This website is my personal website to post about my work.
sannetenoever.github.io
October 11, 2023 at 1:48 PM
Looking for nice, enthusiastic academics to work with on a ERC-funded project on inter-area brain communication during perception. I have a 3-year postdoc and a PhD position available.
Click link below for information.
Feel free to share
#neurojobs #neuroscience
Click link below for information.
Feel free to share
#neurojobs #neuroscience