Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
@juancamiload.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at @AaltoUniversity @abc_aalto
Interested in M/EEG and 2-Person Neuroscience (2PN).
Interested in M/EEG and 2-Person Neuroscience (2PN).
Pinned
🧠Excited to share our new paper with
@NiclasKaiser
— an invited contribution to Psychiatria Fennica!
"Rethinking mental health through emerging relational frameworks: A review of multi-person approaches". Available here: www.psykiatriantutkimussaatio.fi/wp-content/u...
@NiclasKaiser
— an invited contribution to Psychiatria Fennica!
"Rethinking mental health through emerging relational frameworks: A review of multi-person approaches". Available here: www.psykiatriantutkimussaatio.fi/wp-content/u...
🧠Excited to share our new paper with
@NiclasKaiser
— an invited contribution to Psychiatria Fennica!
"Rethinking mental health through emerging relational frameworks: A review of multi-person approaches". Available here: www.psykiatriantutkimussaatio.fi/wp-content/u...
@NiclasKaiser
— an invited contribution to Psychiatria Fennica!
"Rethinking mental health through emerging relational frameworks: A review of multi-person approaches". Available here: www.psykiatriantutkimussaatio.fi/wp-content/u...
October 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🧠Excited to share our new paper with
@NiclasKaiser
— an invited contribution to Psychiatria Fennica!
"Rethinking mental health through emerging relational frameworks: A review of multi-person approaches". Available here: www.psykiatriantutkimussaatio.fi/wp-content/u...
@NiclasKaiser
— an invited contribution to Psychiatria Fennica!
"Rethinking mental health through emerging relational frameworks: A review of multi-person approaches". Available here: www.psykiatriantutkimussaatio.fi/wp-content/u...
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling
People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...
www.biorxiv.org
October 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research
The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
Online Now: The cognitive side of communication in social insects
The cognitive side of communication in social insects
Social insects rely on multiple communication channels. These channels have traditionally been considered innate, eliciting stereotyped responses. However, recent research has shown that cognitive modulation occurs in communication contexts long assumed to be entirely genetically encoded, thus revealing a previously unrecognized cognitive plasticity in social insect communication.
dlvr.it
September 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Online Now: The cognitive side of communication in social insects
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
🧠🥬 Your gut really does talk to your brain
A new study links stronger stomach–brain synchrony to worse mental health. Anxiety, depression, and stress all showed ties to this gut-brain rhythm.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Gut #SciComm 🧪
A new study links stronger stomach–brain synchrony to worse mental health. Anxiety, depression, and stress all showed ties to this gut-brain rhythm.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Gut #SciComm 🧪
Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health - Nature Mental Health
Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...
www.nature.com
August 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🧠🥬 Your gut really does talk to your brain
A new study links stronger stomach–brain synchrony to worse mental health. Anxiety, depression, and stress all showed ties to this gut-brain rhythm.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Gut #SciComm 🧪
A new study links stronger stomach–brain synchrony to worse mental health. Anxiety, depression, and stress all showed ties to this gut-brain rhythm.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Gut #SciComm 🧪
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
cool ! www.cell.com/current-biol...
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding
Chang et al. report that during imagery attempts, those with validated aphantasia
have decreased perceptual BOLD response and higher ipsilateral imagery response. Imagery
content could be decoded usin...
www.cell.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:08 AM
cool ! www.cell.com/current-biol...
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allowing such views to pass uncritically. The core traps here with AI are what @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and I outline (based on our previous work) in a forthcoming short publication, distilled into the table below: bsky.app/profile/iris...
NEW paper! 💭🖥️
“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”
— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”
— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡
osf.io/preprints/ps...
July 30, 2025 at 6:28 AM
allowing such views to pass uncritically. The core traps here with AI are what @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and I outline (based on our previous work) in a forthcoming short publication, distilled into the table below: bsky.app/profile/iris...
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world!
🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
A neural manifold view of the brain - Nature Neuroscience
Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed how neural population activity underlying behavior can be well described by topological objects called neural manifolds. Understanding how nature, nurture...
www.nature.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world!
🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
July 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
A History of Metaphorical Brain Talk in Psychiatry
by Kenneth Kendler
"describing the disturbed mental processes in psychiatric illness in terms of brain function in ways that appear to be explanatory but actually have little to no explanatory power"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
by Kenneth Kendler
"describing the disturbed mental processes in psychiatric illness in terms of brain function in ways that appear to be explanatory but actually have little to no explanatory power"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry
www.nature.com
July 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
A History of Metaphorical Brain Talk in Psychiatry
by Kenneth Kendler
"describing the disturbed mental processes in psychiatric illness in terms of brain function in ways that appear to be explanatory but actually have little to no explanatory power"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
by Kenneth Kendler
"describing the disturbed mental processes in psychiatric illness in terms of brain function in ways that appear to be explanatory but actually have little to no explanatory power"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy - Nature Communications
A classic feature of human memory is that we remember information better when it refers to ourselves. Here, the authors show that before the emergence of self-concept, infants instead remember informa...
www.nature.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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@assc28.bsky.social In Crete already for @ASSC2025? Lucky you ! 😎
Check out our poster tomorrow brilliantly led by Altea Vanni and Jan Pohl 👇🏼
How people (dis)connect from their bodies impacts the way people form joint agencies with human and artificial others !
See you there !
Check out our poster tomorrow brilliantly led by Altea Vanni and Jan Pohl 👇🏼
How people (dis)connect from their bodies impacts the way people form joint agencies with human and artificial others !
See you there !
July 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
@assc28.bsky.social In Crete already for @ASSC2025? Lucky you ! 😎
Check out our poster tomorrow brilliantly led by Altea Vanni and Jan Pohl 👇🏼
How people (dis)connect from their bodies impacts the way people form joint agencies with human and artificial others !
See you there !
Check out our poster tomorrow brilliantly led by Altea Vanni and Jan Pohl 👇🏼
How people (dis)connect from their bodies impacts the way people form joint agencies with human and artificial others !
See you there !
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
Is criticality a unified setpoint of brain function?
#ComplexSystems #Neuroskyence
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#ComplexSystems #Neuroskyence
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Is criticality a unified setpoint of brain function?
Hengen and Shew propose that criticality—a state with scale-invariant dynamics—is
a universal computational setpoint of healthy brains. Their meta-analysis of two decades
of research reconciles contra...
www.cell.com
July 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Is criticality a unified setpoint of brain function?
#ComplexSystems #Neuroskyence
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
#ComplexSystems #Neuroskyence
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
This! 👉 Inter-Brain Neural Dynamics in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning
Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems - Nature
Shared inter-brain neural dynamics, reflecting aspects of social interaction including self and other’s behaviours, arise in GABAergic neurons of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of socially interact...
www.nature.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This! 👉 Inter-Brain Neural Dynamics in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
For those joining us at the #ASSC28, mind to download the app for a comfortable navigation and easy networking with peers during the conference days. Soon!
For an easier navigation during the #ASSC28 conference, download the app here 👇
July 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
For those joining us at the #ASSC28, mind to download the app for a comfortable navigation and easy networking with peers during the conference days. Soon!
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
Rethinking excitation/inhibition balance in the human brain — a Comment article by Roi Cohen Kadosh
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rethinking excitation/inhibition balance in the human brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The balance between neural excitation (E) and inhibition (I) shapes cognition, development and brain-based disorders. Electroencephalography and magnetic resonance spectroscopy allow non-invasive quan...
www.nature.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Rethinking excitation/inhibition balance in the human brain — a Comment article by Roi Cohen Kadosh
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
🚨🚨🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨🚨🚨
Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
June 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨🚨🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨🚨🚨
Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲
Looks like an interesting paper about brain-wide processes.
Sure to generate discussion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
Looks like an interesting paper about brain-wide processes.
Sure to generate discussion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
May 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲
Looks like an interesting paper about brain-wide processes.
Sure to generate discussion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
Looks like an interesting paper about brain-wide processes.
Sure to generate discussion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
New article out at Science Advances!
Three challenges, five questions, and multiple implications of tickle.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@dondersinst.bsky.social @ki.se @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #ERCResearch #ticklelab
Three challenges, five questions, and multiple implications of tickle.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@dondersinst.bsky.social @ki.se @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #ERCResearch #ticklelab
The extraordinary enigma of ordinary tickle behavior: Why gargalesis still puzzles neuroscience
Tickle sensation remains one of the biggest unresolved mysteries in neuroscience—one that scientists are only beginning to unravel.
www.science.org
May 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New article out at Science Advances!
Three challenges, five questions, and multiple implications of tickle.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@dondersinst.bsky.social @ki.se @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #ERCResearch #ticklelab
Three challenges, five questions, and multiple implications of tickle.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@dondersinst.bsky.social @ki.se @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #ERCResearch #ticklelab
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The craziest paper I have ever done is this thought experiment with Albert Gidon and Matt Larkum.
In the first journal, reviewer 1 recommended that we should not try to publish this; reviewer 2 called it "wacky". Thanks for the motivation: A sequel is coming up!
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
In the first journal, reviewer 1 recommended that we should not try to publish this; reviewer 2 called it "wacky". Thanks for the motivation: A sequel is coming up!
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Does brain activity cause consciousness? A thought experiment
The authors of this Essay examine whether action potentials cause consciousness in a three-step thought experiment that assumes technology is advanced enough to fully manipulate our brains.
journals.plos.org
November 20, 2024 at 12:41 PM
The craziest paper I have ever done is this thought experiment with Albert Gidon and Matt Larkum.
In the first journal, reviewer 1 recommended that we should not try to publish this; reviewer 2 called it "wacky". Thanks for the motivation: A sequel is coming up!
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
In the first journal, reviewer 1 recommended that we should not try to publish this; reviewer 2 called it "wacky". Thanks for the motivation: A sequel is coming up!
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
We wrote this Neuroview to get the word out about the extremely exciting and important NIH funded work happening in the pain field and how it has the potential to really change pain treatment in the coming years www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... We did not imagine how rapidly things would be dismantled.
Human pain neuroscience and the next generation of pain therapeutics
The recent approval of suzetrigine for acute pain treatment highlights both the success
of targeting peripheral sensory neurons for pain management and the potential of developing
new pain therapies p...
www.cell.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We wrote this Neuroview to get the word out about the extremely exciting and important NIH funded work happening in the pain field and how it has the potential to really change pain treatment in the coming years www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... We did not imagine how rapidly things would be dismantled.
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
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White matter microstructure and macrostructure brain charts across the human lifespan | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
White matter microstructure and macrostructure brain charts across the human lifespan | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 12, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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White matter microstructure and macrostructure brain charts across the human lifespan | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
White matter microstructure and macrostructure brain charts across the human lifespan | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Lovely work — and yet another proof that perceptual integration, likely based on recurrent connections, can occur without awareness during the attentional blink.
See also www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
See also www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
May 6, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Lovely work — and yet another proof that perceptual integration, likely based on recurrent connections, can occur without awareness during the attentional blink.
See also www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
See also www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
First time at #SANS2025!
Thrilled to hear about all the fascinating work and to present our own from @sinelabdtu.bsky.social
@ale-dabr.bsky.social!
Thrilled to hear about all the fascinating work and to present our own from @sinelabdtu.bsky.social
@ale-dabr.bsky.social!
April 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
First time at #SANS2025!
Thrilled to hear about all the fascinating work and to present our own from @sinelabdtu.bsky.social
@ale-dabr.bsky.social!
Thrilled to hear about all the fascinating work and to present our own from @sinelabdtu.bsky.social
@ale-dabr.bsky.social!
Reposted by Juan Camilo Avendano-Diaz
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻'𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲?
We introduce the idea of "importance" in terms of the extent to which a region's signals steer/contribute to brain dynamics as a function of brain state.
Work by @codejoydo.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
We introduce the idea of "importance" in terms of the extent to which a region's signals steer/contribute to brain dynamics as a function of brain state.
Work by @codejoydo.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Brain dynamics and spatiotemporal trajectories during threat processing
elifesciences.org
April 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻'𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲?
We introduce the idea of "importance" in terms of the extent to which a region's signals steer/contribute to brain dynamics as a function of brain state.
Work by @codejoydo.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
We introduce the idea of "importance" in terms of the extent to which a region's signals steer/contribute to brain dynamics as a function of brain state.
Work by @codejoydo.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...