Matthew Logie
matthewrlogie.bsky.social
Matthew Logie
@matthewrlogie.bsky.social
Postdoc, looking for positions. I am a cognitive neuroscientist and VR developer interested in space, time and memory. Putting science into practice to improve learning. Formerly at Neurospin. https://brainthemind.com/
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Here is a video covering some of our ongoing work with virtual reality and EEG (subtitles are available). www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysIn...
Des grands singes aux mystères du cerveau : retour sur le parcours de Virginie van Wassenhove
YouTube video by ANR Agence nationale de la recherche
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We do not passively observe time, episodic time depends on the construction of events in memory.
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
Neural Representation of Episodic Time
Inspired by recent discoveries of neural populations that track time for specific moments (time cells) and elapsed durations (temporal context and periodic time cells), this review, based on a minisym...
www.jneurosci.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The changes we experience may be the source of our subjective experience of time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🧠 Did you know that kids remember time differently than adults? Our new preprint review w/ @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social discusses the real implications for juvenile justice & why we need to ask about timing in ways that match kids' developing brains ⚖️

Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Accepted for publication in Chaos! @takayukihir.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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📣New paper alert!📣
Ever wonder how to model the temporal generalization task? Interested in cross-modal comparisons? Our paper (w/ the magnificent Nir Ofir!) is for you! @timingresforum.bsky.social this could make for a solid post-conference decompression read
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
A drift-diffusion model of temporal generalization outperforms existing models and captures modality differences and learning effects - Behavior Research Methods
Multiple systems in the brain track the passage of time and can adapt their activity to temporal requirements. While the neural implementation of timing varies widely between neural substrates and beh...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting.

A neural state space for episodic memories

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
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November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Time is relative and brains define simultaneity (TWS) and meaning (TWI) through temporal windows.
💥Your brain might be lying to you!💥
Feeling things happen together ≠ senses integrating.
TWS ≠ TWI. Confusing them has scrambled research from schizophrenia to VR. 🧠 brill.com/view/journal...
@virginievanw.bsky.social @multisensoryres.bsky.social @mrgbcn.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @uva.nl
November 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7
Unfolding event structure distorts subjective time
Our experience of time is often distorted in striking ways. Although prior work has shown that boundaries between events can shape temporal perception…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Really hoping bifurcations are the new manifolds. What a time to be alive 🥲
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions, writes Xiao-Jing Wang.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory
Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions.
www.thetransmitter.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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What’s the quickest route to various destinations? Anyone who’s traveled anywhere has solved some version of the shortest-paths problem. For the first time in 40 years, computer scientists have improved upon the best algorithm for solving it.
www.quantamagazine.org/new-method-i...
August 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Time seems to speed up as we get older - is that partly due to events/neural states lasting longer?

#PsychSciSky
#Neuroskyence

www.livescience.com/health/neuro...
New study reveals why time seems to move faster the older we get
A new study hints that age-related changes in our brains may explain why time feels like it's slipping away faster with every passing year.
www.livescience.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖
Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies
Predictions of future events have a major impact on how we process sensory signals. However, it remains unclear how the brain keeps predictions online in anticipation of future inputs. Here, we combin...
www.jneurosci.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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I’m excited to share my recent preprint on a neural network model of free recall that learns multiple memory strategies including the memory palace!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"

with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social

Summary 👇

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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Quantifying the compressibility of the human brain | arxiv.org/abs/2510.16327
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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New preprint written with the wonderful philosopher William Ramsey: Mental Representation Without Neural Representation: Understanding The Evidence osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
October 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Memory might depend on when you look, not just what you see

Happy to share a new preprint from my postdoctoral work with Jed Meltzer, @drjenryan.bsky.social, and @rosannaolsen.bsky.social

Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Phase-locking saccades to posterior alpha oscillations improves the neural representation of visual objects during memory formation
Visual memory formation begins with the intake and neural processing of discrete samples provided by gaze fixations and saccades. Past research has highlighted a functional relationship between the ti...
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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When change moves faster than systems can adapt, they tip

Our culture of “now-ism” risks pushing climate, economies and societies past their limits

The latest #ComplexityThoughts:

👉 manlius.substack.com/p/how-modern...

🎧 on Spotify and Apple

#ComplexSystems #Resilience

@ricardsole.bsky.social
How modern “now-ism“ can accelerate crises in climate, finance and ecosystems
Slowing change may be our last line of defense
manlius.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Our new preprint is out with @stephen-ramanoel.bsky.social and @mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social !!! 🥳

Combining mobile EEG and Virtual Reality our results highlight multifaceted role of theta activity in the RSC during naturalistic human path integration

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Theta activity supports landmark-based correction of naturalistic human path integration
How do humans integrate landmarks to update their spatial position during active navigation task? Using immersive virtual reality and high-density mobile EEG, we investigated the neural underpinnings ...
www.biorxiv.org
March 22, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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I get it. Similar thoughts inspired me to write a book. I began pessimistic, like this author, but I came out on the other side with renewed optimism.

As a counterpoint to the blog below, this podcast could be titled, "Why Nicole Rust stayed"

www.fchampalimaud.org/news/episode...
October 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Engrams Formed in Virtual Reality Exhibit Reduced Familiarity Upon Retrieval: Electrophysiological Correlates of Source Memory Retrieval Indicate Modality-Dependent Differences in Recognition Memory
doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
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Engrams Formed in Virtual Reality Exhibit Reduced Familiarity Upon Retrieval: Electrophysiological Correlates of Source Memory Retrieval Indicate Modality‐Dependent Differences in Recognition Memory
The study examines whether the retrieval of virtual reality (VR)-engrams is more profoundly based on recollection than on familiarity compared to PC-engrams, and whether the encoding modality functio...
doi.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Rest in power, Dr. Jane Goodall
October 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM