Runhao Lu
@runhaolu.bsky.social
CIHR Postdoc Fellow at Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) | PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, @mrccbu Cambridge | Gates Cambridge Scholar
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Runhao Lu
@runhaolu.bsky.social
· Jul 8
Optimizing control conditions for entraining neural oscillations using rhythmic TMS
Rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation (rh-TMS) is increasingly used to entrain
neural oscillations and probe their causal roles in cognition [1-3]. By delivering
pulse trains at specific frequenc...
www.brainstimjrnl.com
New results! We tested different control conditions for rh-TMS entrainment and showed ar-TMS performs best (matching sensory without inducing oscillatory effects). Also explored how rh-TMS/ar-TMS/sham-TMS differentially impact Oscillatory and Aperiodic activity!
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
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Exciting news from the chairs of Biomag 2026, Prof. Jiahong Gao and Prof. Huan Luo — the conference website is now live: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn The meetings take place in Beijing, 23–25 August 2026. Save the date and start thinking about ideas for posters and symposia! Please share with colleagues
BIOMAG 2025，在线会议，会议直播平台，网络会议直播，美迪康会务通，学术会议管理系统，会议活动管理，注册签到管理，会场幻灯片传输转播，PPT传输，会议网络直播，电子壁报管理系统，医学会，会员管理系统
biomag2026.scimeeting.cn
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Exciting news from the chairs of Biomag 2026, Prof. Jiahong Gao and Prof. Huan Luo — the conference website is now live: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn The meetings take place in Beijing, 23–25 August 2026. Save the date and start thinking about ideas for posters and symposia! Please share with colleagues
Now out in Imaging Neuroscience! Using TMS-EEG, we showed that alpha rh-TMS could differentiatially modulate alpha oscillations and aperiodic activity, and then improved representation of visuospatial attention. #TMS #EEG
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Now out in Imaging Neuroscience! Using TMS-EEG, we showed that alpha rh-TMS could differentiatially modulate alpha oscillations and aperiodic activity, and then improved representation of visuospatial attention. #TMS #EEG
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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🎓Recruiting Ph.D. students for Fall 2026!🎓
The Feilong Lab @sc.edu studies commonalities & differences across brains, and how they relate to cognition, language, & disorders.
We develop brain templates, improve hyperalignment, and compare human brains with monkey brains & DNNs.
feilonglab.github.io
The Feilong Lab @sc.edu studies commonalities & differences across brains, and how they relate to cognition, language, & disorders.
We develop brain templates, improve hyperalignment, and compare human brains with monkey brains & DNNs.
feilonglab.github.io
Feilong Lab @ UofSC — Feilong Lab
feilonglab.github.io
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🎓Recruiting Ph.D. students for Fall 2026!🎓
The Feilong Lab @sc.edu studies commonalities & differences across brains, and how they relate to cognition, language, & disorders.
We develop brain templates, improve hyperalignment, and compare human brains with monkey brains & DNNs.
feilonglab.github.io
The Feilong Lab @sc.edu studies commonalities & differences across brains, and how they relate to cognition, language, & disorders.
We develop brain templates, improve hyperalignment, and compare human brains with monkey brains & DNNs.
feilonglab.github.io
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Many thanks to the 60 gorgeous #TMS researchers who took a few minutes to complete our user survey.
The quantitative results have been processed and summarised, and are now available in full on our GitHub page:
github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
A quick breakdown follows in this thread:
#PieChartHeaven
The quantitative results have been processed and summarised, and are now available in full on our GitHub page:
github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
A quick breakdown follows in this thread:
#PieChartHeaven
TMS User Survey
Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab
github.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Many thanks to the 60 gorgeous #TMS researchers who took a few minutes to complete our user survey.
The quantitative results have been processed and summarised, and are now available in full on our GitHub page:
github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
A quick breakdown follows in this thread:
#PieChartHeaven
The quantitative results have been processed and summarised, and are now available in full on our GitHub page:
github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
A quick breakdown follows in this thread:
#PieChartHeaven
Reposted by Runhao Lu
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!
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
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!
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
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Open postdoc position👈
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).
September 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Open postdoc position👈
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).
We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).
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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...
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🧠 Interested in how the brain constructs and uses meaning?
In my Journal Club piece for @natrevpsychol.nature.com, I summarize the Controlled Semantic Cognition Framework by Lambon Ralph et al. — a leading model of how the brain represents and flexibly applies semantic knowledge.
👉🏼 rdcu.be/eE31i
In my Journal Club piece for @natrevpsychol.nature.com, I summarize the Controlled Semantic Cognition Framework by Lambon Ralph et al. — a leading model of how the brain represents and flexibly applies semantic knowledge.
👉🏼 rdcu.be/eE31i
September 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🧠 Interested in how the brain constructs and uses meaning?
In my Journal Club piece for @natrevpsychol.nature.com, I summarize the Controlled Semantic Cognition Framework by Lambon Ralph et al. — a leading model of how the brain represents and flexibly applies semantic knowledge.
👉🏼 rdcu.be/eE31i
In my Journal Club piece for @natrevpsychol.nature.com, I summarize the Controlled Semantic Cognition Framework by Lambon Ralph et al. — a leading model of how the brain represents and flexibly applies semantic knowledge.
👉🏼 rdcu.be/eE31i
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Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
September 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
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Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles - Nature Neuroscience
The human brain cycles through a repertoire of brain networks on a 1-second timescale during rest and tasks. This cycling appears to allow periodic engagement of essential cognitive functions, with th...
www.nature.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
August 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
Absolutely amazing work with great value! - A systematic review of aperiodic neural activity in clinical investigations
I've updated my literature review of studies of aperiodic neural activity in clinical disorders, adding ~30 papers, taking it to 177 reports across 38 disorders!
It's got a review of results so far, discussion of themes & issues, & recommendations for future work!
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
It's got a review of results so far, discussion of themes & issues, & recommendations for future work!
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
A systematic review of aperiodic neural activity in clinical investigations
Aperiodic neural activity - activity with no characteristic frequency - has increasingly become a common feature of study, including in clinical work. Reports investigating aperiodic activity from pat...
www.medrxiv.org
August 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Absolutely amazing work with great value! - A systematic review of aperiodic neural activity in clinical investigations
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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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How is prefrontal neural activity refined as we age?
Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com! This study, from Elizabeth Johnson, uncovers how subtle changes in neural 'noise' impact our attention, memory, and cognition through development.
Proud to have contributed!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com! This study, from Elizabeth Johnson, uncovers how subtle changes in neural 'noise' impact our attention, memory, and cognition through development.
Proud to have contributed!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
How is prefrontal neural activity refined as we age?
Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com! This study, from Elizabeth Johnson, uncovers how subtle changes in neural 'noise' impact our attention, memory, and cognition through development.
Proud to have contributed!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com! This study, from Elizabeth Johnson, uncovers how subtle changes in neural 'noise' impact our attention, memory, and cognition through development.
Proud to have contributed!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Runhao Lu
In a new popular science book, The Animal and the Thinker, John Duncan explains how the balance of instinct and reason answers big human questions. Right and wrong. Ambition and fulfilment. Women and men. Law and democracy. A psychologist’s perspective on “the meaning of life”
July 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
In a new popular science book, The Animal and the Thinker, John Duncan explains how the balance of instinct and reason answers big human questions. Right and wrong. Ambition and fulfilment. Women and men. Law and democracy. A psychologist’s perspective on “the meaning of life”
New results! We tested different control conditions for rh-TMS entrainment and showed ar-TMS performs best (matching sensory without inducing oscillatory effects). Also explored how rh-TMS/ar-TMS/sham-TMS differentially impact Oscillatory and Aperiodic activity!
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
Optimizing control conditions for entraining neural oscillations using rhythmic TMS
Rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation (rh-TMS) is increasingly used to entrain
neural oscillations and probe their causal roles in cognition [1-3]. By delivering
pulse trains at specific frequenc...
www.brainstimjrnl.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
New results! We tested different control conditions for rh-TMS entrainment and showed ar-TMS performs best (matching sensory without inducing oscillatory effects). Also explored how rh-TMS/ar-TMS/sham-TMS differentially impact Oscillatory and Aperiodic activity!
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
Reposted by Runhao Lu
Cooperating brain systems and intelligent behaviour: Special issue in honour of John Duncan. Because John is very special.
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
#neuroscience
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
#neuroscience
Neuropsychologia | Cooperating brain systems and intelligent behaviour: Special issue in honour of John Duncan | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Throughout his distinguished career, John Duncan has made numerous influential contributions to understanding the behavioural and brain basis of attention and intelligence. John’s ideas, invariably co...
www.sciencedirect.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Cooperating brain systems and intelligent behaviour: Special issue in honour of John Duncan. Because John is very special.
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
#neuroscience
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
#neuroscience
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Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
Funded PhD opportunity.pdf
drive.google.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
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When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - Nature
This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...
www.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Check out our new special issue on cognitive flexibility @coolscontrol.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l4vl8MqMi...
authors.elsevier.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Check out our new special issue on cognitive flexibility @coolscontrol.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l4vl8MqMi...
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New preprint ✨ w/ @olafhauk.bsky.social and Matt Lambon Ralph @mrccbu.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @gatescambridge.bsky.social
The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) seems crucial for both semantic memory and semantic composition. How to make sense of this neuroanatomical alignment? 🧠
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The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) seems crucial for both semantic memory and semantic composition. How to make sense of this neuroanatomical alignment? 🧠
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A common framework for semantic memory and semantic composition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.11.648390v1
April 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New preprint ✨ w/ @olafhauk.bsky.social and Matt Lambon Ralph @mrccbu.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @gatescambridge.bsky.social
The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) seems crucial for both semantic memory and semantic composition. How to make sense of this neuroanatomical alignment? 🧠
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The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) seems crucial for both semantic memory and semantic composition. How to make sense of this neuroanatomical alignment? 🧠
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join us at @oxexppsy.bsky.social | @ox.ac.uk!
We're excited to share that our lab is hiring for the position of Lab Manager/Research Assistant. A great opportunity to join our lab!
You can find full details and apply via the link below:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN515/r...
Please feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested!
You can find full details and apply via the link below:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN515/r...
Please feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested!
Research Assistant/Lab Manager at University of Oxford
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Assistant/Lab Manager on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
April 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
join us at @oxexppsy.bsky.social | @ox.ac.uk!
🚨Abstract submission ddl has been extended to 15th April!
🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & REGISTRATION🚨
Join us in Cambridge for "Exploring Interdisciplinary Frontiers: Cognitive Science, Computational Modelling & AI", sponsored by @acceleratescience.bsky.social @cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
🗓️ 9–10 May 2025 | Hybrid format
🔗 sites.google.com/view/capbs20...
Join us in Cambridge for "Exploring Interdisciplinary Frontiers: Cognitive Science, Computational Modelling & AI", sponsored by @acceleratescience.bsky.social @cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
🗓️ 9–10 May 2025 | Hybrid format
🔗 sites.google.com/view/capbs20...
April 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
🚨Abstract submission ddl has been extended to 15th April!
🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & REGISTRATION🚨
Join us in Cambridge for "Exploring Interdisciplinary Frontiers: Cognitive Science, Computational Modelling & AI", sponsored by @acceleratescience.bsky.social @cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
🗓️ 9–10 May 2025 | Hybrid format
🔗 sites.google.com/view/capbs20...
Join us in Cambridge for "Exploring Interdisciplinary Frontiers: Cognitive Science, Computational Modelling & AI", sponsored by @acceleratescience.bsky.social @cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
🗓️ 9–10 May 2025 | Hybrid format
🔗 sites.google.com/view/capbs20...
April 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & REGISTRATION🚨
Join us in Cambridge for "Exploring Interdisciplinary Frontiers: Cognitive Science, Computational Modelling & AI", sponsored by @acceleratescience.bsky.social @cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
🗓️ 9–10 May 2025 | Hybrid format
🔗 sites.google.com/view/capbs20...
Join us in Cambridge for "Exploring Interdisciplinary Frontiers: Cognitive Science, Computational Modelling & AI", sponsored by @acceleratescience.bsky.social @cambridgec2d3.bsky.social
🗓️ 9–10 May 2025 | Hybrid format
🔗 sites.google.com/view/capbs20...
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It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠
A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results - Nature Communications
Here, the authors present the Network Correspondence Toolbox, which enables researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their neuroimaging results and widely used brain atlases.
www.nature.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠