Yuranny Cabral-Calderin
@ycabral.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroscientist | @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social | Using #M/i/EEG, #fMRI, #tACS to read/write the brain | Fascinated by brain rhythms and consciousness
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Sending huge congratulations to Julio Hechavarría @talking-bat.bsky.social on delivering his very first inaugural lecture today at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! What an exciting start of a new a chapter filled with great ideas, strong science, and bat-driven brainloop insights! 👨🏻🏫🦇🧠
#SPP #Neuro
#SPP #Neuro
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Sending huge congratulations to Julio Hechavarría @talking-bat.bsky.social on delivering his very first inaugural lecture today at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! What an exciting start of a new a chapter filled with great ideas, strong science, and bat-driven brainloop insights! 👨🏻🏫🦇🧠
#SPP #Neuro
#SPP #Neuro
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A very useful review and update on the anatomic infratstructure for language:
"Brain structural networks underlying language" by
Angela Friederici
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
"Brain structural networks underlying language" by
Angela Friederici
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Brain structural networks underlying language | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society
The unique human ability to process complex language requires the interaction of multiple brain areas located in the inferior frontal and posterior temporal cortex connected by white matter fiber trac...
journals.physiology.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A very useful review and update on the anatomic infratstructure for language:
"Brain structural networks underlying language" by
Angela Friederici
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
"Brain structural networks underlying language" by
Angela Friederici
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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We are looking for an interested student to work with us during an internship on the interplay between implicit timing and hearing for four to six months (full time, including financial compensation) :
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November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We are looking for an interested student to work with us during an internship on the interplay between implicit timing and hearing for four to six months (full time, including financial compensation) :
brainthemind.com/wp-content/u...
brainthemind.com/wp-content/u...
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Really glad I could contribute to this excellent perspective paper. #Consciousness + #neuroethology + #animal-behavior An interesting mixture for a fun read :)
Our paper “Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness” is out in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B.
Together with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni, we suggest bringing Tinbergen’s framework into consciousness research.
Together with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni, we suggest bringing Tinbergen’s framework into consciousness research.
Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Understanding consciousness remains a significant challenge in science. What distinguishes
conscious beings from unconscious systems, such as organoids, artificial intelligence
or other non-sentient e...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Really glad I could contribute to this excellent perspective paper. #Consciousness + #neuroethology + #animal-behavior An interesting mixture for a fun read :)
Our paper “Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness” is out in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B.
Together with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni, we suggest bringing Tinbergen’s framework into consciousness research.
Together with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni, we suggest bringing Tinbergen’s framework into consciousness research.
Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Understanding consciousness remains a significant challenge in science. What distinguishes
conscious beings from unconscious systems, such as organoids, artificial intelligence
or other non-sentient e...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Our paper “Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness” is out in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B.
Together with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni, we suggest bringing Tinbergen’s framework into consciousness research.
Together with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni, we suggest bringing Tinbergen’s framework into consciousness research.
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📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣
Please get in touch to hear more!
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣
Please get in touch to hear more!
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣
Please get in touch to hear more!
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣
Please get in touch to hear more!
Looking forward to discussing our results on neural and behavioral entrainment to auditory rhythms and tACS. See you today at 4 PM CEST.
🧠🎶 Reminder! It’s TODAY!!
The LOOPs webinar is today at 4 PM CEST! Join @ycabral.bsky.social for Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment.
Join us: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...
#LOOPsWebinar #Neuroscience #AuditoryPerception #SPP
The LOOPs webinar is today at 4 PM CEST! Join @ycabral.bsky.social for Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment.
Join us: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...
#LOOPsWebinar #Neuroscience #AuditoryPerception #SPP
October 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Looking forward to discussing our results on neural and behavioral entrainment to auditory rhythms and tACS. See you today at 4 PM CEST.
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LOOPs webinar is back after the summer break! 🔄🎉
Don’t miss @ycabral.bsky.social on Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment uncovering how neural oscillations shape auditory perception.🧠🎶
🗓️ Oct 8th, 2025
🕓 4 PM CEST
📍 Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...
Don’t miss @ycabral.bsky.social on Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment uncovering how neural oscillations shape auditory perception.🧠🎶
🗓️ Oct 8th, 2025
🕓 4 PM CEST
📍 Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...
October 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
LOOPs webinar is back after the summer break! 🔄🎉
Don’t miss @ycabral.bsky.social on Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment uncovering how neural oscillations shape auditory perception.🧠🎶
🗓️ Oct 8th, 2025
🕓 4 PM CEST
📍 Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...
Don’t miss @ycabral.bsky.social on Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment uncovering how neural oscillations shape auditory perception.🧠🎶
🗓️ Oct 8th, 2025
🕓 4 PM CEST
📍 Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...
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We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.
September 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.
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Nice article about our paper published today in @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface.
#bioacoustics
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
#bioacoustics
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Babies’ cries can make humans physically hotter, research finds
When in distress, babies produce chaotic wails which have pronounced effects on humans, including changes in facial temperature
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Nice article about our paper published today in @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface.
#bioacoustics
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
#bioacoustics
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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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...
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The University of Notre Dame is hiring 5 tenure or tenure-track professors in Neuroscience, including Computational Neuroscience, across 4 departments.
Come join me at ND! Feel free to reach out with any questions.
And please share!
apply.interfolio.com/173031
Come join me at ND! Feel free to reach out with any questions.
And please share!
apply.interfolio.com/173031
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September 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The University of Notre Dame is hiring 5 tenure or tenure-track professors in Neuroscience, including Computational Neuroscience, across 4 departments.
Come join me at ND! Feel free to reach out with any questions.
And please share!
apply.interfolio.com/173031
Come join me at ND! Feel free to reach out with any questions.
And please share!
apply.interfolio.com/173031
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The rig for conducting intracellular recordings from the 🐝🧠 is getting in shape. If you are interested using it here in Würzburg 🇩🇪 contact me. We have an open PhD position expected to be filled until spring 2026.
www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio...
#neurethology
www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio...
#neurethology
September 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The rig for conducting intracellular recordings from the 🐝🧠 is getting in shape. If you are interested using it here in Würzburg 🇩🇪 contact me. We have an open PhD position expected to be filled until spring 2026.
www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio...
#neurethology
www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio...
#neurethology
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Applications open for fully funded 4-yr positions in the unique interdisciplinary program of the @maxplanck.de School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for science at the forefront of fundamental & applied research, mentored by a network of world renowned researchers.🧪
cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en
cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en
September 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Applications open for fully funded 4-yr positions in the unique interdisciplinary program of the @maxplanck.de School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for science at the forefront of fundamental & applied research, mentored by a network of world renowned researchers.🧪
cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en
cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en
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Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation
Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...
www.medrxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Preprint introducing our whole brain causal connectivity maps in >N80 participants according to single pulse interleaved TMS/fMRI. dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🧠 ⚡ 🔭
Causal Connectivity Maps Derived from Single-Pulse Interleaved TMS/fMRI
Here we employed interleaved single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation with functional MRI (spTMS/fMRI) to generate causal activation maps targeting the left hemisphere according to two sets of p...
dx.doi.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Preprint introducing our whole brain causal connectivity maps in >N80 participants according to single pulse interleaved TMS/fMRI. dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🧠 ⚡ 🔭
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🚀New paper out! With @lauradugue.bsky.social & @kirstenpetras.bsky.social, we show that traveling waves seen in EEG/MEG sensors might reflect real waves on the brain’s visual cortices—not just artifacts. Based on a MEG-EEG dataset with visually triggered traveling waves.
tinyurl.com/st4bkday
tinyurl.com/st4bkday
Locally induced traveling waves generate globally observable traveling waves
Cortical traveling waves have been proposed as a fundamental mechanism for neural communication and computation. Methodological uncertainties currently limit the interpretability of non-invasive, extr...
www.jneurosci.org
July 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🚀New paper out! With @lauradugue.bsky.social & @kirstenpetras.bsky.social, we show that traveling waves seen in EEG/MEG sensors might reflect real waves on the brain’s visual cortices—not just artifacts. Based on a MEG-EEG dataset with visually triggered traveling waves.
tinyurl.com/st4bkday
tinyurl.com/st4bkday
On my way to #ASSC28!
Excited for a week of great science and new connections.
Find me on Monday, 16:30–17:30, to talk about #Blindsight, #bodily #rhythms, and #decoding #visual #awareness.
P126 – Neurophysiological correlates of consciousness: Insights from Blindsight
@assc28.bsky.social
Excited for a week of great science and new connections.
Find me on Monday, 16:30–17:30, to talk about #Blindsight, #bodily #rhythms, and #decoding #visual #awareness.
P126 – Neurophysiological correlates of consciousness: Insights from Blindsight
@assc28.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
On my way to #ASSC28!
Excited for a week of great science and new connections.
Find me on Monday, 16:30–17:30, to talk about #Blindsight, #bodily #rhythms, and #decoding #visual #awareness.
P126 – Neurophysiological correlates of consciousness: Insights from Blindsight
@assc28.bsky.social
Excited for a week of great science and new connections.
Find me on Monday, 16:30–17:30, to talk about #Blindsight, #bodily #rhythms, and #decoding #visual #awareness.
P126 – Neurophysiological correlates of consciousness: Insights from Blindsight
@assc28.bsky.social
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🚨 New paper alert from Weise et al.!
"A leadfield-free optimization framework for transcranially applied electric currents"
🔋 Optimize TES, TIS, ECT & TTFields without fixed leadfields
🧠 Electrode placement adapts to individual anatomy
💻 Now available in SimNIBS!
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
"A leadfield-free optimization framework for transcranially applied electric currents"
🔋 Optimize TES, TIS, ECT & TTFields without fixed leadfields
🧠 Electrode placement adapts to individual anatomy
💻 Now available in SimNIBS!
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
July 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
🚨 New paper alert from Weise et al.!
"A leadfield-free optimization framework for transcranially applied electric currents"
🔋 Optimize TES, TIS, ECT & TTFields without fixed leadfields
🧠 Electrode placement adapts to individual anatomy
💻 Now available in SimNIBS!
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
"A leadfield-free optimization framework for transcranially applied electric currents"
🔋 Optimize TES, TIS, ECT & TTFields without fixed leadfields
🧠 Electrode placement adapts to individual anatomy
💻 Now available in SimNIBS!
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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How does the brain sample the #visual environment in space and time? @iraposo.bsky.social &co show that two distinct temporal patterns (rhythmic oscillations & aperiodic timescales) predict attention-guided behavior @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ThTKVy
July 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
How does the brain sample the #visual environment in space and time? @iraposo.bsky.social &co show that two distinct temporal patterns (rhythmic oscillations & aperiodic timescales) predict attention-guided behavior @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ThTKVy
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New preprint with amazing work from @nchalas.bsky.social:
How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :)
#neuroskyence
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :)
#neuroskyence
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Respiration as a dynamic modulator of sensory sampling
Respiration dynamically modulates sensory perception by orchestrating transient states of the brain and the body. Using simultaneous recordings of high-density magneto-encephalography (MEG), respirati...
www.biorxiv.org
June 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
New preprint with amazing work from @nchalas.bsky.social:
How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :)
#neuroskyence
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :)
#neuroskyence
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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For auditory processing aficionados: new from Y Sun, O Ghitza & G Michalareas
tracking rate of periodicity is achievable without sharp acoustic edges or consistent phase alignment to envelope. consistent with assuming distinct processes for phase and rate tracking
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...
tracking rate of periodicity is achievable without sharp acoustic edges or consistent phase alignment to envelope. consistent with assuming distinct processes for phase and rate tracking
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...
Complex Impact of Stimulus Envelope on Motor Synchronization to Sound
The human brain tracks temporal regularities in acoustic signals faithfully. Recent neuroimaging studies have shown complex modulations of synchronized neural activities to the shape of stimulus envel...
www.jneurosci.org
June 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
For auditory processing aficionados: new from Y Sun, O Ghitza & G Michalareas
tracking rate of periodicity is achievable without sharp acoustic edges or consistent phase alignment to envelope. consistent with assuming distinct processes for phase and rate tracking
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...
tracking rate of periodicity is achievable without sharp acoustic edges or consistent phase alignment to envelope. consistent with assuming distinct processes for phase and rate tracking
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...
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🧠🔄 #NeuroThursday
@roselynechauvin.bsky.social & team use daily fMRI to show that 2 weeks of arm disuse triggers spontaneous “disuse pulses” and boosts connectivity in motor cortex, thalamus and putamen.
Arm in a cast? Your thalamus rewires 🩼🧠 Check out below ⬇️
🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
@roselynechauvin.bsky.social & team use daily fMRI to show that 2 weeks of arm disuse triggers spontaneous “disuse pulses” and boosts connectivity in motor cortex, thalamus and putamen.
Arm in a cast? Your thalamus rewires 🩼🧠 Check out below ⬇️
🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Disuse-driven plasticity in the human thalamus and putamen
Using a 2-week arm and hand casting paradigm with daily brain fMRIs, Chauvin et al.
observe subcortical plasticity in humans. The disused motor circuit shows increased
functional connectivity and the ...
www.cell.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🧠🔄 #NeuroThursday
@roselynechauvin.bsky.social & team use daily fMRI to show that 2 weeks of arm disuse triggers spontaneous “disuse pulses” and boosts connectivity in motor cortex, thalamus and putamen.
Arm in a cast? Your thalamus rewires 🩼🧠 Check out below ⬇️
🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
@roselynechauvin.bsky.social & team use daily fMRI to show that 2 weeks of arm disuse triggers spontaneous “disuse pulses” and boosts connectivity in motor cortex, thalamus and putamen.
Arm in a cast? Your thalamus rewires 🩼🧠 Check out below ⬇️
🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Happy to share my second paper with Peter Dayan on our decision-theoretic approach to perceptual multistability (see the tweeprint of the first paper here x.com/neuroprincip...).
Paper:
A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Paper:
A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
x.com
x.com
December 13, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Happy to share my second paper with Peter Dayan on our decision-theoretic approach to perceptual multistability (see the tweeprint of the first paper here x.com/neuroprincip...).
Paper:
A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Paper:
A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Wir brauchen ein sofortiges #Waffenverbot für Privatpersonen – damit sich eine schreckliche Tat wie #Graz nicht wiederholen kann. Jetzt Appell an Innenminister Karner und die Bundesregierung unterzeichnen: actions.aufstehn.at/waffenverbot...
Privates Waffenverbot jetzt!
Der Amoklauf an einer Grazer Schule zeigt, dass das Waffengesetz in Österreich viel zu locker ist. Das muss sich ändern! Fordere jetzt mit uns ein Waffenverbot für Privatpersonen.
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June 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Wir brauchen ein sofortiges #Waffenverbot für Privatpersonen – damit sich eine schreckliche Tat wie #Graz nicht wiederholen kann. Jetzt Appell an Innenminister Karner und die Bundesregierung unterzeichnen: actions.aufstehn.at/waffenverbot...