Catriona Scrivener
@catrionascrivener.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow 🏴 spatial attention, visual imagery, multimodal neuroimaging methods
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The multi-disciplinary International Conference on Memory is finally returning in summer 2027 and it's coming to Glasgow!
The multi-disciplinary International Conference on Memory is finally returning in summer 2027 and it's coming to Glasgow!
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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The multi-disciplinary International Conference on Memory is finally returning in summer 2027 and it's coming to Glasgow!
The multi-disciplinary International Conference on Memory is finally returning in summer 2027 and it's coming to Glasgow!
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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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After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
July 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Thrilled to share our new opinion piece—hot off the press—on attentional sampling, co-authored with the magnificent Flor Kusnir and Daniele Re. It captures where our thinking has landed on this topic after years of work.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Attentional sampling resolves competition along the visual hierarchy
Navigating the environment involves engaging with multiple objects, each activating
specific neuronal populations. When objects appear together, these populations compete.
Classical attention theories...
www.cell.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Thrilled to share our new opinion piece—hot off the press—on attentional sampling, co-authored with the magnificent Flor Kusnir and Daniele Re. It captures where our thinking has landed on this topic after years of work.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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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...
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I'm getting to announce a lot of new papers this week! This one, led by the fabulous duo of @jadebjackson.bsky.social and @catrionascrivener.bsky.social shows that artefact free concurrent #TMS-fMRI is possible - with surprisingly short interslice gaps.
Setting up a concurrent TMS-fMRI experiment ⚡🧠? Check out our paper just out on when to deliver TMS pulses between MR slice gaps to avoid signal loss. doi.org/10.1016/j.jn.... Thanks to
@catrionascrivener.bsky.social
M. Correia M. Mada and
@alexwoolgar.bsky.social
@catrionascrivener.bsky.social
M. Correia M. Mada and
@alexwoolgar.bsky.social
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June 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I'm getting to announce a lot of new papers this week! This one, led by the fabulous duo of @jadebjackson.bsky.social and @catrionascrivener.bsky.social shows that artefact free concurrent #TMS-fMRI is possible - with surprisingly short interslice gaps.
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Setting up a concurrent TMS-fMRI experiment ⚡🧠? Check out our paper just out on when to deliver TMS pulses between MR slice gaps to avoid signal loss. doi.org/10.1016/j.jn.... Thanks to
@catrionascrivener.bsky.social
M. Correia M. Mada and
@alexwoolgar.bsky.social
@catrionascrivener.bsky.social
M. Correia M. Mada and
@alexwoolgar.bsky.social
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June 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Setting up a concurrent TMS-fMRI experiment ⚡🧠? Check out our paper just out on when to deliver TMS pulses between MR slice gaps to avoid signal loss. doi.org/10.1016/j.jn.... Thanks to
@catrionascrivener.bsky.social
M. Correia M. Mada and
@alexwoolgar.bsky.social
@catrionascrivener.bsky.social
M. Correia M. Mada and
@alexwoolgar.bsky.social
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Delighted to see this - the culmination of discussions begun by the ocean in Greece (at our international workshop on TMS-fMRI) - now out in print! I learnt a lot, and made many friends, along the way to this one. Next TMS-fMRI workshop will be in Mexico in Sept, EOI at www.tmsfmriworkshop.org
New Article! Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience
Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience
Nature Protocols, Published online: 24 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41596-025-01182-4We present best practice guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI, experimental design, technical requirements and data interpretation, illustrated via 12 use cases.
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June 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Delighted to see this - the culmination of discussions begun by the ocean in Greece (at our international workshop on TMS-fMRI) - now out in print! I learnt a lot, and made many friends, along the way to this one. Next TMS-fMRI workshop will be in Mexico in Sept, EOI at www.tmsfmriworkshop.org
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Is alpha in spatial attention pure oscillatory - or aperiodic?
New results here based on 3 EEG datasets + TMS-EEG: relative to arrhythmic-TMS, alpha rh-TMS enhanced oscillatory but decreased aperiodic alpha - yet both supported spatial attention via distinct mechanisms.⚡🧠🌊
#neuroscience #TMS #EEG
New results here based on 3 EEG datasets + TMS-EEG: relative to arrhythmic-TMS, alpha rh-TMS enhanced oscillatory but decreased aperiodic alpha - yet both supported spatial attention via distinct mechanisms.⚡🧠🌊
#neuroscience #TMS #EEG
Distinct and complementary mechanisms of oscillatory and aperiodic alpha activity in visuospatial attention https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.20.644419v1
March 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Is alpha in spatial attention pure oscillatory - or aperiodic?
New results here based on 3 EEG datasets + TMS-EEG: relative to arrhythmic-TMS, alpha rh-TMS enhanced oscillatory but decreased aperiodic alpha - yet both supported spatial attention via distinct mechanisms.⚡🧠🌊
#neuroscience #TMS #EEG
New results here based on 3 EEG datasets + TMS-EEG: relative to arrhythmic-TMS, alpha rh-TMS enhanced oscillatory but decreased aperiodic alpha - yet both supported spatial attention via distinct mechanisms.⚡🧠🌊
#neuroscience #TMS #EEG
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"...pleased to inform you that your article, "Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience", has now been accepted and sent to our Production department and should soon be published in Nature Protocols."⚡🎈🤘 OG preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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March 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"...pleased to inform you that your article, "Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience", has now been accepted and sent to our Production department and should soon be published in Nature Protocols."⚡🎈🤘 OG preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
February 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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🚨PhD opportunity Fall/Winter
2025🚨
Join me in Geneva Switzerland #unige to learn more about colour perception. Using neuroimaging & computational modelling, you'll be working with an international & interdisciplinary team to understand how we transform light into a colourful world!🧠👁️🌈 #neurojobs
2025🚨
Join me in Geneva Switzerland #unige to learn more about colour perception. Using neuroimaging & computational modelling, you'll be working with an international & interdisciplinary team to understand how we transform light into a colourful world!🧠👁️🌈 #neurojobs
January 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🚨PhD opportunity Fall/Winter
2025🚨
Join me in Geneva Switzerland #unige to learn more about colour perception. Using neuroimaging & computational modelling, you'll be working with an international & interdisciplinary team to understand how we transform light into a colourful world!🧠👁️🌈 #neurojobs
2025🚨
Join me in Geneva Switzerland #unige to learn more about colour perception. Using neuroimaging & computational modelling, you'll be working with an international & interdisciplinary team to understand how we transform light into a colourful world!🧠👁️🌈 #neurojobs
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Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents
Rhythmic neural activity is considered essential for adaptively modulating responses in the visual system. In this opinion article we posit that visua…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Setting up an fMRI model and getting hit with collinearity errors? Been there! 😢 Try removing regressors? Orthogonal regressors? Other tricks to resolve collinearity errors? Guess what—those fixes might make things worse. We explore why and propose recommendations.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Setting up an fMRI model and getting hit with collinearity errors? Been there! 😢 Try removing regressors? Orthogonal regressors? Other tricks to resolve collinearity errors? Guess what—those fixes might make things worse. We explore why and propose recommendations.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
January 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/
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I am looking for a post-doc on neuroimaging analysis. Come & join my team at UEA (Norwich, UK). The post is for 32 months starting from April. Norwich is a wonderful & affordable city.
➡Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
⏰Deadline: 13 February 2025
Questions: s.rossit@uea.ac.uk
➡Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
⏰Deadline: 13 February 2025
Questions: s.rossit@uea.ac.uk
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ALT: a black and white image of a person 's brain with the letters p and s visible
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January 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I am looking for a post-doc on neuroimaging analysis. Come & join my team at UEA (Norwich, UK). The post is for 32 months starting from April. Norwich is a wonderful & affordable city.
➡Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
⏰Deadline: 13 February 2025
Questions: s.rossit@uea.ac.uk
➡Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
⏰Deadline: 13 February 2025
Questions: s.rossit@uea.ac.uk
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🚨New paper alert!⚡🧠Using concurrent TMS-EEG & MVPA in a selec attention task, we show parietal alpha rh-TMS (entrainment) specifically and causally enhances spatial attention ('where' info) coded by ERPs and alpha power, but not 'what' info or visual features.
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
Parietal alpha stimulation causally enhances attentional information coding in evoked and oscillatory activity
Selective attention is a fundamental cognitive mechanism that allows people to prioritise task-relevant information while ignoring irrelevant information. Previous research has suggested key roles of parietal event-related potentials (ERPs) and alpha oscillatory responses in attention tasks. However, the informational content of these signals is less clear, and their causal effects on the coding of multiple task elements are yet unresolved.
www.brainstimjrnl.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🚨New paper alert!⚡🧠Using concurrent TMS-EEG & MVPA in a selec attention task, we show parietal alpha rh-TMS (entrainment) specifically and causally enhances spatial attention ('where' info) coded by ERPs and alpha power, but not 'what' info or visual features.
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
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Hi TMSMultiLab followers,
If you'd like to help re-run & update (& publish) an influential (~30 citations/year) #MetaAnalysis on #ThetaBurst #TMS - which is 20 years old this month - then please get in touch!
(you'll need a github account)
If you'd like to help re-run & update (& publish) an influential (~30 citations/year) #MetaAnalysis on #ThetaBurst #TMS - which is 20 years old this month - then please get in touch!
(you'll need a github account)
so there's this very famous method in brain stimulation & it was first published 20 years ago this month, but the original results could not be replicated by the lab that published them, so 7 years later the same lab reported there was no effect of this method, but it was too late as everyone was...
January 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Hi TMSMultiLab followers,
If you'd like to help re-run & update (& publish) an influential (~30 citations/year) #MetaAnalysis on #ThetaBurst #TMS - which is 20 years old this month - then please get in touch!
(you'll need a github account)
If you'd like to help re-run & update (& publish) an influential (~30 citations/year) #MetaAnalysis on #ThetaBurst #TMS - which is 20 years old this month - then please get in touch!
(you'll need a github account)
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✨New paper @commsbio.bsky.social !! Using MEG/EEG, we investigated domain-general cognitive systems in human brains implemented by aperiodic and oscillatory responses. Great collaboration with @alexwoolgar.bsky.social , John Duncan, and Nadene Dermody. rdcu.be/d34pt
Aperiodic and oscillatory systems underpinning human domain-general cognition
Communications Biology - Using MEG/EEG, this study reports that aperiodic broadband power, rather than oscillations, reflects a core response to diverse cognitive demand that links to the...
rdcu.be
December 18, 2024 at 8:47 PM
✨New paper @commsbio.bsky.social !! Using MEG/EEG, we investigated domain-general cognitive systems in human brains implemented by aperiodic and oscillatory responses. Great collaboration with @alexwoolgar.bsky.social , John Duncan, and Nadene Dermody. rdcu.be/d34pt
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This year’s #CBUMethodsDay videos are now online: ow.ly/h7aa50UqFZ2
The videos of previous years are available here: ow.ly/SNih50UqFZ1
Thank you to everyone who participated or attended.
@mrccbu.bsky.social
The videos of previous years are available here: ow.ly/SNih50UqFZ1
Thank you to everyone who participated or attended.
@mrccbu.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 6:16 PM
This year’s #CBUMethodsDay videos are now online: ow.ly/h7aa50UqFZ2
The videos of previous years are available here: ow.ly/SNih50UqFZ1
Thank you to everyone who participated or attended.
@mrccbu.bsky.social
The videos of previous years are available here: ow.ly/SNih50UqFZ1
Thank you to everyone who participated or attended.
@mrccbu.bsky.social
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We're excited to share NaviNIBS, our new open-source tool 🔨 for neuronavigated noninvasive #brainstim 🧠⚡️
🎉Congrats to our co-director Chris Cline, lead developer of NaviNIBS!
We hope to enable new possibilities for innovations in neuronavigation #TMSEEG @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social (1/5)
🎉Congrats to our co-director Chris Cline, lead developer of NaviNIBS!
We hope to enable new possibilities for innovations in neuronavigation #TMSEEG @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social (1/5)
December 9, 2024 at 5:00 PM
We're excited to share NaviNIBS, our new open-source tool 🔨 for neuronavigated noninvasive #brainstim 🧠⚡️
🎉Congrats to our co-director Chris Cline, lead developer of NaviNIBS!
We hope to enable new possibilities for innovations in neuronavigation #TMSEEG @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social (1/5)
🎉Congrats to our co-director Chris Cline, lead developer of NaviNIBS!
We hope to enable new possibilities for innovations in neuronavigation #TMSEEG @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social (1/5)
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Hello Brain Stimulation ( #TMS #BrainStim ) folk,
we're running a workshop in Birmingham UK to forge a new consensus on using TMS in (experimental psychology) research.
We need the brightest and freshest minds to apply!
details 👇
we're running a workshop in Birmingham UK to forge a new consensus on using TMS in (experimental psychology) research.
We need the brightest and freshest minds to apply!
details 👇
Are you doing TMS 🧲 research in or near the UK?
Is your diary free 23-25 April 2025?
Do you like talking & writing about TMS, coding, sharing data & using github?
Yes, yes, yes? Then you have 8 days to apply to attend our Birmingham TMS workshop:
Details:
github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
#BrainStim
Is your diary free 23-25 April 2025?
Do you like talking & writing about TMS, coding, sharing data & using github?
Yes, yes, yes? Then you have 8 days to apply to attend our Birmingham TMS workshop:
Details:
github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
#BrainStim
TMS@40
Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab
github.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Hello Brain Stimulation ( #TMS #BrainStim ) folk,
we're running a workshop in Birmingham UK to forge a new consensus on using TMS in (experimental psychology) research.
We need the brightest and freshest minds to apply!
details 👇
we're running a workshop in Birmingham UK to forge a new consensus on using TMS in (experimental psychology) research.
We need the brightest and freshest minds to apply!
details 👇
Reposted by Catriona Scrivener
Are you concurrent TMS-fMRI curious? Have all of your awkward questions answered with this PHENOMENAL consensus paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf.... Borne out of workshops set in stunning locations by the sea, the fabulously collegiate TMS-fMRI community tells you why you might want to TMS-fMRI!
OSF
doi.org
May 28, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Are you concurrent TMS-fMRI curious? Have all of your awkward questions answered with this PHENOMENAL consensus paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf.... Borne out of workshops set in stunning locations by the sea, the fabulously collegiate TMS-fMRI community tells you why you might want to TMS-fMRI!