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Leonardo Bonetti
@leonardobonetti.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford
Very glad to have our research featured on the FIFA Training Centre website!

We explored how psychological profiles can help identify elite football talent.
October 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🧠 New preprint!
How does the brain predict complex patterns in sound vs. vision?
Using MEG & matched auditory/visual sequences, we reveal distinct and shared brain networks for recognising temporally structured stimuli.
Shared and modality-specific brain networks underlying predictive coding of temporal sequences
Predictive coding posits that the brain continuously generates and updates internal models to anticipate incoming sensory input. While auditory and visual modalities have been studied independently in...
www.biorxiv.org
July 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Congratulations 🙌 Leonardo!
Honored to receive the Sapere Aude: DFF Research Leader grant (~830.000EUR) 🙏
The project will explore how the brain supports memory and sequence prediction using multi-scale neurophysiology and advanced analytics like our Network Estimation via Source Separation (NESS) 🧠
Leonardo Bonetti
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June 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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We are very proud of our Associate Professor Leonardo Bonetti @leonardobonetti.bsky.social who just received a Sapere Aude grant :-) Congrats! @dg.dk @au.dk
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Leonardo Bonetti
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June 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Honored to receive the Sapere Aude: DFF Research Leader grant (~830.000EUR) 🙏
The project will explore how the brain supports memory and sequence prediction using multi-scale neurophysiology and advanced analytics like our Network Estimation via Source Separation (NESS) 🧠
Leonardo Bonetti
dff.dk
June 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
How does aging affect how we remember and compare sounds? Our new study reveals key EEG markers linked to auditory short-term memory and dissimilarity perception across age groups. Read in Eur J Neurosci: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....
EEG Correlates of Auditory Short‐Term Memory and Dissimilarity Perception in Young and Older Adults
In this study, we investigated auditory short-term memory for five-pitch sequences in a group of young adults and a group of older adults. The evaluation of dissimilarity between two pitch sequences ....
doi.org
June 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Reposted by Leonardo Bonetti
The study was published in Advanced Science and was led by Senior Research Fellow Dr Leonardo Bonetti @leonardobonetti.bsky.social from the Department of Psychiatry, Oxford, in collaboration with Aarhus University @au.dk

It's available here 👉 tinyurl.com/yc2huprn
FREQ‐NESS Reveals the Dynamic Reconfiguration of Frequency‐Resolved Brain Networks During Auditory Stimulation
A new analytical pipeline, FREQuency-resolved Network Estimation via Source Separation (FREQ-NESS), reveals how the brain at rest is organized in frequency-specific networks and dynamically rearrange...
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May 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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MIB Associate Professor @leonardobonetti.bsky.social in a conversation with DPhil candidate Ramón Nartallo-Kaluarachchi from Oxford University.
Trust is a precious commodity, but it is essential in science, notably when people from different fields are collaborating. Neuroscientist Leo and mathematician Ramon are trying to understand brain function and long-term memory.

Read the case study: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/70955
May 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Trust is a precious commodity, but it is essential in science, notably when people from different fields are collaborating. Neuroscientist Leo and mathematician Ramon are trying to understand brain function and long-term memory.

Read the case study: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/70955
May 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Honoured to receive the BCC Award for Arts & Culture 2025!
Grateful to ShruthiUK and the Birmingham Thyagaraja Festival for this recognition.
Special thanks to Chithra Ramakrishnan for presenting this award.

#BCCAwards #ArtsAndCulture #BirminghamThyagarajaFestival
May 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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1/n 🔍 At the core of FREQ-NESS is Generalized Eigendecomposition (GED) - a powerful linear decomposition technique that allows us to separate overlapping neural processes based on their dominant frequency, by contrasting narrowband vs broadband activity. #Neuroscience #FREQNESS
April 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🧘‍♂️ During rest, FREQ-NESS reliably separates well-known resting state brain networks — the Default Mode Network, alpha-band parieto-occipital, and motor-beta sensorimotor topographies. Textbook configurations emerge directly from the data and based on frequency, without predefining regions.
April 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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🎧 Auditory stimulation reshapes the entire frequency-resolved network landscape:

• EMERGENCE: Attunement to the 2.4 Hz stimulation

• RE-ARRANGEMENT: Spatial shift of alpha from occipital to sensorimotor, spectral shift to high alpha activity

• INVARIANCE: Beta networks remain unchanged
April 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Provided the network separation, we also tracked cross-frequency coupling (CFC) between networks.
During passive listening to the metronome, the phase of low-freq (2.4 Hz) auditory networks selectively modulates the gamma band amplitude in more distributed medial temporal networks.
April 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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🛠️ FREQ-NESS has been a long time in the making.
If you’re interested in exploring frequency-resolved brain networks in your own data — check out the toolbox and documentation here:
👉 shorturl.at/mOVKF

Feel free to reach out for clarification or collaborations #OpenScience #Toolbox
GitHub - mattiaRosso92/Frequency-resolved_brain_network_estimation_via_source_separation_FREQ-NESS
Contribute to mattiaRosso92/Frequency-resolved_brain_network_estimation_via_source_separation_FREQ-NESS development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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🚀 Excited to share our new Advanced Science paper!

With @leonardobonetti.bsky.social, we present FREQ-NESS: a novel method to map the brain’s functional organisation as a landscape of frequency-specific networks. 🧠

#Neuroscience #MEG #BrainNetworks #AuditoryProcessing #FREQNESS

Thread below 🧵 👇
April 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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🧠 New pre-print out!
"LSD reconfigures the frequency-specific network landscape of the human brain"
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Honored to co-author this with Kenneth Shinozuka (1st author), @leonardobonetti.bsky.social, and our colleagues from @ox.ac.uk and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
a man in a suit and tie has a colorful brain on his head
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March 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT!

After such a long journey, I am so glad to see this published in
@PNASNews:

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Big thanks to @leonardobonetti.bsky.social, Gemma Fernandez-Rubio, Peter Vuust, Gustavo Deco, Morten Kringelbach, Renaud Lambiotte and @alaingoriely.bsky.social

A thread...
Multilevel irreversibility reveals higher-order organization of nonequilibrium interactions in human brain dynamics | PNAS
Information processing in the human brain can be modeled as a complex dynamical system operating out of equilibrium with multiple regions interacti...
pnas.org
March 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM