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Martha Cottam
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PhD student, UCL. Trying to understand the brain and mind while turning it into music
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Looking forward to #ICON2025 next week! We will have several presentations on mental imagery, reality monitoring and expectations:

To kick us off, on Tuesday at 15:30, Martha Cottam will present:

P2.12 | Presence Expectations Modulate the Neural Signatures of Content Prediction Errors
September 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Very proud to share this one🥹! We show that personalized signatures of brain activity are heritable and relate to the expression of specific genes. That means my brain-fingerprint is very similar to my twin brother's! #ResearchIsMeSearch🧠 🧬 ♊️
Genetic foundations of interindividual neurophysiological variability
Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.
www.science.org
July 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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New MEG paper by @jhaarsma.bsky.social and @dotproduct.bsky.social‬! Same design and behavioural results as our 7T layer fMRI study (www.jneurosci.org/content/43/4...), but now shedding light on the temporal dynamics of the sensory signals underlying false percepts. #neuroskyence
Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception
We often mistake visual noise for meaningful images, which sometimes appear as convincing as veridical percepts. This suggests considerable overlap between the mechanisms that underlie false and verid...
www.jneurosci.org
June 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Excited to share that our paper 'Distinguishing Neural Correlates of Prediction Errors on Perceptual Content and Detection of Content' is now published! With @smfleming.bsky.social, @peterkok.bsky.social and heroic scanning during the pandemic by Oliver Warrington! direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
Distinguishing Neural Correlates of Prediction Errors on Perceptual Content and Detection of Content
Abstract. Accounting for why discrimination between different perceptual contents is not always accompanied conscious detection of that content remains a challenge for predictive processing theories o...
direct.mit.edu
January 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM