Olgerta Asko
@olgasko.bsky.social
🧠 PhD in cognitive neuroscience | predictive brain | EEG | prefrontal cortex | brain lesions | University of Oslo
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Animals seamlessly combine what they see and hear. This study presents a simple, biologically inspired model that predicts how visual and auditory cues are integrated across humans, monkeys, and rats.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Animals seamlessly combine what they see and hear. This study presents a simple, biologically inspired model that predicts how visual and auditory cues are integrated across humans, monkeys, and rats.
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🧪RIP James Watson, one four scientists credited with deciphering the structure of DNA.
It was Rosalind Franklin’s X ray diffraction image that revealed the double helix structure.
It was Rosalind Franklin’s X ray diffraction image that revealed the double helix structure.
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
🧪RIP James Watson, one four scientists credited with deciphering the structure of DNA.
It was Rosalind Franklin’s X ray diffraction image that revealed the double helix structure.
It was Rosalind Franklin’s X ray diffraction image that revealed the double helix structure.
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1/ Want to try your hand at science communication but don’t know where to start?
We put together seven tried and tested tips for communicating preprinted research with suggestions and resources that can help you on social media and beyond! #SciComm
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We put together seven tried and tested tips for communicating preprinted research with suggestions and resources that can help you on social media and beyond! #SciComm
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November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
1/ Want to try your hand at science communication but don’t know where to start?
We put together seven tried and tested tips for communicating preprinted research with suggestions and resources that can help you on social media and beyond! #SciComm
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We put together seven tried and tested tips for communicating preprinted research with suggestions and resources that can help you on social media and beyond! #SciComm
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What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts?
We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.
Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroskyence #musicscience
We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.
Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroskyence #musicscience
Brain Dynamics of Mental Manipulation
Humans effortlessly juggle their internal thoughts, but the neuronal dynamics that support mental manipulation are largely unknown. Leveraging the high spatiotemporal fidelity of intracranial recordin...
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:25 AM
What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts?
We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.
Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroskyence #musicscience
We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies.
Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#neuroskyence #musicscience
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Our new paper on auditory processing in NREM sleep is online! We study how iERP and HFA responses in the temporal lobe are modulated by slow waves of sleep:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congratulations to Sigurd Alnes for his brilliant work and to the entire team!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congratulations to Sigurd Alnes for his brilliant work and to the entire team!
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Our new paper on auditory processing in NREM sleep is online! We study how iERP and HFA responses in the temporal lobe are modulated by slow waves of sleep:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congratulations to Sigurd Alnes for his brilliant work and to the entire team!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congratulations to Sigurd Alnes for his brilliant work and to the entire team!
📖A fascinating read on how our mental architecture is shaped more for social cohesion and survival than for discovering objective truth. Evolution has given us a brain that’s brilliant… but maybe not built to find the truth of the word.🌟🧠
#evolution #brain
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#evolution #brain
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Our brains evolved to survive, not to find truth | Samuel McKee
We like to believe that reason is our pathway to truth. Yet from Popper’s demand for falsifiability to Darwin’s doubt about the mind’s origins, a more unsettling picture is emerging. In an age that pr...
iai.tv
November 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
📖A fascinating read on how our mental architecture is shaped more for social cohesion and survival than for discovering objective truth. Evolution has given us a brain that’s brilliant… but maybe not built to find the truth of the word.🌟🧠
#evolution #brain
iai.tv/articles/our...
#evolution #brain
iai.tv/articles/our...
We praise innovation, yet starve the science that makes it possible. The history of discovery shows a simple truth: transformative breakthroughs arise from questions without immediate utility. Support curiosity, not just impact!!!🔬🧠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#research #curiosity #science
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#research #curiosity #science
From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
www.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We praise innovation, yet starve the science that makes it possible. The history of discovery shows a simple truth: transformative breakthroughs arise from questions without immediate utility. Support curiosity, not just impact!!!🔬🧠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#research #curiosity #science
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#research #curiosity #science
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🚨 Join me for a hands-on #iElectrodes tutorial at #PracticalMEEG!
📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET
Learn how to localize intracranial electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes:
cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...
#iEEG #ECoG #SEEG
📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET
Learn how to localize intracranial electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes:
cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...
#iEEG #ECoG #SEEG
September 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
🚨 Join me for a hands-on #iElectrodes tutorial at #PracticalMEEG!
📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET
Learn how to localize intracranial electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes:
cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...
#iEEG #ECoG #SEEG
📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET
Learn how to localize intracranial electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes:
cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...
#iEEG #ECoG #SEEG
🧠🚨The first brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour has been created!
Read the study here: lnkd.in/dh8hwxjw
#brain #neuroscience #nature #brainmapping #behavior
Read the study here: lnkd.in/dh8hwxjw
#brain #neuroscience #nature #brainmapping #behavior
September 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🧠🚨The first brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour has been created!
Read the study here: lnkd.in/dh8hwxjw
#brain #neuroscience #nature #brainmapping #behavior
Read the study here: lnkd.in/dh8hwxjw
#brain #neuroscience #nature #brainmapping #behavior
«As statistical machines, the models make predictions by generalizing on the basis of learnt associations, leading them to produce answers that are plausible, but sometimes wrong.»
OpenAI’s GPT-5 hallucinates less than previous models do, but cutting hallucination completely might prove impossible
go.nature.com/4gkzr4A
go.nature.com/4gkzr4A
Can researchers stop AI making up citations?
OpenAI’s GPT-5 hallucinates less than previous models do, but cutting hallucination completely might prove impossible.
go.nature.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
«As statistical machines, the models make predictions by generalizing on the basis of learnt associations, leading them to produce answers that are plausible, but sometimes wrong.»
📉 Big shift in publishing: eLife has lost its Impact Factor, raising debate over its bold open-review model, and the continuing dominance of traditional metrics.
🔗 Full story in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing @elife.bsky.social
🔗 Full story in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing @elife.bsky.social
Pioneering journal eLife faces major test after loss of impact factor
The open-access title’s bold publishing model has brought long-bubbling conflicts to the fore.
www.nature.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
📉 Big shift in publishing: eLife has lost its Impact Factor, raising debate over its bold open-review model, and the continuing dominance of traditional metrics.
🔗 Full story in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing @elife.bsky.social
🔗 Full story in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing @elife.bsky.social
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A large-scale collaborative consensus piece on predictive processing is now online arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 impressively orchestrated by @jeromelecoq.bsky.social
Neural mechanisms of predictive processing: a collaborative community experiment through the OpenScope program
This review synthesizes advances in predictive processing within the sensory cortex. Predictive processing theorizes that the brain continuously predicts sensory inputs, refining neuronal responses by...
arxiv.org
April 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
A large-scale collaborative consensus piece on predictive processing is now online arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 impressively orchestrated by @jeromelecoq.bsky.social
🧠🎶 New research shows your brain doesn’t just hear sounds, it reshapes itself in real time.
Scientists at Aarhus University & Oxford developed FREQ-NESS, a new method to map brain networks by their frequencies.
#Neuroscience #Brainwaves #MusicAndTheBrain
Scientists at Aarhus University & Oxford developed FREQ-NESS, a new method to map brain networks by their frequencies.
#Neuroscience #Brainwaves #MusicAndTheBrain
September 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
🧠🎶 New research shows your brain doesn’t just hear sounds, it reshapes itself in real time.
Scientists at Aarhus University & Oxford developed FREQ-NESS, a new method to map brain networks by their frequencies.
#Neuroscience #Brainwaves #MusicAndTheBrain
Scientists at Aarhus University & Oxford developed FREQ-NESS, a new method to map brain networks by their frequencies.
#Neuroscience #Brainwaves #MusicAndTheBrain
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Researchers have mapped the key structural changes in the pelvis that enabled early humans to first walk on two legs and accommodate giving birth to a big-brained baby
go.nature.com/4n5h71m
go.nature.com/4n5h71m
How humans became upright: key changes to our pelvis found
Nature - Genetic and anatomical data reveal how the human pelvis acquired its unique shape, enabling our ancestors to walk on two legs.
go.nature.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Researchers have mapped the key structural changes in the pelvis that enabled early humans to first walk on two legs and accommodate giving birth to a big-brained baby
go.nature.com/4n5h71m
go.nature.com/4n5h71m
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🤔How does the human brain predict unexpected sounds?
Our new study shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t work as a single unit. Instead, the orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortex make distinct, time-sensitive contributions. #iEEG #BrainLesion #OFC #LPFC
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Our new study shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t work as a single unit. Instead, the orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortex make distinct, time-sensitive contributions. #iEEG #BrainLesion #OFC #LPFC
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Predictive encoding of auditory sequences in the human prefrontal cortex
Humans extract regularities from the environment to form expectations that guide perception and optimize behavior. Although the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is central to this process, the relative contrib...
doi.org
August 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
🤔How does the human brain predict unexpected sounds?
Our new study shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t work as a single unit. Instead, the orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortex make distinct, time-sensitive contributions. #iEEG #BrainLesion #OFC #LPFC
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Our new study shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t work as a single unit. Instead, the orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortex make distinct, time-sensitive contributions. #iEEG #BrainLesion #OFC #LPFC
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
August 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM