rodikasokoliuk.bsky.social
@rodikasokoliuk.bsky.social
Interested in brain waves in cognition in the healthy brain & disorders of consciousness.
Cognitive neuroscientist & Ramón y Cajal Fellow based in Granada, Spain.
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Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...
July 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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🧠💻 We (a bunch of colleagues at @cimcyc.bsky.social) just released a programming guide for psych & cog neuro students. Instead of a tutorial, this is a starting point: a collection of reflections, examples, and recommendations.

👉 Still growing, but ready to explore: wobc.github.io/programming_book/
Programming in psychological science
A practical introduction
wobc.github.io
July 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Great work from Emilia exploring attentional focus. This could be an interesting avenue to explore DoC patients. The rest of the amazing work that Emilia did during her PhD will soon go out. Stay attentive!
1/ 🎉 Thrilled to share part of my PhD work published in @PNAS_Nexus! 🌍 This collaboration spanned France, Italy, and Uruguay. We explored how brain-heart interactions reveal attentional focus—insights relevant to patients with #DisordersOfConsciousness (DoC).
🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Predicting attentional focus: Heartbeat-evoked responses and brain dynamics during interoceptive and exteroceptive processing
Abstract. Attention shapes our consciousness content and perception by increasing the probability of becoming aware and/or better encoding a selection of t
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December 10, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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New results!
Different anesthetics, same result: unconsciousness by shifting brainwave phase
MIT study finds that an easily measurable brain wave shift may be a universal marker of unconsciousness under anesthesia
picower.mit.edu/news/differe...
#neuroscience
Different anesthetics, same result: unconsciousness by shifting brainwave phase
MIT study finds that an easily measurable brain wave shift may be a universal marker of unconsciousness under anesthesia
picower.mit.edu
May 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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New paper out! 🎉 “Evolving Engrams Demand Changes in Effective Cues” (Hippocampus). In this opinion piece, we discuss how retrieval processes can be enhanced and offer an alternative to one of the field’s few enduring principles: encoding specificity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Evolving Engrams Demand Changes in Effective Cues
A longstanding principle in episodic memory research, known as the encoding specificity hypothesis, holds that an effective retrieval cue should closely match the original encoding conditions. This p...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Enjoying the “Meetings of the Alhambra” conference on cognitive neuroscience of consciousness
April 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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📣 ICON Symposium

Really excited to announce our symposium at @ICON this year on Sudden Learning Across Systems!

Together with lots of cool people: @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @anikaloewe.bsky.social @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social and Andrea Greve!
April 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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'A role for respiration in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation'

by Fabian Schwimmbeck, Esteban Bullón Tarrasó & Thomas Schreiner
@fabian31415.bsky.social @estebanbt.bsky.social @tschreiner.bsky.social

www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
March 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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📢 New preprint from the lab:

We are very excited to report the discovery of an oscillation in the Central Thalamus using rare direct recordings of human thalamic electrophysiology.

The novel oscillation is tightly coupled to specific, natural states of consciousness.🧵
Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.28.635248v1
January 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Our review on the theoretical status of oscillations and field potentials is out! What are their effects, and what can electrophysiology signals reveal about how the brain works?

w/ @dlevenstein.bsky.social @prokraustinator.bsky.social Bradley Voytek @rdgao.bsky.social

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Processes and measurements: a framework for understanding neural oscillations in field potentials
Various neuroscientific theories maintain that brain oscillations are important for neuronal computation, but opposing views claim that these macroscale dynamics are ‘exhaust fumes’ of more relevant processes. Here, we approach the question of whether oscillations are functional or epiphenomenal by distinguishing between measurements and processes, and by reviewing whether causal or inferentially useful links exist between field potentials, electric fields, and neurobiological events. We introduce a vocabulary for the role of brain signals and their underlying processes, demarcating oscillations as a distinct entity where both processes and measurements can exhibit periodicity. Leveraging this distinction, we suggest that electric fields, oscillating or not, are causally and computationally relevant, and that field potential signals can carry information even without causality.
www.cell.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM