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vanmedge.bsky.social
Physician-scientist @ uni Geneva & hospital, Switzerland. Bridging the gap between neurons and neurology. Unique cornflake.
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Avec une petite pensée pour Cabu: en plus de tout le reste, l'armée ça rend tuberculeux. Une quarantaine de militaires en isolement en raison d'un cas de tuberculose à Payerne www.rts.ch/info/regions...

Friends don't let friends use footnotes*. * in scientific communication

"The neural activity of auditory conscious perception" Great new data from three intracranial EEG labs reveals neural correlates of consciously perceiving near-threshold auditory stimuli. Spoiler alert: it's beyond early auditory cortex! #iEEG #NeuroImage www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Learning to operate an imagined speech Brain-Computer Interface involves the spatial and frequency tuning of neural activity https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39979463/

This is gripping. And _so_ sad.

In 1931 Mussolini imposed to all academics to pledge allegiance to the fascist regime -- or be fired. Just *12* out of ~1200 academics chose not to in the whole country. Here are the names of those brave few who chose to forfeit their careers.

European Parliament member 👇🏽

"Perceived Multisensory Common Cause Relations Shape the Ventriloquism Effect but Only Marginally the Trial‐Wise Aftereffect" Kayser and Heuer, European Journal of Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Wirecutter’s resident sleep expert has tested nearly a hundred mattresses. She recently spent six months sleeping on a mattress that costs nearly $56,000. The experience made her wonder: How much is our sleep worth?

Presenting Natural Continuous Speech in a Multisensory Immersive Environment Improves Speech Comprehension & Reflects the Allocation of Processing Resources in Neural Speech Tracking direct.mit.edu/jocn/article... Looked at memory load & naturalistic immersive AV speech comprehension in older adults

Thou shalt not let RFK Jr. be in charge of health, or anything.

Report: Everything Slightly Worse Than Yesterday theonion.com/report-...

Again and again, studies show that people are really bad at reporting what they eat. Like "not reporting having eaten enough food to survive for a fortnight" bad. So take the results of any "health and diet" study with a pinch (or a truckload) of salt. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org

"A Speech Neuroprosthesis in the Frontal Lobe and Hippocampus: Decoding High-Frequency Activity into Phonemes" Interesting single case report #iEEG journals.lww.com/neurosurgery...

"Supplementary motor area in speech initiation: A large-scale intracranial EEG evaluation of stereotyped word articulation" by the Tandon lab in Houston #iEEG #openAccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ce n'est pas que TikTok : l'ensemble des applications de ByteDance (CapCut, Lemon8...), dont le jeu Marvel Snap, ont volontairement baissé le rideau ce dimanche aux Etats-Unis

That's a fascinating topic! Related to that, we will have a talk by Pr. David Attwell at the next BRAIN conference (London, 7-March-2025). Registration open conference.guarantorsofbrain.org/registration/ @braincomms.bsky.social

Today's mood: "Cramming commitments like cats in a sack" Elbow, The Bones of You, on The Seldom Seen Kid

Quantifying Differences in Neural Population Activity With Shape Metrics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.10.632411v1

Ben Stiller, who directs and is an executive producer of “Severance,” recently discussed growing up with his famous parents, his separation and reunification with his wife and his career in comedy. Read or listen to The Interview. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/m...

I just asked my pharmacist if my ear was a bit blocked and he had a look and SCREAMED and told me to go to A&E immediately so off I go, gang!

This historical article is gripping! Warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in the history of neurosciences and the auditory system. Full article: David Ferrier’s second monkey (‘monkey F’): The inaugural experimental studies of the auditory cortex www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Predictive acoustical processing in human cortical layers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.09.632099v1

"Neuroethology of natural actions in freely moving monkeys" in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Cortical tracking of speakers’ spectral changes predicts selective listening" in #CerebralCortex academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...

"Concurrent processing of the prosodic hierarchy is supported by cortical entrainment and phase-amplitude coupling" in #CerebralCortex academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...

Vacances studieuses. #GolfoParadiso #Liguria #laMerEnHiver

A little sneak peak of results that are forthcoming in a preprint soon: the mechanism by which semantic feature analysis appeared to improve correct naming on 30 treated nouns for n=19 participants w aphasia appeared to be by improving inner speech for those items. Thanks to NIDILRR for funding.

"Spatiotemporal Mapping of Auditory Onsets during Speech Production" By Liberty Hamilton's lab @libertysays.bsky.social In the Journal of Neuroscience #JNeurosci #iEEG www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

We were actually "unknown" for it, but for years @neuroshea.bsky.social and I ran the bsdneuro account, which now rests in a grave befitting Bob (and his cortex).

Here's a starter pack for people interested in the cognitive science and neuroscience of language. With all the new Bluesky arrivals, I'm sure I'm missing people—please let me know and I'll add! go.bsky.app/6iumPee

I feel that the auditory research community has either not arrived here yet or is not very well connected. Please let me know who to add to this starter pack and self-nominate. 🧪 go.bsky.app/2V3D2mu

New preprint! We know a lot about how the brain produces single words. But how does word production work in sentences? We tracked 6 words in the brain while ECoG patients used them to produce sentences like "Dracula hit Frankenstein". 🧵 1/9 doi.org/10.1101/2024...

learning that Oprah's real name is Orpah is one of those wedge factoids that will permanently destroy your ability to speak normally about her ever again. it alters your brain chemistry. "Do you mean Orpah?" you'll say, every time. if you're reading this it's already too late

Happened to be walking by the auditorium this morning and heard the loudest cheer of my life www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/n...

Apixaban to Prevent Recurrence After Cryptogenic Stroke in Patients With Atrial Cardiopathy: The ARCADIA RCT @hoomankamel @WeillCornell @WCMCNeurology & colleagues jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... …our Top Viewed this week at JAMA #medsky