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Frames dropping can be a nightmare for getting experiments with good timing.

Here are some tips on reducing frame drops on your computer, if you have any more please do share!

https://www.psychopy.org/general/timing/reducingFrameDrops.html

Almost every week or so I see a new comp-neuro paper with some stimuli being reconstructed from brain data using deep learning, and sometimes people ask me about it. Here I have compiled some of my thoughts applicable to a generic study on the subject - would be happy to discuss it if you have something to add or disagree with.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reconstructing-x-from-brain-activity-what-does-mean-rafael-grigoryan/

A new piece in Nature, challenging the traditional understanding of motor homunculus:

After integrating functional MRI, resting-state connectivity, precision functional mapping across age groups, datasets like HCP, and some animal data, the old concept of the somatotopic organization of the motor cortex is updated.

The new homunculus includes somatotopic areas of concentric shape, that are separated by integrative areas, included in a circulo-opercular network (see picture). They lack movement specificity and are co-activated during action planning and whole-body movement.

Sounds like a bombshell to me - the idea of continuous homunculus in the motor cortex is almost 100 years old, it made its way to all neuroscience textbooks, and there is a lot of research based on this. I wonder where it goes from here.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05964-2

#neuroscience #fmri

Several days ago I thought that the whole alternative platform thing would never fly due to size and the lack of network effect. However now it seems different - Twitter is becoming a strange place and here are more science people from all over the world than one would ever need.
So, #introduction , it seems to be a thing here:

I'm a noninvasive BCI researcher and developer, primarily working with EEG. My main area of expertise is in event-related potentials and ERP-BCI for spelling and control. However, I have worked in several companies developing all sorts of EEG and heart rate-related cognitive stuff for wearable devices. I have also taught introductory DSP courses for various neuroscience programs.

My Ph.D. graduation is somewhat on pause right now, but I hope to complete it sometime soon. Right now I actively search for international opportunities for a career in neuroscience R&D or academy.