Woolgar-Lab

Happy Halloween from @LabWoolgar !

Goodbye and thanks to Sichao Liu - we enjoyed having you join the lab this past year, and hope the next stages of your Swedish Research Council fellowship go brilliantly.

We wrote a functional guide to TMS-fMRI, by consensus, with >30 authors! When, why, and how to concurrently stimulate and record brain activity for cog neuro and clinical research. Great to have such a lovely collaborative community pushing this forward! doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

Once, we ran a study on Prolific and a participant wrote on Reddit that the study “Felt like I was losing the will to live.” I went on the Prolific Subreddit (24k members!) and asked what matters. Here is what they told me. A thread on happier participants and better studies 1/9

Fascinating presentation from @rhodricusack capturing infant neural representation as reflecting self-supervised learning, at Birmingham workshop on Synergising the Human Brain and Artificial Neural Networks

Some of our lab are on tour today to Birmingham, looking forward to this workshop!

Yesss! We are so delighted to keep you around for a few more years and can't wait to see where this research goes! Many congrats again :)

Research assistant opportunity (6 months): Come and work with us on a TMS ⚡️ project looking at causal and temporal role of prefrontal areas in selective attention. More details: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/45975/ DM @Jade_BJackson to chat.

We're looking for a new PhD student to come and work with us on the topics of cognitive control and reinforcement learning! Deadline April 26th. For more information, please see users.ugent.be/~sbraem/. @GhentCCN

We are seeking a postdoc with strong analysis skills! With the superb @GwilliamsL, we will use ML decoding of EEG from autistic non-speakers listening to an audiobook, to study receptive language. More details and EOI here: tinyurl.com/m9atmjt4 Please RT!

Something really special: We have a 4-year postdoc position open, using neuroimaging to study potentially hidden cognitive abilities in non-speaking autism. M/EEG, decoding, receptive language, cognitive control jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/37323/ DM @AlexWoolgar to chat. Please RT!

Now published. This work investigates three ways of using representational connectivity analysis to evaluate potential transfer of information across the brain. A great collaboration with @AlexWoolgar (@LabWoolgar), @rikhens and @hamed_nili.

Come along to the #ohbm Multivariate Approaches session on Thursday morning (yes, after the club night) to see more simulation results from @TGrootswagers and @AlexWoolgar - we looked at the benefit of creating pseudotrials using trial averaging and resampling. Poster WTh579

New postdoc opportunity at UNSW, Sydney! For a project with @AlexWoolgar, visual neuroscience, using behaviour, fMRI and MEG. See external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5097…. I'll be at #OHBM2022 and @ABPS2022 if you'd like to chat in person, or email erin.goddard@unsw.edu.au

You can now pre-register your interest to attend the Cognitive Neuroscience Skills Training In Cambridge (COGNESTIC) @mrccbu between 19-30 September 2022. You can find more information here: mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/conferences/co…

Postdoc job alert! We have a new position in our growing group. Work on goal-directed decision-making, focusing on memory, reinforcement learning, and mood & 🧠 decoding of representations with MEG! @ the exciting @MPC_CompPsych @WCHN_UCL ow.ly/hufM50Ir9eP Please share!

A clear link between pre-response patterns of neural activity and behaviour during perceptual decision making: ow.ly/crQM50IqXmw @AlexWoolgar @amandarob10

Super excited about the first international TMS-fMRI workshop, in person, in Cyprus, this May. Concurrent TMS-fMRI users unite! Let's learn from one another. Register here: tmsfmri.com/workshop Organised with @evaferedoes @MartinTik1 @Chris__Wind

Very happy to announce our symposium "Multi-dimensional functional connectivity in EEG/MEG: old and novel methods" @OHBM, organized with the amazing @AlexWoolgar and @rikhens, and featuring the no-less amazing @AlessioBasti, @Hamed_Nili, @eringoddard18, Setareh Rahimi. @mrccbu

Multiscale activation patterns of EEG (as quantified using Wavelet transformation) are very informative about semantic object categories and recognition performance frontiersin.org/article/10.338… @AlexWoolgar @LabWoolgar @AcademicEEG