Cognition & Plasticity Lab

🚨 I'm thrilled to share our new preprint on the representation of taxonomic and thematic semantic relationships in the human brain as a function of task demands and healthy aging: researchgate.net/publication/40…

I’m extremely excited that this work of 3 years is finally published in @brainstimj. Using condition-and-perturb TMS with e-field-based optimized targeting and dosing, we provide causal evidence for hybrid theories of semantic cognition: researchgate.net/publication/39…

We are leaving X. Musk's support of anti-democratic forces makes further use untenable for us. Please follow us on Bluesky to stay in touch: bsky.app/profile/copla.…

Wir freuen uns über unsere neue Studie, die die Auswirkungen der transkraniellen Magnetstimulation und eines computergestützten Trainings auf die motorischen Funktionen von Schlaganfallüberlebenden untersucht. Mehr Informationen unter studie-neuro@cbs.mpg.de

Look what I got in the mail! The 2nd edition of The Oxford Handbook of Transcranial Stimulation is finally here. Congratulations to my fellow editors, Drs. Eric Wassermann, Angel Peterchev, @ulfziemann1, @HSiebner, and Vin Walsh.

What we mean when we say semantic? In this paper a large pool of researchers led by the great (and brave) Jamie Reilly get together to discuss possible answers, while reaching new heights of collaborative and inclusive effort in academia 🫂 link.springer.com/article/10.375…

Why is motion correction a thing for fMRI but nobody quantifies it during #TMS? Well, we just put out a metric to easily quantify within-session movement of the TMS coil, e.g. due to subject movement. Say hi to pulsewise coil displacement / PCD. doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.… 🧵 1/5

WOW - @OHBM just put about 800 videos online including tutorials and symposia [1,2] from many years of past brain mapping meetings! @OHBM/videos" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@OHBM/videos [1] Some were there before but it looks like entire conferences were just added [2] I am not involved with this, just appreciative - thanks to @StephForkel @sofievalk Kevin Sitek, Alfie Wearn

I'm super excited that our consensus paper on the terminology of semantic memory is now published! This was a tremendous collaborative effort of 50+ researchers across the globe: link.springer.com/article/10.375…

Try out our Network Correspondence Toolbox, aka "The decoder"! @Nathan_Spreng @bttyeo 🧠 thetransmitter.org/brain-imaging/…

📚✨ Just released! The #OHBM2024 official Abstract Books are now published in #ApertureNeuro as a Supplementary Issue. Read all about the cutting-edge research shared this week on our website: apertureneuro.org @OHBM

Thanks @OHBM for this great conference! Had a fun time discussing our project on the alignment of resting and task states in semantic cognition in the young and aging brain in Seoul! @labCoPla #OHBM24

I enjoyed co-chairing the Neural Orchestra of Language session with @PhilKuhnke at #OHBM2024. We explored groundbreaking research on spontaneous speech, post-tumour language outcomes, and neural mechanisms of language. Exciting insights and discussions! A 🧵

It was a fantastic experience co-chairing the oral session on language today @OHBM with @StephForkel and presenting our TMS work on conceptual knowledge retrieval! Thanks again to the wonderful audience and my tremendous colleagues @labCoPla #OHBM2024

#OHBM2024 poster: PCD - a simple metric to quantify #TMS coil movement during stimulation - use it as a time-series regressor, to flag bad trials, etc. Direct data import from all major neuronavigation systems with #python #pyNIBS 🧠🔍⚡️🐍 🪄 Poster #124, today and tomorrow

#OHBM2024: We looked at #TMS dosing strategies - turns out the traditional 𝐌𝐓-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 for cortical stimulation - see poster for solutions 🧠🔍⚡️ paper: dx.doi.org/10.1162/imag_a… Poster #125, today and tmrw

#OHBM2024: Want to see how different multichannel #TMS systems outperform a figure-of-eight coil in regression-based localization? After running these simulations I'm on fire to get hands on an(y) #mTMS system asap 🧠🔍⚡️ Poster #112, today and tomorrow

At #OHBM2024, I'm presenting a condition-and-perturb TMS study showing that left IPL and auditory cortex jointly contribute to sound knowledge retrieval. Come see me at poster 1002 (today 1:15pm) and in tomorrow's oral session on language (Tue 12pm) chaired with @StephForkel!

Fantastic achievement! Congratulations to everyone involved!