I am looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, broadly construed. EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI or related methodological experience preferred.
Apply here:
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Lab website: wessellab.org
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Thanks to fantastic coauthors Stephanie Jones and collaborator Linda Carpenter, reviewers, and editors. For now, enjoy the preprint but check back for the typeset version soon. 3/3
Within the Jones Lab we are excited to think about how we can use HNN to model mechanisms of these predictive features. Next, I’m also eager to understand how inhibitory control task-related beta event dynamics in depression may or may not relate to these findings! 2/
Slight but exciting departure from typical projects for me: I’m happy to share our paper finding that frontal beta event characteristics predict antidepressant response to sertraline (SSRI) has been accepted at J Psychiatric Research! 1/
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Must-see at CNS 2026:
Poster
Sunday pm C36
Priority-Driven Transformation of Visual Working Memory Content, Jung Woo Hur & me
Tuesday am
Tuesday am F45
Beta oscillatory—not burst—dynamics support priority coding in working memory
Jacqueline M. Fulvio & me
If you’re a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member, check out and vote on the great lineup of symposia for 2026, and plz consider our symposium “Non-invasive meso-scale dynamics of perception and cognition”, organized by @adykstra.bsky.social including James Bonauito and @lonikefaes.bsky.social!
A patent filed by the lab is up for a Brown Innovation of the Year award! “Personalized Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Delivery Protocols Based on Computational Modeling of the Electromagnetic TMS-evoked Response” was filed by Drs. Sliva and Jones.
View and vote here tinyurl.com/nx37789m
Want a high-level overview of how HNN works? Check out this short comic by our lab manager Joyce (@kermieeart.bsky.social)!
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#compneuro #sciart #comics
🚨Interested in Dystonia?🚨
@braincircuits.bsky.social
GPi DBS for dystonia is effective.
More recently, STN DBS has been investigated, as an alternative.
In what enfolded like a stunning thriller to me, Konstantin Butenko tells a tale of two networks…
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"exhaust fumes" made it into the official abstract!
hence completing the journey from an epiphenomenal shitpost blog to a full-blown review paper.
all thanks to this cast of co-authors (esp. Sander), our TICS editor Lindsey Drayton, and two very engaged reviewers (@danielemarinazzo.bsky.social)
A shameless plug now that science Twitter has migrated to Bluesky: I'm on the (clinical academic) job market! If anyone is looking for an early career clinical neuropsychologist with expertise in lesion-deficit mapping, neuroimaging/tractography, and estim+behavior, please let me know!
Loving the starter packs and would love to put one together full of #compneuro trainees on here! Please share and comment if you want to be added or tag your trainees and I’ll put one together😊 #neuroscience #neuroskyence
Excited this work is now in it's fully published form at JOCN!
"Reward accelerates the preparation of goal-directed actions under conflict"
Check out the full Special Focus on the Neural and Computational Mechanisms of Motivation and Decision Making!
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Starter pack for researchers studying the control of cognitive processes
e.g., attentional control, inhibition, task switching, working memory, error adaptation etc
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Some resources i've curated for the cognitive and computational neuroscience communities on bluesky! First, a twin set of starter packs. go.bsky.app/2n84SRM
Here's a somewhat sparse Dopamine / Basal Ganglia starter pack. Please self-nominate to add! go.bsky.app/B2kViZY
Upon popular demand I created a started pack for people interested in Deep Brain Stimulation!
Lmk if you'd like to be added!
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First go at a starter pack for everyone who is interested in Cognitive Control research.
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Let me know if I should add anyone.
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Hey #neuroskyence, want to visit Brown and engage with our brain science community? 🐻🧠 There’s still time to apply for the BrainExPo (external postdoc) speaker series for this Spring! Visit bit.ly/CarneyBrainExPo for instructions on how to apply before the Dec. 1 deadline.
Dorsomedial frontal cortex damage impairs error-based, but not reinforcement-based motor learning in humans
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I'm psyched to be back at for #SFN2023 (it's been a minute!) Come check out our poster on neurocomputational mechanisms of reward and aversive motivation on mental effort allocation!
TT24, Monday 11/13, 1-5 PM.
👎🏻😢 M/EEG analysis gifs are a critical user feature
Thanks for reading and we’re looking forward to hearing what reviewers and colleagues think! (8/8)
We hope these predictions are exciting, useful to those wanting to better connect mechanism with behavior in the stop signal task. I’m also v excited about potential for HNN models to generate similar predictions w/ FC-ERPs in other contexts (ERN, RewP, oddball P3, etc.) (7/)
Check out all the other fun details in the preprint, including alt models addressing: can anything else explain P3 diff? What’s going on with P2/N2 mechanisms? What if different parts of the FC-ERP come from different columns?? (6/)
Our modeling also predicted mechanisms producing ERP feature diffs between successful, failed stops. Thalamocortical drive producing the P3 is later, but not weaker, in failed stops, in line w/ race model prediction of a later but not weaker Stop process. (5/)
To assess, we used @HNNsolver’s biophys model of a cortical column under external drive to predict mechanisms of the FC-ERP features after the stop signal (P2, N2, P3). A sequence of drives strikingly similar to those proposed to produce sensory ERPs can accomplish this. (4/)
Such interpretation is 🔑 in hypotheses about meaning of ERP features in the stop-signal task (esp wrt the horse race model’s Stop process). P3 onset is proposed to index Stop because of early timing when stops successful, but unclear if mechs support this link. (3/)
Frontocentral ERPs (FC-ERPs) are proxy signals of cognitive control processes. But, we don’t know if grand average ERP behavior = similar behavior of underlying mechanisms, given complex cortical dynamics. This is a problem for theoretical interpretation. (2/)
