Marian Boor

Neural correlates of consciousness in an auditory no-report fMRI study Dellert et al. use functional magnetic resonance imaging and inattentional deafness to identify the neural basis of conscious auditory perception in humans. Their results reveal a dominant role of sti...

👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂
now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social !

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Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.

Fast hierarchical processing of orthographic and semantic parafoveal information during natural reading - Nature Communications Combining MEG, eye-tracking, and representational similarity analysis, this study shows that readers rapidly and sequentially extract orthographic and semantic information from upcoming words before fixation, supporting efficient reading.

Ever wonder how you read so fast? Your brain gets a head start—processing the next word before your eyes move. Our MEG + eye tracking study out in Nature Communications study from @thechbh.bsky.social reveals orthographic & semantic previews predicting reading speed www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 PhD/Postdoc alert 👇

If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at ondrej.zika@pm.me :)

Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.

Applying Bayesian Multilevel Modeling to Single Trial Dynamics: A Demonstration in Aversive Conditioning A Bayesian model had superior cross-validation accuracy of ssVEPs while also being more informative. Left, Model 2 holds the effect of cue constant across participants. Right, the learning model (3) ...

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A multisensory, bidirectional, valence encoder guides behavioral decisions A key function of the brain is to categorize sensory cues as repulsive or attractive and respond accordingly. While we have some understanding of how sensory information is processed in the sensory pe...

How is valence computed in the brain? Check out our new preprint about a single cell that integrates excitatory and inhibitory input across modalities according to valence and impacts behavioral decisions. An exciting collaboration across many labs. Enjoy reading!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist.

Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Rate and noise in human amygdala drive increased exploration in aversive learning - Nature Human exploration is driven by two distinct neural mechanisms, a valence-independent rate signal and a valence-dependent global noise signal.

This is an exquisite demonstration of using intracranial recordings in humans to validate our findings that amygdala neurons encode the value of exploring in NHPs.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to see Zeyd!! :)

How the discrepancy between expectation and outcome influences expectation change in relation to depressive symptoms – Results from four experimental studies Traditional associative learning models and their clinical applications suggest that the greater the discrepancy between expectations and outcome, the…

Excited to share a new article published in the J of Affective Disorders:
In four experiments, we systematically examined the relationship between the strength of an expectation violation and the extent of expectation change/updating, for pos vs neg information
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I also saw an interesting look inside one’s brain this weekend :)

Prior knowledge changes initial sensory processing in the human spinal cord High-frequency signals at a neuronal population level reveal a cognitive influence on sensory processing in the human spinal cord.

Prior knowledge changes sensory processing in the spinal cord?! 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroskyence

🚨💫Check out our new work on perceptual and value-based mechanisms of aversive generalisation 👇

Project led by the truly outstanding @luiantaverra.bsky.social. #veryveryveryproudsupervisor Together with @nicoschuck.bsky.social and @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social

CatGPT?

Come join us! www.emotionalmemory.de

Social expectations in depression

Review by Lukas Kirchner, Tobias Kube, Max Berg, Anna-Lena Eckert, Benjamin Straube, Dominik Endres & Winfried Rief

Web: go.nature.com/41kXLO1
PDF: rdcu.be/d2yHr

#psychology #psychscisky #clinpsy

I highly recommend this position. Jan is a great scientist and an amazing supervisor! + Hamburg is an excellent city to live in

Absorbing all the inspiration I got at the #EMHFC2024
Also, a huge thanks to everyone who offered their comments and ideas at my poster presentation!

In 2023 I:
- moved to Hamburg where I had an amazing time learning to work with fMRI data
- finished my MSc in Neuroscience and Cognition
- moved to Marburg for my PhD (currently designing the first study of my PhD - exciting!)
- presented a poster at a conference (NVP 2023) for the first time

An awesome keynote by @eikofried.bsky.social about the importance of using complex systems rather than a single cause description to understand depression