Josephine Flockton

Consciousness is just a skill issue. I haven't had subjective experience since I started using Claude Code

Temporally-precise sensory encoding of predicted content, entraining motor oscillations to derive time. @akalt.bsky.social's first study out @currentbiology.bsky.social, testing parts of this idea (tinyurl.com/TiCSKaltenma...). Huge thanks @leverhulme.ac.uk ac.uk @erc.europa.eu, great work Aaron!

Functionally heterogeneous waveform morphology strikes again and I'm so here for it, lovely work 💥 🌊

Distinct beta burst motifs exhibit opposing error relationships during motor adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.06.710026v1

Episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz Nature Human Behaviour - Biba et al. show that episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz.

I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here: rdcu.be/e6pzS. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠

Thanks Emma, happy to join the international postdoc club with you! 🦘 🥨

Thank you Catherine! 🍾

Thank you! 😊

Delighted to share that I'll begin a postdoc in Tübingen this year 🇩🇪 on @joelfrohlich.bsky.social's exciting FETAL-MIND project; using fMEG & OPM to investigate neural responses to sensory and social stimuli, in the fetal brain! 🧠

How dynamics arise from the structure is my biggest interest. In this study, we started with a small step and asked how structure constrains dynamics. Spoiler: would that it were so simple… (1/6)

cool people, follow them!

I built a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods.

1️⃣ follow/subscribe to: @neuromethods.bsky.social
2️⃣ like the post with your favorite method
➡️ get a shiny methods label in your profile/posts. 🌟

Delayed, Reduced and Redundant: Information Processing of Prediction Errors during Human Sleep During sleep, the human brain transitions to a ‘sentinel processing mode’, enabling the continued processing of environmental stimuli despite the absence of consciousness. We employed advanced informa...

Delayed, Reduced and Redundant: Information Processing of Prediction Errors during Human Sleep

www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

#neuroskyence

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

📡🧠New preprint: check out our purpose-built OPMEG-compatible VR goggles and their validation with several cognitive tasks. Towards naturalistic human neuroscience. Read more here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#naturalisticneuroscience #neuroimaging #opm #opmeg

Thrilled to share this work, spearheaded by the Danc lab (led by James Bonaiuto) @danclab.bsky.social, in collaboration with us, especially Matteo Maspoli @mattgmasp.bsky.social and Danila Shelepenkov @shpen.bsky.social, and other groups who share the belief that MEG still has untapped potential!

Job alert!!

We're looking for a Postdoc and two RAs on a 3-year project examining the effects of smartphones on sleep and mental health in adolescents. Details below:

RA: tinyurl.com/7h6zrz2k
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykmsk757

Please repost :)

Soon hiring a lab manager! Looking for someone who is really interested in language neuroscience, who is organised, motivated, a great communicator, and who works well in a research team. Express interest by submitting this form: tinyurl.com/glysn-labman...

Reposts appreciated!

The Human Insula Reimagined: Single Neurons Respond to Simple Sounds during Passive Listening The insula is critical for integrating sensory information from the body with that arising from the environment. Although previous studies suggested that posterior insula is sensitive to sounds, these...

"The Human Insula Reimagined: Single Neurons Respond to Simple Sounds during Passive Listening"

Single neuron activity in the insula
#iEEG

in #JNeurosci @sfnjournals.bsky.social

www.jneurosci.org/content/46/4...

We think cortex might function like a JEPA. It looks like prediction errors in layer 2/3 are not computed against input (as is the idea in predictive processing), but against a representation in latent space (i.e. like in a JEPA arxiv.org/abs/2301.08243 or RPL doi.org/10.1101/2025...).

Repeated Viewing of a Narrative Movie Changes Event Timescales in The Brain Many experiences occur repeatedly throughout our lives: we might watch the same movie more than once and listen to the same song on repeat. How does the brain modify its representations of events when...

How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience?

Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as event familiarity increases. Fine-tuning predicts memory recall.

Excited to share this work with Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal!
Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Thanks Georgie! ☺️

Thank youu, see you Monday! 😊

Thanks Dan - you'll be pleased to know, they were fans of the FOOOF!

Officially Dr Flockton 🎉 Thanks to my brilliant supervisors for their support & great humour throughout my PhD @cejpreston.bsky.social @cademccall.bsky.social @bakerdh.bsky.social & to my lovely examiners for the exciting discussions in yesterday's viva! @mggaskell.bsky.social & Helge Gillmeister

Sensory sharpening and semantic prediction errors unify competing models of predictive processing in human speech comprehension Speech comprehension relies on predictive mechanisms, but models disagree on whether the brain prioritizes expected or unexpected information. This study shows that sharpening of sensory representatio...

Same sound, different perception: Do expectations change what you hear?👂🧠

We paired faces w topics and played the same ambiguous speech w different faces. The brain sharpened sensory signals toward predictions and showed gated prediction errors at higher levels.

Read @plosbiology.org. Blueprint👇

Episodic memory consolidation by reactivation of human concept neurons during sleep reflects contents, not sequence of events https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.10.698827v1

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Nils Harmening, Alexander von Lühmann, and Benjamin Blankertz:

Data-driven head model individualization from digitized electrode positions or photogrammetry improves M/EEG source localization accuracy

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

What if we could tell you how well you’ll remember your next visit to your local coffee shop? ☕️

In our new Nature Human Behaviour paper, we show that the 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 can be measured with neuroimaging – and 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸.

Alpha oscillations and aperiodic neural dynamics jointly predict visual temporal resolution, confidence, and dependence on prior experience https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.05.697694v1