Ben Griffiths
Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. Interested in all things memory and the brain. He/him. benjaminjamesgriffiths.com
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsGreat work by Roni Tibon (not on BlueSky) - surprising that negligible difference in fMRI correlates of semantic vs episodic retrieval?
- Are episodic and semantic memory really that different? Using closely matched tasks, a new study found no substantial neural differences between recalling personal experiences and general knowledge: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsRipple oscillations are central for memory and sleep. But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsNew preprint: Inference over hidden contexts shapes the geometry of conceptual knowledge for flexible behaviour. In this pre-reg study, our core claim was that we don’t just learn stimulus-reward. We infer hidden context and that inference re-wires attention and neural state space on the fly. 1/8
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths📣 We have a new PhD studentship (UK home students) at @fbmh-uom.bsky.social funded by @royalsociety.org. Interested in human memory, VR, and neuroimaging? This is the project for you 🧠 tinyurl.com/memoryVRPhD Application deadline January 31st!
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsIt’s official! The postdoc positions announcement is here 🚀 If you know great candidates interested in attention, memory transformation and EEG, please help spread the word: Project (ReDAS) -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati... Job offer -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsI’m proud of @estebanbt.bsky.social and his first-author PhD work. The article highlights how breathing shapes remembering by coordinating key neural signatures of retrieval. Thanks to @lmumuenchen.bsky.social for the nice coverage: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
- I'm happy to share my debut as first-author with the recent publication of our article in #JNeurosci: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... Big thanks again to @tschreiner.bsky.social and the whole team who made this possible! 🧠🌬️
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsAsking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsCheck out our new paper! We evaluate what we know (and don't know) about the link between memory consolidation during sleep and next-day learning 👇
- 😴 Sleep stabilises old memories and supports new learning. Are these benefits of sleep causally linked, driven by a common underlying mechanism, or largely independent? Our new paper digs into this important question! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths🚨New publication! I am extremely happy to share this new review article in elife on #Traveling_Waves! @erc.europa.eu @upcite.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/106...
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsPlease repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
- Delighted to share our new preprint! We show that rhythmic light stimulation produces multiplexed oscillatory responses at fundamental and harmonic frequencies that are spatially, temporally, and functionally distinct. Read on for the details [1/6] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence
- Synchronisation theory states that a rhythmic input can entrain higher frequency endogenous rhythms, but does this happen when the brain responds to rhythmic stimulation? We investigated this across three M/EEG datasets, using a variety of stimulation parameters and two experimental tasks. [2/6]
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsI wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting. A neural state space for episodic memories www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths
[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Ben GriffithsMemory might depend on when you look, not just what you see Happy to share a new preprint from my postdoctoral work with Jed Meltzer, @drjenryan.bsky.social, and @rosannaolsen.bsky.social Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsForaging in conceptual spaces: hippocampal oscillatory dynamics underlying searching for concepts in memory www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsThe brain represents the world around us as a series of neural states - stable patterns of activity that change as we move from one event to the next. New paper by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social showing that neural states get longer as people age. #PsychSciSky nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08792-4
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsAt long last, the pre-print to our MEG study + RIFT study and the final paper from my Ph.D with @olejensen.bsky.social We show that strong pre-search alpha oscillations are associated with faster responses in visual search www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @thechbh.bsky.social #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsOur new paper, “A neural compass in the human brain during naturalistic human navigation” is out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! First-author @zhenganglu.bsky.social led the charge, with Josh Julian and collaborator @gkaguirre.com. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths🚨New preprint from the Dugué Lab! Happy to share our last work on #attention_rhythms, co-led by @cogsenoussi.bsky.social & former Dugué Lab PhD student @lauriegalas.bsky.social, and in collab with Niko Busch 🎉 @upcite.bsky.social | @erc.europa.eu | #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsAfter you fall asleep in the sleep lab, we can decide what you dream about — as Karen Konkoly showed in her PhD work and just published in this new paper: “Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences” authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsExcited to share our newly published paper! 👇 Massive thanks to @harrington-mo.bsky.social @sacairney.bsky.social @mggaskell.bsky.social
- "Does overnight memory consolidation support next-day learning?" 📢 New paper from: Anna Guttesen (annaavali.bsky.social), Marcus Harrington (@harrington-mo.bsky.social), Gareth Gaskell (mggaskell.bsky.social), & Scott Cairney (sacairney.bsky.social) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths🧠 Paper out! We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that: 🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries 🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories! rdcu.be/eui9l
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths🚨 NEW postdoc position 🚨 Join our Royal Society-funded team (3+ years) to work on human memory and salience 🧠 with virtual reality, fMRI, computational modelling and clinical collaborations 👉 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Please spread the word! 📣
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsOut now @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, w/ @akalt.bsky.social & @drmattdavis.bsky.social. Are sensory sampling rhythms fixed by intrinsically-determined processes, or do they couple to external structure? Here we highlight the incompatibility between these accounts and propose a resolution [1/6]
- Reposted by Ben Griffithspreprint alert 🚨 1/ Can we accurately detect sequential replay in humans using Temporally Delayed Linear Modelling (#TDLM)? In our recent study, we could not find any replay and decided to dig deeper by running a hybrid simulation with surprising results. Link to preprint & details below 👇
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsAs you listen to a story, the meaning of each word you hear relates to the meaning of prior words. But how? We operationalized semantic distance, and identified brain regions that correspond to this rolling summary measure during naturalistic listening. #neuroscienceoflanguage
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsFinally out in @commsbio.nature.com ! Using MEG and Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT) in a classic visual search paradigm we show that neuronal excitability in V1 is modulated in line with a priority-map-based mechanism to boost targets and suppress distractors!
- Guided visual search affects #neuronal excitability in the primary visual cortex, enhancing targets and suppressing distractors. www.nature.com/articles/s42... @katduecker.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social @benjamingriffiths.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsOnce upon a time I couldn't replicate a published finding...and decided to do something about it. Little did I know how long it would take to finish 😭...but here we are. I'm super proud of this paper and grateful to the other 68 (!) authors. ❤️ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths[Not loaded yet]
- Been told to expect a big grant decision “in June”, so naturally the next four weeks of my life will consist of refreshing my inbox every ten minutes.
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsEmotions create vivid and lasting memories - but how are those memories organized? We find that negative emotions fragment experience, disrupting the flow of memory. Reframing negative feelings also carves up experiences, but in a way that supports integration and wellbeing. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsThis Thursday at 5.20pm we are holding a webinar to reveal the first findings from our project studying how 100 people explore, navigate and evacuate space. Photos below show camera tracking at 2 timepoints in our experiment. For more info and a registration link: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/res...
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsHi Bluesky! First post here. Kicking things off with a new preprint. 🧠 Using human iEEG + pharmacology, we asked: is hippocampal theta required for retrieval? Turns out it’s not. Instead, it may reflect a reinstated encoding mode. Thread below. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsI’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊 Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsNew paper out! 🎉 “Evolving Engrams Demand Changes in Effective Cues” (Hippocampus). In this opinion piece, we discuss how retrieval processes can be enhanced and offer an alternative to one of the field’s few enduring principles: encoding specificity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsMajor team effort on phase-locked stim of human hippocampal theta rhythms finally out in the wild! W/ @jkragel.bsky.social @alikwidge.bsky.social and a cast of many. Thanks to the BRAIN Initiative for making it possible. rdcu.be/ej7VE
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences. We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsVery excited to share the first preprint of my PhD thesis! Together with @tschreiner.bsky.social, we investigated how respiration coordinates signature neural expressions of successful remembering during memory retrieval. 🫁🧠 🧵(1/8)
- Respiration shapes the neural dynamics of successful remembering in humans. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths🚨New article from the #DuguéLab in #PLOS_Computational_Biology, led by @lgrabot.bsky.social! We developed a new model-based neuroimaging approach to study Traveling Waves in visual cortex using MEG-EEG. @erc.europa.eu journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsMy lab is hiring a pre-doctoral research assistant to work on the neural computations of foraging, seeking common cross-species algorithms. A BBSRC-funded project in collaboration with Matt Apps (Birmingham) & Nathan Lepora (Bristol) Closes May 5th Pls share! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
- I'm thrilled to share that I’ve officially started as an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (@notts-psych.bsky.social) this week. The glorious weather is a good omen! ☀️
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths[...] age-related differences in aperiodic EEG/MEG signals can be driven by cardiac rather than brain activity [...] important implications for all future research [into] aperiodic neural activity [...] control for the influence of cardiac signals is essential. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsWe’re recruiting for 5 faculty positions in cognitive neuroscience, psychology & animal neuroscience! Exciting science going on @UofG, Glasgow is an amazing and green city with the friendliest people, and you’ll have the stunning highlands on your doorstep! tinyurl.com/mbn6yf56 Please repost!
- Reposted by Ben Griffiths[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsScience Alert 🚨: Our paper is now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social - We show that the firing phase of neurons in human MTL doesn’t reflect the order of events, challenging a long-standing theory of human memory. nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01893-7
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsIn our recent @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social forum article www.cell.com/trends/neuro..., we highlight respiration's potential role in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation. With the fabulous @tschreiner.bsky.social and @estebanbt.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ben GriffithsIn my ongoing quest to publish as many academic papers with Arnold Schwazenegger movies as part of the title, I give you…..Total Recall….out today and free to read www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
