Olivier Collignon
FRS-FNRS Senior Researcher; Prof. UCLouvain.
Study the multisensory nature of brain networks and how sensory deprivation impacts their development.
Does different sensation means different conception?
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- Reposted by Olivier CollignonThis paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
- Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonPlease check out and RT this new position for an exciting collaborative project with @boninlab.bsky.social and @franckp.bsky.social on the links between human-specific mechanisms and neurodevelopmental disorders in cortical circuits.
- Please repost widely. @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social and I are hiring a postdoc with expertise in sensory physiology and in vivo circuit imaging/manipulation. The project centers on human-specific brain development and SYNGAP1-related disorders. Call closing soon—apply ASAP jobs.vib.be/j/119852/pos...
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- Reposted by Olivier CollignonPls report: We're hiring! Looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our study of individual differences in plasticity in #blindness (+ possible extension to #deafness) using fMRI. Details and application: apply.interfolio.com/177838 #hiring #postdoc #neurojobs #Neuroscience #NeuroTwitter
- It is difficult to express all the work that has been dedicated to this study by @stefaniamatt.bsky.social and all the team / Very proud / Incredibly insightful study and a great thread by Stefania- check it out.
- 1. 🧵 Thread: What happens to the visual brain after early transient blindness? Our new Nature Communications paper examines a rare population: people born with dense bilateral cataracts—a short blindness occurring during a critical window of visual development. 🔗 rdcu.be/eQjMH
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- Reposted by Olivier CollignonSuper excited to share a new preprint! We asked a simple-but-big question: What changes in the brain when someone becomes an expert? Using chess ♟️ + fMRI 🧠 + representational geometry & dimensionality 📈, we ask: 1️⃣ WHAT information is encoded? 2️⃣ HOW is it structured? 3️⃣ WHERE is it expressed? 1/n
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonDo a postdoc with us in San Francisco! A fellowship slot in vision science, clinical vision, blindness, or rehabilitation is available via a NEI T32 slot: 👇🏼
- 🚨Postdoc fellowship alert! Applications due Dec. 10🚨 Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, brain plasticity, mobility or related fields? A 1-year #NIH T32-funded opening, extensible contingent on funding, has become available in SKERI’s #postdoc #fellowship program. #neurojobs
- Interested in how the brain encodes numerosity across the senses or presentation formats? Check out our latest paper in @sfnjournals.bsky.social masterfully executed by @yyagpsy.bsky.social
- It has been published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Check it out! www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonI’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonBelgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
- Subretinal Photovoltaic Implant to Restore Vision in Geographic Atrophy Due to AMD www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... Results look impressive.
- Reposted by Olivier Collignon(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!
- First time I share a time-slot in a conf with a minister (Rachida Dati, Minister for culture in France) 🤔 Celebration day for the 200 years of the Braille system, the universal tactile reading system for blind. I will speak about how the mind and brain process this crucial cultural invention.
- Congratulation Filippo, it was an interesting and fun ride.
- Yep, that finally happened. Thank you @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social and @olicolli.bsky.social for the great supervision over the years and to all the colleagues that accompanied me in this terrific experience
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonI’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonPhD position available! Are you fascinated by #sensory #perception and #autism? Then this position might be for you! #cogneurojobs #neurosky #PhDposition #Jobs #career #neuroscience #fMRI Full description here: tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12400
- Reposted by Olivier Collignon🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨 We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes: ⚡ Neuropixels recordings ⚡ Opto/chemo ⚡ Behavior ⚡ Neural network modeling If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏 www.fens.org/careers/job-...
- Where I acquired some of my best fMRI data during my postdoc (a while ago unfortunately). Highly recommended environment and a terrific new director.
- Rejoignez ma nouvelle équipe au @crchum.bsky.social. Merci de partager! www.chumontreal.qc.ca/emplois/tech...
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonRejoignez ma nouvelle équipe au @crchum.bsky.social. Merci de partager! www.chumontreal.qc.ca/emplois/tech...
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonMight focused ultrasound one day replace DBS? UK Scientists built a 256-panel focused ultrasound helmet that can precisely target deep brain regions. Using theta-burst TUS, they stimulated the LGN and found visual cortex activity with effects lasting up to 40 minutes. #neuroskyence #ultrasound
- Reposted by Olivier Collignon#CallforExpressionofInterest Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at the CLIC Lab, @cimecunitrento.bsky.social 📅Deadline: September 14, 2025 📍 Rovereto, Italy 🔗More info: shorturl.at/EnvLy @szymanikjakub.bsky.social
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonExcited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )
- The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Reposted by Olivier Collignon🧠 The program for the 16th BSN Meeting is here! 📅 Oct 20, 2025 | KU Leuven 💬 Talks • Posters • Data Blitz • Reception 👉 Register now : belgianneuroscience.be/product/tick... 🔗 Submit your abstract now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📍 Deadline: August 20th, 2025 #BSN2025 #Neuroscience #Belgium
- Happy our commentary of the paper of @gvallortigara.bsky.social et al. as Editor's Choice in CerCo. We agree that the number sense (NS) is indeed likely innate but not grounded in vision because the NS is supramodal and develops in congenitally blind people. academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
- With stellar Phd student @yyagpsy.bsky.social ; who is graduating soon and open to postdoc opportunities. See her great fMRI work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- What a line-up !
- If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonIf you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonNEUROCOG 2025 is taking place in Brussels Nov 17–18! The theme: AI and the Human Brain 🤖 🧠 We’re thrilled to welcome 6 amazing invited speakers: @evfedorenko.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @jeffreybowers.bsky.social, @irisgroen.bsky.social & @mtoneva.bsky.social
- Reposted by Olivier Collignon🎉🎉Happy to share the first preprint of my PhD project with @olicolli.bsky.social ! We explored how numerosities across senses (👁️ and 👂) and presentation formats (spatial or temporal) are organized in the brain. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/7🧵
- Reposted by Olivier Collignon🚨Job offer🚨 PhD position on my #ERC grant 'LaDy' to study how we process language in the dyad using interactive paradigms and EEG hyper-scanning. Info and application link here (correction: application deadline is 11/07): emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto... @cnrs-dr12.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonIt’s been amazing so far to meet so many inspiring people and talk science at #VSS2025. Tomorrow I’ll be giving a talk in Talk Room 2 on how the brain abstracts numerals from various sensory inputs. Come check it out!
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonHappy Friday Multisensory pals, the talk/poster session schedule for IMRF 2025 is now available on our website - check it out here: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... ✌️👁️👅👂👃🦇🦾🦻⚖️
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonAs grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
- New paper! We show written word-selective ventral occipito-temporal region, the superior temporal sulcus, and orofacial sensorimotor regions encode phonological information from auditory and visual speech, but with multisensory abstraction only in STS and SM. 💬 🧠 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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- Reposted by Olivier CollignonApplications are now OPEN for 15 PhD fellowships in the Doctoral Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences at CIMeC, University of Trento, Italy! 📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025 🧠 Research mind, brain & behavior ℹ More info 🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec 🔗 www.unitn.it/en/phd/cognitive-and-brain-sciences
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Olivier CollignonHi pals, our preliminary conference schedule + symposium schedule are online imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... Also, this year we are planning some exciting pre-conf methods-focused workshops! More details and info how to sign up will be added soon imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonIn "The Invisible Hand," @mattlongo.bsky.social provides a deftly written account of the neural and cognitive mechanisms that have made a seemingly ordinary physical appendage—the human hand—an extraordinary tool in the evolution of humanity: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255187...
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonPostdoctoral opening in my lab thanks to @erc.europa.eu SyG Chronology w/ wonderful @bathellierlab.bsky.social S. Ostojic & M. Jazayeri Interested in characterizing temporal cognitive maps in the human brain? 👇 brainthemind.com/wp-content/u... @unicog.bsky.social @cea-joliot.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Olivier CollignonWe are recruiting for 5 permanent staff positions (Prof, Senior-, Lecturer) including for 7T-MRI. Please have a look and share widely. (Closing date: May 12) www.nature.com/naturecareer...
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonRegistering early this year has more advantages - Secure a space for the social dinner at Durham Castle (200 max)🍽️ - We are also holding a number of rooms in Uni accommodation and at Hotel Ingido for you. Spaces are limited🛏️ - You can request invitation letters (e.g. for VISA) at registration stage📝
- New preprint from the lab: Aligned representation of visual and tactile motion directions in hMT+/V5 and fronto-parietal regions. Beautiful work by Iqra Shazad and team. biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #biorxiv_neursci
- Stellar work by Jacek Matuszewski combining fMRI and chronometric TMS to reveal a clear correspondence between sighted and blind on how their occipital regions functionally support reading and speech processing. Fun collaboration with Polish dream team. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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- Reposted by Olivier CollignonPreprint alert! 🚨 Atypical functional connectome in congenitally blind humans. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... co-led by @cemalkoba.bsky.social and me, together with Joan Falco-Roget, @olicolli.bsky.social, @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social, Marina Bedny, Mengyu Tian, and Marcin Szwed
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonSymposium submission is ending today - if you haven't yet, please send us your proposals! imrf2025.sciencesconf.org The scientific committee and we are looking forward to them 📃 You can still send us your abstracts for posters/talks until 14th March 2025
- Reposted by Olivier Collignon🚨 PhD opportunity alert! 🚨 Passionate about neuroscience? Want to work with cutting-edge tech like ultra-high field MRI and intracranial EEG to study the human brain? Join us and push the boundaries of neuroscience 🧠✨ 📍 @macsbio.bsky.social 📆 2 March 🔗 tinyurl.com/bfjwpmt9 #neurojobs #PhD
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonRegister now for MaRBEL 2025, hosted by the Belgian MR Research Community (BMRC)! 📅 Feb 6–7, 2025 📍 @ULiege Explore cutting-edge MRI research and network with experts from Belgium and beyond! More info & register : gigasleep.uliege.be/cms/c_132091... #MRI #MaRBEL2025 #Neuroscience #BSN
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonWe’re hiring! We are looking for a postdoc in my lab, childvisionlab.co.uk to study how early vision loss & sight-rescuing treatments shape brain development. Join our Wellcome-funded project using advanced neuroimaging and behavioral methods! Deadline March 1st, start date flexible. t.ly/2Yoel
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonDid someone say the IMRF submission portal is open? Oooh yeah! You heard it - send us your symposium proposals by February 14; talk/poster proposals by March 14 📝 More information, submission templates, and submission instructions on: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org We cannot wait to read them!
- Reposted by Olivier CollignonHow do our brains generate predictive models of unfolding events? We're seeking for a *postdoc* to address this question in my lab: sites.google.com/site/moritzf...
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- In our new study we use a multi-sensory EEG frequency tagging paradigm to reveal non-linear interactions (Intermodulation frequencies) of facial and vocal fearful expressions, suggesting that common neural populations integrate them in the human brain. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
