Ole Goltermann
Doctoral Researcher @isnlab.bsky.social | part of @mps-cognition.bsky.social | previously @mpicbs.bsky.social, @mpi-nl.bsky.social & @univie.ac.at
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- Reposted by Ole GoltermannÄLTERE MENSCHEN IM GAZASTREIFEN HUNGERN. Sie rationieren Medikamente. Sie verzichten auf Essen, damit andere überleben. Sie verbringen ihre letzten Lebensjahre in überfüllten Zelten. Neue Studie von @HelpAge & @amnesty zeigt das erschütternde Ausmaß: bit.ly/4agr9b2 1/3
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannQuick correction — the correct preprint link is here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannHow can we embrace the complexity of chronic pain and its brain basis? New preprint links data-driven symptom dimensions (affective vs physical burden) to resting-state EEG connectivity, moving beyond pain intensity alone. doi.org/10.64898/202...
- Reposted by Ole Goltermann"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." (Video: @dropsitenews.com )
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannThis is Alex Pretti. This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE. #ScientistsAgainstICE
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannHow do we achieve few-shot generalization? New work led by @fabianrenz.bsky.social dives into the role of replay in learning and using structure to generalize reward. Dream team effort with Shany Grossman @nathanieldaw.bsky.social Peter Dayan & @doellerlab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannNeuer Falter Podcast mit @raimundloew.bsky.social @tessaszy.bsky.social, dem ehemaligen UN-Diplomaten Homayoun Alizadeh und mir über die Proteste im Iran, das grausame Massaker an Demonstrierenden und weshalb man Exilfiguren nicht überbewerten sollte. www.falter.at/podcasts/rad...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannThank you for your responses, Valentin! On this: I tried to match the contrast values to your results — the "true" ΔCBF is based on your reported 7.7% from Table S1; others are from Figure 2b,c. The noise-free simulation shows ΔCBF ranging from -7..7%, well within the -15..30% range in your Fig. 3b.
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannAn Editorial Expression of Concern by @Nature for one of Marc Tessier-Lavigne (former @Stanford president)'s papers. pubpeer.com/publications... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ImageForensics #ScienceIntegrity
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannHow the brain listens to the body matters. Our new preprint investigates interoceptive processing in schizophrenia spectrum disorders across phenomenology, behavior, and heartbeat-evoked brain responses. 🧠🫀DOI: doi.org/10.64898/202...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannAfter 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannReally thrilled that this paper led by @neurozz.bsky.social is now published in its final version in @elife.bsky.social!! This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay! elifesciences.org/articles/99931
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannKein Internet, kein Telefon: Das iranische Regime legt im Kampf gegen die Massenproteste die Kommunikation des Landes lahm. Die Menschen gehen offenbar trotzdem weiter auf die Straße. Auch wenn sie um ihr Leben fürchten müssen.
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannThis 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 Ole GoltermannEver wondered how white matter tracts actually map onto the cortical hierarchy and cognition—beyond the usual “projection vs association” labels? Our new preprint tackles exactly that! 🧠✨ doi.org/10.64898/202... Thread below 🧵
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannHappy to share this early Christmas present 🎄: our paper about geometry- and locomotion-dependence of 3D memory got published in PNAS! Joint work with co-first-author Volker Reisner (@reisnerv.bsky.social) as well as Leonard König, Misun Kim & Christian Doeller www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannAbsolutely agree. The genetic makeup of a species does explain what sets it apart from other species, but the explanation is usually complex, and not reducable to the isolated effects of single variants. IMO, this work provides further evidence for the existing view of combinatorial evolution.
- This headline is wrong and misleading, and the brief text below it is not much better. Whatever might constitute a full explanation of the differences between sapiens and other hominins, we remain confident that 'genes' will be central to it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannfMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:
- Reposted by Ole Goltermann🧠New preprint! What if cortical geometry alone already encodes much of white-matter organization? We introduce a subject-specific, reversible cortical folding model that unfolds and refolds the brain from a single T1w MRI; no diffusion, no ML. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannI am so excited to share our newest preprint, inspired by @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social, “A multiverse approach to heat-evoked skin conductance analysis: Evaluating the influence of analytic pipeline on associations between skin conductance and pain osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannDimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannOnly a few weeks left to apply for our 4-year PhD position, using human brain organoids & multi-omic methods to study genes implicated in speech disorders. Application deadline 5 Jan 2026. Fellowship is embedded in the International Max Planck Research School. More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannVery thoughtful thread on why it matters to compute the right noise ceiling & why communication is so important to prevent this issue from spreading. Kudos to Sam for being so transparent! In brief: NC for best R^2 == data reliability expressed as r NC for best r == sqrt(reliability)
- Reposted by Ole Goltermann1/ Our new paper is out in Imaging Neuroscience! 🎉 We validated in-vivo MRI–based axon radius mapping by comparison to large-scale human brain histology (> 46 M axons & 35 CC-ROIs). Title: “MRI-scale histology validates spatial sensitivity of in-vivo MRI-based axon radius estimation”
- New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Laurin Mordhorst, Siawoosh Mohammadi, et al: MRI-scale histology validates spatial sensitivity of in-vivo MRI-based axon radius estimation doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannNew paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Laurin Mordhorst, Siawoosh Mohammadi, et al: MRI-scale histology validates spatial sensitivity of in-vivo MRI-based axon radius estimation doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannDisabled people deserve healthcare. Disabled people deserve housing. Disabled people deserve food. Disabled people deserve support. Our ability to work and produce should not determine our value. Disability is not a moral failing. Most people will experience it someday.
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannDiederik Stapel was a massive watershed moment in psychology. However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers. The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS. retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannThread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannHow does the brain integrate visual and somatosensory representations? A recent @nature.com paper presents a model that, when applied to ongoing co-activations during rest, results in detailed maps of body-part tuning that aligns with visual tuning 🧪 Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannThis is an amazing success story. We are happy to have published several papers there - it really has become the top neuroimaging journal within just two years. Kudos to all who had the courage to make it happen!
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannOrigins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannExcited to share that the main work of my PhD has been published! We found that having control over pain makes expectations more precise, and changes pain perception. This is accompanied by activation changes in the PAG, SMA and ACC. You can read the full version of the paper here: rdcu.be/eQy6X
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannPlease share! - 🚨⚠️ PhD position alert ⚠️🚨 - Please share! Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannAnd the next step? Full voxel-level modeling. Recent numerical advances cracked the scalability barrier. Voxel-level hierarchical modeling is now feasible, revealing just how punishing traditional multiple-comparison adjustments really are. arxiv.org/abs/2511.12825
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannNew paper in EBioMedicine! We analyzed EEG from 614 people with chronic pain across 5 countries. Standard EEG biomarkers didn’t replicate, but network connectivity (esp. theta) shows promise. Open access: tinyurl.com/yc599257
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannNew preprint from the lab on stroke and oscillations detected via ultrafast fMRI! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannBug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannAfter years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannOur latest collaboration with @rongfan8.bsky.social, spatial triomics to investigate myelin and cortical brain development, and demyelination, spearheaded by Leslie Kirby in our lab @ki.se and Di Zhang in Rong's lab! Check it out @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannThis is 🤯 All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool. #neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
- Reposted by Ole Goltermann
Interested in how we make preference-driven decisions, and how this is implemented in the brain? We report that neural correlates of evidence accumulation (CPP, Mu/Beta) are also observed during value-based decisions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by @laurencf.bsky.social (Lauren Fong) 1/n - Reposted by Ole GoltermannPlease repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
- Reposted by Ole Goltermann🚀 We are hiring! 🚀 🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannStoked to see our study out in final form! Big kudos to @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social for driving this along for the past 5 years.
- Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannMore than two decades have passed since we discovered that rare disruptions of the FOXP2 gene disturb development of proficient speech/language skills. Today we know of multiple FOXP genes that are directly implicated in distinct brain-related conditions with differences in symptoms & severity.🧪 1/n
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannIf you use the Monetary Incentive Delay task or any task with complex events in fMRI, you should read this. We demonstrate that common modeling approaches can result in bias due to omitted variables. By @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social & the ABCD task fMRI team. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
- Reposted by Ole Goltermann📘🧠💥@fabianrenz.bsky.social , @nicoschuck.bsky.social & I thought about methods to measure brain plasticity and wrote an overview of exciting new methods and developments! Read our chapter, out now in The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Enhancement and Brain Plasticity academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannPsychedelics alter neurovascular coupling, which means we need to critically re-evaluate fMRI findings of acute psychedelic effects #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannOf course most exciting for me: cytoarchitectonic proof that the VIM exists (and is not a subunit of VL as implied by the Jones nomenclature).
- Reposted by Ole GoltermannVariability in #NeuralActivity is associated with cognition, but how does it relate to pain? @li-bo-zhang.bsky.social &co show that neural variability correlates with how individuals perceive #pain intensity in different contexts @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/48QPR2S
