David Haydock
Post-doc doing Neuroimaging @ucl.ac.uk
Interested in Neurophenomenology, and how we can develop analysis methods that benefit it
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- 🧠🔊 New preprint! How does the brain organise natural sound categories? In our new fMRI study, we show that auditory cortex arranges sounds along continuous functional gradients, where acoustic and semantic structure are integrated into a shared representational space. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- We collected ~4.7 hours of task data on 3 participants, listening to 10 different categories to create a functional gradient space in which we could situate category structure, and infer acoustic and semantic dimensions. Oh also, the data is open access! 👉 openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...
- We really need to start naming things in neuro stuff like "the sonic hedgehog pathway"
- 🚨🐣 Our new paper is out @plosbiology.org! Sonic hedgehog inhibition transforms feathers into ancestral protofeathers-like structures. These units then recover after hatching, highlighting their remarkable developmental robustness! @lanevol.bsky.social 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Reposted by David HaydockThis looks great! Excellent work by @davidghaydock.bsky.social et al.
- Ever heard of EEG microstates? Usually defined as cluster centres of topography, the dynamics of MS sequences are referred to as "syntaxes". Our new review discusses syntax methods and show how they could be better associated with the underlying EEG signal: 🧵👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Studies on microstate syntax use a lot of different methods, and don’t always use the same process for defining the microstate sequence. Different terms are used for the same concepts, and documentation of the specifics of preprocessing and analysis steps can be lacking.
- Watch this space
- In the future we think that #bwas will become more efficient (stable and cheaper) by using tasks and optimising their capacity to seperate trait variance using approaches like this by @leechbrain.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- No disrespect but saying that perception of the world is a brain-based best guess is like saying that a wave is the ocean's best guess about what water should do. Brain and world aren't separate things making predictions about each other - they're inseparable aspects of the same dynamic process.
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- You need to put a watermark on these before someone nicks them and starts using them in TikTok's that have nothing to do with brain science
