dorottya hetenyi
PhD student studying visual perception using MEG @ FIL, UCL
curious about how we obtain and process information across time, also how our perception is influenced by our prior knowledge.
loves cats and bikes. 🐈⬛
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiOut now in @nconsc.bsky.social 🧠😶🌫️ academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
- 🚨New preprint🚨 out with the dream team @matanmazor.bsky.social @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social! We report a novel and robust effect across five different datasets: vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery. 📝: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiSo excited to see this lovely paper with @benjyb.bsky.social, @matanmazor.bsky.social and @giuliacabbai.bsky.social published in @nconsc.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
- 🚨New preprint🚨 out with the dream team @matanmazor.bsky.social @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social! We report a novel and robust effect across five different datasets: vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery. 📝: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiJob alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in the relationship between memory and prediction, and have a track record of neuroimaging/decoding? Please apply! #NeuroJobs www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3576...
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiPassionate about women's mental health? Interested in brain stimulation? Excited by cutting edge neurotech? Come do a PhD with me! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (thread)
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiHigh-level visual surprise is rapidly integrated during perceptual inference! 🚨 New paper 🚨 out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Summary 🧵 below 👇
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I am very excited and grateful to have been awarded a Consolidator grant by @erc.europa.eu. We will use it to investigate the role of memory in perception, focused on the hippocampus. Thank you to all the colleagues in my team and the department for their support in making this possible!- We are pleased to share that Peter Kok has been awarded the Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)! www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/news/blog-po...
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiAnd it's out now in Cortex: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Summary below 🧵
- 🚨Pre-print of some cool data from my PhD days! doi.org/10.1101/2025... ☝️Did you know that visual surprise is (probably) a domain-general signal and/or operates at the object-level? ✌️Did you also know that the timing of this response depends on the specific attribute that violates an expectation?
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiI’m excited to share the first preprint from my PhD project! Together with Daniel Kaiser (@dkaiserlab.bsky.social), we investigated how internal models shape inter-individual differences in the perception and neural processing of natural scenes. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiI am very excited to share our new preprint, spearheaded by the brilliant @lunahuestegge.bsky.social, w/ @peterkok.bsky.social and others: ‘An attempt to push mental imagery over the reality threshold using non-invasive brain stimulation’ doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiNew BBS article w/ @lauragwilliams.bsky.social and Hinze Hogendoorn, just accepted! We respond to a thought-provoking article by @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, and argue that it's premature to conclude that conscious perception is delayed by 350-450ms: bit.ly/4nYNTlb
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiA ✨bittersweet✨ moment – after 5 years at UCL, my final first-author project with @smfleming.bsky.social is ready to read as a preprint! 🥲
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiI said it before and I'll say it again: Cognition is rhythmic Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... #neuroscience
- Super happy to share my very first first-author paper out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! We show content-specific predictions are represented in an alpha rhythm. It’s been a beautiful, inspiring, yet challenging journey. Huge thanks to everyone, especially @peterkok.bsky.social @jhaarsma.bsky.social
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiFrom line drawings to scene perception — our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. 👁️✍️🛋 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Hellohello #ICON2025! Please come and have a chat with me today at 10.45am about some content-specific alpha fluctuations! 🤓
- Finally, on Friday at 10:45, we have Imagine Reality Lab affiliate @dotproduct.bsky.social presenting: P6.36 | Pre-stimulus Shape Predictions Fluctuate At Alpha Rhythms And Bias Subsequent Perception. Showing how content-specific pre-stimulus alpha-band oscillations influence perception.
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiAt 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 dorottya hetenyiVery proud to share this one🥹! We show that personalized signatures of brain activity are heritable and relate to the expression of specific genes. That means my brain-fingerprint is very similar to my twin brother's! #ResearchIsMeSearch🧠 🧬 ♊️
- very cool stuff from brilliant people, an absolute must-read!!🫶
- 🚨New preprint🚨 out with the dream team @matanmazor.bsky.social @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social! We report a novel and robust effect across five different datasets: vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery. 📝: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Hellohello again! Tomorrow at 5:15pm I’m giving a short talk on our latest MEG study about our very well-loved oscillating perceptual predictions @meguki2025.bsky.social. Come by and talk brains! There are amazing talks and very cool science happening all around! MEGUKI 2025👌
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiOut 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 dorottya hetenyiNEW DEADLINE: Friday 20th June 🚨 MEG‑UKI 2025 lands in London (16–18 July)! A 3-day deep dive into the brain—naturalistic neuroscience, OP-MEG, cutting-edge methods, and real-world impact. Keynotes by Dominik Bach & Jamie Ward. Art, abstracts, and more! Register here: meguk.ac.uk/registration/
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiFinally 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 dorottya hetenyiNow published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Open Access link: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
- In a dynamic world, items appear, disappear, and reappear within seconds. In our latest preprint (now with an additional experiment) we show: the reappearance of maintained items guides the prioritization of non-reappearing memory items. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Beautiful paper by the brilliant @jhaarsma.bsky.social exploring how false and veridical percepts converge and diverge. Turns out both share content-specific and confidence signals; and hellohello pre-stimulus alpha... what are you up to with false percepts?
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- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiI am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
- I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiNews story on the UCL Brain Sciences website about our recent paper using 7T fMRI to study the communication between hippocampus and neocortex. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Link to the paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... #neuroskyence
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyi🚨Excited to share my first preprint from my postdoc with @smfleming.bsky.social! 🚨 We explore how attention shapes simplified mental representations for planning. We show that inductive biases characteristic of attentional selection shape how we plan. Check it out: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠🔦🤖
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiNew paper out in @plosbiology.org w/ Charlie, @phil-johnson.bsky.social, Ella, and Hinze 🎉 We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule! tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c
- This was looooads of fun! Thank you so much everyone for the amazing and interesting chats.🫶 Also @pieterbarkema.bsky.social has a very cool talk on Monday @ 11.15am on some yummy layer-specific fMRI of postdictive perception.🙀 #VSS2025
- Hellohello! Come say hi today, 3:00-5:00pm, Banyan Breezeway (16.322). How does the brain hold onto predictions before something even happens? We show that predicted shape info lives in pre-stimulus alpha-band oscillations (10–11Hz), and biases perception without boosting sensitivity.🧠 #VSS2025
- Hellohello! Come say hi today, 3:00-5:00pm, Banyan Breezeway (16.322). How does the brain hold onto predictions before something even happens? We show that predicted shape info lives in pre-stimulus alpha-band oscillations (10–11Hz), and biases perception without boosting sensitivity.🧠 #VSS2025
- Looking forward to #VSS2025! On the first day, @dotproduct.bsky.social sky.social will be presenting a poster on how predictions embedded in alpha oscillations modulate perception of noisy stimuli. Come one, come all! Poster 16.322, Friday 3-5pm, Banyan Breezeway. #neuroskyence #visionscience
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiA large-scale collaborative consensus piece on predictive processing is now online arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 impressively orchestrated by @jeromelecoq.bsky.social
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiHey cognitive scientists I asked lovable.dev to make me a 2-arm bandit RL task 2 prompts and 3 minutes later 🤯🤯🤯🤯 Play it: preview--cosmic-bandit-quest.lovable.app Think of the hours and grad student tears saved 😅 Yes lovable I accept your sponsorship terms
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiWe have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiMeet the Team: @benjyb.bsky.social is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow on ETHOS. He is helping @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social test the richness of higher-order representations using MEG. See more about Benjy here www.arc-ethos.org/news and on his website benjybarnett.github.io
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiNow out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiExcited to share that our paper 'Distinguishing Neural Correlates of Prediction Errors on Perceptual Content and Detection of Content' is now published! With @smfleming.bsky.social, @peterkok.bsky.social and heroic scanning during the pandemic by Oliver Warrington! direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiHow do neurophysiological traits that characterize individuals evolve across the lifespan? Check it out: 👶🧒🧑🧓🧠 with the amazing @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social @alexwiesman.bsky.social & Margot Taylor www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵(1/3)
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiI am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiA really nice write up of the recent studies looking at how the human brain handles the unique number zero! Featuring some words and work by me and @smfleming.bsky.social, as well as many others. Check it out👇0️⃣🧠 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiWe are now on Bluesky! 🧠 While we have appreciated the capacity to engage with colleagues on X, we have collectively decided to leave the platform because we feel Bluesky will be a more optimal platform for our scientific discourse.
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiMore months ago than I'm willing to admit, I shared results from our MEG study suggesting that priority maps in feature-guided search are modulated by alpha. I'm happy to finally share part 1 of the corrected follow-up, in which we control for confounds by time-on-task:
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiOur paper on multiplexing by oscillations in an ANN is now out in its peer-reviewed glory in PLOS Comp Bio with Marco Idiart, Marcel van Gerven & @olejensen.bsky.social Hugely improved thanks to three very thorough reviewers! Let us know what you think! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
- We integrated refractory dynamics and pulses of inhibition into the hidden layers of an ANN & show that oscillations enable multiplexing of simultaneous stimuli. Proof-of-concept paper with Marco Idiart, Marcel van Gerven & @olejensen.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiVery happy to report that this paper is out now in Cognition! Expectations about stimulus presence and stimulus content work together to influence perceptual judgments. authors.elsevier.com/c/1joLo2Hx2x... #neuroskyence #compneuro #VisionScience
- I'm super grateful to the conference and symposium organisers for inviting me to give a talk. It was an exciting opportunity, and I truly enjoyed sharing our work on predictions being represented in pre-stimulus alpha oscillations with such an engaged audience at MMN 2024. Yaaay!
- Thank you so much, #BACN24, for selecting me as one of the winners of the poster competition! I'm incredibly excited to receive this poster prize (as you could clearly tell from the photo🙃).
- @dotproduct.bsky.social was awarded a very well deserved poster prize @bacn.co.uk! Congrats Dot! You can read more about her work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧠🟦
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiI am excited to share our new paper “Confidence ratings do not distinguish reality and imagination” with @matanmazor.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social ! A thread: 1/10 jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiEver wondered how your brain predicts what’s coming next when you listen to someone talk? Our new MEG study reveals how predictions of syllables/words and their timing are integrated in cortical networks www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiStarting in a couple of hours!
- hello-hello! Come have a chat with me about my CNS poster on prediction signals being conveyed in pre-stimulus alpha oscillations on Tuesday 16th April 8:00-10.00! 👀
- At CNS 2024, @dotproduct.bsky.social will be presenting our recent findings on how visual shape predictions are encoded in alpha oscillations. Talk 12 in Data Blitz Session 4 on Saturday, and Poster F130 in Poster Session F - Tuesday 8 – 10 am, Sheraton Hall ABC. 🧠🟦🧠💻
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiAt @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social , we’re recruiting two new permanent Lecturers. We’re especially interested in recruiting in cognitive neuroscience and/or computational modelling 🧠 If you’d like to know about life & science at Birkbeck - please get in touch! 🧠🟦 cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyiLots of Oliver's blood sweat and tears in this new preprint. We found BOLD signals reflecting predicted-but-omitted shapes in the CA23 and pre/para-subiculum subfields of the hippocampus, as well as the parahippocampal cortex. #neuroskyence #compneurosky 1/2
- Reposted by dorottya hetenyi📢 ERC-funded PhD in our team 📢. Curious about the mechanisms underlying learning and perception? Wish to study them via modelling and neuroimaging? This may be for you! Email me qus. Please circulate 🙏 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #HiSciSky #neuroskyence #PsySciSky
- Super excited to share the very first preprint from my PhD: Pre-stimulus alpha oscillations encode stimulus-specific visual predictions. [1/8] #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #compneurosky biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
- Thank you so much Peter and Joost for all the support and the fun time of figuring out this together! Cannot wait to explore more! 😊 [8/8]
- Hello bluesky! Lucky to be included among incredible women at the FIL to mark #InternationalWomensDay! Here's a glimpse into who I am! #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
