Romy Lorenz
Max Planck Research Group Leader at MPI for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen
- Reposted by Romy LorenzMy review with @caterinagratton.bsky.social is (apparently) open access for those who couldn't see it before: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... We discuss individual differences in brain network organization and how to home in on and talk about commonalities in the face of such differences
- Reposted by Romy Lorenz🚀 We’re hiring - Join our lab 🚀 🔍 Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L) 🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour. 📅 Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3! More details: tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt #CognitiveNeuroscience
- Reposted by Romy Lorenz** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet ** Deadline: 2nd December 1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6 2. TUS and TMR in humans: tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj Happy to chat to interested applicants.
- Reposted by Romy LorenzThe @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Reposted by Romy LorenzA core function of cortex is predicting what happens next given the world's state. This recent paper from Oxford shows how cortical layers may use a delay trick to learn to predict. A simple illustration can explain the idea. A🧵with my toy model and notes: #neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI
- Reposted by Romy Lorenz📣 New preprint from the Braga Lab! 📣 The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of writing to concepts and meaning? Thread 🧵 ⬇️
- Reposted by Romy LorenzNew paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jingyuan E. Chen, Jonathan R. Polimeni, et al: Differentiating BOLD and non-BOLD signals in fMRI time series using cross-cortical depth delay patterns doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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- Reposted by Romy LorenzWe’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.
- Reposted by Romy LorenzOur new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by Romy LorenzVery excited for this year Bernstein! @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social We'll bring a bunch of new work, here's a thread with the summaries. Please check them out if you are interested in (low rank) RNN and distributed computations.
- Reposted by Romy LorenzI’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 Romy LorenzThere is going to be an exiting workshop on advanced fMRI end of October in Erice, Sicily (Italy). The agenda looks just at great as the location. ismrbf.marbilab.eu/events/7-xiv...
- Reposted by Romy Lorenzdoes someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈
- Reposted by Romy LorenzRun don’t walk to the #Neuro4Pros summer school if it happens again and you’re an early career prof Thanks again for the absolute best time ⭐️ @gunnarblohm.bsky.social @kordinglab.bsky.social @yaelniv.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @patrickmineault.bsky.social, and Hannah Bayer
- Having fun facilitating this amazing group of young Profs at the #Neuro4Pros workshop with @kordinglab.bsky.social and @meganakpeters.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and Hannah Bayer. Watch out world: this is the next generation of leaders! compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...
- Reposted by Romy LorenzFor the laminauts. @layerfmri.bsky.social
- Vascular draining confounds laminar decoding in fMRI biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- What started as a journal club on layer decoding turned into a project thanks to @karolisdegutis.bsky.social. Our preprint challenges a widespread assumption in the field: MVPA is not immune to vascular confounds in laminar GE-BOLD decoding, as shown using a mechanistic laminar response model.
- Reposted by Romy LorenzHappy to see this out: our new preprint shows that laminar GE-BOLD fMRI decoding isn’t immune to vascular draining biases. Simulations reveal false positives due to multivariate signal spread across layers, but oversampling + deconvolution can (sometimes) improve specificity.
- Vascular draining confounds laminar decoding in fMRI biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Romy LorenzHaving fun facilitating this amazing group of young Profs at the #Neuro4Pros workshop with @kordinglab.bsky.social and @meganakpeters.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and Hannah Bayer. Watch out world: this is the next generation of leaders! compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...
- Reposted by Romy LorenzWe’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations tinyurl.com/5dku4du9 @timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social please repost 🙏
- Reposted by Romy LorenzDatasets like NSD & THINGS offer rich stimuli but often test a single task. After great conversations at #CCN2025 on multi-task studies & generalization in brains & models, I thought I would repost our perspective for those interested in this topic. We need multiple tasks!👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Reposted by Romy LorenzNow out with a really cool additional finding: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
- Reposted by Romy LorenzThe lateral prefrontal cortex 🧠— which we think of as critical for goal driven behavior + is a target for psychiatric treatments— is fundamentally different in individuals relative to the group averages we’ve often studied. 👇see preprint and thread, led by Zach Ladwig #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
- Reposted by Romy Lorenz🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects By Cyr et al. *** Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES? A: Yes! 🧵:
- Reposted by Romy LorenzThanks to all (co)authors & reviewers for their contribution to this study on #layer specific changes in #sensory #cortex across the #lifespan in #humans & #mice now out in @natneuro.nature.com Here is a short summary of our findings 1/6
- 🧠 The human brain ages less than thought and in layers – at least in the area of the cortex responsible for the sense of touch. See study @natneuro.nature.com by @estherkuehn.bsky.social and colleagues at DZNE, @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de: 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Romy LorenzI still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- Reposted by Romy Lorenz“NeuroAI should not remain limited to learning statistical relationships, but should also help in building mechanistic and causal models of neural activity. These models will incorporate biological properties of neural circuits, including cellular characteristics and network properties.” 💯💯💯
- We were asked to write a commentary on NeuroAI for Nat. Rev. Neuro. with Sadra Sadeh, so here it is: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Romy Lorenz1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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View full threadReposted by Romy Lorenz12 All this suggests that mechanical morphogenesis may be a major 3rd causal determinant of the development and evolution of brain organisation in primates.
- Reposted by Romy LorenzI’m happy to share that our manuscript on the cortical depth-dependency of the GE- and SE-BOLD point spread function at 7 Tesla is now available on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Romy LorenzJust dropped in @natcomms.nature.com: we show that re-engaging a thalamic–ventral tegmental circuit with deep brain stimulation can reignite consciousness in patients with severe brain injury. Work led by Aaron Warren, with @andreashorn.org @foxmdphd.bsky.social @ others! tinyurl.com/4kz8j89b
- Reposted by Romy LorenzEvidence for dlPFC contribution to #memory suppression using #TMS! Now accepted @jocn.bsky.social. Great team effort and collaboration with Gesa Hartwigsen’s lab @mpicbs.bsky.social. We also had an exemplary experience at the journal with editors @barense.bsky.social & @bradpostle.bsky.social.
- 1/3 Excited to share my first paper w/ co-first-author Davide Stramaccia in @rolandbenoit.bsky.social's lab! Causal evidence for right dlPFC involvement in #memory control: #TMS made it harder to stop intrusive memories & suppression didn't cause forgetting @jocn.bsky.social -> tinyurl.com/prfra87k
- Reposted by Romy LorenzExcellent piece today in @thetransmitter.bsky.social by @callimcflurry.bsky.social on a paper we’ve discussed at some length here (🧵below); she does a terrific job capturing different reasons to be excited about this work (as well as the controversies). www.thetransmitter.org/emotion-proc...
- This! This the type of work that makes me so optimistic that the next 3 decades of brain research will be more impactful that the last for understanding/treating mental conditions. We finally have the right measurement tools & analyses (eg for emotion). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Romy LorenzI’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!
- Reposted by Romy LorenzTrying to train RNNs in a biol plausible (local) way? Well, try our new method using predictive alignment. Paper just out in Nat. Com. Toshitake Asabuki deserves all the credit! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Romy LorenzOne of the “golden videos” that I took during my Grass Fellowship @grassfoundation.bsky.social - active sleep in these little guys is so obvious and flamboyant! @mblscience.bsky.social
- 🐙 This Octopus shifts from deep to active rest while "dreaming" for #MicroscopyMonday. REM‑like sleep (color bursts and twitches) filmed in real time by Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social, currently a 2025 Whitman Fellow at @mblscience.bsky.social. #NESM #Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL
- Reposted by Romy LorenzI wrote an entry on Transformers for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (@oecs-bot.bsky.social). I had to work with a tight word limit, but I hope it's useful as a short introduction for students and researchers who don't work on machine learning: oecs.mit.edu/pub/ppxhxe2b
- Reposted by Romy Lorenz1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction. But... 🧠📈 🧪
- Reposted by Romy LorenzThis is a nice new study showing the mechanisms why CBV fMRI is so specific to cortical layers: The somatostatin neurons are driving the hemodynamic response at fMRI-typical time scales. By Vo et al, from Seong-Gi Kim's lab. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
- Reposted by Romy LorenzStill not using DeepPrep? It’s been downloaded 15k+ times (7k on DockerHub alone) in just 5 months after launch — helping labs speed through fMRI preprocessing 10x faster than conventional pipelines. see doc: deepprep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- Reposted by Romy LorenzFor any postdocs who are are looking to transition to independence and might be keen to join us here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social, King's Prize fellowship applications are open (deadline 27 Nov) 👇 See link for details, and feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/119505-...
- Reposted by Romy Lorenzthere are many! (from recent OHBM anatomy session slides on PFC)
- Reposted by Romy LorenzUnattended working memory items are coded by persistent activity in human medial temporal lobe neurons www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Romy Lorenz𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘅 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝘆, 𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝘆, 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵, 𝗻𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿?? Posting this paper again because it's looking more spectacular than I realized before. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
- Reposted by Romy LorenzStimulating and recording with intracranial electrodes implanted in cortical regions and thalamic nuclei across 4,864 sites in 27 human participants reveals distinct spectral signatures elicited by perturbations of specific brain areas www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Romy Lorenz1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Reposted by Romy LorenzPrefrontal axons going to lots of places! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Romy LorenzWe have argued that the brain’s Action Mode Network controls functions required for goal-directed behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Now, in new work, we show that AMN contains distinct subnetworks for making decisions, implementing actions, and processing feedback. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
- Reposted by Romy LorenzOur Institute is currently recruiting 2 new independent group leaders (W2) - Apply and let‘s become colleagues! You‘ll get an attractive set-up package and join a collaborative and fun work environment here in Tübingen! Position is for 6+3 years! www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/839436/max-p...
- Reposted by Romy LorenzThis will devastate all of my colleagues that do neuroscience in mice. Drugs don't always translate from mouse to human, But 90% of our genes are shared. They allow recordings and manipulations that cannot be done in humans. We will cede discovery to Europe and China with this unnecessary handicap.
