Alina Studenova
PhD candidate, MPI CBS, MPSCog,
brain oscillations, cortical microstructure
alinastudenova.com
- The Impact of Non-Neural Sources on Aperiodic EEG Activity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Diverging routes of oligodendrocyte recruitment in adaptive and regenerative myelination biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- 🚨 Preprint altert 🚨 **Opposite Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Mind-wandering With Eyes Open and Closed** www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by Esther Thielking and Luca Iemi!
- 🎓 15 fully funded #PhD positions in EU-funded Doctoral Network. 🧪🧠 We lead Project 7 (@spinozacentre.bsky.social & @nin-knaw.bsky.social): 4-year PhD combining 7T MRI + MEG with computational modelling of vision & individual differences. Apply: indibrain.eu #AcademicJobs
- Pupil dilation is an established biomarker of arousal, and studies have shown that non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) elicits pupil dilation. Here, we find that it depends on sensory matching. #neuroskyence 🩺 Now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
- Enjoying the stillness of the frozen forest now that the temperatures are a little milder again (-15 today compared to -26 on Monday 🥶)
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- How to decide whether to pursue an experiment? @ennofischer.bsky.social articulates the "context of pursuit" for experiments, in which facilities, research questions, expected gain & feasibility help determine what experiments are worth doing👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philsky #HPS
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- Heute Abend gibts bei Astro & Co Astronomie und Chemie: Um 19 Uhr wirft Klaus Paschek vom @mpi-astro.bsky.social live einen Blick auf die Entstehung der Bausteine des Lebens im All und auf der jungen Erde 🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWiT...
- How are energy #metabolism pathways distributed across the #cortex? @alaindagher.bsky.social &co map five pathways in the human #brain, linking metabolic organization with brain structural & functional properties, as well as developmental dynamics @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4c1JVp8
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- I had a great time at the ‘Panpsychism, Non-Physicalism, and the Causal Powers of Consciousness’ workshop with @heddamorch.bsky.social at Ruhr Uni Bochum. So many compelling new views that push the debate forward. I’m very grateful to have had this opportunity! Photo by @finnthwaite.bsky.social! 📸
- Cell death isn’t failure...it’s biology doing its job. This video shows programmed cell death, a regulated process that shapes development, removes damaged cells, and keeps tissues healthy. Too little leads to cancer. Too much drives degeneration. Life depends on knowing when to let go. 🧬
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- Now out in iScience: Alpha power indexes working memory load for durations How does the brain store 'durations' in working memory? 👇👇👇 www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Collaborative effort between @brainthemind.bsky.social and MNE-Python/INRIA.
- Today, we are out on strike again to save our jobs and tap the sign that Scottish (and in extension UK) Higher Education is not doing well, largely due to financial mismanagemement. This is all currently put on display by our Union reps in the Scottish parliament ⬇️ @ducuuo.bsky.social
- Watch union representatives from Scottish universities give evidence to the Scottish Parliament on the crisis and how it is affecting staff and students. www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
- If I know you use this I will literally never cite your work again, because there is literally no way to trust it or you
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- Do goal-directed actions minimize prediction error? Together with @haslagter.bsky.social and @fahrenfort.bsky.social I identified falsifiable predictions of active inference and reviewed the extent to which they are supported by empirical results. Read the preprint here: tinyurl.com/2by8k3h6
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- I def agree that there are multiple alpha rhythms. (I think the whole field agrees?) here, fixed 'archetypal' alpha components are identified & peak frequency variation across subjects is explained by relative contribution of archetypal components within a subject. interesting, but maybe odd?
- 🚨 New preprint! What if individual alpha peak frequency—often treated as a global marker of brain function and clinical phenotypes—actually reflects a mixture of independent alpha rhythms with distinct frequencies and neural origins? That’s what @davidpascucci.bsky.social and I suggest here. #EEG
- Subcortex visualization: A toolbox for custom data visualization in the subcortex and cerebellum biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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- New on the Archive: DeBrota, John B. and List, Christian (2026) A Heptalemma for Quantum Mechanics. [Preprint] philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27977/
- Regional heterogeneity shapes macroscopic wave dynamics of the human and non-human primate cortex biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- if you look into the activity of any brain, usually many different rhythms can be seen. is there any systematic relationship between their frequencies? there are proposals (often by physicists 🙃) that rhythms are organized according to specific ratio, e.g. the golden ratio or simply factor 2.
- very useful and a step towards the publication of the future. If you think about it, it's kind of ridiculous that we're still stuck with what is basically a digitized version of a printed paper rather than using the vast possibilities of the web
- At @elife.bsky.social you can now include explainer videos with every figure. Like going to a seminar while you engage with the paper. First example here elifesciences.org/articles/106... Click the arrows next to each figure to get a video of @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social explaining it for you!
- At @elife.bsky.social you can now include explainer videos with every figure. Like going to a seminar while you engage with the paper. First example here elifesciences.org/articles/106... Click the arrows next to each figure to get a video of @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social explaining it for you!
- "ripples" are by definition transient. And what does a transient become in the spectrum? Surprise: 1/f. Poteto potato.
- Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep. But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
- Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep. But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
- ripple researchers probably open this article with sweaty palms, because ripple detection with 77% false positives for standard processing sounds pretty bad... 😨
- Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep. But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
- Brandmeyer et al. present a systematic evaluation of NEMAR, a key platform for sharing and reusing EEG, MEG, and iEEG datasets: doi.org/10.52294/001... @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmossig.bsky.social #OpenDatasets #SpecialIssue
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- Check out our partners and doctoral candidates in Munich, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social & the @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social , and some of their research interests in this new video: youtu.be/bJun1x_LxMQ?...
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- Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap. dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D... Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
- Love this new evidence of the cognitive sophistication of cows and hope that it might make a few people rethink whether they want meat on their plates www.newscientist.com/article/2511...
- No evidence for the modulation of the readiness potential by respiratory phase osf.io/preprints/ps...
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- The normal range of WMH spans a wide range - equivalent to 35 years of age difference - as explained by Geert-Jan Biessels @institutvbhi.bsky.social @institutducerveau.bsky.social #Neuroepiomics2026
- How 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...
- And yesterday I gave a fun collaborative talk with Ami Tsuchida from @institutvbhi.bsky.social on advanced MRI markers of vascular brain health 🧠🫀🔎 #Neuroepiomics2026 @institutducerveau.bsky.social
