Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social

There is a debate about whether alpha oscillations reflect distractor inhibition. Based on reviewing recent literature, I argue that distractor-related alpha is controlled by goal-relevant information rather than anticipated distractors; see Comm Psychol: link.springer.com/article/10.103…

Day 2 of the OPM-FLUX (neuosc.com/fluxtoolkit2025) at University of Oxford hosted at St Catz. We have 32 bright participants from 7 countries learning how to apply OPM-MEG in cognitive and clinical neuroscience

During saccades, visual objects are first processed in the parafovea, then in the fovea upon fixation. Does this repeated exposure cause repetition suppression or information accumulation? MEG work from @TheCHBH suggests both due to neural sharpening. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hands-on training at University of Oxford using OPM in cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Deadline 23/05/2025

Reminder on the OPM-FLUX course at Oxford 9-12 June: theory and hands-on training on OPM data analysis for cognitive neuroscience. Deadline 16 May, but sign up before the course gets oversubscribed.

We are delighted to announce the first OPM-FLUX toolkit to be held 9th-12th June 2025 at St. Catherine's College at University of Oxford: neuosc.com/fluxtoolkit2025

Associate Professorship of Social Psychology at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Lijuan Wang presenting our latest MEG/RSA work providing evidence for early (~110ms) parafoveal semantic processing during natural reading @meg-uki-2024

While we have learned a lot from MEG/EEG on alpha and gamma modulations by the allocation of spatial attention, much less is known about these effects intracranially ... see our new paper on alpha and gamma/HFA cross-frequency interactions in ECoG data pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Several opportunities to work with an excellent PI on an exciting project on how the brain plans skilled sequences of movements @TheCHBH

Huge congratulations to @DemisHassabis and John Jumper on being awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction with #AlphaFold, along with David Baker for computational protein design. This is a monumental achievement for AI, for computational…

This year’s chemistry laureates Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model, AlphaFold2, to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. Check out two examples of protein structures determined using AlphaFold2. First up, a bacterial enzyme…

Our new paper uses MEG + rapid invisible frequency in a visual search task to demonstrate that the neuronal excitability associated with targets and distractors respectively increases and decreases

I am very happy that the paper about hippocampal responses elicited by pronouns that refer to concepts came out this week! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We used RSA to decode representations of the NEXT word while fixating on the current word. We provide strong and direct evidence for parallel processing, and suggested a new method for investigating natural reading: RSA+MEG/EEG +Eye tracking.

In particular we demonstrate a surprisingly fast semantic type parafoveal processing already at ~137 ms in left inferior frontal gyrus

Our recent MEG study using representational similarity analysis to uncover the time course and brain areas supporting orthographic and semantic parafoveal processing during natural reading biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Folks... Please please please don't forget. Today is the LAST WORKING DAY that you can take advantage of the Early Bird registration rates for MEG-UKI 2024. uobevents.eventsair.com/meguki/registr… The number of early bird tickets is strictly limited.

✨Keynote announcement! ✨ We are excited to announce that our day two keynote at MEG-UKI 2024 will be Professor Rik Henson @rikhens from the @mrccbu University of Cambridge! Prof Henson researches cognition and memory and how this changes in old age and dementia.

Who says festival season is over? 🎸📷🥁 Presenting the hottest lineup in town! We're so excited to welcome these speakers to @unibirmingham on October 28th-31st for QMAG, QMEG and MEG-UKI 2024. Stay tuned: We may be adding some Special Guests to this lineup soon😉

Don't forget to register for MEG UKI in Birmingham. It will be a very exciting event where you can learn about the latest OPM and MEG research!!!