Andres Canales-Johnson
@canalesjohnson
Neuroscientist & Affiliated Lecturer @CambPsych | Assistant Professor @UCatolicaMaule | Creator of 'Talking Brains' 🧠🎙️
1/8 Finally published at @NatureComms, "Distributed representations of prediction error signals across the cortical hierarchy are synergistic". Very grateful to all the friends and colleagues around the globe who made this possible. nature.com/articles/s4146…
We present Panda: a foundation model for nonlinear dynamics pretrained on 20,000 chaotic ODE discovered via evolutionary search. Panda zero-shot forecasts unseen ODE best-in-class, and can forecast PDE despite having never seen them during training (1/8) arxiv.org/abs/2505.13755
Very relevant work on emergence by @MilinkovBorjan showing an elegant way of dissociating the *amount* from the *organization* of emergent brain dynamics. Much needed distinction in the field of brain complexity.
📜🪇[PUBLISHED]: NEW PREPRINT!🪇📜 I am incredibly excited to announce that we have published our paper on how "Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics". biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Strap in! 1/n
Now published in @NatureHumBehav - check it out! nature.com/articles/s4156…
Very excited to share the first paper of my postdoc at @NUFeinbergMed on the development of aperiodic neural activity using iEEG in over 100 patients aged 5 - 54 years!
Loved sharing our findings on falls in adults and children with DCD. Great feedback all round. Hopefully the paper is published soon! #DCDUK25. Great talk from @djwright561 also!
㊗️ our paper was finally accepted by Nature Communications! Data & paper are already accessible from here: DREAM: A Dream EEG and Mentation database osf.io/preprints/psya… Thanks all coauthors for contributing the data! It was a really long journey to arrive here...
The "third wave" of meditation research by the great @MatthewSacchet #ASSC28
"Cuttlefish eat fewer crabs at lunchtime when they know shrimp are available for dinner" #ASSC28. Amazing talk by the great @nickyclayton22.
True to our long-standing compliance roots, @Ripple is applying for a national bank charter from the OCC. If approved, we would have both state (via NYDFS) and federal oversight, a new (and unique!) benchmark for trust in the stablecoin market. Earlier in the week via…
Ripple has applied for a national banking license, joining the rush of cryptocurrency companies seeking to cross the divide into mainstream finance on.wsj.com/3I7tHhn
🎉 FINALLY PUBLISHED! 🎉 We outline how to capture the #emergent dynamical structure in #biophysical neural models. coauthored with a team dear to my heart; Thomas Andrillon, @anilkseth, @LionelBarnett2, @OCarterUoM @PLOSCompBiol journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…
It was great hosting the one and only @MatthewSacchet yesterday @CambPsych. Lots of great discussions, plans, and good fun in the (real) Cambridge 😂.
Meditation research is entering its most daring phase yet. The first wave focused on the benefits of meditation. The second wave brought greater methodological rigor and began exploring the mechanisms behind those benefits. Now, the third wave shifts the spotlight to largely…
🚨 Post-Doctoral Researcher Required 🚨 12-month position using EEG to explore the cortical control of balance recovery in children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder. Advert below! manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy/p…
Had a blast yesterday in our @sxsw "Creativity & Consciousness" panel @sxswlndn, with Deirdre Parsons (@LynchFoundation, @davidlynchuk), Susie Pearl (@susie_pearl ), Nigel Barlow (@Nigelmaybarlow), and Lucie Cave (@luciecave).
Don't miss our @sxsw panel on "Creativity & Consciousness" tomorrow @sxswlndn, with the one and only @susie_pearl, Deirdre Parsons, Lucie Cave, and Nigel Barlow. sxswlondon.com/session/creati…
I am opening one PhD position at the Neuroscience Center @HiLIFE_helsinki, focusing on large-scale neural interactions in perception and prediction (ECoG/LFPs/MEG) across human and non-human primates using comp. modeling and information theory. Contact: helsinki.fi/en/hilife-hels…
I am opening two PhD positions in Barcelona. These will be to work on machine learning problems at the intersection between methods development, computational neuroscience and clinical applications. crm.cat/call/89/phd-st… crm.cat/call/88/phd-st… Apply/disseminate please
I finally joined Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/canale…. See you there neurofriends!
"Psychedelics are a major factor related to risk. Our research found a 205% increase in the risk of suffering related to altered states among those who have used psychedelics."
At our Meditation Research Program at Mass General @MassGeneralNews and Harvard Medical School @harvardmed , my team and I are on a mission to demystify and democratise advanced meditation and related altered states of consciousness—from mystical and ecstatic experiences to…