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The Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCNS) at the University of Salzburg announces the 4th annual meeting in the domain of Cognitive Neuroscience, the so-called Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting or simply SAMBA. The mission of SAMBA is to attract the most exciting researchers in the domain of cognitive neuroscience, including related fields (e.g., computational modelling, animal neurophysiology, neurology etc.) that influence or are […]

Our team member Moritz Köhler has just been awarded a DOC stipend by the Austrian Academy of Science to pursue his research on top-down modulation of (rhythmic) cochlear activity.

In our latest preprint we illustrate predictive processing differences between individuals with and without tinnitus: https://doi.org/10.1101/869842 Collaborative work by the University of Salzburg (Marta Partyka, Gianpaolo Demarchi, Nina Suess, Nathan Weisz), University Hospital Salzburg (SALK; Sebastian Roesch), University of Regensburg (Winfried Schlee) and Newcastle University (Will Sedley)Funded by the European School for Interdisciplinary Tinnitus Research […]

New publication by Guido Barchiesi and colleagues, where MEG is used as a whole head myographic recorder: https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13507 Results confirm the utility of head magnetomyography (hMMG) as a whole head electromyographic recorder to quantify muscular activation patterns including muscular regions that are typically not recorded with EMG. This key advantage beyond conventional EMG has substantial […]

Two articles were released on the Austrian news platform APA Science! The first one is about the PNAS publication “Prestimulus feedback connectivity biases the content of visual experiences” by Elie Rassi, Andreas Wutz, Nadia Müller-Voggel and Nathan Weisz: https://science.apa.at/rubrik/medizin_und_biotech/Ich_seh_etwas_was_du_nicht_siehst/SCI_20191029_SCI39451352251403658 The second one describes the Nature Communications publication “Automatic and feature-specific prediction-related neural activity in the […]

The FFR is seen as a noninvasive proxy for brainstem activity. This Salzburg Brain Dynamics Lab study shows that while brainstem contributes to the FFR, attentional modulations are cortical: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116185

Published in Nature Communications: Gianpaolo Demarchi et al. showing prediction-related tone-frequency specific (pre-)activations in the auditory system: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11440-1

Article by Rassi et al. describes how to set up an experiment that allows detecting pre-stimulus source-level influences on object perception using magnetoencephalography (MEG). It covers stimulus material, experimental design, MEG recording, and data analysis: http://dx.doi.org/10.3791/60120 Detecting Pre-Stimulus Source-Level Effects on Object Perception with Magnetoencephalography

Work from our group led by PhD student Elie Rassi with Andreas Wutz, Nadia Müller-Voggel, and Nathan Weisz: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817317116

New preprint by our PhD student Nina Suess that shows different entrainment patterns for primary sensory areas and the dorsal attention network dependent on selective attention: https://doi.org/10.1101/697615