David Haydock
@davidghaydock.bsky.social
Post-doc doing Neuroimaging @ucl.ac.uk
Interested in Neurophenomenology, and how we can develop analysis methods that benefit it
https://linktr.ee/davidghaydock
Interested in Neurophenomenology, and how we can develop analysis methods that benefit it
https://linktr.ee/davidghaydock
🧠🔊 New preprint!
How does the brain organise natural sound categories?
In our new fMRI study, we show that auditory cortex arranges sounds along continuous functional gradients, where acoustic and semantic structure are integrated into a shared representational space.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
How does the brain organise natural sound categories?
In our new fMRI study, we show that auditory cortex arranges sounds along continuous functional gradients, where acoustic and semantic structure are integrated into a shared representational space.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Auditory Cortical Gradients Integrate Bottom-Up and Top-Down Structure During Natural Sound Categorisation
Understanding how the brain organises natural categories is a central challenge in neuroscience. While prior work has shown that categories can be decoded from distributed activity patterns in auditor...
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🧠🔊 New preprint!
How does the brain organise natural sound categories?
In our new fMRI study, we show that auditory cortex arranges sounds along continuous functional gradients, where acoustic and semantic structure are integrated into a shared representational space.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
How does the brain organise natural sound categories?
In our new fMRI study, we show that auditory cortex arranges sounds along continuous functional gradients, where acoustic and semantic structure are integrated into a shared representational space.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We really need to start naming things in neuro stuff like "the sonic hedgehog pathway"
🚨🐣 Our new paper is out @plosbiology.org! Sonic hedgehog inhibition transforms feathers into ancestral protofeathers-like structures. These units then recover after hatching, highlighting their remarkable developmental robustness! @lanevol.bsky.social 🧪
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
In vivo sonic hedgehog pathway antagonism temporarily results in ancestral proto-feather-like structures in the chicken
The Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) pathway is a key regulator of feather development. These authors show that in vivo Shh inhibition during early chicken embryogenesis temporarily results in unbranched and non-...
journals.plos.org
March 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We really need to start naming things in neuro stuff like "the sonic hedgehog pathway"
Reposted by David Haydock
This looks great! Excellent work by @davidghaydock.bsky.social et al.
If you work with EEG (and especially microstates) give it a look! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This looks great! Excellent work by @davidghaydock.bsky.social et al.
Ever heard of EEG microstates? Usually defined as cluster centres of topography, the dynamics of MS sequences are referred to as "syntaxes". Our new review discusses syntax methods and show how they could be better associated with the underlying EEG signal: 🧵👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Ever heard of EEG microstates? Usually defined as cluster centres of topography, the dynamics of MS sequences are referred to as "syntaxes". Our new review discusses syntax methods and show how they could be better associated with the underlying EEG signal: 🧵👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Watch this space
In the future we think that #bwas will become more efficient (stable and cheaper) by using tasks and optimising their capacity to seperate trait variance using approaches like this by @leechbrain.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Automatic Neuroscientist: A framework for optimizing experimental design with closed-loop real-time fMRI
Functional neuroimaging typically explores how a particular task activates a set of brain regions. Importantly though, the same neural system can be a…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Watch this space
No disrespect but saying that perception of the world is a brain-based best guess is like saying that a wave is the ocean's best guess about what water should do. Brain and world aren't separate things making predictions about each other - they're inseparable aspects of the same dynamic process.
"Our perception of the world is a brain-based best -guess" - interview in @nrc.nl w/ Niki Korteweg, from when I was in Amsterdam in Nov for TechDenkers at De Baile. In Dutch 🇳🇱 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
Onze perceptie van de buitenwereld is een illusie, ‘de beste gok van het brein van wat er aan de hand is’
Bewustzijn: Hoe nemen wij de wereld waar? Dat is giswerk van de hersenen. „Het brein is een voorspellingsmachine.”
www.nrc.nl
December 26, 2024 at 10:46 PM
No disrespect but saying that perception of the world is a brain-based best guess is like saying that a wave is the ocean's best guess about what water should do. Brain and world aren't separate things making predictions about each other - they're inseparable aspects of the same dynamic process.
Reposted by David Haydock
Picking a journal to publish our work sometimes felt like a headache. High fees and private, for-profit governance remain the (terrifying) norm. But this is changing: Aperture is a recent neuroimaging journal that is community-driven, low cost, and strives for high quality. See ⬇️
⏱️ Speed up your path to publication!
At Aperture Neuro:
📜 Submission ➡️ Final decision: 100 days (median)
📚 Submission ➡️ Publication: 144 days (median)
🌟We are open access, low cost, and welcome innovative research formats.
🔗 Submit today and make an impact faster: apertureneuro.org/about
At Aperture Neuro:
📜 Submission ➡️ Final decision: 100 days (median)
📚 Submission ➡️ Publication: 144 days (median)
🌟We are open access, low cost, and welcome innovative research formats.
🔗 Submit today and make an impact faster: apertureneuro.org/about
December 6, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Picking a journal to publish our work sometimes felt like a headache. High fees and private, for-profit governance remain the (terrifying) norm. But this is changing: Aperture is a recent neuroimaging journal that is community-driven, low cost, and strives for high quality. See ⬇️
You need to put a watermark on these before someone nicks them and starts using them in TikTok's that have nothing to do with brain science
December 5, 2024 at 9:17 AM
You need to put a watermark on these before someone nicks them and starts using them in TikTok's that have nothing to do with brain science
Reposted by David Haydock
IMO the big breakthroughs won’t just come from advancing temporal and spatial resolution, but from achieving naturalistic recordings during dynamic, embodied interactions. Until we can move away from highly restrictive and overly reductive passive stimulation we won’t fully grasp mechanism.
Challenge: does FMRI have a future (apart from studies of development and ageing)? We want to know HOW the brain works and for that we need millisecond temporal resolution neuropixels, MEG, OPMs. After nearly 30 years of FMRI we know basically WHERE things happen.
November 17, 2024 at 9:08 AM
IMO the big breakthroughs won’t just come from advancing temporal and spatial resolution, but from achieving naturalistic recordings during dynamic, embodied interactions. Until we can move away from highly restrictive and overly reductive passive stimulation we won’t fully grasp mechanism.
Reposted by David Haydock
September 24, 2024 at 4:00 PM