We really need to start naming things in neuro stuff like "the sonic hedgehog pathway"
We collected ~4.7 hours of task data on 3 participants, listening to 10 different categories to create a functional gradient space in which we could situate category structure, and infer acoustic and semantic dimensions.
Oh also, the data is open access! 👉 openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...
This looks great! Excellent work by @davidghaydock.bsky.social et al.
🧠🔊 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...
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...
🚨🐣 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/...
Rory Cooper
If you work with EEG (and especially microstates) give it a look! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
David Haydock
journals.plos.org
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-...
Electroencephalography (EEG) microstates are “quasi-stable” periods of electrical potential distribution in multichannel EEG derived from peaks in Glo…
