Alejandro Blenkmann

What do individual human neurons do when a sound violates expectations? In our new EJN paper, we characterize single- and multi-unit responses to several auditory deviants using microwire recordings from 13 patients. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... #MMN #iEEG #PredictiveProcessing

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

Applications are now open for the Patagonian School of Science 2026: Dynamics of Large-Scale Neural Systems December 8–19, 2026, at Brazo Huemul, on the northern shore of Lake Nahuel Huapi in Patagonia, Argentina. More information here: ib.edu.ar/patagonian_s...

Attention reshapes the representation of prediction errors. •Distraction reduces prediction-error information in the thalamus. • Instead, temporal-cortical responses reveal two distinct learning trajectories. Very happy to have contributed to this exciting work led by Juho Äijälä! #iEEG

Happy to share our new pre-print "Attention reshapes the information dynamics of thalamic and cortical prediction-error learning" led by the great Juho Äijälä, Thread below👇

We are hiring! PhD student in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, investigating the neural mechanisms of auditory imagination: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... Project summary here: lundbeckfonden.com/neuronal-mec... Deadline: July 1st.

How does your brain filter out the noise and focus enough to learn efficiently? In our newest preprint, we use intracranial recordings + computational modeling to explore how selective attention shapes learning and state representations in the human brain 🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/🧵

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We’re hosting a hybrid symposium on Neurophysiological mechanisms supporting attention and prediction. 📅 11 June 2026, 09:00–14:00 ECT 📍 Psychology Department, University of Oslo + online www.uio.no/ritmo/englis... All welcome! @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social @uio.no

Coordinated human prefrontal dynamics sustain task-state representations during learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very important results highlighting the hippocampus's role in deviance detection and learning. Congratulations to the authors for the great work!

New paper from the lab! "Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.

We are hiring! We are looking for a postdoc to join our group. Join us to study how the human brain processes and recognizes music with iEEG recordings. Please share and apply! neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

Applications for the summer school Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience are open! In collaboration with @kavlintnu.bsky.social, lectures and seminars in Norway will cover important methods in computational neuroscience research. #KavliNeuro Apply by Mar. 15 and share: compneuronrsn.org

❗Our dear Olga will defend her Phd thesis this Friday! You are welcome to join physically or online 🙂

New preprint from my colleagues @viniciusrc.bsky.social & @ablenkmann.bsky.social: they recorded single neurons in human amygdala, hippocampus, insula & auditory cortex during a multi-feature auditory oddball paradigm (frequency, timing, intensity, location). www.authorea.com/users/100748... #brain

🚨 Join me for a hands-on #iElectrodes tutorial at #PracticalMEEG! 📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET 💐 Free but mandatory registration Learn how to localize intracranial #iEEG #SEEG #ECoG electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes!

Excellent work by @dquiroga.bsky.social! Happy to be part of this great collaboration exploring how the brain manipulates thoughts through music 🎶 #Neuroscience #MusicScience #CognitiveNeuroscience #iEEG

New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇

🚨 Join me for a hands-on #iElectrodes tutorial at #PracticalMEEG! 📍 Online • 🗓 Thursday, Oct 30 • 14:00–17:00 CET Learn how to localize intracranial electrodes — and explore many other great toolboxes: cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee... #iEEG #ECoG #SEEG

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations tinyurl.com/5dku4du9 @timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social please repost 🙏

Great perspective about elife publishing model and who controls the scientific publishing system sfdora.org/2025/07/30/s...

This study establishes how aperiodic activity, a ubiquitous signal linked to neural noise, develops in localized brain regions and illuminates the development of prefrontal control during adolescence in the development of attention and memory.

Evidence in support of the "Brain from the inside out": Response to movies is dominated by intrinsic brain dynamics. The dynamic itself is barely alternatered by the task of watching movies. Human intracranial recordings from 5000 electrodes, now out in eLife. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

PhD position alert!!! Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Happy to answer any question you may have!

🚨PhD position alert!🚨 Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

Don't miss the chance to apply to work with Andres. He is a great researcher in the field of predictive processing, working with #iEEG across humans and non-human primates

🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Can humans learn sensory regularities that are irrelevant to ongoing behavior? Yes, and we reveal the predictive coding mechanisms behind their acquisition Our results support uncertainty minimization over environmental state transitions as a core objective of brain function 🧵👇

Nature Communications Hippocampal-entorhinal cognitive maps and cortical motor system represent action plans and their outcomes idp.nature.com/authorize?re...