Nikos Chalas
nchalas.bsky.social
Nikos Chalas
@nchalas.bsky.social
postdoc | neuroscience
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We had a look at a question I am really excited about: does an individuals intrinsic brain rhythm predict speech tracking and comprehension? And how do speech motor and auditory rhythms work together? by Christina Lubinus, @annekeitel.bsky.social @jonasobleser.bsky.social @davidpoeppel.bsky.social
Speech comprehension is thought to depend on #auditory - #motor interactions via brain rhythms. This study by
@johannarimmele.bsky.social &co links theta and motor rhythms to stronger #speech tracking, the latter among those with high auditory-motor synchronization.
🧪 #AcademicSky
plos.io/4fDnKY0
August 4, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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Very excited to share our latest paper led by @nbinish.bsky.social in @natneuro.nature.com

We demonstrate how a communication subspace channels higher-dimensional PFC dynamics into lower-D motor activity to enable efficient behavior using human iEEG.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroskyence
A communication subspace relays context-dependent actions from human prefrontal to motor cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Context-dependent behavior selects actions according to task demands. Using direct brain recordings in humans, Binish et al. uncover how coordinated population activity efficiently channels informatio...
www.nature.com
May 4, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Latest preprint from @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social by @teresaberther.bsky.social and @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social on cardio-respiratory modulation of arousal and excitability states in the human brain - overlap, distinctions, and implications for brain-body #neuroskyence.

osf.io/preprints/ps...
May 1, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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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.
April 28, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Out now in @natcomms.nature.com, our latest from @bodybrainbehaviour.bsky.social: Visual perception, oscillatory excitability markers, and network connectivity are modulated by the breathing rhythm - depending on how much you know about the stimulus.

#brainbody #neuroskyence
Respiration as a dynamic modulator of sensory sampling
Nature Communications - Breathing shapes perception: Inspiration upregulates arousal and excitability, sharpening sensitivity to visual signals. By aligning respiration with task timing, people...
rdcu.be
April 8, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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New preprint with amazing work from @nchalas.bsky.social:

How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :)

#neuroskyence

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Respiration as a dynamic modulator of sensory sampling
Respiration dynamically modulates sensory perception by orchestrating transient states of the brain and the body. Using simultaneous recordings of high-density magneto-encephalography (MEG), respirati...
www.biorxiv.org
June 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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