@dariquima

Imagination, neuroscience, audition, music, MEG, (i)EEG. Postdoc at @UCBerkeley and @UCPH_Research. Born and raised in Colombia

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Have you ever had a song stuck in your head? Then you might be interested in our new #musicscience work just published in @PLOSBiology doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio… We used decoding to investigate how the brain represents perceived and imagined musical sounds. TL;DR below 1/
David Quiroga🧠👂🎵 🇨🇴 @dquiroga.bsky.social@dariquima17 Aug 2023
Did you ever have a melody stuck in your head? Then you may be interested in our new #musicscience work. We used decoding techniques to investigate how the brain represents held and manipulated musical thoughts: doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.15.5… Check it out! Feedback is welcome.
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Jorge Sequera@JorgeSekera26 Oct 2025
Publicar 120 papers en los últimos 2 años no es una hazaña científica. Es un síntoma. Un síntoma de cómo la autoría académica se ha convertido en una industria del nombre propio. Abro hilo 🧵 sobre las malas prácticas de autoría que suelen sostener esta ficción 👇
Danijar Hafner
@danijarh25 Oct 2025
Congratulations @Yoshua_Bengio!! Possibly the first scientist with one million citations in the world. Crazy how fast the field has grown 🤯
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What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts? We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies. Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation: doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.20.6… #musicscience
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What happens in the brain when we manipulate our thoughts? We asked 30 epilepsy patients to mentally invert short melodies. Intracerebral #iEEG recordings suggest brain synchrony and sensory inhibition are key for mental manipulation: doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.20.6… #musicscience
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bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv_neursci21 Oct 2025
Brain Dynamics of Mental Manipulation biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_neursci

Brain dynamics of mental manipulation

Humans effortlessly juggle their internal thoughts, but the neuronal dynamics that support mental manipulation are largely unknown. Leveraging the high spatiotemporal fidelity of intracranial...

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Both #musicscience and #metascience taking off in the place where the sky is blue. Worth giving it a go
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The proof corrected version of our paper on neural representations of perceived and imagined musical sounds is out in @PLOSBiology. Check it out! #musicscience #Neuroscience Link to the article: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio…

Decoding reveals the neural representation of perceived and imagined musical sounds

How does the brain process musical thoughts? This study shows that the mental manipulation of a melody systematically changes its neural representation in auditory, association, sensorimotor and...

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David Quiroga🧠👂🎵 🇨🇴 @dquiroga.bsky.social@dariquima22 Oct 2024
Have you ever had a song stuck in your head? Then you might be interested in our new #musicscience work just published in @PLOSBiology doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio… We used decoding to investigate how the brain represents perceived and imagined musical sounds. TL;DR below 1/
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Alejandro Blenkmann / ablenkmann.bsky.social@ABlenkmann30 Oct 2024
I will present a poster (#19) "Novel tools for the anatomical registration of intracranial electrodes" at @CuttingEeg today and tomorrow at 1 pm CET. Pass by if you want to know more or have questions on how to use it :-)
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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social@OleJensenOHBA29 Oct 2024
While we have learned a lot from MEG/EEG on alpha and gamma modulations by the allocation of spatial attention, much less is known about these effects intracranially ... see our new paper on alpha and gamma/HFA cross-frequency interactions in ECoG data pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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PLOS Biology@PLOSBiology23 Oct 2024
Thinking of #music... @dariquima &co show that mental manipulation of a melody systematically changes its neural representation in #auditory, association, #sensorimotor & #subcortical areas, reflecting volitional control of auditory images #PLOSBiology plos.io/3NBg7lV
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@leafs_s23 Oct 2024
Decoding reveals the neural representation of perceived and imagined musical sounds biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Decoding reveals the neural representation of perceived and imagined musical sounds

Vividly imagining a song or a melody is a skill that many people accomplish with relatively little effort. However, we are only beginning to understand how the brain represents, holds, and manipula...

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Earl K. Miller@MillerLabMIT25 Oct 2024
Decoding reveals the neural representation of perceived and imagined musical sounds doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio… #neuroscience

Decoding reveals the neural representation of perceived and imagined musical sounds

How does the brain process musical thoughts? This study shows that the mental manipulation of a melody systematically changes its neural representation in auditory, association, sensorimotor and...

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Psyche Loui@psycheloui24 Oct 2024
How does background music help sustain attention? Our longstanding #musicscience collaboration w/ Kevin Woods @brainfmapp is finally out nature.com/articles/s42003-0… 🧵

Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties

Communications Biology - Rapid temporal modulation added to music affects attentional performance and brain activity; parametric manipulation of this added modulation reveals rates that...

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Examining the models, we found that auditory areas distinguish individual sounds while non-auditory areas hold the melody as a unit and that representations changed during manipulation in frontal cortex, suggesting its importance for the control of imagined sound sequences5/
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Special thanks to @LeonardoBo92 @gemmaferu and Francesco Carlomagno for collecting such a high-quality and large dataset!
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Hadas Weiss@weiss_hadas20 Oct 2024
academia is just making mental notes on how you don’t want to behave when you become a professor and then never becoming a professor
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Does learning music improve cognitive abilities? According to this new #musicscience meta-analysis, the answer is yes! During chilhood and for a specific capacity: Inhibitory control. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… First solid evidence of far-transfer effects of music learning!
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@flavinska72 reposting here with correct link
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