Micah Allen
Neuroscientist @psychiatry_ucam and PI of @visceral_mind. Embodied predictive processing meets computational psychiatry. @lundbeckfonden & @aias_dk fellow.
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A link between the systems: functional differentiation and integration within the human insula revealed by meta-analysis
Whether we feel sympathy for another, listen to our heartbeat, experience pain or negotiate, the insular cortex is thought to integrate perceptions, emotions, thoughts, and plans into one subjective image of “our world”. The insula has ...
Meta-Analytic Connectivity Modelling Revisited: Controlling for Activation Base Rates
Co-activation of distinct brain regions is a measure of functional interaction, or connectivity, between those regions. The co-activation pattern of a given region can be investigated using seed-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis...
Environmental pollution is associated with increased risk of psychiatric disorders in the US and Denmark
Exploratory analyses of two independent datasets comprising 151 million Americans and 1.4 million Danes revealed that polluted air was associated with a significantly increased risk of psychiatric disorders, including bipolar disorder and...
Growing up in air-polluted areas linked to mental health issues
Correlation found between poor air quality and disorders including schizophrenia
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People who worked with Scaramucci confirm Trump claim he 'abused staff'
President Trump’s allegation that Anthony Scaramucci “abused staff” was met with agreement from many who worked under or near the financier during his 11 days as White House communications director.
Multivoxel patterns for perceptual confidence are associated with false color detection
While it has been proposed that metacognition and conscious perception are related, the mechanistic relationship between the two is unclear. To address this question, we combined decoded neurofeedback (DecNef) in functional magnetic resonance...
Experimental Methods 3 - Syllabus 2019
Syllabus The syllabus contains: 1. The lesson plan (dates and topic) 2. The reading list for each lecture and class and link to slides 1. Lesson plan: W1. Why this course? September 3 · A1 - Practical Exercise - Remember R? (KCE) ...
PhD defense: Daniel Gramm Kristensen
CFIN researcher Daniel Gramm Kristensen is defending his PhD thesis:
Can electro- and magnetoencephalography detect signals from the human cerebellum?
The cerebellum plays a key role in the regulation of motor learning, coordination and timing, and has been implicated in sensory and cognitive processes as well. However, our current knowledge of its electrophysiological mechanisms comes primarily...
Visual working memory directly alters perception
Does holding a rose in mind make you see the world through rose-tinted glasses? Combining working memory and perceptual decision-making tasks in three studies, Teng and Kravitz show that internal representations can affect perception of the...
Absurd Creature of the Week: The Parasitic Worm That Turns Snails Into Disco Zombies
This is Leucochloridium, a parasitic worm that invades a snail's eyestalks, where it pulsates to imitate a caterpillar. The worm then mind-controls its host out into the open for hungry birds to pluck its eyes out. In the bird’s guts the worm...
Taking the brain out of a glass jar
A human being is a psychological, physiological and social entity’, stated already my high-school psychology textbook 25 years ago. However, the integration of these aspects has been slow to emerge…
The Bayesian New Statistics: Hypothesis testing, estimation, meta-analysis, and power analysis from a Bayesian perspective
In the practice of data analysis, there is a conceptual distinction between hypothesis testing, on the one hand, and estimation with quantified uncertainty on the other. Among frequentists in...
Temporal attention causes systematic biases in visual confidence
Temporal attention causes systematic biases in visual confidence
Trump Administration Weakens Protections for Endangered Species
The Trump administration announced far-reaching revisions to the Endangered Species Act, which was first enacted in 1973.
Value-driven attentional capture enhances distractor representations in early visual cortex
Task-irrelevant distractors can automatically capture attention when they were previously associated with a high reward. This study shows that these high-valued distractors increased the fidelity of neural representations in retinotopically...