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Research Fellow at UQ 🧠🏳️‍🌈 cognitive neuroscience — brain stimulation — statistics

Brisbane, Queensland
Joined September 2019
Slides and code available. Also happy to discuss any existing data you might have and whether it would benefit from bin-free modelling.
Now onto Nicholas Bland #ABSS2021
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Event-locked amplitude and phase modulations to #tACS by heartbeat and respiration can be used to create time-varying artefact templates that suppress spectral symmetry in the #EEG around the AC frequency. Approach may be feasible even in the absence of #ECG recordings.
A need for time-varying models to suppress artefacts of tACS in the M/EEG biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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I am unmoved by this reply. Assuming all the listed attempts to minimise variability DOUBLE the effect sizes for tDCS on MEP amplitude, not a single experiment from one million generates data this compelling (i.e., neither anodal nor cathodal responses overlapped with sham).
Our reply to @nsbland 's thought- provoking letter about @stahn76 and @FlavioFrohlich 's tDCS study. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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An attempt to capture entrainment echos outlasting slow-wave #tACS using #TMS-evoked MEPs by PhD student Asher Geffen. General increase in MEP amplitude across tACS blocks, but no phase-dependence.
Effects of Slow Oscillatory Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation on Motor Cortical Excitability Assessed by Transcranial ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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Two decades of tDCS work shows that its effects on MEP amplitude should be variable. A recent article challenges this view: every participant responded to anodal and cathodal tDCS, and with effect sizes so large neither condition overlapped with sham. brainstimjrnl.com/article/S1…
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#PhD #scholarship with Guy Wallis at #UQ. Project: Sensorimotor adaptation in simulated reality. Applicants interested in sensorimotor, cognitive, or visual #neuroscience encouraged. Behavioural testing and programming experience desirable. #phdchat graduate-school.uq.edu.au/ph…
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Figures 4a,d,f and 5a suggest tDCS-induced MEP excitability effects so large that samples are entirely non-overlapping? 👀🧐
"Does tDCS work?" A provocative (and perhaps imprecise) question that I get asked a lot. So today we are happy to share our answer, a resounding YES (for motor cortex excitability) by our very own @stahn76 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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EEG coherence and interhemispheric integration during multiple object tracking. We previously failed to alter interhemispheric integration with in-phase/anti-phase #tACS using the same task (open access link: goo.gl/vgCrSz).
Gamma coherence mediates interhemispheric integration during multiple object tracking biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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