We publish today in Cerebral Cortex a study that advances our understanding of the effects of biological aging on the neurophysiology of deeper brain structures that are crucial to cognitive functions.

A new study conducted by Golia Shafiei, in the team of Bratislav Misic at The Neuro/McGill, in collaboration with our lab was just published in PLoS Biology. The study advances our comprehension of how functional MRI signals relate to electrophysiological fluctuations detected with MEG in brain networks.

We constantly process sounds that come in streams, embedded in a certain context — think music and speech for instance. How salient sounds standing out from a flow of auditory information are detected and processed by brain circuits was the purpose of our new study, just published in the Journal of Neuroscience.

A new journal article published today in Consciousness and Cognition by Max Levinson and Sylvain Baillet introduces an experimental paradigm that disentangles between the conscious processes and the sensory brain signals of perception.

Our new study shows that stimulating one of our senses enhances our capacity to memorize inputs to our other senses.

The results, obtained in collaboration with the Zatorre lab, also at McGill’s Montreal Neurological Institute, are published today in open access in the journal Science Advances.

We publish today a new study that establishes the minimal brain recording duration required to capture the typical fluctuations of individual brain activity in the resting state. The new study is published in open access to everyone in the journal Neuroimage.

With this new paper published today in Neuroimage, we provide guidelines for the meaningful use of colormaps in neurophysiology research and scientific communication, in order to avoid perceptual biases and misleading interpretations of data.

This new review article was commissioned by Neuroimage and co-authored with Dr. Sepideh Sadaghiani (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) and Dr. Matt Brookes (University of Nottingham, UK). It is available to everyone for free, in open access. It is conceived as a go-to reference for both trainees and experienced researchers, and review the flexibility, diversity and versatility of the most current approaches.

We are glad to have contributed to a new study published today in Journal of Neurosurgery-Pediatrics in open-access. The data show that a novel inter-institutional, multimodal presurgical evaluation protocol designed by our collaborator Prof Roy Dudley (Montreal Children’s Hospital) contributes to improved seizure freedom for poorly defined cases of focal epilepsy in children.

We all have the intuition that our brain makes us unique.

In our new article published today in Nature Communications, we show that seconds of brain activity captured with millisecond temporal resolution are sufficient to differentiate an individual in a large group of people, and that their neurophysiological fingerprint is stable and robust over weeks, months and years.

Subtle interactions between brain rhythms can be a neurophysiological signature of chronic pain sensations experienced by many. The study published in Pain Reports was driven by Dr. Cecile de Vos, CIHR post-doctoral fellow in the lab and now faculty at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam (NL).

We collaborated with Dr. Anouk Lamontagne’s group at McGill to show the neurophysiological effects of piano practice and how they enhance motor recovery after stroke.

The report is published in open access in the latest issue of the journal Brain Sciences.