June 2019

Lars will present our latest research on predictive processing in layers of visual cortex at the Siemens Industry Symposium during the Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting in Rome. 

April 2019

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January 2019

After 11 years in Glasgow, Lars and his family became British citizens!  

Lars is speaking at the Human Brain Project workshops; 'Neuronal basis of decision-making, action selection and coordination' in Stockholm, and 'Predictive coding, inference and unsupervised learning’ in Paris. 

December 2018 

Lars will give a seminar at the Brain Meetings, at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL, London. 

Visit here for current PhD funding opportunities. **Application deadline: 7th January 2019**

Welcome to Jackson, lab baby number 3! 

November 2018

Congratulations to our Dr Andrew Morgan on his PhD graduation.

Welcome to Amelie, Glasgow lab baby number 2! 

July 2018

Read about our perspective on fMRI as a dendritic signal, and links to pyramidal neuronal computation across cortical layers. Our article is a Human Brain Project collaboration with Matthew Larkum and Robert Sachdev in Berlin.

Published in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods, read about a method to examine to single-trial BOLD time courses, providing a tool to investigate the temporal evolution of neural representations in fMRI data.

June 2018

Read a 'Predictive coding account of psychosis', published in Biological Psychiatry.

May 2018

Lars was interviewed by Horizon, the EU research and innovation magazine. 

Lars ran the Edinburgh marathon, his first marathon after a 30 year break, and his 5th overall!

We attended the Human Brain Project Science Alignment Meeting in Alpbach. 

March 2018

We attended the Human Brain Project Innovation Exhibition in London.

December 2017

We enjoyed the annual Muckli lab retreat at Loch Lomond.

November 2017

Using fMRI and a visual illusion, we find that the brain anticipates the information it will see when the eyes next move. We also reveal the potential for fMRI to contribute a high temporal resolution of processing; we detected a difference in processing of only 32ms, much faster than thought possible with fMRI. You can read the Scientific Reports paper here.

October 2017

Lars hosted the annual Human Brain Project Summit from 17-20 October at the SEC in Glasgow.

We published Cortical feedback signals generalise across different spatial frequencies of feedforward inputs in Neuroimage.

July 2017

We published Laminar fMRI: Applications for cognitive neuroscience, read it here.

June 2017

Congratulations to our Dr Fiona McGruer on her PhD graduation. 

March 2017 

Lars and Angus will give talks at the Cortical Feedback Spring School in Jena. 

December 2016

Congratulations to Dr Yulia Revina and Dr Fiona McGruer who received their doctorates.  

Our first Glasgow lab baby was born, welcome Talia!

August 2016

Lars co-organized a Predictive Coding workshop hosted by Jim Haxby at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College. You can listen to Lars' talk here. 

June 2016

On Monday June 20th Lars will speak at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh about our work with the Human Brain Project. You can register for the event here.

April 2016

Lars has been awarded €2 million by the Human Brain Project (with €500,000  for Glasgow). This grant will fund a consortium from Glasgow, Berlin, Cambridge, Amsterdam and Hamburg, who will contribute to a new Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience sub-project. The aims of the Human Brain Project are a multi-level understanding of the human brain, insight into brain diseases, and information and communications technologies inspired by brain data.

February 2016

We have recently published The brain's predictive prowess revealed in primary visual cortex in PNAS and Cortical feedback to V1 and V2 contains unique information about high-level scene structure on bioRxiv.

November 2015

Lars will give the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Colloquium at the University of Amsterdam and a Neurospin conference at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience.

October 2015

Publication of our layer-specific fMRI data in Current Biology. Muckli L., De Martino, F., Vizioli L., Petro L.S., Smith, F.W., Ugurbil, K., Goebel, R. & Yacoub, E. (2015). Contextual feedback to superficial layers of V1. Current Biology. Read our press release here.

June 2015

Lars spoke in the 'Predictive Coding during Perception' symposium at the Psychology and Brain conference at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. 

June 2015

We co-organized a workshop on predictive coding and schizophrenia.

March 2015

Lars presented our data on Predictive coding of auditory and contextual information in early visual cortex at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin and the Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit.

November 2014

We have two papers recently published Petro et al., Contributions of cortical feedback to sensory processing in primary visual cortex and Vetter et al., Dissociation of prediction from conscious perception. We also welcomed our new ERC PhD student, Angus Paton.

August 2014 

Lars gave a talk on layer-specific coding using ultra-high field at the 'Population Codes' workshop hosted by Jim Haxby at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College. 

July 2014

Our article Decoding sound and imagery content in early visual cortex (Current Biology, 2014) featured in Science, 345, 176-177. 

June 2014

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May 2014

Publication of Vetter, P., Smith, F.W., Muckli, L. (2014) Decoding sound and imagery content in early visual cortex. Current Biology. 

April 2014

Lars will be giving a keynote talk at the AVA meeting on Visual Neuroscience in York, see here for more information.

February 2014

Lars will be speaking at a workshop dedicated to the functional role of Cortical Oscillations in Predictive Coding. See here for more information and workshop registration.

 "Predictive coding of auditory and contextual information in early visual cortex – evidence from layer specific fMRI brain reading" at the Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group, The University of Edinburgh. 

October 2013

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"Layer resolution fMRI to investigate cortical feedback in the visual cortex" at the 9th Biennial 2013 Minnesota Workshops on High and Ultra-high Field Imaging. 

Postdoc Luca Vizioli joined us from the University of Fribourg and ERC PhD student Matt Bennett joined us from the University of Leicester.

Publication of Vetter, P., Grosbras, M-H., Muckli, L. (2013) TMS Over V5 Disrupts Motion Prediction. Cerebral Cortex.

July 2013

We are currently advertising a post-doc position, look here for application details.

May 2013

Publication of Muckli, L., Petro L.S. & Smith F.W. (2013) Backwards is the way forward:feedback in the cortical hierarchy predicts the expected future. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 36:4.  

April 2013

Publication of De Martino et al., Cortical Depth Dependent Functional Responses in Humans at 7T: Improved Specificity with 3D GRASE in PLoS ONE.

February 2013

Publication of Muckli & Petro Network interactions: non-geniculate input to V1 in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

Publication of Petro et al., Decoding face categories in diagnostic sub-regions of primary visual cortex in European Journal of Neuroscience.

Sept 2012

Yulia Revina (PhD student) from UCL and Andrew Morgan (Masters student) from UCLA joined the group.

July 2012

ERC grant awarded to Prof Lars Muckli, 1.5 million euros.

June 2012

Publication of Vetter et al., Transfer of predictive signals across saccades in Frontiers in Perception Science.

May 2012

Postdoc Lucy Petro joined the group from Rockefeller University, New York.