News
April 2025 - Helena and Julia (Ziwei) will be presenting posters at the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) conference, Panama [Conference proceedings]
March 2025 - Huge welcome to our newest lab members! 🌟🌟🌟 Dr Simon Marchant, Dr Coen Zandvoort, and Shixiao Wang bring expertise in electrophysiology, motor control and disorders, and AI. Excited to have you on the #UKRIFLF team!
January 2025 - Katja is giving a Plenary talk at the Annual Meeting for the Taiwan Society of Cognitive Neuroscience, Taiwan
December 2024 - Katja is giving an invited Talk (Zoom) at the Perception and Action Seminar at Brown University, USA
November 2024 - Katja is giving an invited Talk at the Basque Center On Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), Spain
November 2024 - Our paper was featured on the cover of of Journal of Neuroscience!
October 2024 - Julia, Kiran and Elijah presented posters at the MEGUKI 2024 conference
October 2024 - Preprint with Desrochers lab (Brown University) "Ramping dissociates motor and cognitive sequences in the parietal and prefrontal cortices".
September 2024 - Paper published in J Neuroscience: Yewbrey R, Kornysheva K* (2024). The hippocampus pre-orders movements for skilled action sequences. Journal of Neuroscience. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0832-24.2024.
September 2024 - Join the cross-sector workshop led by Katja and Dave Punt, Ned Jenkinson at the University of Birmingham Mind In Motion - Advancing digital neuro-rehabilitation . Registration Deadline 18 September!
June 2024 - Our lab has been awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship "Dissecting the neural code for skilled action planning and coordination" with the aim to identify how the brain plans movements and build neurotechnological tools to modify movement planning non-invasively to improve performance. We will soon begin recruiting 3 postdocs, 2 research assistants, and 1 PhD candidate. If you are interested in our research, please contact Katja at k.kornysheva@bham.ac.uk. -> Please add applicable subject to your email: 'FLF postdoc'; 'FLF PhD'; 'FLF RA'
June 2024 - Martin and Helena are presenting posters at the UKSensorimotor24 conference in Cambridge
June 2024 - Martin and Katja are giving a talk, and Kiran presents a poster on the lab's neurotech projects at the N-CODE Expo 2024 - N-CODE
June 2024 - Helena is giving a talk at the DCD15-IMDRC6 – International Motor Development Research Consortium and the International Society of Research and Advocacy for Development Coordination Disorder in Ghent
March 2024 - Katja has been elected to the board of directors of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) (Term: 2024-2027)
February 2024 - Katja and Martin will organise a workshop at the University of Birmingham: 'Mind in Motion - Advancing digital interventions for neuro-rehabilitation' funded by N-CODE in 2024. More information to follow soon.
December 2023 - Katja joins the Editorial board of the Journal of Motor Behaviour
December 2023 - Welcome to Martin Geiger, RA on the EPSRC/MRC N-Code Proof-of-Principle project on "Non-invasive Brain-computer-interfaces for Remote Rehab and Training of Motor Skills"
October 2023 - Helena presented a poster at the MEG UKI conference in Dublin, Ireland
October 2023 - A warm welcome to Kiran Phalke and Elijah Odunsi - MSc students in the Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics programme
October 2023 - A warm welcome to Charlotte Wissing - a visiting MSc students from the Narain lab at the Neuroscience Department, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam
September 2023 - Katja is giving an invited talk at the Progress in Motor Control XIV conference in Rome, Italy
September 2023 - Katja is giving an invited Plenary talk at the Tuebingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium, Germany
September 2023 - Katja is giving an invited talk at the Royal College of Music London as part of the symposium The Neuroscience of Expert Performance (Friday, September 8, 2-6pm). Tickets can be booked here.
August 2023 - ***RA position*** - EPSRC N-Code Proof-of-Principle funded research on "Non-invasive Brain-computer-interfaces for Remote Rehab and Training of Motor Skills" - Details and application link - Deadline: 30th August 2023!
July 2023 - PhD student Helena Wright is giving a talk at the DCD UK 2023 conference in Manchester
June 2023 - Katja is giving an invited talk at the Neuro-X Institute at EPFL, Geneva, Switzerland
June 2023 - Katja is giving an invited talk at the Leibniz Centre for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
May 2023 - Katja receives EPSRC N-Code Proof-of-Principle funding to conduct research on "Non-invasive Brain-computer-interfaces for Remote Rehab and Training of Motor Skills" - an RA position opening is coming soon!
March 2023 - Katja is presenting a challenge - Rehab and training of motor skills using BCI - at the first EPSRC N-Code Study Group meeting
March 2023 - Katja is giving an invited talk at the Cosyne Workshop in Mont Tremblant, Canada "Neural mechanisms of sequence learning and execution"
January 2023 - Rhys Yewbrey's paper "Cortical patterns shift from sequence feature separation during planning to integration during motor execution." accepted for publication in Journal of Neuroscience - commentary in Science and Journal of Neuroscience
November 2022 - PhD position: 4-year MIBTP PhD opportunity in the Kornysheva lab at The Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH), in collaboration with Prof. Ole Jensen and Dr. Andrew Quinn: Details on how to apply. Applicants with the most competitive applications will be supported to submit an application to the University of Birmingham. Call is open to UK and international students. Deadline: 20 January 2023.
November 2022 - Katja will give an invited talk at the School of Psychology, University of Leeds - RESCHEDULED
November 2022 - Katja gives an invited talk at the international 1st Theoretical and Applied Advances in Motor Learning Symposium in Twente University, NL
October 2022 - A warm welcome to Deborah Lee and Darshan Gohil who are starting their MSc dissertation projects in the lab
September 2022 - Katja becomes interim Co-Director of the CHBH for 2022/23
July 2022 - A new preprint on bioRxiv from the lab, led by Rhys Yewbrey on "Cortical patterns shift from sequence feature separation during planning to integration during motor execution"
June 2022 - Myrto Mantziara passed her PhD viva "without corrections"! Congrats, *Dr Mantziara*!! 🎉🥂
June 2022 - Helena Wright is travelling to Tel Aviv University on the Turing Exchange Scheme to collaborate with Dr Jason Friedman at the Sagol School of Neuroscience on a project studying movement fusion and planning in drawing sequences.
May 2022 - Rhys Yewbrey is presenting a blitz talk and poster at the BACN conference.
May 2022 - Helena Wright is presenting her project plans on the neural basis of sequence planning in DCD/dyspraxia in the CHBH Research discussions meeting on 19 May.
May 2022 - Rhys Yewbrey is presenting his fMRI project results in the CHBH Research discussions meeting on 11 May.
April 2022 - Hosting CHBH Seminar Speaker 9 October, 14:00 - Dr Devika Narain, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Title: Neural dynamics underlying Bayesian inference of time intervals
March 2022 - Welcome to Aditya Umarjikar who joins as a postgraduate intern on an MEG/EEG data analysis project.
Dec 2021 - Welcome to Helena Wright who joins as a PhD student on the Academy of Medical Sciences funded project on “Neural basis of sequence planning in motor coordination disorders”.
Nov 2021 - 9 January 2022 deadline: PhD opportunity to work under the supervision of Joe Galea and Katja Kornysheva at the Centre of Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham on the neural control of skilled action. https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/the-neural-control-of-skilled-action/?p136998
Aug 2021 - Katja will be giving an invited talk at the Progress in Motor Control XIII 2021, Auckland, NZ entitled "Coordinating motor plans for skilled sequence production"
Aug 2021 - The Skilled Action & Memory lab is moving to the Centre of Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham in December 2021!
April 2021 - Our paper, led by PhD student Myrto Mantziara, has been selected for Cover of the Journal of Neurophysiology, April-June edition!
March 2021 - Katja receives the Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award (£100,000) to conduct research on the “Neural basis of sequence planning in motor coordination disorders”. An associated 3-year PhD position opening in the Skilled Action & Memory Lab can be found here.
February 2021 - Myrto Mantziara's paper accepted for publication in Journal of Neurophysiology, doi: 10.1152/jn.00645.2020
February 2021 - Katja will be giving an invited talk at the Seminar Series of the School of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London
November 2020 - A warm welcome to Hannah Baker, Ferrida Ponce and Wong Ye Heng who have joined the lab to conduct their MSc in Neuroimaging projects.
October 2020 - Katja will be giving an invited talk "Neural organization of movements for skilled sequence control" at the Centre for Human Brain Health Seminar Series at the University of Birmingham
October 2020 - Hosting Virtual Seminar Speaker 9 October, 14:00 - Prof Ole Jensen, University of Birmingham, Title: Investigating attention and reading using invisible frequency tagging
October 2020 - Katja takes up the role of Co-Director of the Bangor Imaging Unit
August 2020 - Katja becomes Consulting Editor at Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
May 2020 - New preprint from the lab by PhD student Myrto Mantziara: Mantziara et al. Competitive state of actions during planning predicts sequence execution accuracy.
May 2020 - Hosting Virtual Seminar Speaker 15 May, 16:00 - Dr Moritz Wurm, CiMEC, Trento, Title: A novel framework for the neural organization of action and object knowledge
May 2020 - Myrto is presenting a virtual poster on the behavioural state of sequential actions before sequence planning at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting
Mar 2020 - POSTPONED to 2021 due to Covid-19! Katja is presenting at the 22nd Neuroscience Winter Conference in Soelden, Austria, Symposium: Neural Basis of Sequence Generation; Organizers: Sean Escola (Columbia) and Bence Ölveczky (Harvard).
Dec 2019 - Hosting Seminar Speaker 6 Dec, 14:00, Brig 342 - Dr Dan Bush, University College London, Title: Temporal Coding of Spatial Trajectories in Rodents and Humans
Nov 2019 - Welcome to our new PhD student Rhys Yewbrey who joined the lab to study how the brain prepares sequences.
Oct 2019 - Katja will give an invited talk on 'Preparation of Sequence Timing for Skilled Action Control' at the Symposium 'Time and Action in Spatial Context' at the Timing Research Forum II, Queretaro, Mexico
Sept 2019 - A warm welcome to Christian Baskerville, Elli Dvorakovska, Ed Gilligan-Davis, Natasha Groves, Lauren King and Neelambika Sanath who are starting their BSc final year projects, and Tsvet Invanov for starting his MSc in Neuroimaging project in the Skilled Action & Memory Lab.
July 2019 - PhD student Myrto Mantziara publishes her take on action sequence preparation in the science outreach magazine The Conversation - How the brain prepared for movement and actions.
July 2019 - Congratulations to our BSc thesis graduate Tsvetoslav Ivanov for graduating with flying colours and receiving the following four BSc prizes: Fergus Lowe prize - Top graduating student, BPS prize - Best graduating student, BPS Wales prize - Best graduating student, John Roberts Jones achievement prize! Fantastic and well-deserved achievement!
July 2018 - Congratulations to Tsvetoslav Invanov, Ginny Whiteside, Matt McAll, Robert Owen on successfully finishing their BSc research projects and thesis in our lab!
June 2019 - PhD student Myrto Mantziara has won the "Best poster" Prize at the UK Sensorimotor meeting 2019 in London
May 2019 - Katja is giving a talk at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL ICN Seminar schedule)
April 2019 - Katja leading the upcoming Panel symposium at the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) conference in Japan
April 2019 - Our work reported in Neuron in February 2019 has been highlighted on the Cover of Wales Advances Magazine, the science and innovation magazine by the Welsh Government. PDF of Spring Issue
March 2019 - Hosting Seminar Speaker 22 March, 14:00, Brig 342 - Dr Tom Hartley, University of York, Title: Rhythm and verbal memory
March 2019 - Hosting Seminar Speaker 15 March, 14:00, Brig 342 - Dr Joe Galea, University of Birmingham, Title: Reward in the motor system
Feb 2019 - Paper out in Neuron: Here we decode activity in humans during the planning and production of sequences from memory and show that the brain employs a generic template for action order before sequence initiation. Highlighted in F1000 and Nature Human Behaviour.
Feb 2019 - Hosting Seminar Speaker 8 Feb, 14:00, Brig 342 - Dr Maria Herrojo Ruiz, Goldsmiths, University of London, Title: Exploration, decision-making and action monitoring during piano performance
Jan 2019 - Our Panel proposal has been accepted at the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) conference in Toyama, Japan on “Motor sequence preparation and control: From population dynamics to whole brain representations”. With Mark Churchland (Columbia U), Bence Olvezcky (Harvard U), Atsushi Yokoi (NICT), Katja Kornysheva (Bangor U, Panel Organizer); Discussant: Joern Diedrichsen (Western U)
Dec 2018 - Lab seminar 13 Dec, 12:30-13:30. Location: Brig 323. Alexis McIntyre, PhD student at ICN/UCL (Scott lab https://speechcommunicationlab.weebly.com/) - Title: “The Temporal Coordination of Breathing During Speech Production”.
Oct 2018 - A warm welcome to Rhys Yewbrey who is starting his MSc project!
Oct 2018 - A warm welcome to Tsvetoslav Ivanov, Ginny Whiteside, Matt MacAll and Robert Owen who are starting their BSc projects in the Skilled Action & Memory Lab!
Aug 2018 - Katja will be visiting Joe Galea's and Chris Miall's labs at the University of Birmingham, and give a talk at the Motor Control Lab Meeting.
July 2018 - Congratulations to Myrto for passing her 9-month PhD upgrade!
June 2018 - Huge congratulations to Jiri Benacek, Fiona Rankin, Sam Webb, Bryony Williams, Rebecca Robinson and Megan Woodruff on successfully finishing their BSc research projects and thesis in our lab!
April 2018 - Katja will give an invited talk at the Human Movement Science Seminar, TU Munich, on decoding action sequences from movement preparation and the new framework of task-specific dystonia
Dec 2017 - Katja external examiner (PhD viva) at the Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam
Nov 2017 - Paper published in Nature Reviews Neurology -> a new motor control framework of task-specific dystonia in collaboration with Anna Sadnicka,Link
Nov 2017 - The SAMlab has been awarded The Royal Society Research Grant (£15,000) to set up a motion tracking system with a high spatio-temporal resolution and extend our research into naturalistic action sequences for hand-writing, reaching and music production. Bangor Psychology is matching the grant to install a state-of-the-art system in the lab.
Oct 2017 - Katja will give a Talk at the Timing Research Forum Conference in Strasbourg on the "Temporal queuing of actions in motor sequences". TRF Conference.
Oct 2017 - A huge welcome to Myrto Mantziara, who is starting her PhD position in the Skilled Action & Memory lab. Check out her profile and interestshere.
Sept 2017 - A warm welcome to Jiri Benacek, Fiona Rankin, Sam Webb, Bryony Williams, Rebecca Robinson and Megan Woodruff who are starting their BSc final year projects in the Skilled Action & Memory Lab.
May 2017 - Poster at the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) Conference in Dublin on the "Dynamic representation of spatio-temporal sequence features (MEG)". Click here for a poster reprint.
Feb 2017 - Invited talk on the neural representation of temporal and spatial sequence features at the Seminar Series of the Oxford Centre of Human Brain Activity (OHBA), University of Oxford, Wed 15th February, 2.30pm.
Jan 2017 - Invited talk on the neural representation of skilled motor sequences at the Psychology Department, Brunel University London, Fri 27th December, 3pm.
Dec 2016 - Happy to announce that I will be moving to Bangor University to start my lab as a Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) at the School of Psychologyand Bangor Imaging Unit from mid 2017. If you are considering doing a PhD on the neural markers of skilled action sequences using combined EEG-fMRI, TMS/tDCS, feel free to get in touch and apply!
Aug 2016 - New interdisciplinary methods Paper (neuro-nanoscience) in Nature Communications - introducing a new vector based classification of tunneling current-distance curves (inspired by multivariate analysis in neuroscience) to improve the identification of molecular events. Link
July 2016 - Paper on the neural encoding of timing in skilled movements accepted, in: Laczko & Latash (Eds.) Progress in Motor Control. Theories and Translations, Springer. Link
July 2015 - Invited talk at the Progress in Motor Control X. Conference in Budapest on the "Neural encoding of spatiotermporal skills". Link
Mar 2015 - Our new review Paper on motor skill learning is in press in Trends in Cognitive Science and has been featured on the cover. Link
Feb 2015 - Happy to announce the *birth of my son Peter*! I will be on maternity leave till August 2015.
Sept 2014 - My Interview with eLife for the Discovery drivers series: Imprinting memories: an interview with Katja Kornysheva
Aug 2014 - Paper in eLife: Human premotor areas parse sequences into their spatial and temporal features. *