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Liang, J., Bezsudnova, Y., Kowalczyk, A., Sun, Y., & Jensen, O. (2026). Enhanced neural decoding with optically pumped magnetometer MEG using multivariate pattern analysis. IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng. OPM-MEG outperformed SQUID-MEG for multivariate decoding of pictures and words, with the clearest advantage for word decoding. Decoding performance increased with sensor number and plateaued at around 40 sensors, with OPM reaching strong performance with fewer sensors

Wynn, S.C., Bezsudnova, Y. And Jensen, O. (2026). Neural Sharpening of Object Categories Through Parafoveal Priming. (in press) Commun Biol Every few moments, our eyes jump to new parts of a scene. This study asked whether objects seen just outside the centre of gaze give the brain a useful head start. Participants viewed natural object pictures while brain activity was recorded with MEG. When an object appeared first in the parafovea and then shortly afterwards in the centr

Melloni L, Liu L, Ferrante O, Ghafari T, Hetenyi D, Yang S, Hirschhorn R, Sripad P, Taheriyan F, Brown T, Das D, Kahraman K, Bonacchi N, Pitts M, Mudrik L, Jensen O, Luo H, Gorska-Klimowska U (in press) An open multi-center MEG-EEG dataset for studying conscious visual perception. Scientific Data We present a large, open-access multi-center dataset combining MEG, EEG, eye-tracking, and MRI data to study conscious visual perception (the Cogitate project). The dataset, collecte

Chen, S., Zhang, X., Li, X., Jensen, O., Theeuwes, J., and Wang, B. (in press). Learned statistical regularity drives anticipatory micro-saccades toward suppressed distractor locations. Nat. Commun. We found that when people learn that when distractions appear repeatedly at certain locations, their eyes - surprisingly - make tiny anticipatory movements (called micro-saccades) toward those locations before the distractions even appear. Also alpha-band activity carried decodab

Levinson, M., Waitt, A.E., Duecker, K., Wynn, S.C., Jensen, O., and Baillet, S. (accepted) Hierarchical brain dynamics supporting visual perceptual transitions. Sci. Adv. In this study we used RIFT and MEG to track visual-cortical excitability during perceptual filling-in and found that the signal increased just before the illusion emerged. This showed that filling-in is preceded by changes in early visual cortex, but not by the low-level spreading predicted by isomorphic acc

St Catherine's College, Oxford University, reviews the recently published historical review of the alpha rhythm, written by Dr Mathilde Bonnefond and Prof Ole Jensen. Read the St Catz review here .