Robert Seymour

Cognitive Neuroscientist (Research Fellow) at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL, London, UK.

Research areas

• Neuroscience of Social interaction and Communication
• MEG and Optically-Pumped MEG Development, with a focus on wearability and real-world experiments
• Brain connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Autobiographical Memory

I am an advocate of open scienctific practices.

Links

• Email Address

• Academic CV

• Google Scholar

• Github

Key Publications

• Seymour, R. A., Alexander, N., & Maguire, E. A. (2022). Robust estimation of 1/f activity improves oscillatory burst detection. European Journal of Neuroscience, 1– 17.
• Seymour, R. A., Alexander, N., Mellor, S., O’Neill, G. C., Tierney, T. M., Barnes, G. R., & Maguire, E. A. (2021). Interference suppression techniques for OPM-based MEG: Opportunities and challenges. NeuroImage, 118834.
• Seymour, R. A., Alexander, N., Mellor, S. J., O’Neill, G. C., Tierney, T. M., Barnes, G. R., & Maguire, E. A. (2021). Using OPMs to measure neural activity in standing, mobile participants. Neuroimage.
• Seymour, R. A., Rippon, G., Gooding-Williams, G., Sowman, P. F., & Kessler, K. (2020). Reduced auditory steady state responses in autism spectrum disorder. Molecular autism, 11(1), 1-13.
• Seymour, R. A., Rippon, G., Gooding-Williams, G., Schoffelen, J. M., & Kessler, K. (2019). Dysregulated oscillatory connectivity in the visual system in autism spectrum disorder. Brain, 142(10), 3294-3305.
• Seymour, R. A., Rippon, G., & Kessler, K. (2017). The Detection of Phase Amplitude Coupling during Sensory Processing. Frontiers in neuroscience, 11, 487.
• Kessler, K., Seymour, R. A., & Rippon, G. (2016). Brain oscillations and connectivity in autism spectrum disorders (ASD): new approaches to methodology, measurement and modelling. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 71, 601-620.

Active Projects

• Integrating virtual reality with wearable OPM-MEG to investigate autobiographical memory encoding and retrieval.

• Studying the neural mechanisms of social interaction and communication using OPM-MEG in combination with real-world, multi-person experiments.

• The Neural Basis of Perspective-Taking in Neurotypical and Autistic Populations.

Social Media

You can find me on Twitter @neurofractal, BlueSky @neurofractal and LinkedIn Robert Seymour

Software Development

I am proficient in MATLAB and Python. I work with several different programs/libraries including:

• Fieldtrip Toolbox, SPM and MNE-Python for MEG data analysis
• Custom MATLAB code for Phase Amplitude Coupling (PAC)
• Psychopy for stimulus presentation
• Scientific Python (numpy, pandas, matplotlib, plotly) for behavioural data analysis and publication-quality data visualisation
• Machine Learning (user of scikit-learn and novice user of tensorflow)

OPM Data Analysis Tutorials

1. Auditory evoked field paradigm during participant movement

• Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5539414
• Script: pipeline_tutorial_1.m

2. Motor-beta power changes during a finger-tapping paradigm

• Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5539414
• Script: pipeline_tutorial_2.m