Publications

Peer-reviewed Articles and Preprints

2026

Onorato, I., Broggini, A.C., Tzanou, A., Uran, C., Vinck, M.
Bursting excitatory cells show enhanced gamma-band phase-locking and stimulus tuning in mouse V1
Scientific Reports, accepted pending minor revision.

Saponati, M., Vinck, M.
Inhibitory feedback enables predictive learning of multiple sequences in neural networks
Neural Computation, accepted.

Roberts, L., Aijala, J., Burger, F., Uran, C., Jensen, M.A., Miller, K.J., Ince, R.A.A., Vinck, M., Hermes, D., Canales-Johnson, A.
Broadband synergy versus oscillatory redundancy in the visual cortex Biorxiv. Nature Communications.

2025

Liu, J., Farahat, A., Vinck, M. Representational drift shows same-class-acceleration in visual cortex and artificial neural networks Biorxiv.

Tahvili, F., Vinck, M.*, Di Volo, M*. A mean-field model of neural networks with PV and SOM interneurons reveals connectivity-based mechanisms of gamma oscillations. Biorxiv.

Rodrigues, M., Gasco-Galvez, C., Vinck, M. Voltage-dependent reversal potentials in spiking recurrent neural networks enhance energy efficiency and task performance. Biorxiv.

Guerrero Rosado, O., Amil, A.F., Freire, I.T., Vinck, M., Verschure, P.F.M.J. Biomimetic self-regulation in intrinsically motivated robots. Alife, accepted.

Hou, Y., Vezoli, J., Knoblauch, K., Goebel, R., Vinck, M., Kennedy, H. Where, how and why do top-down and bottom-up signals interact in the primate brain? PsyArxiv.

Aizenbud, I., ..., Canales-Johnson, A., ..., Lecoq, J.A., ..., Uran, C., ..., Vinck, M., ..., Xiong, Y.S. Neural mechanisms of predictive processing: a collaborative community experiment through the OpenScope program. Arxiv.

Richter, D., Uran, C., Vinck, M., De Lange, F. Feature-specific predictive processing: What's in a prediction error? Imaging Neuroscience.

Guerrero Rosado, O., Amil, A.F., Freire, I.T., Vinck, M., Verschure, P.F.M.J. Motivational cognitive maps allow robot biomimetic autonomy. IEEE/RSJ, Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025), accepted.

Onorato, I., Tzanou, A., Schneider, M., Uran, C., Broggini, A., Vinck, M.
Distinct roles of PV and Sst interneurons in visually-induced gamma oscillations.
Cell Reports.

Alamia, A., Grimaldi, A., Chavane, F., Vinck, M.
What do neural travelling waves tell us about information flow? Biorxiv.

Tahvili, F., Vinck, M.*, Di Volo, M*.
A cortical microcircuit model reveals distinct inhibitory mechanisms of network oscillations and stability Cell Reports.
*Shared last authors.

Sotomayor-Gomez, B., Battaglia, F., Vinck, M.
Differential population coding of natural movies through spike counts and temporal sequences Cell Reports.

Farahat, A., Vinck, M. Neural responses in early, but not late, visual cortex are well predicted by random-weight CNNs with sufficient model complexity
Biorxiv. In revision for Communications Biology.

2024

Vinck, M., Uran, C., Dowdall, J., Rummell, B. & Canales-Johnson, A.
Large-scale interactions in predictive processing: oscillatory versus transient dynamics.
TICS.

Cuevas, N., Sotomayor-Gómez, B., Tzanou, A., Broggini, A., Uran, C., & Vinck, M.
Stimulus-specificity of surround-induced responses in primary visual cortex.
eLife.

Spyropoulos, G., Schneider, M., van Kempen, J., Gieselmann, M.A., Thiele, A., & Vinck, M.
Distinct feedforward and feedback pathways for cell-type specific attention effects.
Neuron.

Gelens, F., Komatsu, M., Uran, C., Jensen, M., Miller, K.J., Ince, R.A.A., Vinck, M., Canales-Johnson, A.
Distributed representations of prediction error signals across the cortical hierarchy are synergistic.
Nature Communications.

2023

Farahat, A., Effenberger, F., Vinck, M.
A novel feature-scrambling approach reveals the capacity of convolutional neural networks to learn spatial relations.
Neural Networks.

Saponati, M., Vinck, M.
Sequence learning and STDP emerge from a voltage-based predictive learning rule. Nature Communications.

Sotomayor-Gomez, B., Battaglia, F., Vinck, M.
SpikeShip: A method for fast, unsupervised discovery of high-dimensional neural spiking patterns.
PLoS Computational Biology.

Dowdall, J., Schneider, M., Vinck, M.
Attentional modulation of inter-areal coherence explained by frequency shifts. Neuroimage.

Vessel, E.A., Pasqualette, L.B.B.B., Uran, C., Koldehoff, S., & Vinck, M. Self-relevance predicts the aesthetic appeal of real and synthetic artworks generated via neural style transfer. Psychological Science.

Dorman, R., Bos, J.J., Vinck, M.A., Marchesi, P., Fiorilli, J., Lorteije, J.A.M., Reiten, I., Bjaalie, J.G., Okun, M., Pennartz, C.M.A.
Spike-based coupling between single neurons and populations across rat sensory cortices, perirhinal cortex, and hippocampus. Cereb Cortex. 2023.

Broggini, A., Onorato, I., Tzanou, A., Sotomayor-Gomez, B., Uran, C., Vinck, M.
Optogenetic stimulation reveals frequency-dependent resonance and encoding in V1 excitatory and inhibitory neurons Biorxiv.

Batista-Brito, R., Majumdar, A., Nuno, A., Ward, C., Barnes, C., Nikouei, K., Vinck, M., Cardin, J. Developmental loss of ErbB4 in PV interneurons disrupts state-dependent cortical circuit dynamics.
Molecular Psychiatry.

Vinck, M., Uran, C., Spyropoulos, G., Onorato, I., Broggini, A., Schneider, M., Canales-Johnson, A.
Principles of large-scale neural interactions.
Neuron.

Dowdall, J., Vinck, M.
Coherence fails to reliably capture inter-areal interactions in bidirectional neural systems with transmission delays.
Neuroimage.

Schneider, M., Tzanou, A., Uran, C., Vinck, M.
Cell-type-specific propagation of visual flicker.
Cell Reports.

2022

Vinck, M., Uran, C., Schneider, M.
Aperiodic processes explaining rhythms in behavior: A matter of false detection or definition?
Nature Human Behavior, accepted pending minor revision.

Spyropoulos, G., Dowdall, J., Scholvinck, M., Bosman, C., Lima, B., Peter, A., Onorato, I., Klon-Lipok, J., Roese, R., Neuenschwander, S., Singer, W., Fries, P., Vinck, M.
Spontaneous variability in gamma dynamics described by a linear harmonic oscillator driven by noise.
Nature Communications.

Liu, J., Vinck, M.
Improved visualization of high-dimensional data using the distance-of-distance transformation.
PLoS Computational Biology.

Yusuf, P.A., Lamuri, A., Hubka, P., Tillein, J., Vinck, M., Kral, M.
Deficient Recurrent Cortical Processing in Congenital Deafness
Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Uran, C., Peter, A., Lazar, A., Barnes, W., Klon-Lipok, J., Shapcott, K., Roese, R., Fries, P., Singer, W., Vinck, M.
Predictive coding of natural images by V1 activity revealed by self-supervised deep neural networks.
Neuron.

2021

Vezoli, J., Vinck, M., Bosman, C., Bastos, A., Lewis, M., Kennedy, H., Fries, P.
Brain rhythms define distinct interaction networks with differential dependence on anatomy. Neuron.

Schneider, M., Broggini, A., Dann, B., Tzanou, A., Uran, C., Sheshadri, S., Scherberger, H., Vinck, M.
A mechanism for inter-areal coherence through communication based on connectivity and oscillatory power.
Neuron.

Peter, A., Stauch, B., Shapcott, K., Kouroupaki, K., Schmiedt, J., Klein, L., Klon-Lipok, J., Dowdall, J., Schoelvinck, M., Vinck, M., Schmid, M., Fries, P.
Stimulus-specific plasticity of macaque V1 spike rates and gamma
Cell Reports.

Marchesi, P., Bos, J., Vinck, M., Pennartz, C.
System-Wide Replay in the Sensory Cortical-Hippocampal Hierarchy is Associated with Reward Anticipation.
Submitted to Neuron (available at SSRN).

Vezoli, J., Magrou, L., Goebel, R., Wang, XJ., Knoblauch, K., Vinck, M.*, Kennedy, H.*
Cortical Hierarchy and The Dual Stream Counter Architecture.
Neuroimage.
*Equally contributing last authors.

Yusuf, P., Hubka, P., Tillein, J., Vinck, M., Kral, A. Deafness weakens interareal couplings in the auditory cortex: I. Evidence from local field potentials.
Frontiers in Neuroscience.

2020

Van der Velden, L., Vinck, M., Wadman, W.
Resonance in the mouse Ventral Tegmental Area dopaminergic network induced by regular and Poisson distributed optogenetic stimulation in-vitro.
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.

Onorato, I., Neuenschwander, S., Hoy, J., Lima, B., Rocha, K., Broggini, A.C., Uran, C., Spyropoulos, G., Womelsdorf, T., Fries, P., Niell, C., Singer, W., Vinck, M.
A distinct class of bursting neurons with strong gamma synchronization and stimulus selectivity in monkey V1.
Neuron

2019

Bos, J.*, Vinck, M.*, Marchesi, P., Keestra, A., Mourik-Donga van, L., Jackson, J., Verschure, P., Pennartz, C.
Multiplexing of self and other information in hippocampal ensembles.
*Equally contributing first authors.
Cell Reports

Van der Velden, L., Vinck, M., Werkman, T., Wadman, W.
Modulation of functional connectivity between dopamine neurons of the rat Ventral Tegmental Area in-vitro.
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Vinck, M., Perrenoud, Q.
Layers of rhythms - from cortical anatomy to dynamics.
Neuron

Peter, A., Uran, C., Klon-Lipok, J., Roese, R., van Stijn, S., Barnes, W., Dowdall, J., Singer, W., Fries, P., Vinck, M.
Surface color and predictability determine contextual modulation of V1 firing and gamma oscillations.
eLife

2018

Miri, M.*, Vinck, M.*, Pant, R., Cardin, J.
Altered hippocampal interneuron activity precedes ictal onset.
eLife
*Equally contributing authors.

Olcese, U., Bos, J., Vinck, M., Pennartz, C.
Functional determinants of enhanced and depressed inter-areal information flow in NREM sleep between neuronal ensembles in rat cortex and hippocampus.
Sleep

Batista-Brito, R.*, Zagha, E.*, Ratliff, J., Vinck, M.*
Modulation of cortical circuits by top-down processing and arousal state in health and disease.
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
*Equally contributing authors.

Grossberger, L., Battaglia, F., Vinck, M.
Unsupervised clustering of temporal patterns in high-dimensional neuronal ensembles using a novel dissimilarity measure.
PLoS Computational Biology

Pesaran, B., Vinck, M., Einevoll, G., Sirota, A., Fries, P., Siegel, M., Truccolo, W., Schroeder, C., Srinivasan, R.
Investigating large-scale brain dynamics using field potential recordings: Analysis and interpretation.
Nature Neuroscience

2017

Van der Velden, L., Vinck, M., Werkman, T., Wadman, W.
Tuning of neuronal interactions in the lateral ventral tegmental area by dopamine sensitivity.
Neuroscience

Batista-Brito, R.*, Vinck, M.*, Ferguson, K., Chang, J., Laubender, D., Lur, G., Hernandez, V., Ramakrishnan, C., Deisseroth, K., Higley, M., Cardin, J.
Developmental dysfunction of VIP interneurons impairs cortical circuits.
Neuron
*Contributed equal first authors.

Javor-Duray, B.N., Vinck, M., van der Roest, M., Bezard, E., Berendse, H.W., Boraud, T., Voorn, P.
Alterations in functional cortical hierarchy in hemiparkinsonian rats.
Journal of Neuroscience

Bos, J.J.*, Vinck, M.*, Mourik-Donga, A.B., Jackson, J.C., Witter, M.P., Pennartz, C.M.A.
Firing patterns of perirhinal neurons are sustained across chunks of task environment.
Nature Communications
*Contributed equal first authors.

Babapoor-Farrokhran, S., Vinck, M., Womelsdorf, T., Everling, S.
Theta synchrony coordinates frontal eye fields and anterior cingulate cortex.
Nature Communications

2016

Lansink, C.S., Meijer, G.M., Lankelma, J.V., Vinck, M., Jackson, J.C., Pennartz, C.M.A.
Reward expectancy engages hippocampal beta rhythm.
Journal of Neuroscience

Olcese*, U., Bos*, J., Vinck*, M., Lankelma, J., van Mourik-Donga, L., Schlumm, F., Pennartz, C.
Spike-based functional connectivity in cerebral cortex and hippocampus: loss of global connectivity is coupled to preservation of local connectivity during non-REM sleep.
Journal of Neuroscience
*Contributed equal first authors.

Malkki, H., Lankelma, J., Mertens, P., Vinck, M., van Schalkwijk, F., Battaglia, F., Mahlke, Kuhl, D., Pennartz, C.
Effects of Arc/Arg3.1 gene deletion on rhythmic synchronization of hippocampal CA1 neurons during locomotor activity and sleep.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Vinck, M. and Bosman, C.
More Gamma More Predictions: Gamma-Synchronization as a Key Mechanism for Efficient Integration of Classical Receptive Field Inputs with Surround Predictions.
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Lur, G., Vinck, M., Tang, L., Cardin, J., Higley, M.
Projection-specific visual feature encoding by layer 5 cortical subnetworks.
Cell Reports

Vinck, M., Bos, J., Donga, L., Oplaat, K., Klein, G., Jackson, J.C., Gentet, L.J., Pennartz, C.M.A. Cell-type and state-dependent synchronization among rodent areas S1BF, V1, perirhinal cortex and hippocampus CA1.
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

2015

McGinley*, M., Vinck*, M., Reimer*, J., Batista-Brito, R., Zagha, E., Cadwell, C., Tolias, A., Cardin, J., McCormick, D.
Waking State: Rapid Variations Modulate Neural and Behavioral Responses.
Neuron
*Contributed equal first authors.

Vinck, M., Brito-Batista, R., Knoblich, U., Cardin, J.A.
Arousal and locomotion make distinct contributions to cortical activity patterns and visual encoding.
Neuron

Ardid, S., Vinck, M., Kaping, D., Marquez, S., Everling, S., Womelsdorf, T.
Mapping of functionally characterized cell classes onto canonical circuit operations in primate prefrontal cortex.
Journal of Neuroscience

Vinck, M., Huurdeman, L., Bosman, C., Fries, P., Battaglia, F., Pennartz, C., Tiesinga, P.
How to detect the Granger-causal flow direction in the presence of additive noise?
NeuroImage

Javor-Duray, B., Vinck, M., van der Roest, M., Mulder, A., Stam, C.J., Berendse, H., Voorn, P.
Early-onset cortico-cortical synchronization in the hemiparkinsonian rat model.
Journal of Neurophysiology

2014

Brunet, N., Vinck, M., Bosman, C.A., Singer, W., Fries, P.
Gamma or no gamma, that is the question.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Montijn, J., Vinck, M., Pennartz, C.
Population coding in mouse visual cortex: response reliability and dissociability of stimulus tuning and noise correlation.
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Huijbers, W., Pennartz, C., Beldzik, E., Domagalik, A., Vinck, M., Hofman, W., Cabeza, R., Daselaar, S.
Respiration phase-locks to fast stimulus presentations: implications for the interpretation of posterior midline "deactivations".
Human Brain Mapping

Brunet, N.*, Bosman, C.*, Vinck, M.*, Roberts, M., Oostenveld, R., Desimone, R., de Weerd, P., Fries, P.
Stimulus repetition modulates gamma-band synchronization in primate visual cortex.
PNAS
*Contributed equal first authors.

Cabral, H., Vinck, M., Fouquet, C., Pennartz, C.M.A., Rondi-Reig, L., Battaglia, F.P.
Oscillatory dynamics and place field maps reflect sequence and place memory processing in hippocampal ensembles under NMDA receptor control.
Neuron

2013

Vinck, M., Womelsdorf, T., Buffalo, E., Desimone, R., Fries, P. Attentional modulation of cell-class specific gamma-band synchronization in awake monkey area V4.
Neuron

Philips, J., Vinck, M., Everling, S., Womelsdorf, T.
A long-range fronto-parietal 5-10 Hz network predicts top-down controlled guidance in a task-switch paradigm.
Cerebral Cortex

2012

van Wingerden, M.*, Vinck, M.*, Tijms, V., Ferreira, I., Jonker, A., Pennartz, C.
NMDA receptors control cue-outcome selectivity and plasticity of orbitofrontal firing patterns during associative stimulus-reward learning.
Neuron
*Contributed equal first authors.

Vinck, M., Battaglia, F.P., Balakirsky, V., Vinck, A.J., Pennartz, C.
Estimation of the entropy based on its polynomial representation.
Physical Review E (Statistical Physics)

Womelsdorf, T.*, Lima, B.*, Vinck, M.*, Oostenveld, R., Singer, W., Neuenschwander, S., Fries, P.
Orientation selectivity and noise correlation in awake monkey V1 are modulated by the gamma cycle.
PNAS
*Contributed equal first authors.

Vinck, M., Battaglia, F., Womelsdorf, T., Pennartz, C.
Improved measures of phase-coupling between spikes and the Local Field Potential.
Journal of Computational Neuroscience

2011

Kaping, D., Vinck, M., Hutchison, R., Everling, S., Womelsdorf, T.
Specific contributions of ventromedial frontal, anterior cingulate and lateral prefrontal cortex for attentional selection and stimulus valuation.
PLoS Biology

Pennartz, C., van Wingerden, M., Vinck, M.
Population coding and neural rhythmicity in the orbitofrontal cortex.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Vinck, M., Oostenveld, R., van Wingerden, M., Battaglia, F., Pennartz, C.
An improved index of phase synchronization for electrophysiological data in the presence of volume-conduction, noise and sample-size bias.
NeuroImage

2010

Womelsdorf, T., Vinck, M., Leung, S. & Everling, S.
Selective theta synchronization of choice relevant information subserves goal-directed behavior.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

van Wingerden, M.*, Vinck, M.*, Lankelma, J., Pennartz, C.
Learning-associated gamma-band phase-locking of action-outcome selective neurons in orbitofrontal cortex.
Journal of Neuroscience
*Contributed equal first authors.

van Wingerden, M., Vinck, M., Lankelma, J., Pennartz, C.
Theta-band Phase-locking of Orbitofrontal Neurons during Reward Expectancy.
Journal of Neuroscience

Womelsdorf, T., Johnston, K., Vinck, M. & Everling, S.
Theta activity in anterior cingulate cortex predicts task-rules and their adjustments following errors.
PNAS

Vinck, M., Wingerden van, M., Womelsdorf, T., Fries, P., Pennartz, C.M.A.
The pairwise phase consistency: A bias-free measure of rhythmic neuronal synchronization.
NeuroImage

Vinck, M., Lima, B., Womelsdorf, T., Oostenveld, R., Singer, W., Neuenschwander, S., Fries, P.
Gamma-phase shifting in awake monkey visual cortex.
Journal of Neuroscience

Book Chapters

Vinck, M., Womelsdorf, T., Fries, P.
Gamma-band synchronization and information transmission.
In: Principles of Neural Coding. Eds. Stefano Panzeri & Rodrigo Quian Quiroga. CRC Taylor and Francis.
2013

Harris, K.D., Groh, J.M., DiCarlo, J., Fries, P., Kaschube, M., Laurent, G., MacLean, J., McCormick, D., Pipa, G., Reynolds, J., Schwartz, A., Sejnowski, T., Singer, W., Vinck, M. Functional Properties of Circuits, Cellular Populations, and Areas. In: The Neocortex, ed. W. Singer, T.J. Sejnowski and P. Rakic, pp. 223-265. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 27, J. Lupp, series editor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2019