@LMatyjek

Junior Leader @BecariosFLC at UPF Barcelona || former @MSCActions || social cognition & interaction, neuro 🧠 #autism || PL, EN, ES || she/her || bsky @lmatyjek

 Barcelona, Spain
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Joined July 2018
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I'm so honoured and absolutely thrilled to be named a Junior Leader #Fellow of the #laCaixaFoundation! 🎉🎉🎉 Excited to launch my new project on behavioural and neural alignment in autistic-neurotypical interactions—stay tuned! #Beques #FundaciólaCaixa #Becas #FundaciónlaCaixa
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📢 We are thrilled to present you the #laCaixaFoundFellows selected in the Postdoctoral Junior Leader 2025 call! 40 researchers ready to lead the next step in their research career. How far will they go? 🚀 Meet them! [1/5] 👇
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🧩 ¿Cómo influye el autismo en la vida social adulta? La #BecariasFundlaCaixa Magdalena Matyjek, neuropsicóloga e investigadora de la UPF, participará en una jornada en CaixaForum Madrid para explorar la conexión entre autismo y vida social adulta. 📅 Viernes, 23 de octubre | 9:15 h 🔎 ¡Descubre más sobre la jornada! edai.eu/es/
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Our article is now published in Autism Research! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… Aperiodic EEG slopes suggest that atypicality in autism is not about what the brain is like, but how it responds under demanding conditions.

Task‐Related Aperiodic EEG (1/f) Activity in Autism

Autism has been hypothesized to involve atypicalities in the balance between neural excitation and inhibition (E/I). Aperiodic EEG activity, characterized by the 1/f exponent of the power spectrum,...

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Dr Lena Matyjek@LMatyjek21 Oct 2025
📢New preprint: 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸-𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝗘𝗚 (1/𝗳) 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 #𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺 medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 🎵🎙️Listen to a notebookLM overview of this paper in simple words: lenamatyjek.com/wp-content/u… #EEG #Neuroscience

Task-related Aperiodic EEG (1/f) Activity in Autism

Autism has been hypothesised to involve atypicalities in the balance between neural excitation and inhibition (E/I). Aperiodic EEG activity, characterised by the 1/f exponent of the power spectrum,...

medrxiv.org
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We’re looking for a motivated PhD candidate (Spanish nationality) to apply for funding and join a project on inter-brain synchrony in #autism at @UPF Barcelona🧠Deadline coming up soon! W/@s_sotofaraco Please see the flyer for details and send your CV + motivation letter asap!
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A bit late (social media aren't my thing), but... It was a pleasure to co-chair a symposium on Multimodal Coordination in Naturalistic Social Interactions with @antoniahamilton, @JudithHoller and Simon Wehrle at #ESCAN2026!
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We discussed how and why humans spontaneously coordinate verbally, nonverbally, and neurally in interaction, and how this varies across social contexts. One takeaway for research: behaviour matters in interpersonal alignment, and individual differences are huge.
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What a pleasure to be a part of this community! Muchas gracias por el apoyo!
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6/🚀 Es el turno de los becarios de posdoctorado Junior Leader. 40 investigadores que ahora emprenden una nueva etapa para desarrollar sus propios proyectos y seguir ampliando las fronteras del conocimiento. ¡Enhorabuena!👏
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What’s the morality of your favorite AI model? Virtue, Deontology, Consequentialism? 'TriEthix': a Triadic Benchmark for Ethical Alignment in Foundation Models. Web: albert-data.com/pages/trieth… GitHub: github.com/AlbertBarqueDuran… @OpenAI @AnthropicAI @GoogleDeepMind @xai @deepseek_ai
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📢New preprint: 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸-𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝗘𝗚 (1/𝗳) 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 #𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺 medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 🎵🎙️Listen to a notebookLM overview of this paper in simple words: lenamatyjek.com/wp-content/u… #EEG #Neuroscience

Task-related Aperiodic EEG (1/f) Activity in Autism

Autism has been hypothesised to involve atypicalities in the balance between neural excitation and inhibition (E/I). Aperiodic EEG activity, characterised by the 1/f exponent of the power spectrum,...

medrxiv.org
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Bonus! We also show how crucial it is to look at the heterogeneity in the autistic group - some AUT individuals may show a massive passive-to-active change and others may not show it at all.
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So to understand the brain excitation/inhibition, we must embrace the heterogeneity of autism and continue investigating these dynamic, task-dependent neural responses.
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I'm so excited to finally share work that’s been a couple of years in the making! See our new paper on social interactions in #autism, co-authored with Isabel Dziobek, @antoniahamilton & @ThaliaWheatley in @AutismAdulthood: liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/2… 🎉
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That’s why we also stress including autistic voices in research. Who better to define what a meaningful social interaction looks like than those who experience them? Let's build more inclusive and accurate science. #Autism #Neurodiversity #DoubleEmpathyProblem
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You can view the (free) author accepted manuscript here: lenamatyjek.com/publications…

Publications

Matyjek, M., Soto Faraco, S., Alvarez Martin, C., Torralba Cuello, M. (2025) Task-related Aperiodic EEG (1/f) Activity in Autism. Autism Research, e70314. Also preprint available at: MedR…

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