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Conor Thornberry

Trinity College DublinORCID 0000-0002-5281-0641Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:imaging· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Research Focus:synaptic & neural circuits· 1

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An open-access neuroimaging-compatible virtual town task for assessing human spatial navigation

Conor Thornberry, Steven Lieu, James K. Bradshaw Bernacchi, Declan M. Quinn, Lisa Sutton, Rhoda Osagie, Andrew Walsh, Lili Zhang, Tomas Ward, Alejandro Lopez Valdes, Robert Whelan

The paper introduces an open-access virtual navigation task compatible with neuroimaging, demonstrating its use with EEG and behavioral tracking in human participants.

bioRxiv · Nov 5, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

MRI-free OPM-MEG recovers medial temporal lobe theta during scene imagination

Conor Thornberry, Prathiksha Math, Margarida Cohen Serra, Robert A. Seymour, Clodagh Nolan, Robert Whelan

This study shows that OPM-MEG can detect theta oscillation attenuation in the medial temporal lobe during scene imagination without requiring individual MRI scans.

bioRxiv · Aug 18, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience