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Neuroscience | Psychology. Perception & Action. Sydney, Australia
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Patricia Lockwood
8 months ago
New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in
@nature.com
led by
@mkwittmann.bsky.social
with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature
A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08705-9
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Melinda Sabo
8 months ago
❗️Preprint alert ❗️ When I was a college student in my neuroscience classes, I was always told that neuroimaging research involves a trade-off between statistical power and available resources. But what if you could have both? 1/n
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Kaiser Lab
10 months ago
Now out in
@cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social
: We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation.
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Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents
Rhythmic neural activity is considered essential for adaptively modulating responses in the visual system. In this opinion article we posit that visua…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166223624002480#gts0020
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Roberto Toro
12 months ago
🚨 Come work with us, we’re hiring! 🚨 See below our 2 postdoc positions at
@institutpasteur.bsky.social
in Paris. Funded by our ERC Synergy grant, this is a collaboration with the labs of Víctor Borrell in Spain (
@borrell-lab.bsky.social
), Laurent Nguyen in Belgium and Kristian Franze in Germany 🧵⬇️
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Daniel Yon
10 months ago
How can sharing our uncertainty with others alter our confidence when we're alone? Delighted to share the lab's new paper, with Einar Andreassen and
@cdfrith.bsky.social
. Particularly pleased as it's Einar's first! Link:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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#PsychSciSky
#neuroskyence
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Aperture Neuro
11 months ago
⏱️ Speed up your path to publication! At Aperture Neuro: 📜 Submission ➡️ Final decision: 100 days (median) 📚 Submission ➡️ Publication: 144 days (median) 🌟We are open access, low cost, and welcome innovative research formats. 🔗 Submit today and make an impact faster:
apertureneuro.org/about
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Jane Han
11 months ago
🚨 New paper out with
@samnastase.bsky.social
and
@haxbylab.bsky.social
! We use representational similarity analysis to test how well behavioral, semantic, and visual models capture cortical representational geometries when viewing naturalistic action videos:
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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Iris van Rooij 💭
11 months ago
📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark. (Deadline January 6)
international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
https://international.au.dk/about/profile/vacant-positions/job/assistant-professor-of-cognitive-science-at-the-school-of-communication-and-culture
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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him)
12 months ago
A starter pack for people interested in inter-brain synchrony and simultaneous brain recording of all kind! Check if you're on it and, if not, let me know!
#hyperscanning
#dualeeg
go.bsky.app/T1LTrQS
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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA)
11 months ago
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Study of 45 mother-child dance pairs compared 2 synchrony measures: cross-wavelet transform (CWT) of head movements & generalized CWT for multiple body parts. Simple CWT correlated with interaction quality scores; complex GCWT didn't, despite capturing more detail
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Dance with me? Analyzing interpersonal synchrony and quality of interaction during joint dance - Behavior Research Methods
This methodological paper examines the assessment of interpersonal synchrony during a joint dancing task between mothers and their children (aged 4 to 5 years) using OpenPose. This pose estimation too...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-024-02563-5
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Shari Wiseman
11 months ago
Nature Neuroscience is hiring a computational/systems/cognitive editor! Come join our team! Happy to answer any questions.
springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Neuroscience
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Neuroscience Location: New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Berlin or Shanghai Application Deadline: January 6, 2025 About Springer Natur...
https://springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatureCareers/job/New-York/Associate-or-Senior-Editor--Nature-Neuroscience_JR101206
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Iris van Rooij 💭
11 months ago
Full paper: van Rooij, I., Guest, O., Adolfi, F. et al. Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science. Comput Brain Behav (2024).
doi.org/10.1007/s421...
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Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science - Computational Brain & Behavior
The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of cognitive scien...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-024-00217-5
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Patrick Mineault
11 months ago
New 716 hour EMG dataset just dropped ✨
ai.meta.com/blog/open-so...
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Advancing Neuromotor Interfaces by Open Sourcing Surface Electromyography (sEMG) Datasets for Pose Estimation and Surface Typing
We’re releasing emg2qwerty and emg2pose—two large datasets and benchmarks for sEMG-based typing and pose estimation, as part of the NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks track.
https://ai.meta.com/blog/open-sourcing-surface-electromyography-datasets-neurips-2024/
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Coraline Rinn Iordan
11 months ago
New paper story time (now out in PNAS)! We developed a method that caused people to learn new categories of visual objects, not by teaching them what the categories were, but by changing how their brains worked when they looked at individual objects in those categories.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain | PNAS
Learning requires changing the brain. This typically occurs through experience, study, or instruction. We report an alternate route for humans to a...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2410445121
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The MARCS Institute
12 months ago
🚨Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience with
@drquekles.bsky.social
@manuelvarlet.bsky.social
@tgro.bsky.social
& David White to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan
#postdoc
#cogneuro
#ACNS2024
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Get in touch if you want to visit in 2025 🧠🇦🇺
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
12 months ago
**We are recruiting** Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/
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Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/
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Alex Williams
12 months ago
My lab has been working on comparing neural representations for the past few years - methods like RSA, CKA, CCA, Procrustes distance We are often asked: What do these things tell us about the system's function? How do they relate to decoding? Our new paper has some answers
arxiv.org/abs/2411.08197
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Daniel Yon
12 months ago
Final call! One week left to apply for this postdoc in my lab at
@birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
We’re looking for a cognitive neuroscientist to join a four-year project, investigating how we learn from other people about the uncertainty in our own minds 🧠 💭 Any Qs feel free to email 📧
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DrBreaky
12 months ago
The brain expresses activity in complex patterns, reflecting the influence of cytoarchitectural, biochemical & genetic properties. Eigenstrapping is our method for inferring the similarity between two such brain maps while excluding spurious (chance) relationships
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Rafael M Batista
12 months ago
If you're applying to
#PhD
programs and interested in Human +
#AI
Collaboration,
@mattgroh.bsky.social
is recruiting a student to join him at Kellogg 🧪 Lab site:
human-ai-collaboration-lab.kellogg.northwestern.edu
PhD application:
www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/admissions/p...
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Human-AI Collaboration Lab (HAIC)
Investigating how to boost human problem solving capabilities with AI
https://human-ai-collaboration-lab.kellogg.northwestern.edu/
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Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology
12 months ago
The Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC) and Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) are holding a joint meeting in 2025, to be held at UNSW in Sydney, from June 17-20. Abstract and symposium submissions are open!
epc.psy.unsw.edu.au/index.html
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Arjen Stolk
12 months ago
Planning to apply to PhD programs? Join our dynamic department at
@dartmouthpbs.bsky.social
🧠🌲 Our lab has an opening this cycle for someone with an interest in understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms of human interaction How to apply (deadline Dec 1):
pbs.dartmouth.edu/menufeature/...
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Aitor Morales-Gregorio
12 months ago
Heard y'all like some science animations! 🧪🧠🟦 Sometimes interesting stuff might be hiding in the state-space of neurons, even if the individual neurons' activity does not seem particularly interesting! 💫
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Maëlan Menétrey
12 months ago
Following the trend, here's a starter pack of EEG researchers:
go.bsky.app/H2URVjv
. Let me know if you'd like to be added or removed. The list is very partial and still needs to be expanded, but I hope you find it helpful! 🧠
#EEG
#neuroscience
#neuroskyence
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Iris van Rooij 💭
over 1 year ago
🚨 Vacancy for Lecturer in Cognitive Science and AI at Radboud University. Deadline for application: 28 April (Please RT 🔃 for wider reach 🙏) 1/n
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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Lecturer in Cognitive Science and AI | Radboud University
Working as a lecturer in Cognitive Science and AI at the Faculty of Science? Check our vacancy here!
https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/lecturer-in-cognitive-science-and-ai
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Andrew MacAskill
over 1 year ago
!! come join us as a group leader !! we have 2 lectureships just opened for applications in our department at UCL! Join one of the best, the most exciting and most friendly neuroscience departments!
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=8470&nPostingTargetId=20780&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&mask=ext
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The MARCS Institute
almost 2 years ago
Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoc Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience to investigate perceptual & cognitive processes of
#socialinteraction
&
#communication
with
@manuelvarlet.bsky.social
@perikeller.bsky.social
Applications close 1 Dec
tinyurl.com/JoinMARCS
#postdoc
#cogneuro
#musicscience
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Dr. Dominic Royé
about 2 years ago
Great collection of the best R packages for data visualization #rstats #dataviz ℹ️
r-graph-gallery.com/best-dataviz...
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Johanna Rimmele
about 2 years ago
Do you want to do a phd on
#speech
and
#song
and how we use our brain for it
#electrophysiology
#neuroimaging
#motor
#rhythm
? Come work with us at the MPI_ae ! Apply here and contact me for questions.
e-recruiting.pro/jobposting/7...
Please forward to everyone interested!
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Jean-Rémi King
about 2 years ago
Open PhD position with Christophe Pallier & myself, to work on the brain and computational bases of language using neuroimaging and deep learning: - application:
forms.gle/equJz92rGtiL...
- requirements: python, ML, and ideally, neuroimaging experience. Please RT🙏
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺
about 2 years ago
Beyond sense-specific processing: decoding texture in the brain from touch and sonified movement
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
"Primary sensory cortices contain signatures of the other non-dominant senses"; #neuroscience
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Bodo Winter
about 2 years ago
Tenure-track position in cognitive psych (subject area open) at Colgate University:
apply.interfolio.com/132575
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📢 #JobAlert 🧠🇦🇺 Chair in Human #Neuroscience @Western Sydney University Come join us and lead new research on the human brain in both health and disease. Tenured and research-intensive position. Mid-career and international applicants welcome too. Apply before 22 October
tinyurl.com/HumanNeuro
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Simon W Davis
about 2 years ago
New preprint focused on how the hippocampus interacts with cortical representations to support memory, by an amazing grad student in our lab, Shenyang Huang. Hippocampal functions modulate transfer-appropriate cortical representations supporting subsequent memory
osf.io/nkd4h/
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Cognitive Science Society
about 2 years ago
🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you! 🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.
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UVA Department of Psychology
about 2 years ago
The University of Virginia Department of Psychology is HIRING an assistant professor in Human Neuroscience!!
apply.interfolio.com/130439
Please share widely! 1/2 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence 🧠💻
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SCAN Unit
about 2 years ago
#HiSciSky, we are the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit based at
@univie.ac.at
. We do a lot of what our lab name says 🧠 but also study comparative cognition 🐶, environmental neuroscience 🌍, stress and many other exciting things. Follow us to learn more! #PsySciSky #neuroskyence
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Brad King
about 2 years ago
Assistant Professor position in cognitive / computational neuroscience at U of Montreal. #neurojobs #neuroskyence
fas.umontreal.ca/public/FAS/f...
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Leyla Isik
about 2 years ago
In a new TiCS article,
@emaliemcmahon.bsky.social
and I review a growing body of behavioral, neural, and computational evidence that social interactions are automatically extracted by the human visual system:
tinyurl.com/nhh2dhxt
#PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence
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Brad Wyble
about 2 years ago
New paper! People often do not remember information they just searched for (
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
). Subjects were asked to draw the contents of their memory immediately after searching for a target in a natural scene Thread!
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Dr. Malinda McPherson-McNato
about 2 years ago
(1st post!) The McPherson Auditory Perception Lab is coming to Purdue Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences in Fall 2024, & I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs! If you are interested in studying how people perceive and remember complex sounds, please reach out.
hhs.purdue.edu/directory/ma...
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Sherri Rose
about 2 years ago
I'm hiring an Open Science Rigor & Reproducibility Software Developer at Stanford! Great mix of work developing best practices, coding, and independence to propose new initiatives.
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/open-sc...
Hybrid & remote eligible within the United States. #stats #academicsky
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Ed Baggs
about 2 years ago
PhD vacancy! We're hiring a PhD student in Embodied cognition in language and social interaction Deadline Nov 1, 2023 Based in Odense, Denmark. The candidate will work with me and
@sunevork.bsky.social
I'm happy to answer queries. Details here:
www.sdu.dk/da/service/l...
#PsychSciSky #cogpsyc
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Peter Keller
about 2 years ago
🥁🥁 Integrating theory and models of musical group interaction 🥁🥁 ✉️ Letter in Trends in Cognitive Sciences outlines a ‘telescopically tiered’ research strategy for studying musical ensemble performance Until 9 Nov:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1hnu24sIRv...
Then here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
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DrBreaky
about 2 years ago
Beautiful work and tools for studying complex systems like the brain!
nature.com/articles/s43...
(not sure if authors yet on bluesky)
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Raquel London
about 2 years ago
Deadline 30-9 to register for the 🌱 Cutting Gardens EEG Methods 🌳 meeting in Ghent
tinyurl.com/3pve7rru
Live talks from Freek van Ede, Maarten de Vos, Jelmer Borst, Diego Vidaurre, Ingmar de Vries. Live MNE workshops Come join us, it'll be fun 😊
cuttinggardens2023.org/gardens/ghent/
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Daniel Lakens
about 2 years ago
If you like more guidance through the steps of a sample size justification for your next study, my Sample Size Justification paper comes with a Shiny app:
shiny.ieis.tue.nl/sample_size_...
Complete the steps, and you can download the justification as a PDF to include in a preregistration.
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Lindsey Powell
about 2 years ago
🚨Job Alert x2! UCSD Psych has two assistant professor openings this year: 1. Computational approaches to understanding behavior and/or its neural mechanisms.
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684
2. Social psych, broadly defined.
apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03683
Apply for either (or both?) by November 7th!
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Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging at the University of Glasgow
about 2 years ago
7T MRI Professor/Senior Lecturer/Lecturer (Research & Teaching Track) job in here in Glasgow! Apply before September 27th. See link for details:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DCB559/p...
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