In sports, we celebrate 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Everyone else gets lumped together. Why? Using 7T MRI, pRF modelling, and artificial neural networks, we show that tuning underlies ordinality perception, with most neural populations preferring early ordinalities. doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... 🧪🧠

🎓 15 fully funded #PhD positions in EU-funded Doctoral Network. 🧪🧠 We lead Project 7 (@spinozacentre.bsky.social & @nin-knaw.bsky.social): 4-year PhD combining 7T MRI + MEG with computational modelling of vision & individual differences. Apply: indibrain.eu #AcademicJobs

15 fully funded PhD positions in EU-funded Doctoral Network (IndiBrain). We lead Project 7 (@spinozacentre.bsky.social, @nin-knaw.bsky.social): biologically inspired models of individual observers combining 7T MRI + MEG, focusing on vision and recurrent processing. 4-year PhD. Apply: indibrain.eu

Happy New Year! Rare images of snowy Spinoza in MRI chill mode. ❄️

Our team's new publications cover the Nature portfolio! 🧪🧠 - Vision & touch (Nature, rdcu.be/eSsZR) - Psychedelics (Nat Commun, rdcu.be/eSsZ2) - Binocular rivalry (Nat Hum Behav, rdcu.be/eSsYW) - CSF mobility (Nat Neurosci, rdcu.be/eSs0c) - Numerical cognition (Commun Biol, rdcu.be/eSs0p)

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

Excited to share that my first article is now published in Communications Biology! Humans and many animals have an innate ability to rapidly perceive numerosity—the number of objects in a visual scene. But how does our brain process this fundamental capability? Read the full paper: rdcu.be/eRxMi

Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41... We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵

Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors. Therefore, numerosity adaptation effects begin in early sensory stages of processing. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The paper demonstrating that #psilocybin alters contextual computations is out in @natcomms.nature.com : doi.org/10.1038/s414... Thanks to the reviewers and coauthors : @marcoaqil.bsky.social , @tknapen.bsky.social , @gillesdehollander.bsky.social , and Nina Vreugdenhil

We have an exciting 4-year PhD position available @maastrichtu.bsky.social focusing on intracranial EEG recordings to investigate how hippocampal ripples contribute to human memory processing. For more info: tinyurl.com/r5c49zuy (closing date Nov 2nd) Please help spread the word! #neurojobs

No I don't! I actually want to save time from doing useless admin stuff, so I can spend MORE time reading, understanding and writing research papers!

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there. Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8... #neuroscience

Simple but excellent guidelines for peer review

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

Nice demo by Mark Lescroart @neuromdl.bsky.social on EPI imaging of a single #fMRI slice. Great for teaching! :) vimeo.com/143701608?fl...

Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory! We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵1/9

Thanks to all (co)authors & reviewers for their contribution to this study on #layer specific changes in #sensory #cortex across the #lifespan in #humans & #mice now out in @natneuro.nature.com Here is a short summary of our findings 1/6

Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience job opening in our own @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social department. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Doctoral researcher in solid-state NMR of semiconductors, the Erlangen Center for Interface Research and Catalysis in the solid-state NMR group of Dr. Dorothea Wisser at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/doctora... #NMRjobs #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

NeuroHackademy 2025 started today! Our 10th summer school/hackathon in neuroimaging and data science @uwescience.bsky.social, the 8th supported by NIH/NIMH. You can follow along, with videos of lectures in this YouTube playlist, posted almost as soon as they happen: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Minnesota ultra-high-field meeting will again offer the popular hands-on layer-fMRI analysis pre-workshop on practical aspects. October 13th-14th 2025. Registration: sites.google.com/umn.edu/2025...

Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons. Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and @kenneth-harris.bsky.social

Werner Reichardt, credited with discovering the neural circuitry for motion detection in the retina in the 1950s, did so on borrowed time.

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com! @elicastaldi.bsky.social, Evelyn Eger, @manpiazza.bsky.social 🔢 We reveal how the brain represents numerosity across the entire visual system, from early visual areas to high-level association cortices. 👇 A thread 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

This should be bigger news - the Dutch parliament decided to strongly reduce non-human primates experiments. Subsidy for the large primate center - which includes important virology research unique in Europe - is gradually reduced to zero by 2030. Going towards the end of NHP research in NL...

Don’t miss our upcoming CCN satellite event, Applying Computational Models to Clinical Disorders (August 11th). This session will showcase how computational methods are transforming our understanding and treatment of sensory disorders dlwiki.nin.nl/ccn_2025 #CCN2025 #CompNeuro #VisionScience

It’s ironic that amid huge cuts to science and education funding and enforcement of Dutch-only programs, extra money is spent attracting US scientists. I support international collaboration, but without investing in our own students and education, science can’t thrive. www.nwo.nl/en/news/upda...

Voor onze fMRI studie zijn wij nog steeds op zoek naar volwassenen met amblyopie (‘lui oog’) of glaucoom! Meer informatie en aanmelden: dlwiki.nin.nl/Participate

Jelmer Borst and I are looking for a PhD candidate to build an EEG-based model of human working memory! This is a really cool project that I've wanted to kick off for a while, and I can't wait to see it happen. Please share and I'm happy to answer any Qs about the project! www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

#Newpaper showing that contextual responses drive a unique laminar signature in human V1. Using line-scanning #fMRI at #7T, we show how stimulus-driven and contextual inputs target distinct layers. Contextual input targeted superficial and deep cortical depths. 🧪 🧠 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

New high resolution fMRI paper describing the capabilities and challenges of 9.4T fMRI in the cerebellum. By van der Zwaag et al., (@highonfield.bsky.social, @nikospriovoulos.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1002/mrm....

New paper from the amazing Emma Brouwer: humble, group-optimized B1+ shims at 7T can boost or destroy signal where it matters—no subject-specific calibration needed. in MRM doi.org/10.1002/mrm.... @spinozacentre.bsky.social🎓🧠 #MRI #fMRI #Neuroimaging #7T

#OSCAwards2025 | open access, data, materials & software: OpenMReye: camera-free magnetic resonance-based eye tracking for research and clinical applications 👀🩻 by @matthiasnau.bsky.social Find out more: github.com/DeepMReye/

Honored to receive the #OSCAward2025. Thank you to the #OpenScience community @oscamsterdam.bsky.social for this recognition and for the inspiring work you do! And congrats to the other prize winners! 🎉 1/2

Great symposium on #neuroscience of mathematical cognition with talks by Yuxuan Cai, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social , Ben Harvey and @jacobmpaul.bsky.social

We hope you are enjoying all these amazing talks! Lots of photos being taken today at #MCLS2025

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... “Vaccination is considered the most successful and cost-effective medical intervention ever introduced”

PhD position alert!!! Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Happy to answer any question you may have!

🚨PhD position alert!🚨 Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

There are 2 PhD positions in my lab in Amsterdam (collaboration with Sander Bohte, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and Ingmar Visser) on NeuroAI of developmental vision. academicpositions.nl/ad/centrum-w...

New pod available at Spinoza Centre: a private space in our open office for phone calls, meetings, or videoconferencing!

Writing a scientific paper or thesis? Over the years, I’ve gathered my favorite practical writing tips. I hope you find them helpful! Check them out: dlwiki.nin.nl/Writing_and_... #AcademicWriting #SciComm #WritingTips 🖊️🧪 🧠

Are you a scientist who codes? 🐍 Fearing that your public repo might implode the moment someone looks at it? Then ASPP 2025 this is *the* summer school for you! Hands-on tutorials on collaborative code dev, code orga & sharing, testing, debugging, computer architecture.. aspp.school

Through experience, humans can learn to suppress locations that frequently contain distracting stimuli. Using SSVEPs and ERPs, this study shows that such learned suppression modulates early neural responses, indicating it occurs during initial visual processing. www.jneurosci.org/content/jneu...

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