Emerging evidence suggests that LLM outputs can shape the text and thoughts of human users go.nature.com/4b5A94v

A "country of geniuses in a data center" by 2028. Sounds profitable! youtu.be/n1E9IZfvGMA?...

the human hippocampus receives convergent input from multiple sensory systems, yet we lack a basic understanding of how this structure integrates across senses. we tackle this problem in our new preprint! paper: doi.org/10.64898/202... w/ Aryan Agarwal, @yannanzhu.bsky.social, & Nick Turk-Browne

After several years of work, my lab is starting to put out our first papers on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus). Here we show evidence for a form of associative learning in Stentor: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ethical and animal-welfare concerns have long fuelled efforts to curb animal use in research — and now rapid advances in alternative scientific methods are accelerating the shift go.nature.com/3P0OtCB

Come work with us at the computational memory lab!

Our new paper is out in @natmed.nature.com 😱! A thread: Can our thoughts and feelings directly affect our physical well-being? Our pre-registered, double-blind RCT investigated this by testing if modulating the brain's reward system could enhance immune responses to vaccination.

Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase in the body’s immune response to a vaccine, according to a study in Nature Medicine. go.nature.com/4sQo3mK #medsky 🧪

Positive thinking may boost immune response from vaccines, new brain training study shows

Direct human evidence that the #PlaceboEffect can shape humoral immunity: reward-related brain activity correlates with vaccine-induced antibody www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturemedicine.bsky.social @telavivuni.bsky.social @nitzanlubi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come check out my poster at SfN today between 13:00 and 17:00 (Mm15), about how we used fMRI-Neurofeedback to teach individuals with Major Depression to reduce their negative attentional biases!

Come check out my poster at #SfN, Wed (8am-12pm, NN1)! "Auditory and multisensory representations in the human hippocampus" Using high-resolution fMRI, we ask how does the human hippocampus represent sensory modalities beyond vision, and how does it integrate sense information across modalities?

In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...