The program booklet for the SpiN workshop is now ready to download! Two days of intense discussions on psychoacoustics and psycholinguistics await at ENS Paris next week! https://2026.speech-in-noise.eu/files/SPIN2026-Programme.pdf

The Dogs of 2025 youtu.be/K_1tNbud-8g?...

First woman to receive an academic PhD? Elena Cornaro Piscopia, doctorate in #Philosophy, University of Padua (Italy) on 25 June 1678. She originally applied for a doctorate in Theology. Church authorities refused as women were not permitted to teach or preach #theology. #education #highered

Excited to announce our symposium on how AI and humans shape each other “Humans and Artificial Minds: Mutual Influences” 9 Jan at ENS Paris. Talks by @smfleming.bsky.social, Valeria Giardino, Silvia Tulli, @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Laurence Devillers & @summerfieldlab.bsky.social . Program ↓

Congratulations to @nadiahosseinizaveh.bsky.social on a brilliant PhD defense: "Evolution and Dynamics of Perceptual Confidence: From Perceptual Learning to Global Confidence Formation". Impressive work advancing our understanding of perception and metacognition.

Baby otter doing baby otter stuff

That’s a wrap on the first batch of 25 participants, measuring MEG-EEG, ECG, respiration, electrogastrography, facial EMG, and EDA during story listening, mental imagery, and rest (+MRI & questionnaires 😅). Now I’m off on maternity leave while our amazing team continues with the next batch! 💪

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans

I can’t help but think of this childhood song with news from the US right now… we all know frogs go ladidadida… youtu.be/GHzTuZuUBUc?...

Will you be at #ICON2025 in Porto? Then drop at our symposium on "Decision Signal(s) In The Electro-encephalogram" (SY23, Thursday at 13.45) with @redmondoconnell.bsky.social @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social @hcp4715.bsky.social organized by Leendert van Maanen and Jelmer Borst

In his new book, Daniel Yon explains how our brain is constantly constructing reality

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

As #ECVP2025 wraps up, I’m delighted that #ECVP2028 in Paris was accepted at the Business Meeting! ECVP will meet again before but the Parisian organizing committee is already planning an unforgettable 50th anniversary!

Australians have learnt how to protest! >100,000 people!

@tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social and @nadiahosseinizaveh.bsky.social had a great time at #ASSC28. Thank you organizers @assc28.bsky.social!

Very pleased to say that we are (almost) ready for the 1.0.0 of our HMP #Python package to decompose #EEG into single-trial task related events: github.com/GWeindel/hmp There's now a nice documentation: hmp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/we... We just need some beta testers, thus RT appreciated!

Good time to announce that there will be a symposium on "Decision Signal(s) In The Electro-encephalogram" at #ICON Chaired by Leendert van Maanen and Jelmer Borst. With @redmondoconnell.bsky.social, @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social, @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social, @hcp4715.bsky.social and myself as speakers

New “version of record” in @elife.bsky.social! ‬ We recorded neurons in the thalamus and subthalamic nucleus of humans and found both sensory- and perception-selective neurons with two distinct latencies! 7-year project with @nfaivre.bsky.social + @foscobernasconi.bsky.social. A short thread 👇

If you work with perceptual confidence judgments, you may be interested in our CNCB model of confidence ratings. Joint work with Vincent de Gardelle. Uncorrected proofs here: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... (🧵 1/4)

Thank you Karl Gegenfurtner and Doris Braun for two fantastic talks last week in our department!

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2025

📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris! The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year. 🗓 Deadline: March 13, 2025 💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...

Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding www.cell.com/current-biol...

Happy to share our latest publication with Nikos Gekas on sequential effects in visual perception. Here, we manipulated the uncertainty of both the current stimulus and the previous ones, and found different repulsive and attractive effects. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Created a starter pack of neuroscience in/from Paris. Let me know if you want to be added (the 'from' can include those not in Paris anymore) or just tap in if you want to know what we're talking about! Regardless, please re-tweet! go.bsky.app/3Zs9w5w

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)

@lsp-ens.bsky.social is here!

Nature Neuroscience Interoceptive rhythms in the brain www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OUT NOW in Nat Comms: rdcu.be/dXEbw We know feelings of confidence in our decisions help us to learn and communicate. Here we show evidence that confidence helps us make better decisions. With Marios Philiastides @ccniuofg.bsky.social and LSP_ENS A short summary (1/5)

Women in Cognitive Science Europe (WICS-E) is organising an online panel discussion on creating an inclusive and anti-racist academia. Free registration & more info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1027101356...

In our new @NatureComms paper, we investigate the visual system's priorities for extracting meaningful information from faces and bringing it to conscious awareness. We use a new tachistoscope that enables visual presentations as short as 0.002 ms: nature.com/articles/s41... (🧵👇)

Proposalese: language/writing used to embellish research grant proposals to impress reviewers Starting to realise I should have taken a course in this, any recommendations? #academicSky #AcWri #neuroskyence

"As an astronomer, I already had good reasons to worry about SpaceX." Worries like: light pollution from mega-constellations, atmospheric pollution from launches and disintegrations, and now silo-sized space junk dropping on people's farms. www.scientificamerican.com/article/spac...

Fresh off the press: rdcu.be/dLYz8 Distinct basal ganglia contributions to learning from implicit and explicit value signals in perceptual decision-making With Andrea Pisauro and Marios Philiastides @ccniuofg.bsky.social Confidence is used for learning even when explicit feedback is provided

Is there a (reverse) hierarchy in perceptual metacognition? If you want to know, check this collaborative work with @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social and V. Wyart. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... #visionscience

Are you sure? Would you like another look? Here we find a double dissociation between the kinds of uncertainty that control information seeking & those that shape subjective feelings of confidence. w/ Georgie Edwards-Lowe, Elisa La Chiusa & Helen Olawole-Scott Link: t.co/bC7j2bEQ83 #neuroskyence

New preprint! Do men and women differ in their metacognitive abilities? In a new preprint, we detail robust differences in global and local metacognition which span multiple cognitive domains. Read all about our findings in this thread! #psychology #neuroskyence osf.io/preprints/ps...

‚Science Advances‘ published our paper in which we asked: "Where does all the sugar go in the brain?" doi.org/10.1126/scia... Short answer and 4 main findings in 🧵 below. #funding: ERC_Research #neuroskyence