Here is the preprint of @kjedlovszky.bsky.social work in the lab: osf.io/preprints/ps...: experiencing a volatile task (both social and non-social) increases social hallucinations of chasing in moving dots - filling in the mechanistic gaps of how volatility beliefs influence perception

A region in the cerebellum is language-selective—something previously found only in the cortex, a new study suggests. By @natmesanash.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/language/cer...

Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks. @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social 1/14

Preparing for class and remembering how brilliant this essay is: persci.mit.edu/pub_pdfs/sha... - "The perception of shading and reflectance" (Adelson & Pentland, 1996). Early and beautiful description of Bayesian perception theories.

Very proud that this is finally out! Come for the new auditory illusion, stay for the brain imaging and speech analysis…..

Very cool work from my friends and colleagues @actlab.bsky.social and Damon Clark - I am lucky to get to hang out with them at @wutsaiyale.bsky.social

Humans can use positive and negative spectrotemporal correlations to detect rising and falling pitch

! New paper from the lab ! How does novelty impact value-based decision making ? What are the circuits and what mechanisms do they implement? Congratulations to Dr. Takaya Ogasawara and team www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Can you easily distinguish between value, valence, and salience? Probably not, but the prefrontal cortex of mice seems to achieve this by creating a sort of multidimensional orthogonal neural space, where each dimension corresponds to one of these subjective elements www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neuropsychiatric disorders impose a substantial burden on individuals and societies worldwide. 📢 This Special Communications reflects the broad consensus of experts to advance the agenda for precision psychiatry. ja.ma/3ZcNnpt

Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #neuroscience

Human newborns form musical predictions based on rhythmic but not melodic structure journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... TRF analyses had high inter-individual variability for overall neural tracking of musical stimuli - note-by-note predictability tracked (not shuffled) a rhythmic not melodic effect

On this day in 1969, The Flying Burrito Brothers fused country rock with every other style of American music. The Gilded Palace Of Sin. #MusicSky

Look, not all of us can afford to go to Disneyland

we just updated this preprint, now with a new experiment showing no speech adaptation when sensory errors are simply observed without a preceding motor plan --> www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Relax, bread department

Incredible stuff happening at Spencer’s Gifts

And 1/2 accepted!

New Evolutionary Psychology theory dropped

When you're so coked up and stupid you put the scope on backwards:

I hear imagination in nonhuman animals is making news today! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

A parting gift from Kanzi - the language trained bonobo - and Chris Krupenye and colleagues. Kanzi seemed able to imagine! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is the endgame 😭🥀

2 revisions submitted same day - @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social is a beast! (and from a different time zone too)

Super cool summer internship opportunity 👇

My lab is looking to recruit 1-2 paid summer interns to do wet lab work on learning in a unicellular organism (Stentor coeruleus). You can apply here: forms.gle/b47WpSobjFjo...

Ever wondered how the Dalmatian Dog effect works? The human brain can quickly learn from a single experience and generalize it to related experiences — an impressive feat so far not matched by AI. Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com reveals how this works. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Not now, Cannibalistic Jellyfish with a vanishing anus! www.lbc.co.uk/article/cann...

Splendid 1979 Japanese movie poster for “Alien”.

Born on this day: George A. Romero

Just out today, the keto diet showed a (modest) benefit in treatment resistant depression, when compared to a pretty reasonable control! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

After a bit of wallowing yesterday, we got back on the horse and started our response. If you’re gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough When you get knocked down, you gotta get back up

This is who runs this account

New #ScienceAdvances research involving mice spotlights the vagus nerve’s role in the brain’s dopamine reward pathway. https://scim.ag/4qo0gs0

A blind person recovered low vision within a few days of being implanted with a Utah array and receiving electrical stimulation in the visual cortex. An unexpected and exciting discovery by @umh.es researchers 👀🧠 doi.org/10.1093/brai...

How the brain's 'memory replay' goes wrong in Alzheimer's disease www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ja... #Alzheimers #dementia #neuroscience #science #sleep #NeuroSkyence

Hollywood films and network television shows were shot here regularly until the early aughts, when the local industry largely dried up.

BOTD: Norman Rockwell

Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign. (1) $48.7 billion for NIH (2) Full IDC recovery (3) No more multi-year funding (4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.

“Jakob Hohwy’s much anticipated new book delivers on all fronts. A masterful examination of what it means to be an ‘agent’....Essential reading for anyone interested why they are the way they are.” - @anilseth.bsky.social author of BEING YOU

Thanks to R3 though - you really engaged, saw why we were excited, and got excited about other things in there ('a treasure trove') R1 thought we should say more about techniques we didn't use and cite their paper. We ran the gamut with this one!

R2 just R2d us. So misaligned with the other two, and so mean. I wish you well, out there, anonymous person. Who hurt you? I hope tanking our paper gave some brief respite, but I imagine not. We’ll keep going. 😘

Happy 79th birthday to Dave Davies of The Kinks! Read about his musical journey – from Little Richard to the Sex Pistols via Charlie Byrd – by clicking the link below www.uncut.co.uk/features/dav...

No words. No notes. Just perfect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wd1...

Submitting promotion materials

My daughter every time I try to get her to eat vegetables.

Crazy deals at Morrison's. So that's 2 vegan breakfasts? No thanks. We'll have 1 vegan breakfast, and then another 1 please.

Cerebellar circuits anticipate dopamine rewards https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.02.703324v1

Just to provide a brief respite from the horror, this week's episode of Radiolab is truly wonderful and worth a listen (even if you might not love the cerebellum as much as I do) www.wnycstudios.org/story/song-o...