Looking forward to presenting our work on the origin and flexibility of reward signals at the @arc-mpib.bsky.social next week!

Many thanks to @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de and @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social for this wonderful opportunity to study the mechanisms underlying naturalistic decision processes in the context of foraging behavior! We’ll also soon have openings for PhD students, stay tuned!

We're so proud of this one - great to see it out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social now! See Johannes' threads for what we did & found. Excited to be using TUS and what it will teach us about the neural basis of affective cognition ✨

I'm SO pleased to announce that I'll be starting as an Asst Prof at @psychiowa.bsky.social this August. The lab will focus on neural & computational mechanisms of motivation, affect, & decision-making, with the aspirational goal of translation to neuropsychiatric disorders. 🧠 yeelabneuro.com

Can't wait to see these results at #cosyne2026

Also shout out to @lilweb.bsky.social, Frederike and Dana for their nice review that helps motivating this study! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looking at the program again 👀 I can't wait for this! Stoked to contribute a talk on ✨the interoceptive basis of reinforcement learning✨

🚨New paper alert 🚨 Using EEG and decoding analyses we find dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning, both within and across trials 🧠 @auksz.bsky.social @fedemar.bsky.social Caspar Schwiedrzik elifesciences.org/articles/103...

"Die Männer um mich herum wollen nichts anzünden. Aber damit der Giftpegel sinkt, muss nicht nur die Scham die Seiten wechseln (...) Auch die Wut muss es. Von uns Frauen zu euch Männern. Es sind nicht wir, die pausenlos über Epstein reden müssen. Ihr seid es."

Check out our new paper which isolates a human brain signal that specifically tracks the growing urgency to commit to a choice pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41611534/. This one was a long time coming! Sterling work from @harveymccone.bsky.social and a bunch of past lab members!

"These findings challenge the traditional brain-centric view of reward processing, supporting a more integrated model in which vagus-mediated interoceptive signals intrinsically shape motivation and reinforcement." Awesome work by @peppeganga.bsky.social & his team 👏 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🎉 My PhD work has just been published in @natcomms.nature.com! How do we learn who caused what - and how much control we had - when outcomes depend on multiple people? We studied how humans do so using a new social learning task, computational modelling and fMRI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

🚀 Deadline for this is this Sunday! 🏃‍♀️

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

Last preprint 🎶(of the year). If vagus nerve stimulation alters motivation by amplifying internal signals, then bodily states should matter. Using milkshake vs. water loads, we show that tVNS-induced changes in Pavlovian bias are dependent on hunger. #neuroskyence 🩺 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Important topic, state-of-the-art methods, cool city, caring supervisor - go for it people!

Thanks @cmdn-lab.bsky.social for discussions & dinner - I had a lovely time!

New study out today in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41..., in which we set out to test whether ultrasound could influence the reward-related learning computations of the nucleus accumbens, building on decades of work on dopaminergic prediction error and reinforcement learning. And it did.

Come work with us!

Really excited about this 5-year project starting, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social, where we will combine ✨computational modelling✨ with causal intervention techniques such as ✨tFUS✨ to study the neurocognitive mechanisms of repetitive negative thoughts 🚀 led by @mikebrowning.bsky.social

Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]

A brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing. Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br... Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...

Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry? Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital: www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health? Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social

🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫 I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏

These, and other, studies show that you can decode task-related signals from many brain areas. But wouldn't we need causal manipulations to conclude that the brain "uses" them? For example, maybe we can decode equally well from two areas. But, only one impacts behaviour when inactivated.

Couldn't agree more with this

In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany) www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li... I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀

So proud of, and excited about, this project with the brilliant @johalgermissen.bsky.social, @mirunarascu.bsky.social, and @mkflugge.bsky.social + an amazing team of collaborators. Check out Johannes' summary thread 👇 #tFUS #amygdala

We are super excited about the first human transcranial ultrasound study from our lab which is now on BiorXiv, showing the amygdala‘s role in processing ambiguous emotions and showing TUS changed resting-state connectivity and metabolite concentrations (GABA) in the amygdala - a huge team effort! 🥳🙏🏼

Looking forward to this!

Are you coming to @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025? Join our workshop on Gamification in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience with an amazing speaker lineup! 🎮👾🧠💫 w/ @ondrejzika.bsky.social @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social

For the past couple of years I met weekly with 3 amazing younger scientists @lilweb.bsky.social @debyee.bsky.social @rikepetzschner.bsky.social to share ideas and teach each other. No agenda. It was often the favorite part of my week. Then we started writing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.

Two days left for contributed talks submissions 🤖💫 sites.google.com/view/game-on...

so, so excited to share our new theory which endeavours to answer why depression and poor metabolic health go hand-in-hand: "An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health" 💪🧠🔋 @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

📣 Exciting announcement for the summer term: Starting in May, the @ccnberlin.bsky.social seminar series by Felix Blankenburg & Timo Schmidt (FU Berlin) is co-hosted by @david-s-stolz.bsky.social David Stolz (Universtiät Lübeck) and myself. The topic of all talks is: "CONTROL"

🚨💫🤖 RLDM Workshop announcement: "Game on: Leveraging Gamification in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience" Contributed talks submissions now OPEN: shorturl.at/0p0Jd Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin! w/ @luiantaverra.bsky.social & @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social

Interesting paper from Millridge et al: Reward Bases: A simple mechanism for adaptive acquisition of multiple reward types Do DA neurons encode gradient of reward dimensions, i.e some encode food predicting cues, others fluid etc.? journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... #compneurosky #neuroskyence

My 15' talk "the modern EEG regression toolkit: rERPs, TRFs, mixed models, and more" is now on youtube youtu.be/vnlbVDarRUc?... thanks @cuttingeeg.bsky.social for an awesome #EEG conference!

Yes!!! The review I've been looking for! Rapid-acting antidepressants like ketamine, electroconvulsive therapy, and noninvasive stimulation (TMS) are thought to work by enhancing plasticity, but how, exactly? Grateful to @alexkwan.bsky.social and team for summarizing the evidence in this review.

Check out this👇 amazing new python tool for Bayesian modelling, lead-developed by @nicolaslegrand.bsky.social - it includes (among many other things) all elements of the generalised HGF (arxiv.org/abs/2305.10937) for you to use and apply. Can't wait to see what the community will do with it! 🚀

Eli Sennesh, Hao Wu, Tommaso Salvatori Divide-and-Conquer Predictive Coding: a structured Bayesian inference algorithm https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05834

We have a new preprint out, with Teresa Schuhmann, Alex Sack and Catherine Tallon-Baudry. I think our findings give some interesting leads on the various mechanisms underlying visceral influences on the motor system and how we conceptualize interoception as a whole. #neuroskyence

Can we use macronutrients to understand altered food reward in depression? Our new preprint shows that patients with MDD report lower wanting & liking for foods rich in fat or protein (vs. carbs). #neuroscience 🩺 W/ @corcerebrum.bsky.social @neuromadlab.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Long overdue thread on: ✨The generalised hierarchical Gaussian filter (gHGF)✨ Ever wanted to build your own HGF without deriving/implementing new equations? Ever wondered how volatility beliefs in the HGF relate to predictive coding? Check this out: arxiv.org/abs/2305.10937