In misty Porto for #ICON2025 and excited for all the science this week. I’m giving a talk tomorrow morning on insight in neural networks and humans at the « Sudden Learning Across Systems » symposium. Looking forward to discussing spontaneous cognition!

Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social #compneuro #neuroskyence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

So proud of my partner’s performance at #CCN25 in collaboration with aiar collective. EEG-modulated live set where different frequencies change the sound of the synthesizer. Speakers and light tubes are synced to the different EEG channels. I’m biased, but I think this is so cool!

Interested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.” doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Finishing the media spree tomorrow morning at 11.10 on @rbb24.de - really blown away by the media attention that our paper has received. Seeing our work covered in print in The Times the day after my 30th birthday was a pretty sweet gift :)

Interested in whether sleep and (a)periodic EEG activity increase the probability to have an insight? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Thanks to @anikaloewe.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social & Maria Tzegka for a great teamwork. I really enjoyed it!

Super happy to see our latest work out in @plosbiology.org : N2 sleep during short naps increased the likelihood of insight in a decision task. The steepness of the spectral slope best predicted insight, beyond sleep stages alone. With dream team @maritpetzka.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social

Excited to share our latest work spearheaded by @anikaloewe.bsky.social & @maritpetzka.bsky.social. 20 min naps increased the chance to solve an insight task if sleep reached N2 stage; but the EEG spectral slope was the best predictor of insight dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... #compneuro #psychscisky

Which oscillations support memory reprocessing in the sleeping brain? 🧠💭💤 At #PuG2025, I will present data by Jessica Palmieri indicating that “Both Slow Waves and Sleep Spindles are Essential for Successful Targeted Memory Reactivation.” Poster: B 235 📅 Fri, 20.06.2025, 13:00 – 14:30 📍2.XXX, Z6

New preprint! How do we integrate new information into prior knowledge? We find that existing knowledge enables rapid new learning but that interleaved replay during sleep promotes integration of new and old information. Modeling suggests a sleep context suppression mechanism. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Very excited to be part of this symposium at @pug2025.bsky.social where I will discuss the role of anxiety in inference :)

In the next #BrAInWorldsJournalClub, Anika Löwe @anikaloewe.bsky.social will present the work of Jacob Bakermans @bakermansjjw.bsky.social & Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social (2025): doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01908-3. Join @ilka-diester.bsky.social & @mschoenauer.bsky.social for the discussion!

Super excited about this!

Does Sleeping on a idea work? Nice to see our work led by the amazing @anikaloewe.bsky.social and @maritpetzka.bsky.social featured together with other studies in the WaPo: www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202... Our preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Does sleep affect the relationship between representations formed in different memory systems? Check out our new preprint on how sleep resolves the competition between explicit and implicit memory: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint out with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social! When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge? We compare continual learning in humans and artificial neural networks, revealing similar patterns of transfer & catastrophic interference (1/8) osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨💫🤖 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

Life updates: I defended my thesis and moved to the mountains to do a Postdoc with @mschoenauer.bsky.social - excited to continue working on learning and sleep ⛰️🌙

🚨Job alert‼️🚨 The Imaging Memory and Consolidation Lab @unifreiburg.bsky.social is looking for a PhD candidate interested in sleep and memory in aging! 🧠💤 Please spread the news!

Our work on inductive biases in reinforcement learning is out: tinyurl.com/yfc74e3u By the fantastic @noahedrich.bsky.social Ppl learn faster from slowly changing features; we argue this reflects an inductive bias. Teamwork w @ericschulz.bsky.social & S HallMcMaster #neuroskyence #compneuro

Happy to share our review on OFC/vmPFC representations in Trends in Neurosciences, written with @nirmoneta.bsky.social and Shany Grossman www.cell.com/trends/neuro... Very short thread below to summarize our review #neuroscience #neuroskyence #compneurosky #PsychSciSky

interested in abrupt shifts in behavioral strategy, and which factors can cause them in neural nets? anika elegantly boiled it down to the simplest case and shows that noise, gating and regularisation can make very simple neural nets „pop“. truly enjoyed this collab in a great team

First post here: our latest paper on insight-like learning dynamics (and the factors causing them) in humans and ANNs journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... published last month in PLoS Comp Bio. with @nicoschuck.bsky.social @summerfieldlab.bsky.social @saxelab.bsky.social Paul Muhle-Karbe and Léo Touzo