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@talking-bat.bsky.social
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Natalie Schaworonkow
6 days ago
more orientated towards postdocs & PIs, but some suggestions in this article for starting a academic website:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How to design your academic website - Nature Human Behaviour
An academic website serves as both a public-facing window on the world wide web and an important internal laboratory resource. In this ‘How to’ piece, I outline how to build your academic website, inc...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02310-6
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International Society for Neuroethology
8 days ago
Humans are able to revise their beliefs, but can other animals do it? Authors showed that 🐵s looking for a reward remained committed to their initial belief when the evidence supporting the alternative was weaker, but they reconsidered when the new info was stronger!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5229
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MPI for Biological Intelligence
17 days ago
Two weeks left to apply for our graduate school IMPRS-BI and join us as a PhD student! Find out more:
imprs-bi.mpg.de
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andrea e. martin
21 days ago
OPEN PHD POSITION - Come join our group! The IMPRS at
@mpi-nl.bsky.social
is offering an PhD position on modelling structured meaning in the brain, supervised by me and Helen De Hoop at the Centre for Language Studies in the
@dondersinst.bsky.social
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www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...
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IMPRS PhD Fellowships 2026 | Max Planck Institute
https://www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fellowships-2026
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John Tuthill
15 days ago
Do flies feel pain? Spooky new preprint from our lab on the cells and circuits that mediate nociceptive behaviors in adult Drosophila, led by graduate student (and newly minted PhD!)
@jonesjes.bsky.social
. 🪰⚡👻🎃
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jonathan A. Michaels
15 days ago
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
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Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09690-9
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Our new preprint is out! This time with a focus on prevocal spiking in the AC and how it encodes single and multi-syllabic vocalizations before they occur!
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Katie Tschida
24 days ago
The Tschida Lab is recruiting a new PhD student this cycle! We have ongoing projects related to (1) neural circuits that regulate vocal communication across behavioral contexts and/or development and (2) motor control of different vocalization types. Please RT! Strong neuro background a plus.
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Maria Sagot
about 1 month ago
Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight | Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight
Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr2475
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LOOPs_spp2411
about 1 month ago
‼️It’s happening! We’re officially kickstarting the joint SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat! So wonderful to see all the inspiring PhDs, PIs, and beyond coming together to connect, share, and support each other. 💬✨ Here’s to a retreat full of inspiration, collaboration, and connection!
#SPPXSFB
#Neuro
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LOOPs_spp2411
about 1 month ago
LOOPs webinar is back after the summer break! 🔄🎉 Don’t miss
@ycabral.bsky.social
on Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment uncovering how neural oscillations shape auditory perception.🧠🎶 🗓️ Oct 8th, 2025 🕓 4 PM CEST 📍 Register:
www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...
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Matteo Carandini
about 1 month ago
Neuropixels Ultra! By
@steinmetzneuro.bsky.social
, who led a big collaboration
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ultra-high-density Neuropixels probes improve detection and identification in neuronal recordings
To understand the neural basis of behavior, it is essential to sensitively and accurately measure neural activity at single-neuron and single-spike re…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627325006658
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Rosanne Rademaker
about 1 month ago
We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the
#Bernsteinconference
this week.
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FU Berlin Dept. Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy
about 2 months ago
Glückwunsch zum Buch! 🎉 Wir freuen und auf die bestimmt spannende Lektüre! 📗 :-)
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Jerome Beetz
about 2 months ago
Two weeks are left to apply for a 5 year Postdoc position in
#neuroscience
,
#behavior
,
#neuroethology
in collaboration with
@puh23.bsky.social
from Flinders University. 🇦🇺🇩🇪🐝 👀
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Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics
about 2 months ago
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics is back! Please join us next week for fantastic talks from speakers Rada Mihalcea, Álvaro Vega-Hidalgo, and Tamás Faragó
@barkslab.bsky.social
@radamihalcea.bsky.social
🗓️September 25th 10:00 EST ✅ Register here:
braincoustics.com
#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
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Nicolas Mathevon
2 months ago
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#bioacoustics
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Songs of the striped mouse show who’s friend and who’s foe
Ultrasonic calls, too high for the human ear to detect, convey a wealth of information across the rodent’s territory.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02874-3
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If you are interested in 🧠 LOOPS this is for YOU. We are curating an article collection on cortico-subcortical interactions in the vertebrate brain. Participating journals include
@commsbio.nature.com
@natneuro.nature.com
@natcomms.nature.com
& SciRep. We look fwd to your contributions!!
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2 months ago
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Nicolas Mathevon
2 months ago
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice. 👇 New paper by the ENES Bioacoustics Research Team in
@currentbiology.bsky.social
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Nicolas Mathevon
2 months ago
Nice article about our paper published today in
@royalsocietypublishing.org
Interface.
#bioacoustics
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Babies’ cries can make humans physically hotter, research finds
When in distress, babies produce chaotic wails which have pronounced effects on humans, including changes in facial temperature
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/sep/10/babies-cries-can-make-humans-physically-hotter-research-finds
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
2 months ago
A common cross-species atlas of cortical gray matter
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.675002v1
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SfN Journals
2 months ago
New in
#JNeurosci
from Adjei et al: Male mice acquire aggressive behaviors after watching peers—not strangers—attack intruders, and this may be mediated by excitatory neurons in a region of the medial amygdala.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1018-25.2025
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This is awesome Jerome! Very very happy you got this!
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2 months ago
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The Transmitter
3 months ago
In The Transmitter's reading list, we highlight the most anticipated upcoming neuroscience books and other notable 2025 releases. Featuring titles by
@okaysteve.bsky.social
,
@dr-brein.bsky.social
,
@nicolecrust.bsky.social
, Xiao-Jing Wang and many more. By
@franciscorr25.bsky.social
bit.ly/45MvK41
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The Transmitter’s reading list: Six upcoming neuroscience books, plus notable titles in 2025
Dig into an exploration of the fundamental aspects of intelligence, a new textbook about theoretical neuroscience and a memoir about memory research, among other new releases.
https://bit.ly/45MvK41
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James Hyman
3 months ago
During sleep, reuniens theta synchronizes with MEC provoking memory reactivation.
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Isolated theta waves originating from the midline thalamus trigger memory reactivation during NREM sleep in mice
Nature Communications - The neural mechanisms of memory consolidation during sleep are poorly understood. Here the authors show that isolated theta waves from nucleus reuniens initiate neural...
https://rdcu.be/eCMfl
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I can only recommend this. Jerome's group is a fantastic hub for insect neuroscience!
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3 months ago
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Nicolas Mathevon
3 months ago
For over 5,000 y, chanting has been practiced across many Western and Eastern traditions. Chants share distinctive acoustic traits which have evolved culturally to optimize listener relaxation. 👇 new paper
@pnas.org
by ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co
#bioacoustics
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Chants across seven traditions share acoustic traits that enhance subjective relaxation | PNAS
For over 5,000 y, chanting has been practiced across many Western and Eastern traditions. However, there is hardly any empirical research on 1) whe...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2506480122
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SfN Journals
3 months ago
#JNeurosci
: Findings from Gao et al. show that cortico-thalamo-cortical pathways in rats can be activated by selectively targeting excitatory neurons with transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation. @cmu.edu
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2218-24.2025
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The Transmitter
3 months ago
“This neural configuration before amputation remains after the amputation. And it’s not ‘use it or lose it,’” says John W. Krakauer. By
@avaskham.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/plasticity/a...
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Adult human cortex does not reorganize after amputation
The results from a new longitudinal study contradict classic findings in monkeys but may not warrant a rewriting of the textbooks just yet.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/plasticity/adult-human-cortex-does-not-reorganize-after-amputation/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250821-news-adult-human-cortex-does-not-reorganize-after-amputation
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Jerome Beetz
3 months ago
We know how visual objects influence spatial tuning in the hippocampus. A new study from
@batwoman123.bsky.social
shows that auditory objects can be egocentrically or allocentrically encoded in the hippocampus of echolocating bats 🦇.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@currentbiology.bsky.social
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Auditory object representation in the bat hippocampus
Cognitive maps enable the flexible selection of navigation paths. Acoustic cognitive maps, constructed from the spatial layout of sonar auditory objec…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225009534?dgcid=raven_sd_aip_email
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I'm not much online these days (post Twitter era is not the same) but I'd like to announce that I have moved out of Frankfurt to the FU Berlin as full prof on animal behavior. I won't lie. It's sad to leave Frankfurt but I am hyped to be now part of the vibrant Berlin community! Go
#Neuroethology
3 months ago
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Very glad
@susannebabl.bsky.social
Ava Kiai decided to take the lead on this review. I think this will be quite useful for everyone interested in bats and vocal production. Check it out!
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3 months ago
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Yuranny Cabral-Calderin
4 months ago
On my way to
#ASSC28
! Excited for a week of great science and new connections. Find me on Monday, 16:30–17:30, to talk about
#Blindsight
,
#bodily
#rhythms
, and
#decoding
#visual
#awareness
. P126 – Neurophysiological correlates of consciousness: Insights from Blindsight
@assc28.bsky.social
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Zero-Noise Lab
4 months ago
Sweet, sweet review by the awesome
@anne-urai.bsky.social
on the beautiful mess that is behaviour. Also, best abstract ending I've seen in a long time: 'There is probably no such thing as stable behavior.' Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Structure uncovered: understanding temporal variability in perceptual decision-making
Studies of perceptual decision-making typically present the same stimulus repeatedly over the course of an experimental session but ignore the order o…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661325001494?via%3Dihub
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The Transmitter
4 months ago
ICYMI: Technological advancements have made it possible to study animals in more natural settings, but researchers are debating what that really means and whether natural is always better. By
@shaena.bsky.social
#neuroethology
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...
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Wild and free: Understanding animal behavior beyond the lab
Technological advancements have made it possible to study animals in more natural settings, but researchers are debating what that really means and whether natural is always better.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behavior/wild-and-free-understanding-animal-behavior-beyond-the-lab/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250703-neurobiology-GRC-rp
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Jerome Beetz
4 months ago
I am looking for a Postdoc and a PhD student who want to study the neuronal mechanisms of the bee's waggle dance. 🐝 More details can be found on our webpage:
www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio...
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Open Positions
If our research profile evoked your interest of working with us on the spatial memory of honeybees, then you are warmly welcommed to contact us. What we offer We offer the infrastructure of...
https://www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positions.html
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Rosanne Rademaker
5 months ago
Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details:
www.rademakerlab.com/job-add
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PhD position — Rademaker lab
https://www.rademakerlab.com/job-add
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Jacob Lab
5 months ago
Cyborg tadpoles! Stretchy implantable neuroelectronics that grow with the brain. You gotta love it! 🧪🧠
#neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cedric Boeckx
5 months ago
New work by
@nccrlanguage.bsky.social
members
@franziswegdell.bsky.social
@carolinefryns.bsky.social
J. Schick
@sabinestoll.bsky.social
@zuberbuehler.bsky.social
S. Townsend: The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing input across all great apes, revealing an important shift in us 🧪
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The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing vocal input across all great apes
Human infants receive more directed communication than other great ape infants, indicating that it evolved alongside language.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adt7718
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Natalie Schaworonkow
5 months ago
happy that our article about mu & alpha rhythm waveform shape in development is now finally out in the open:
doi.org/10.1162/jocn...
oscillation frequency changes across development (one of the most robust findings in the oscillation world). in this work, we also look at waveform shape changes.
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Nick Jourjine
5 months ago
Very happy to share the latest from my postdoc! 10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁 paper:
bit.ly/4n93yyD
data:
bit.ly/4lfFBEk
code:
bit.ly/4kNnMwx
#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
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Andreas @ Real Scientists DE
5 months ago
[Admin] Rhythmen im Gehirn - Bitte begrüßt Natalie Schaworonkow auf dem Kanal!
realscientistsde.blogspot.com/2025/06/rhyt...
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Rhythmen im Gehirn - Natalie Schaworonkow ist jetzt bei Real Scientists DE!
Diese Woche freuen wir uns auf Natalie Schaworonkow . Natalie (@ nschawor.bsky.social ) hat Kognitionswissenschaften und Computational Neur...
https://realscientistsde.blogspot.com/2025/06/rhythmen-im-gehirn-natalie-schaworonkow.html
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LOOPs_spp2411
5 months ago
🧠🔄
#NeuroThursday
@roselynechauvin.bsky.social
& team use daily fMRI to show that 2 weeks of arm disuse triggers spontaneous “disuse pulses” and boosts connectivity in motor cortex, thalamus and putamen. Arm in a cast? Your thalamus rewires 🩼🧠 Check out below ⬇️ 🔗
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Disuse-driven plasticity in the human thalamus and putamen
Using a 2-week arm and hand casting paradigm with daily brain fMRIs, Chauvin et al. observe subcortical plasticity in humans. The disused motor circuit shows increased functional connectivity and the ...
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(25)00341-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2211124725003419%3Fshowall%3Dtrue#au24
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Yuranny Cabral-Calderin
5 months ago
How does the brain track rhythms—and can we hack it? In our new study, just published
@plosbiology.org
, we dive deeper into neural entrainment—how the brain synchronizes to rhythms in our environment—and explore whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can modulate this process.
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Sensory stimuli dominate over rhythmic electrical stimulation in modulating behavior
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) modulates entrainment to rhythmic auditory stimuli, but the details of this interaction are not clear. This study shows that the effects of tACS dep...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003180
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LOOPs_spp2411
5 months ago
🔄‼️ LOOPs Webinar Alert This week: How did the thalamus evolve to shape behavior? Join
@brunoaverbeck.bsky.social
as he explores how the thalamus fits into forebrain networks across evolution and development 🧠 📅 June 11, 2025 🕓 4pm CEST 🔗
crowdcast.io/c/loops-seminars-v2
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International Society for Neuroethology
6 months ago
In this new paper from the Sawtell lab, they measured electroreceptor responses and modelled perceived electric fields. ANNS trained on this data suggest a two-step computation in detecting electric properties and distances! 🐠⚡ Find out more in the link below:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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An end-to-end model of active electrosensation
Turcu et al. develop an end-to-end framework for studying active electrosensation, combining models of electrical field generation, peripheral electroreceptor encoding, and central neuronal processing...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(25)00390-2
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Sophie Herbst
6 months ago
Episode II of how are durations stored in working memory: Besides replicating our previous findings, we find that alpha power reflects a universal signature of WM load and mediates recall precision, even for abstract information like duration
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🔽 co-authors below
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Alpha power indexes working memory load for durations
Timing, that is estimating, comparing, or remembering how long events last, requires the temporary storage of durations. How durations are stored in working memory is unknown, despite the widely held ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.12.653390v1
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LOOPs_spp2411
6 months ago
🔄‼️ LOOPs Webinar Alert Can a single neuron hold the concept of a person? Florian Mormann
@unibonn.bsky.social
discusses “Single-neuron correlates of perception & memory in the human medial temporal lobe” 📅 May 14, 2025 🕓 4pm CEST 🔗
crowdcast.io/c/loops-seminars-v2
#Neuroscience
#LoopsSeminars
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Nicole Rust
6 months ago
Apropos of debates, if anyone is interested in an inspired discussion of the value of basic research, Asimov’s “Of What Use?” is hard to beat.
speakingofresearch.com/2012/03/23/o...
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Of what use?
By Isaac Asimov One may detest nature and despise science, but it becomes more and more difficult to ignore them. Science in the modern world is not an entertainment for some devotees. It is on i…
https://speakingofresearch.com/2012/03/23/of-what-use/
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Jerome Beetz
7 months ago
The chair of Zoology II
@uni-wuerzburg.de
is looking for a candidate as a W3 Professor in Behavioral Physiology. 'A research focus preferentially on insect species other than Drosophila is desirable.'
#neuroethology
For more details:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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University Professor (m/w/d) for Behavioral Physiology (grade W3) - Würzburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg - Faculty of Biology | 12839249
The University of Würzburg is offering a position of a University Professor (m/w/d) for Behavioral Physiology (grade W3) (Chair of Zoology II).
https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12839249/university-professor-m-w-d-for-behavioral-physiology-grade-w3-/?LinkSource=PremiumListing&_gl=1*1dat4dg*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..*_ga*MTYyODI3MjkyMC4xNzQ2MTgzMTYz*_ga_ZPPY0FP3YS*MTc0NjE4MzE2Mi4xLjEuMTc0NjE4MzE5Mi4wLjAuMA..*_ga_ERRNTNZ807*MTc0NjE4MzE2Mi4xLjEuMTc0NjE4MzE5Mi4wLjAuOTE4NzY5ODk3&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2tHABhCiARIsANZzDWqvHQQ3JqPShD6qdgJO__paqj3Hn8dSd0HKzkPb_3T8dSCOC--z2YoaAqDqEALw_wcB
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