yinan cao
@ycaoneuro.bsky.social
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msca fellow LNC^2 ENS paris, Wyart team
pinned post!
🚀Our new chapter is out, “Perspectives on the Mechanistic Underpinnings of Choice Biases,” written with
@ktsetsos.bsky.social
and published in Decision Making: Mechanisms and Applications (edited by Carsten Murawski, Ulrich Ettinger, and Bert Heinrichs):
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Decision Making
This book offers reports on new findings relating to mechanisms of decisions, modeling of decision making and impaired decision making upon diseases.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-00880-0
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Marcus Siems
7 days ago
New Preprint alert 🚨 “Inter-areal coupling for cognition through coincident oscillatory transients” together with
@ycaoneuro.bsky.social
@ktsetsos.bsky.social
@donnerlab.bsky.social
& Andreas Engel
#MEG
#neuroscience
#bioRxiv
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Inter-areal coupling for cognition through coincident oscillatory transients
How do large-scale brain networks interact to enable cognition? Correlated oscillations, a mechanism for inter-areal interactions, can be expressed as phase coherence or amplitude co-fluctuations. Whi...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.21.689181v1
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Konstantinos Tsetsos
17 days ago
🧠 We’re hiring! Join the Irrationality Lab @ Trinity College Dublin for ERC-funded postdoc positions in Decision Neuroscience. Work with OPM-MEG + computational modeling to uncover how the brain shapes, maintains and revises preferences. Apply & info:
www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0...
#NeuroJobs
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https://www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/01e170_d91c53b13734471d944d528316ea3c24.pdf
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Damn I hope this is true. Can we REALLY trust this?
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19 days ago
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Anjali Sharma
20 days ago
Comment by Prof
@icouzin.bsky.social
that explores how collective intelligence emerges from local interactions in animal groups, and how these principles inform the design of swarm robotic systems.
@natureportfolio.nature.com
@natcomms.nature.com
#robotics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Collective intelligence in animals and robots - Nature Communications
This commentary explores how collective intelligence arises from local interactions in animal groups and how these principles inform the design of swarm robotic systems, addressing the challenge of ac...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65814-9
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22 days ago
🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab:
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
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Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/postdoc-position-neural-circuitry-underlying-working-memory
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🚀Our new chapter is out, “Perspectives on the Mechanistic Underpinnings of Choice Biases,” written with
@ktsetsos.bsky.social
and published in Decision Making: Mechanisms and Applications (edited by Carsten Murawski, Ulrich Ettinger, and Bert Heinrichs):
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Decision Making
This book offers reports on new findings relating to mechanisms of decisions, modeling of decision making and impaired decision making upon diseases.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-00880-0
22 days ago
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Martin Hebart
24 days ago
Noise ceilings are really useful: You can estimate the reliability of your data and get an index of how well your model can possibly perform given the noise in the data. But, contrary to what you may think, noise ceilings do not provide an absolute index of data quality. Let's dive into why. 🧵
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first paper with valentin wyart.
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about 2 months ago
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Donner Lab
5 months ago
1/ New paper by Hame Park, (@AraziAyelet), Bharath Talluri, Marco Celotto, Stefano Panzeri, Alan Stocker & Tobias Donner published in Nature Communications – “Confirmation Bias through Selective Readout of Information Encoded in Human Parietal Cortex”:
rdcu.be/etlR7
. Here is a summary:
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Confirmation bias through selective readout of information encoded in human parietal cortex
Nature Communications - People often discard incoming information when it contradicts their pre-existing beliefs about the world. Here, the authors show that this discarded information is precisely...
https://rdcu.be/etlR7
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Marino Pagan
7 months ago
My small tribute to one of my favourite papers ever
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koenfucius
8 months ago
“Legal decisions are not totally arbitrary, like a lottery. However, they still fall short of the expected standards” —often through irrelevant influences, like cognitive biases:
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Patrick Mineault
8 months ago
.
@kordinglab.bsky.social
's substack is great. Lots of food for thought from one of the most piercing thinkers in NeuroAI.
kording.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
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Why Are We Professors Doing “Research As Usual” While AI Systems Advance at Breakneck Speed?
Introduction
https://kording.substack.com/p/why-are-we-professors-doing-research-as-usual-while-ai-systems-advance-at-breakneck-speed-bcc80b04a887
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Freek van Ede
9 months ago
Our latest findings showing how internal and external visual selection do not necessarily ‘take turns’ but can run in parallel, led by
@baiweiliu.bsky.social
.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Concurrent selection of internal goals and external sensations during visual search
Flexible goal-directed behaviour relies on the selective processing of internal goal representations and external sensations. Yet, internal and external selection processes have classically been studi...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.640053v1
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
9 months ago
Scientists use VR + lab + field study to rewrite the rules of locust swarming 🦗🦗 Latest
@science.org
from first author
@sercansayin.bsky.social
and
#Konstanz
team ⬇️
@einatcouzin.bsky.social
@icouzin.bsky.social
@cbehav.bsky.social
@uni-konstanz.de
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts
Collective motion, which is ubiquitous in nature, has traditionally been explained by “self-propelled particle” models from theoretical physics. Here we show, through field, lab, and virtual reality e...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7832
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Rasmus Bruckner
9 months ago
🚀 New paper out in Psychological Review! How does learning change across the lifespan? We propose that resource rationality—adapting belief updating to cognitive limitations—can explain age-related differences in learning. 📖
doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
👇 A short thread:
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APA PsycNet
https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000526
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Chunyu Ann Duan
10 months ago
First preprint from our lab! An
@jerlich.bsky.social
collaboration We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decisions in mice. Mice flexibly shift their decision preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Mice dynamically adapt to opponents in competitive multi-player games
Competing for resources in dynamic social environments is fundamental for survival, and requires continuous monitoring of both 'self' and 'others' to guide effective choices. Yet our understanding of ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.14.638359v1
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Rasmus Bruckner
10 months ago
In our new
@commspsychol.bsky.social
review, we explore how humans adjust learning to different types of uncertainty, why biases arise, and what this reveals about learning and psychiatric conditions. 📖 Read more:
nature.com/articles/s44...
With Matt Nassar &
@haukeren.bsky.social
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Understanding learning through uncertainty and bias - Communications Psychology
Flexible learning requires humans to adjust their behaviour to uncertainty. While normative learning models explain many adaptive behaviours, systematic biases-arising from inaccurate assumptions or c...
https://nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00203-y
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Peter Kok
10 months ago
We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#neuroskyence
#Neuroimaging
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=13247&nPostingTargetId=32096&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07
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Nature Neuroscience
10 months ago
The latent circuit model identifies low-dimensional mechanisms of task execution from heterogeneous neural responses. This approach revealed a latent inhibitory mechanism for context-dependent decisions in neural network models and prefrontal cortex 🧪🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Latent circuit inference from heterogeneous neural responses during cognitive tasks - Nature Neuroscience
The latent circuit model identifies low-dimensional mechanisms of task execution from heterogenous neural responses. This approach reveals a latent inhibitory mechanism for context-dependent decisions...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01869-7
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Nature Neuroscience
10 months ago
Using a novel method for isolating cognitive and motor neural dynamics reveals that dynamics often attributed to cognitive processes were corrupted by movements and that distinct populations of neurons encode cognitive and motor variables 🧪🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Separating cognitive and motor processes in the behaving mouse - Nature Neuroscience
Using a novel method for isolating cognitive and motor neural dynamics, the authors show that dynamics often attributed to cognitive processes were corrupted by movements and that distinct populations...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01859-1
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David G. Clark
10 months ago
(1/30) New preprint! "Symmetries and continuous attractors in disordered neural circuits" with Larry Abbott and Haim Sompolinsky bioRxiv:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Symmetries and Continuous Attractors in Disordered Neural Circuits
A major challenge in neuroscience is reconciling idealized theoretical models with complex, heterogeneous experimental data. We address this challenge through the lens of continuous-attractor networks...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.26.634933
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Mohamady El-Gaby
10 months ago
This is an elegant dispatch summarising our study on mFC schema from Sina Tafazoli Adel Ardalan and
@timbuschman.bsky.social
Really beautifully explained! "Cognitive neuroscience: How the brain navigates abstract task spaces"
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Cognitive neuroscience: How the brain navigates abstract task spaces
Humans and other animals learn the abstract structure of a task and then use this structure to rapidly generalize to new situations. A recent study reveals how the brain builds and uses abstract task ...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01644-0
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Joao Barbosa
11 months ago
Check our latest in which we leverage shape metrics to compare neural geometry across regions, sessions or subjects and how their differences predict behavior. w/ Nejatbakhsh, Duong,
@sarah-harvey.bsky.social
, Brincat,
@siegellab.bsky.social
,
@earlkmiller.bsky.social
&
@itsneuronal.bsky.social
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Konstantinos Tsetsos
12 months ago
Deeply honoured to receive an
#ERCCoG
ERC Consolidator Grant to explore the Dynamics of Attribute Weighting in Multiattribute Choice. Grateful to my amazing ERC StG team:
@ycaoneuro.bsky.social
,
@marcussiems.bsky.social
, Maryam Tohidi, Molly Stapleton for their support and trust. 🙏@ERC_Research
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and I wrote a new Perspective paper:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We've long known that decisions can be biased by normatively irrelevant factors. But how do these biases arise in the brain?
over 1 year ago
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