Spent half the holidays stuck in bed with something close to pneumonia. Upside: ran some Hidden Markov Models on fresh new EEG data, played with a Hopfield network, and sketched ideas for the next grant applications ✅. Downside: I might need new lungs 🫣😂

Rhythmicity Revisited: Evidence from Robust Behavioral Oscillations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.24.696378v1

📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”

Yep, I won't be going to US conferences anytime soon...

Postdoc job ad! Do you have a background in human learning in aseptic lab studies and wonder how to apply this to pressing societal issues? Or, have you worked in the formation of political attitudes from social psychology but always wanted to understand the cognitive mechanisms behind it? Read on!

The project includes @maravermj.bsky.social and Giannis Lois and is part of a larger effort from the @cimcyc.bsky.social to explore exciting ideas at the intersection between fields. Find the official job ad below and get in touch if you need more info. Please, share! cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

It’s official! The postdoc positions announcement is here 🚀 If you know great candidates interested in attention, memory transformation and EEG, please help spread the word: Project (ReDAS) -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati... Job offer -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

We went for a walk yesterday 🥲. A-Day 2025 done!

High-level visual surprise is rapidly integrated during perceptual inference! 🚨 New paper 🚨 out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Summary 🧵 below 👇

Cool preprint @sandervanbree.bsky.social!

📣 Our latest brain-to-text decoding results from our Brain team is out: "Towards decoding individual words from non-invasive brain recordings" 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👥 Led by Stéphane d'Ascoli & w/ Corentin Bel, Jérémy RAPIN, Hubert Banville, Yohann Benchetrit and Christophe Pallier

I’m proud of @estebanbt.bsky.social and his first-author PhD work. The article highlights how breathing shapes remembering by coordinating key neural signatures of retrieval. Thanks to @lmumuenchen.bsky.social for the nice coverage: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

new paper in TICS officially out today. great learning from and writing with Anastasia, and super cool cover art from Prof. Pinar Yoldas. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

🚨 Fully funded PhD scholarship to work with me, Ali Mazaheri, Dhruv Parekh, and Katrien Segaert at the University of Birmingham on new brain-based tools to improve diagnoses of consciousness after severe brain injury. 🚨 Deadline: 9th January 2026 Full details and application form: lnkd.in/ejZkfFbW

Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!

Asking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!

New preprint alert! Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪

New paper! Brains stretch representations along task-relevant dimensions. Spike timing is important. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

It is amazing how much this video is helping me again. Now preparing an introduction regarding the hippocampal anatomy for a NeuroCog course ❤️. vimeo.com/323365182?fl...

Do you recommend any particular platform / approach for tracking usage of open access materials? Not just download counts but also asking some simple information of the user before they can download (like EEGLAB, Fieldtrip, SPM, etc all do). Any pointers much appreciated!

This season is ❤️.

I just had a quick diagonal look but this seems like must-read for PhD candidates in their first year (but not only 😅, good advises and reminder also for me). Great!

How lower and higher level representational features influence memory vividness? Quite interesting question and a nice research -> Morales-Torres, R., Davis, S. W., & Cabeza, R. (2025). What makes memories vivid? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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. 🧵

My prediction is that LLM peer review will slow down science. It will do this for precisely the same reasons that contemporary peer review does and some extra ones. Start by reading @hansonmark.bsky.social thread below, then read on. 🧵

📢The #CIMCYCSessions are back! The first session of the #AI, #Mind and #Brain season will take place next Thursday, November 13, 2025. 📍The session will be conducted entirely online. More info: cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

Really enjoying teaching Cognitive Neuroscience to bachelor students. However, the biggest challenge is striking a balance between “we seem to know this” and “this is still uncharted territory” 😅. I hope we are not driving them bananas

Really enjoyed reading this one 😀. A nice conceptual reframing regarding the state of episodic memories. Particularly useful to rethink how some of our ongoing cue-manipulation work in the lab might be pushing memories along different axes of this 3D space-state.

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Exciting times! These days we are setting up our new EEG equipment. It feels like Christmas in November 😅.

Preparing a journal club reading about such a nice paper -> Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper published: Having free choice over what to learn improves memory, even in the presence of distraction. Across two experiments, free choice selectively enhanced recognition for relevant, but not irrelevant items. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does JavaScript….go hard?!??

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists. Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273

🧠🚨 How does the hippocampus transform the visual similarity space to resolve memory interference? In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It may sound obvious, but I’m amazed by how much time and effort you can save just by simply sharing and discussing ideas with as many people as possible **before** stepping into the lab 🥲.

I am gonna take the option where I get more time to read, understand and write. maybe that AI can go to committee meetings for me?

Interesting!

If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me! I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that. #psychscisky #neuroskyence

How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Very happy to finally see this out! A while ago I had the wonderful opportunity to meet an awesome group of scientists from very diverse fields, interested in exchanging thoughts, experiences and ideas. In this book, we collect some of these exchanges as a celebration the richness of science.

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.

Excited to release the SPOT grid: a new image set that factorially crosses scene-object & texture-pattern pairings. We hope these stimuli will be useful to researchers aiming to (partially) disentangle the contributions of lower- and higher-level visual features to behavior & brain activity. 1/

Goodbye #ICON2025 👏 and bye Porto. An amazing conference full of great talks, inspiring poster sessions, and osom moments with old and new friends. Feeling lucky to be part of such a nice community!

New preprint! 🚨We discuss the long-term memory consequences of fast visual perceptual learning: "From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" It's so great to work with @jvoeller.bsky.social and the team! Congrats for your first author manuscript, Johannah!

📣 ICON Symposium Really excited to announce our symposium at @ICON this year on Sudden Learning Across Systems! Together with lots of cool people: @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @anikaloewe.bsky.social @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social and Andrea Greve!