It's been a long time coming, but I'm very happy this work has finally come to fruition!

📢 New paper in Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with my co-authors: Freek van Ede @freekvanede.bsky.social, Chris Jungerius @cjungerius.bsky.social, and Heleen A. Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social. Grateful to have collaborated with you on this work: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... [1/5]

I recently wrote a Journal Club article for Nature Reviews Psychology, which is published today: rdcu.be/e4yLI In it, I discuss a study by Bae and Luck that has been very influential for my research and for the way I think about visual working memory. I hope you enjoy the read!

Sneak peak from our paper led by amazing Erik Bekker ! 👇🏼 arxiv.org/abs/2601.21016

What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Do goal-directed actions minimize prediction error? Together with @haslagter.bsky.social and @fahrenfort.bsky.social I identified falsifiable predictions of active inference and reviewed the extent to which they are supported by empirical results. Read the preprint here: tinyurl.com/2by8k3h6

I am happy to share that our preprint “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” is now out. Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

At NVP today? Join our symposium “Cognition in Action” at 5.30pm in the Lamoraalzaal! Together with @haslagter.bsky.social, @jdkiverstein.bsky.social, @irisgroen.bsky.social, and Bernadette van Wijk, we’ll show why action should be central to studying cognition 🧠🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏊

What an amazing paper, truly inspiring. So much overlap with also how I think VWM should be studied: by systematically varying action plans or more in general task demands, not just stimulus properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

There are books, very few, that can cut through you, tell you lies - or stories, whatever you want to call them - all of which feel true, even when reason says that no, they cannot possibly be all true. A book on the fabrications of narratives, and the truth of emotions: the notebook trilogy.

Last Friday, iBBA joined forces with ABC at the Brakke Grond in Amsterdam, for a vibrant day of talks, posters, and cross-disciplinary discussions. We celebrated the latest advances in brain, cognition, and behaviour research and promoted collaborations between scientists working at the VU and UvA.

I wrote a short commentary on Anil Seth's wonderful forthcoming paper in BBS. It is largely inspired by the work of Andy Clark, although some ideas I owe to Ned Block and Dan Dennett (probably not the same ideas!). I highly recommend Anil's paper to anyone interested in consciousness [1/2]

Some people are unable to consciously picture images in their mind's eye – they have aphantasia. What have scientists learned about aphantasia over the past 10 years? This paper reviews subtypes of aphantasia, its potential functions, and ongoing debates. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Can we all agree that the use of emojis in Chatgpt's replies is one of its worst features?

While writing a grant proposal, I thought a lot about visual imagery and mathematical transformations…that’s how I found this book, which connects very different topics: poetry and numbers! Common denominator: imagination. Highly recommended. A way to day dream while staying grounded

Rediscovering hidden pearls... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.02.672180v1

Excited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )

New preprint alert! 🤩 Together with Klaus Oberauer, I wrote a review article on how focused attention in #workingmemory affects long-term memory formation. osf.io/preprints/os...

🌟 Exciting news from iBBA! 🌟 This year, we've launched the brand new "iBBA Recognition of Excellence Award", celebrating outstanding contributions to scientific knowledge in the field of Brain and Behavior by early-career researchers within iBBA.

We just wrapped up an amazing workshop: "Vision as Prediction: Learning, Action & Biases", organized by Dr. Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida & funded by iBBA.

Sentence of the day: "[...] So events that are impossible have zero probability. However, the converse is not true: some events that are of zero probability are still possible." Ben Lambert

Happy to finally start this! Listened to Brain Inspired episode with Ciara Greene and absolutely loved it! 🫶

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🎉 Excited to share that iBBA researchers are finalists in the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award (AMSIA), which highlights the most impactful, research-based innovations in Amsterdam! 🧠💡

Science is a process of discovering how our minds work.. of figuring out what we're drawn to.. there are things that if I force myself to read, I don't retain very well. And other things, I read the first word and I'm riveted, and I just soak it up. – Martin Schwartz on the Night Science Podcast

Preprint Alert!! In our latest study, we describe a novel relationship between action planning and working memory. Our results show that action-item associations affect how working memory maintains the fidelity of sensory information during a task. Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Bringing together our findings on microsaccade biases during rehearsal and selection in visual working memory, suggesting a 'silent spatial scaffold' for working memory whereby spatial organisation stays preserved even if active space-based rehearsal has ceased www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Women’s day ✊

Following our successful 2025 iBBA colloquium with Prof. Martin Rolfs, we’re thrilled to announce the next one on April 10th! The talk will be “Interoception and Cognition” by Prof. Catherine Tallon-Baudry, from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. All details in the image below 👇

Suggestions needed! Do you know of any 3D perceptual similarity space for shapes? Or cool perceptual similarity spaces for objects - not embedded within a picture? I know of the 2D validated circular space by Li et al. (2019), but I am looking for a 3D one...thanks!

❗News Alert ❗ Our iBBA (Institute for Brain and Behaviour Amsterdam) is now flying on Bluesky 🦋. If you're passionate about groundbreaking interdisciplinary science focused on understanding the brain and body as a unified system, stay tuned and follow us at bsky.app/profile/ibba...

New paper with @lexkidder.bsky.social, Ed Silson, and @cibaker.bsky.social! We show that recall of people, places, and objects engages distributed cortical regions, with medial parietal & ventral temporal cortices showing distinct functional organizations. 1/2 doi.org/10.1523/ENEU...

My PhD thesis finally arrived! Thanks to artists Kyra Sacks and Lyanne Tonk for their wonderful work ❤️

#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀 Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to? Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)! Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9

Our PNAS paper "Action similarity warps visual feature space in working memory" is out! www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10..... Thanks to @haslagter.bsky.social and Chris Olivers for guiding me through this project, and thanks to Luigi Falanga and Jannik Jeske for their great lab work. What a team! 🤩🤓

🆕 Check out our latest pre-print “Action similarity warps visual feature space in working memory”! osf.io/preprints/ps... with Luigi Falanga, @JannikJeske, supervised by Chris Olivers and @Heleen Slagter 🤓

Our pre-print “Action planning renders objects in working memory more attentionally salient” is online! doi.org/10.31234/osf... (supervised by Chris Olivers and @HeleenASlagter)

Excited to share my primer on simulation-based power analysis using R, Python, and Julia! Based on @debruine.bsky.social's approach applied to data collected by @kirsten-adam.bsky.social, I hope it's a helpful tool for those starting with simulations. Check it out: cjungerius.github.io/powersim/

Could you suggest to me a good comprehensive and up to date book on the dopaminergic system? A plus if it also talks about adrenaline/noradrenaline