This new study in PLOS Biology shows that when people over‑allocate rewards to themselves, this is driven by self‑interest rather than distorted performance encoding, with prefrontal and temporoparietal regions tracking performance and self‑relevance: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Vivid dreaming makes sleep feel deeper journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

New Unsolved Mystery, by Jörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social and Samuel D. McDougle @actlab.bsky.social, published this week in PLOS Biology about the contributions of the cerebellum to cognitive function: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🧠💤 New paper out in @plosbiology.org! Together with Adriana Michalak (@dr-adri.bsky.social), Davide Marzoli, Francesco Pietrogiacomi et al., we show that dreaming, especially immersive dreaming, plays a key role in how deep sleep feels. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour... @erc.europa.eu #ERC-StG #sleep

Associations between superficial white matter microstructure and diverse cortical properties revealed through a computational approach based on 3D histology and 7-Tesla MRI: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Transient microglial activity during postnatal development regulates infant memory persistence and retrieval.

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Participants learned new complex tasks faster when these shared a simple task, and EEG decoding revealed associative representations of these shared tasks, linking neural association strength to behavioral generalization.

Speech comprehension relies on predictive mechanisms, but does the brain prioritize expected or unexpected information? This study shows that sharpening of sensory representations and prediction error processes co-exist at different hierarchical levels. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

1/ "Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans" - out now in @plosbiology.org, led by Michele Colombo, Jacopo Favaro, & Marcello Massimini. 🧠

A liability framework for high-risk neural devices | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al: Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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The directed motion of #CerebrospinalFluid #CSF in the #brain is key for the distribution & removal of solutes, but how is this flux modulated? @bzottlab.bsky.social &co show that changes in total cerebral #blood volume drive the flow of CSF in humans @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lOrHKm

What is the neural basis of attractive #SerialDependence? This study shows that a previous decision is reactivated during both sensory encoding and #DecisionMaking, creating a 2-stage “repulsive-followed-by-attractive” past-present interaction process @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/42JCYmq

Are action potentials in vertebrate muscle essential for contraction? This study of #zebrafish lacking #SodiumChannel NaV1.4 reveals that NaVs are dispensable for #muscle contraction, so the need for muscle #ActionPotentials can vary between vertebrates @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/42EXQwx

Feedback from an avatar has different effects on decision making than feedback from another human @plosbiology.org: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... #neurosky #neuroscience

Deadline extended to 28th April!! Summer School in Computational Social Cognition with fantastic keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social and @davidamodio.bsky.social. Come & learn more about computational modelling, make new friends, & explore the UK's 2nd largest city 🙂👇. Please RT!

The cerebellum is known to control limb movements; does it also control the tongue? @rezashadmehr.bsky.social &co reveal how the #cerebellum controls the #tongue in marmosets, highlighting the role of #PurkinjeCells in terminating tongue movement at the target @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4lCK9Wj

🔬 Want to improve research transparency? Join this webinar with experts from @plosbiology.org! Learn how this format enhances reproducibility & benefits science. 🎤 Dr. @npariente.bsky.social & Dr. Nikki Osborne from @rrr-research.bsky.social 📅 April 30, 3 PM CEST #OpenScience

Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I was pleased to this as a poster at Cosyne too!

How do worms navigate based on learned experience? @andrewleifer.bsky.social @jpillowtime.bsky.social &co reveal flexible behavioral strategies & distributed neural computations underlying learning-dependent odor #navigation in #Celegans @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4bYZs7c

"after all, scientists are problem-solvers. If the solution was easy, wouldn’t we have figured it out by now?" Check out my Editorial w/ @npariente.bsky.social discussing portable peer review, reviewer pools, AI, paying reviewers... &other solutions proposed for making peer review more sustainable🧪

Sleep regulation in #Drosophila. @sdissel.bsky.social &co show that #cholinergic #neurons in the dorsal fan-shaped body (dFB) play a major role in #sleep modulation in this neurochemically heterogeneous region of the fly brain 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/42uPczp

I am pleased to report that our paper on dFB neurons is available on Plos Biology. I am extremely grateful to Dave and Brandon, my grad students, Jen, our technician/lab manager and the many undergraduate students involved in this. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Just arrived in Montreal yesterday night and look forward to attending my first #cosyne conference. Let me know if you are around and would like to chat about publishing your work in @plosbiology.org or just meet for a coffee #cosyne2025

Neuroscience faces a unique problem: It is the only field of research in which the researcher’s understanding is generated by the very thing it is trying to understand, writes @markdhumphries.bsky.social in his latest column for The Transmitter. www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

We're in BPoD again! Fantastic images from @b-wink.bsky.social (you can see another pic of hers in pole position on our homepage this week: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/)

Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

The #BloodBrainBarrier (BBB) prevents immune cells & pathogens from entering the brain. @b-wink.bsky.social &co show that during #neuroinflammation in #Drosophila, immune cells can cross the BBB by degrading its ECM through a JAK/STAT-regulated pathway 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4k1TTIG

PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

How is SNARE-mediated synaptic vesicle release regulated in inhibitory #synapses? This study reveals that the #exocytosis regulator complexin controls spontaneous synaptic vesicle release in a CAPS-dependent manner in #Celegans inhibitory synapses 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4jRm255

We checked how easy it is to match up people's brain maps after spatial normalisation. Turns out very! Maybe that surprising to many in the field - but my impression has long been that people are a bit in denial about deidentifying data. #neuroskyence #visionscience doi.org/10.1101/2024...

New book "Explanation in Biology" with Cambridge University Press is out & open access! Covers (1) causal explanation & (2) non-causal/mathematical explanation in life sciences--bio, neuro, etc 🌿🧬🧠 Introduction to philosophical work on scientific explanation! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Announcing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.

Explore the culture, craft and practice of neuroscience through a collection of scientist-written essays in our first book, "Thinking about neuroscience: Essays from the field." Download it now: www.thetransmitter.org/transmitter-... #neuroskyence

Fresh out of the press: An Unsolved Mystery in PLOS Biology about the role of oligodendrocytes in Parkinson's disease by @sjaekel.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

BCIs list! Still finding folks on here so please message me if you'd like to be added.

here are only 38 patch-clampers on this plattform!?! Who else? 🧠 🔬 🧪 go.bsky.app/RuCRCgX

I have not seen a starter pack for the study of brain rhythms. So, here's a start. go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE

Are you a neuroscientist interested in sustainability, but don't know who to follow? 🤔 You're in luck! Here's a starter pack of neuroscientists who post about climate, and researchers who work in the intersection of neuro/psych and climate change! 🌱Msg if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/E1iW12T

Starter pack for researchers studying the control of cognitive processes e.g., attentional control, inhibition, task switching, working memory, error adaptation etc go.bsky.app/12KTqED

I made a starter pack to follow your favorite WomWoMs (Women of Working Memory) go.bsky.app/78fcoth You can ping me to be added!

How do the functional networks in the brain change at the beginning of human life? Have a look at this longitudinal perinatal fMRI study of 140 babies revealing regionally specific changes in neural connectivity at the birth transition. #neuroscience #PLOSBiology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Love the started-packs. What seems really missing yet is „machine-learning in Neuroimaging / brain medicine“ 🧠 If you work in that (or a related) field introduce yourself below. I will put together the list Please share widely to reach all newcomers 🙏🏽

Just In case people need to follow people in neuroscience focused on natural behaviors and the brains of cool non-trad animals! Please join let me know if you wanna be added. go.bsky.app/AcLpM4h

Since this is getting busier, here's the #sensorimotor starter pack again go.bsky.app/U4oyFgw There's still room to add more people, so ask to be added if not on the list

I made a systems neuroscience starter pack, focused on experimentalists who study the brain at the level of populations of neurons! Also want to be on the list? Reply or DM me a picture of your ephys rig or 2p setup and I'll add you 🤭 go.bsky.app/UiqX7ry

Do we need another starter pack? I'm erring on the side of yes. go.bsky.app/GVMZMcB