Please come to see our lab presentations at #ICON2025, by the brilliant Kirsten Rittershofer and Quirin Gehmacher. Sorry I can't be there myself, it looks a brilliant meeting 🎉

Deadline for the 2 postdoc jobs with us at @ucl.ac.uk in one week, 17th Sep. On the roles of goals in organising social representations in prefrontal cortex (modelling, neuroimaging, transcranial ultrasound).

Very much looking forward to starting this project!

New paper our in @pnas.org, lead by @isabellehoxha.bsky.social with Léo Sperber. We use evolutionary simulation to assess and compare the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration in reinforcement learning. Follow the thread below (and Isabelle!) for more details!

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc! 3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN. Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data. DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

Our 2025–2026 Seminar Series is ready to begin 🎓✨ We’re kicking off on 1 October with a fantastic line-up of speakers from across the UK and beyond. Join us on Wednesdays from 1–2 PM at Birkbeck. Light refreshments provided ☕️🥐 Here’s the full programme 👇 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Super excited to share this new collaborative work - marmosets use diverse and highly flexible strategies when they cooperate. These strategies are powerfully determined by both social factors (sex, dominance, familiarity) & individual partner identity. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Causal necessity of human hippocampus for structure-based inference in learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.664920v1

We are super excited about the first human transcranial ultrasound study from our lab which is now on BiorXiv, showing the amygdala‘s role in processing ambiguous emotions and showing TUS changed resting-state connectivity and metabolite concentrations (GABA) in the amygdala - a huge team effort! 🥳🙏🏼

📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢 Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia. 🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io 🚨closes September 12th!

New paper using M/EEG to look at attractive and repulsive serial dependence in working memory, led by the excellent Jiangang Shan, with Jasper Hajonides.

Very excited to share a new collaborative work with @neuralnandy.bsky.social and Monika Jadi on using a novel ‘super-seasoning’ approach and dynamic Bayesian network modeling to reveal multi-area causal network dynamics underlying social interaction. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In2research is a great programme enhancing access to research degrees and careers for people from low socioeconomic backgrounds and under-represented groups. If you're a researcher in the UK, consider volunteering as a mentor or placement host. in2scienceuk.org/our-programm...

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Very proud to share this one🥹! We show that personalized signatures of brain activity are heritable and relate to the expression of specific genes. That means my brain-fingerprint is very similar to my twin brother's! #ResearchIsMeSearch🧠 🧬 ♊️

🚨New preprint🚨 out with the dream team @matanmazor.bsky.social @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social! We report a novel and robust effect across five different datasets: vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery. 📝: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thrilled to share our new opinion piece—hot off the press—on attentional sampling, co-authored with the magnificent Flor Kusnir and Daniele Re. It captures where our thinking has landed on this topic after years of work. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Very exciting study by @akalt.bsky.social on automatic rhythmic continuation of visual sequences, and how this signal may be read out by motor systems in timing tasks. I love the demonstration that the visual system extrapolates rhythmic sequences of rotating gratings even when task-irrelevant. 🧠🟦

New MEG paper by @jhaarsma.bsky.social and @dotproduct.bsky.social‬! Same design and behavioural results as our 7T layer fMRI study (www.jneurosci.org/content/43/4...), but now shedding light on the temporal dynamics of the sensory signals underlying false percepts. #neuroskyence

I'm really happy to host Dr @mkwittmann.bsky.social in the London JDM seminar. For more info visit our website www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... All welcome!

Completing the mouse, ANN, human trilogy of projects, here are two openings to study cognitive map deficits in human psychosis patients with the inimitable @mattnour.bsky.social Using functional neuroimaging and planning tasks. If you’re keen to join us then apply!

Our study using layer fMRI to study the direction of communication between the hippocampus and cortex during perceptual predictions is finally out in Science Advances! Predicted-but-omitted shapes are represented in CA2/3 and correlate specifically with deep layers of PHC, suggesting feedback. 🧠🟦

🚨 Come work with us! 3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty. More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2 Please share widely 🔁

Registrations are now open for the Symposium on the Biology of Decision-Making (SBDM), 16-18 June 2025 in Lyon! Please check out our exciting program and register until May 1st for early registration rates! sbdm2025.github.io

Our first fMRI in a while where we investigate the neural bases or multi-step Reinforcement Learning and found a clear functional dissociation between the parietal and the peri-hippocampal cortex. More info by Fabien, below

In further exciting developments, we can announce that our two keynotes for this year's Metacognitive Science Meeting will be Simona Ghetti @simonag.bsky.social (Psychology, UC Davis) and Ingmar Posner (Oxford Robotics Institute) 🥳 See sites.google.com/view/metacog... for more information

Our brains use basic ‘building blocks’ of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study led by Dr Marco Wittmann from UCL PALS. 👉 Find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

Why I value peer review - new World View in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4w5795ua I discuss why peer review is still important and useful despite some of the challenges, and reflect on some personal peer review experiences. Interested to hear what others think about peer review 🙂.

How do cognitive maps fail? And how can this help us understand/treat psychosis? My lab at @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc tinyurl.com/2p935hhz and RA tinyurl.com/3myfpb78 to answer these questions in mouse models. Here's why you might want to join: 🧵

Two new papers led by Iris Traast! In both, we ask how an interaction partner’s race affects impression formation via instrumental learning—that is, based on interaction choices and partner feedback. We tested this in the USA (Black vs. White; in JEPG) and the NL (White vs. Moroccan; in GPIR).

Registration now open for the upcoming Erice Workshop at the Ettore Majorana Centre. For cutting-edge research on oxytocin and vasopressin, highlighting how these neuromodulators shape brain function, behavior, and cognition. In the memory of *Larry Young* 👉 centromajorana.it/neuromodulat...

Thanks Andrea, I hope all is well!

👇 Closing date 30.04. Contact me if you have any questions.

🚨New post alert 🚨 We are recruiting at UCL for permanent faculty in Computational Cognition. Please circulate and/or apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML927/l... The dept is wonderful - exciting & clever research; supportive; dynamic. Feel free to send qus my way. @uclpals.bsky.social #NeuroJobs

Exciting Brain meeting coming up today with Christian Ruff! @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social

🎺 #BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! This Friday’s brain meeting will be given by Christian Ruff. Join us to learn about Risk Attitude: Preference or Perception. Everyone is welcome, in person or online. Full details here: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event/risk-a...

⭐️PhD in Cognitive/Computational Psychology⭐️ Use Reinforcement Learning to study how mis/misinformation affects us. For full funding, one has to be eligible for UK home fees. Please Share!! @queenmarycbb.bsky.social Deadline: April 20. For more information: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Important initiative from @elife.bsky.social.

Looking forward to this week's Consciousness Club with Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social on "Becoming aware of the world and ourselves" Wednesday 26th March, usual time of 11am-1230pm UK time All welcome! For details on how to join please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

We are excited to post a new preprint with Shiyi Liang @shiyiliang.bsky.social: 'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps... (a bit late here – a version was online back in December) @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social

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🚨 New paper 🚨 Out in @commspsychol.bsky.social: "Manipulating attention facilitates cooperation" with Claire Lugrin and @ccruff.bsky.social We use gaze data and display manipulations in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma games and find that these manipulations can drive choices through attention 👇

Up bright & early at the BBC this morning to record Radio 4´s Start the Week! You can hear me talking about my new book ‘A Trick Of The Mind’, and discussing the imprint that uncertain times can leave on our minds and brains 🧠 Broadcast live at 9pm, or on catch up thereafter! Tune in!

Our brains use basic ‘building blocks’ of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study led by @uclpals.bsky.social researchers.

Many congratulations on this excellent work @mkwittmann.bsky.social @yongling.bsky.social @cormacd.bsky.social

Our brains use basic ‘building blocks’ of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study led by Dr @mkwittmann.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social in @nature.com

New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

US version. thank you very much @vikingbooks.bsky.social. I like the black cover more!

Very honoured to have written a little something for @aeon.co about zero, absence, and consciousness. It was a real pleasure to write, and very curious to know what people think! 0️⃣🧠 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #consci