Looking forward to #ICON2025! Apart from posters (updates coming), we’ll be at the “Sudden Learning Across Systems” symposium talking about factors behind solving visual disambiguation 👀, memory traces of one-shot perceptual learning and more. Excited to share and get inspired by your work! 🚀

What do we remember from highly ambiguous episodes? Here’s our take after many hours of reading and discussing. Congratulations @jvoeller.bsky.social on the first paper of your PhD!

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!

🧠 New preprint: Why do deep neural networks predict brain responses so well? We find a striking dissociation: it’s not shared object recognition. Alignment is driven by sensitivity to texture-like local statistics. 📊 Study: n=57, 624k trials, 5 models doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🧠🚨 How does the brain represent what we see? Is visual input transformed to form these representations in similar ways across people and even AI models like DNNs? We explore these questions using fMRI and large-scale representational alignment analyses. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2507.13941 Thread👇 (1/8)

🧠New preprint! We show that different priorities shape the neural coding of planned actions in working memory. Using EEG+RSA, we find that expected interference leads to anticipatory changes in representational geometry, beyond simple maintenance. 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🗂️ Data/code: osf.io/5fg7a

🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! Join the FLARE project @cimcyc.bsky.social to study sudden perceptual learning using fMRI, RSA, and DNNs. 🧠 2 years, fully funded, flexible start More info 👉 gonzalezgarcia.github.io/postdoc/ DMs or emails welcome! Please share!

We moved our symposium to a bigger room so we have a few more extra seats available now! Join us September 10th for our symosium on "Flexible Definitions of Cognitive Flexibility" shengjiexu.ugent.be/CoCoFlex_Sem.... Poster or talk submission deadline is in two weeks: July 31st!

🧠💻 We (a bunch of colleagues at @cimcyc.bsky.social) just released a programming guide for psych & cog neuro students. Instead of a tutorial, this is a starting point: a collection of reflections, examples, and recommendations. 👉 Still growing, but ready to explore: wobc.github.io/programming_book/

“Puede no gustar, pero pido a todos estos racistas que o bien se queden en sus casas o bien que opositen y pidan ser transferidos a Melilla”, ha dicho el ministro con firmeza. Lee el artículo completo en nuestra web: www.elmundotoday.com/2025/07/marl...

Congratulations to Teresa Bajo, University of Granada, Spain, recipient of the 2025 Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award. The award honors exceptional scientists who have demonstrated sustained leadership and service to the field and to the Society. bit.ly/401ldi0

The study suggests a few metacognitive states correlate with rational behavioural adjustments; this might help steering behaviour towards optimality. @lucvermeylen.bsky.social @sebraem.bsky.social @kobedesender.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @mruz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

this is wild and amazing! selective modulation of neurons in the ventral visual stream noninvasively, just by changing the visual input. i've recently been saying that the senses are a powerful, overlooked BMI... the OG BMI designed by nature 😉 think of the possibilities! arxiv.org/abs/2506.05633

Powerful piece "It would be a catastrophically unwise decision for humanity to abandon a key step in training young brains simply because they can now clack a few keys and produce something that sounds intelligent" www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-... h/t @cianodonnell.bsky.social

👀🧠 Can a flash trigger a memory? A new study from @cimcyc.bsky.social shows that certain external stimuli can automatically activate information temporarily stored in working memory. #Attention #Memory #CognitiveNeuroscience cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

¿Cómo puede la prosodia ayudar a aprender a leer? Esta es una historia de pausas, acentos y... ballenas que dicen “melón”. ¡Dentro HILO! #HiloTesis @crueuniversidades.bsky.social @filarramendi.bsky.social @universidadgranada.bsky.social

“The lack of average differences between the performance of boys and girls at the beginning of the first year suggests that the causes lie in the environment children experience once they start school, rather than innate differences in interest or ability, say researchers.”

I'm excited to announce that my lab's open textbook on Scientific Computing for Cognitive Neuroscience (v1.0) has just gone live! Our goal is to help mend the gap between the computational skills needed by cognitive neuroscience, and typical curricula that don't yet include it. 1/3

Kicking off the II @cimcyc.bsky.social workshop on computational modeling, with @cogsenoussi.bsky.social talking about DDMs!

#JNeurosci: Using EEG, @paulapena.bsky.social @palencianoap.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social examined how the brain encodes and organizes task-relevant information during novel recombination settings. @cimcyc.bsky.social vist.ly/3n68yqw

What makes an image ambiguous? Why are we sometimes able to solve such ambiguity? Very happy to share the results of a wild ride where we try to answer these questions! Together with the great @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @jvoeller.bsky.social @martinhebart.bsky.social !

🧠 Looking to advance your career in neuroscience? 👉 Train at the CIMCYC, one of Europe’s top brain research centers. 📢 Applications now open for the Master’s Degree in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the @universidadgranada.bsky.social 1-year official program - 60 ECTS

🧠En el seminario hoy la investigadora Ana Paqui @cimcyc.bsky.social nos ha presentado una charla muy interesante sobre #neurosexismo a través de la revisión de trabajos científicos publicados a lo largo de los años, lo que ha dado pie a una enriquecedor debate. ¡Muchas gracias por venir! 👏

"En el fondo se enfrentan dos visiones de universidad: una más tradicional, centrada en controlar la contratación basándose en la docencia, y otra que apuesta por reforzar también la investigación"

I have seen folks waste so much time by not properly planning research. Missed literature, missing controls, ignored hypotheses, etc. Lack of planning also produces bad science (e.g. analysis until significant). So I am writing an app. Looking for feedback. scientific-paper-planner-test.vercel.app

Better Code, Better Science - Introducing a new open-source book project on scientific coding using AI tools russpoldrack.substack.com/p/better-cod...

🧠🧪 Interested in perception, metacognition, aging or all three? Don't miss the MAPS conference at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social this September! 📅 Abstract submission open until May 23 event.unitn.it/maps2025/

New paper out! 🎉 “Evolving Engrams Demand Changes in Effective Cues” (Hippocampus). In this opinion piece, we discuss how retrieval processes can be enhanced and offer an alternative to one of the field’s few enduring principles: encoding specificity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Check out the super cool project pulled off by the great @paulapena.bsky.social !!

Great opportunity for a PhD position on a super cool project with a super cool team!

Looking forward to this!

📚 ¡Nuevo taller!  Taller de Modelado Computacional del Comportamiento Los días 9 y 10 de junio de 2025 @cimcyc.bsky.social   en Granada. Organizado junto a  @sepex.bsky.social  Impartido por @cogsenoussi.bsky.social  , Francesco Pupillo y Juan Eloy Arco. Info:

Proud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience" www.nature.com/articles/s44... This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs. #psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence

Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn. And it's live RIGHT NOW! psych-ds.github.io (This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)

We are pleased to announce our next Time-resolved Neuroimaging (EEG+) #CIMCYCsession which will be held by Paula Pena. She will present the results of her work www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... No prior experience in EEG is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to discuss ideas. Save the date!

Pedir comida a domicilio durante un temporal. El hombre es un Glovo para el hombre.

Big congratulations to the amazing @jvoeller.bsky.social! @lindedomingo.bsky.social and I are proud and grateful to be part of her PhD journey🎉 (And thanks to the @cimcyc.bsky.social for supporting us in attracting such talented students!)

📢The Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center CIMCYC will hire full-time predoctoral researchers to conduct a PhD co-supervised by a CIMCYC member and a researcher of an international university. 📍Research lines: Clinical Neuropsychology, Development, Individual Differences or Social Inequalities.

Ellos lo clavaron en un titular, pero yo he necesitado un largo texto para explicar qué ha pasado en Silicon Valley para cambiar de forma tan radical en unas décadas y cómo cuando una filosofía ultraindividualista y randiana se convierte en norma global se alimenta a líderes fuertes y populistas

Does this memo apply to itself?

An image-computable model of speeded decision-making - our latest in @elife.bsky.social combining a CNN with a response time model. TL/DR: Training to reproduce human RTs results in different kinds of representations versus purely task-optimized training.

New from my lab: "Priors for natural image statistics inform confidence in perceptual decisions" We used a natural image statistics approach to investigate the computations underlying perceptual confidence. 🧵 Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Really excited about this paper out today in @natureneuro.bsky.social If you are interested in how to characterise the role of the DMN in human cognition you really should check it out. a 🧵

👋 Welcome to our Bluesky profile! We are an international hub for psychological and neuroscience #research at @universidadgranada.bsky.social 🤔 If you want to know more about our history, resources and research groups, please visit our website: cimcyc.ugr.es/en #Psychology

Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

How much longer will our universities keep using a social media platform owned by someone doing a Nazi salute? Seriously.

Razed to dust, this is what Israel's apocalyptic erasure of Northern Gaza looks like. Palestinians are "returning" to nuclear-scale desolation.

the "esc" key on a keyboard is a holdover from early-'90s personal computers. on some models it would dispense a can of escargot out of one of the unused drive bays. they put it in the corner so you wouldn't press it by accident because you only got three of them. i pushed it once and got grounded