Can reward improve memory for what came before it? 🌟 In a registered report with @duncanlabuoft.bsky.social & @megschlichting.bsky.social, we reconcile mixed findings from past studies: reward retroactively boosts associative—but not item—memory, and only in reward-sensitive individuals!

Did you know that imagining a positive encounter with someone can make you like them more? New research led by CU Boulder and @mpicbs.bsky.social found that the brain responds to imagined events in similar ways to real experiences. Explore the findings ↓ https://bit.ly/3Y8WyGQ

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

Your #brain on imagination: Study reveals how the mind’s eye helps us learn and change - @rolandbenoit.bsky.social from @colorado.edu and Aroma Dabas from MPI CBS show that merely imagining a positive encounter with someone can make you like them better: tinyurl.com/bde6ttwk

Und hier sind sie – die 10 Preisträger*innen des Gottfried Wilhelm #LeibnizPreis' 2026 – ausgezeichnet für ihre exzellenten Forschungsarbeiten und Errungenschaften in der Wissenschaft! 🏆👏 Die Verleihung der Preise feiern wir am 18. März in Berlin. Einzelheiten & Kurzprofile: sohub.io/1uv1

When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵

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...

Our new paper, now published in @natcomms.nature.com , asks a simple question: when two tasks share a common structure, does the brain learn them more efficiently? Surprisingly, this was not the case. Thread below (1/7) rdcu.be/eSwvU

Full professorship in general psychology open @tudresden.bsky.social We are a lively department with a fantastically equipped neuroimaing center. DM me with questions. @dgps.bsky.social @dgps-fgal.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12517

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...

Coming up at #psynom25 - @alexbarone987.bsky.social presenting our recent attempt at Boosting the impact of episodic simulations on decisions via spatial scaffolding. @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social w/ @heidrunschultz.bsky.social, pictured with awesome undergraduate RAs Lauren and Max.

(1/4) 🧠 Did you know that kids remember time differently than adults? Our new preprint review w/ @drjeni-mdlab.bsky.social discusses the real implications for juvenile justice & why we need to ask about timing in ways that match kids' developing brains ⚖️ Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Congrats @stevengeysen.bsky.social on this thorough work on the (lack of) effects of ghrelin on risky decision-making! So happy I could be a part of it! See Steven's post for a summary. Link to the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

New fMRI study shows the hippocampus signals mismatches only when our expectations are based on episodic memories — not general knowledge. Challenges theories of the hippocampus as a domain-general comparator. We also explore how brain networks respond to surprise: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Quantifying memory recall is hard! Luckily, natural language processing (incl. #LLMs) offers new, automated, and scalable ways to do that! Great new review by Fenerci & @signysheldon.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory! We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵1/9

@tnm-lab.bsky.social Kausalitätswahrnehmung, Erwartungen & fMRT begeistern dich? Bewirb dich auf die Promotionsstelle (3 Jahre, 75%) in Marburg (www.theadaptivemind.de) bis zum 17.08.: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/1... #Job #Promotion #fMRI #Psychologie

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS973/h... We're recruiting for a new Head of School for Psychology @unibirmingham.bsky.social - please do get in touch if of interest.

🧠 Paper out! We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that: 🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries 🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories! rdcu.be/eui9l

Are you a specialist in the physics behind MRI and want to work at THINK @ruhr-uni-bochum.de? Apply: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4... Thanks for sharing with potential candidates!🧠🙏

Interested in whether sleep and (a)periodic EEG activity increase the probability to have an insight? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Thanks to @anikaloewe.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social & Maria Tzegka for a great teamwork. I really enjoyed it!

That "Aha!" moment... Can sleep facilitate memory reorganization? @nicoschuck.bsky.social @anikaloewe.bsky.social @maritpetzka.bsky.social &co reveal that N2 #sleep (but not N1) increases likelihood of having an 'aha' moment about a previous #DecisionMaking task @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k8F2v3

🎉 Excited to share our new paper in #ImagingNeuroscience! 👇 direct.mit.edu/imag/article... We found that older adults show reduced sensitivity to uncertainty reduction during #decision-making. Grateful to amazing co-authors I. Bundil, @sschulreich.bsky.social & S.-C. Li. 🙌

What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Join us for a talk by the fantastic @noramraschle.bsky.social GROWING BRAINS - STUDYING THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF HUMAN BEHAVIORS ACROSS SPACE (BRAIN), TIME (DEVELOPMENT) AND GALAXIES (SOCIAL CONTEXTS) 1 July 2025, 1pm CEST @tudresden.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]

At #PuG2025? Into memory? We've got just the symposium for you. "The emergence and transformation of memory representations in the human brain". Co-chaired with @rolandbenoit.bsky.social and featuring @denizkumral.bsky.social, Anne Bierbrauer, and @mgarvert.bsky.social. Today, 2:30pm in 0.004 Z6.

How does our brain learn that thunder follows lightning? We don't just remember two separate events; we build a predictive model to anticipate the world. My research dives into this very question: how we learn and predict the order of events. 🧵👇 1/9 #neuroscience #memory #sleep

I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Outstanding success: 🎉 #TUDresden shines with 5 Clusters of Excellence. @dfg.de & @wissenschaftsrat.de announced that decision today. TUD has impressively proven its claim to be a top university for the 21st century. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

So excited to share my *first* first-author paper, out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social!! In this review, we argue that even if you don’t remember being a baby, evidence that infants form episodic-like memories is actually all around us: authors.elsevier.com/c/1l82g4sIRv...

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. 🧠🟦

Paper alert! @davidberron.bsky.social and team tackled: What are the recent advances in remote and unsupervised digital cognitive assessment of preclinical AD? The review covers 28 studies and 23 tools, offering a clear overview of recent advances and challenges. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in @pnas.org w/ @falklab.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation. rdcu.be/el18q A short thread follows for those interested. 1/n

⚠️Permanent position (E13) as lab manager (psychophysiology, experimental behavioral neuroscience) at University of Bielefeld. Earliest starting date is in July but later is absolutely possible. Please share widely uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/427...

Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com, we show how cognitive maps in the hippocampal system could solve the general problem of representing and relating multiple alternative action plans.  doi.org/10.1038/s414... With @doellerlab.bsky.social, Patrick Haggard, @vigano.bsky.social, Daniel Reznik

🧠 Can a short period of awake, quiet rest help you generalize better? In our new study, we tested this with a learning paradigm comparing offline vs online wake period. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our latest preprint! "It’s about time: Specific and unspecific effects of episodic future thinking on farsighted decisions" with @rolandbenoit.bsky.social - osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/9

🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences. We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

Check out our latest preprint! "It’s about time: Specific and unspecific effects of episodic future thinking on farsighted decisions" with @rolandbenoit.bsky.social - osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/9

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

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 L. Pogrzeba and colleagues have recorded human motion variations across age groups. The open dataset, CeTI-Age-Kinematics, includes 1,563 motion samples from 32 participants (19–28 & 66–75 y/o) across 9 motion categories with 200+ variables. Article, data & code: rdcu.be/efCCm

Join us at the new chair of Biopsychology at @tudresden.bsky.social! Fully funded university positions, broad topics in cognitive neuroscience, plus you get to work with the fabulous adaptive memory and cognition group (link below) 
www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste... (tinyurl.com/y6tjbptj)

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Xiaoli Chen, Ziwei Wei, and Thomas Wolbers: Representational similarity analysis reveals cue-independent spatial representations for landmarks and self-motion cues in human retrosplenial cortex doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Postdoc job alert! We have an opening in our growing group. The research will focus on neuroimaging of memory and goal-directed decision-making, with decoding of representations with MEG (+ RL, mood, and computational psychiatry) @ UCL @ FIL @ Max Planck UCL Centre

🚨🚨New SPM version alert! 🚨🚨 Introducing SPM 25.01, plus a more modern, open ethos to its development. Some more information about whats changes can be found here - arxiv.org/abs/2501.12081 Stable release - www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/ GitHub developer version - github.com/spm/spm

New work from the lab now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: A neurocomputational account of multi-line electronic gambling machines www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly. www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

#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