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We study the neural basis of human social interaction. 🔗
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Emily Finn
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Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in
@pnas.org
! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information!
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Kate Nautiyal
8 days ago
Please spread the word about a postbac position in Behavioral Neuroscience at Dartmouth with me, Shelley Warlow, and Kyle smith. The postbac will contribute to collaborative projects across the three labs aimed at studying the neuroscience of motivation and reward learning.
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Dan Quintana
8 days ago
Nice to wake up to the news that our paper on the ESDist R package for calculating effect size distributions has been accepted for publication 🎉 Since our initial 2023 (!?) preprint we’ve made lots of improvements to the package based on feedback
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Dr Samuel Finnerty
30 days ago
How do scientists balance science with protest? My new piece for
@theconversation.com
, explores how scientists transition into activism and sustain their engagement. This is based on my recently published ethnographic paper
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
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How climate scientists balance the tension between research and public protest – new study
Researchers said they tried to manage how their activism was perceived by clarifying their expertise and acting alongside other scientists.
https://theconversation.com/how-climate-scientists-balance-the-tension-between-research-and-public-protest-new-study-274916
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BPS Environmental Psychology Section
29 days ago
Job opportunity!
@cast-centre.bsky.social
are seeking a Research Fellow to lead a programme of quantitative behavioural research to advance understanding of climate-relevant behaviour change and life choices. 48 month fixed-term full-time see:
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
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ED13421 Research Fellow - Jobs at Bath
https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?id=28981&forced=1
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Yael
about 1 month ago
The Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive NeuroPsychiatry (
ccnp.princeton.edu
) is looking for a new clinical research coordinator! This is a long-term (at least 2 years, more is preferred) position for someone with a BA or MA who is interested in... /1
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Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
Visit the post for more.
http://ccnp.princeton.edu
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Universität Bern
about 2 months ago
Menschliches Verhalten treibt den
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voran – doch wie kommen umweltrelevante Entscheidungen zustande? Daria Knoch & Annika Wyss zeigen in
@natrevneuro.nature.com
, warum der Blick ins Gehirn den Klimaschutz wirksamer machen könnte. Mehr in uniAKTUELL:
www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2026/mit_bli...
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Universität Bern
about 2 months ago
Knoch, D., Wyss, A.M. Environmental decision neuroscience connects the brain to climate action. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. (2026).
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Environmental decision neuroscience connects the brain to climate action - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Climate change is driven by individual behaviour, yet little is known about how people make environmental choices. Environmental decision neuroscience examines the neural processes behind consequentia...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-026-01026-4
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Krajbich Lab
about 2 months ago
Excited to be participating in the workshop on Decision Making and Information Processing in Complex Settings in Lucca (Italy) April 27-28. There's a great lineup, with Giorgio Coricelli, Susann Fiedler, Andreas Glöckner, and Carlos Alós-Ferrer. Join us!
decisionmaking.imtlucca.it
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Decision Making and Information Processing in Complex Settings
This two-day workshop brings together leading scholars working on decision-making in interactive and complex environments, with a focus on theoretical, experimental, and methodological approaches. To...
https://decisionmaking.imtlucca.it/
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Kristian Roed Nielsen
about 2 months ago
📢 Postdoc opportunity | Consumer Behaviour & Sustainability (CBS) 🔬 The role Experimental consumer research Focus on sustainable food consumption, policy, & food environments 📅 Start: April 2026 (flexible) ⏳ Duration: 29 months (extendable) 🗓 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026 Feel free to share with anyone 🌱
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Postdoc in Consumer Behaviour and Sustainability at the Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC)
MSC is looking for a Postdoc interested in experimental consumer research to join an international project on sustainable food consumption.
https://www.cbs.dk/om-cbs/job-og-karriere/ledige-stillinger/postdoc-consumer-behaviour-and-sustainability-department
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Nature Human Behaviour
about 2 months ago
In this Comment, Yao et al. proposes an age-sensitive climate adaptation framework that emphasizes non-digital communication, financial assistance, and community-based strategies to support them.
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Climate change adaptation must consider older people - Nature Human Behaviour
Older adults face higher risks from climate change. We propose an age-sensitive climate adaptation framework, which emphasizes non-digital communication, financial assistance and community-based strategies for older populations.
http://dlvr.it/TQdcQJ
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
about 2 months ago
Altered theta distribution and coherence during set-shifting in older age
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.701912v1
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Honoured to see our Comment on environmental decision neuroscience shared by
@natrevneuro.nature.com
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✨We are thrilled to see our Comment on “Environmental Decision Neuroscience” published in
@natrevneuro.nature.com
🌱🧠 Check it out ➡️ 📄
rdcu.be/e0oLM
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Environmental decision neuroscience connects the brain to climate action
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Climate change is driven by individual behaviour, yet little is known about how people make environmental choices. Environmental decision neuroscience examines the...
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Alexander Wuttke
3 months ago
🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS 📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026 We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
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Tobia Spampatti, PhD
3 months ago
Very cool work alert! It’s concerning that the most influential comms strategies did not nudge proenv beh, when we have found climate disinfo *decreases* proenv beh, even against some of the “successful” comms strategies
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We still have room & need for improvement!
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about 1 year ago
Can nature relieve pain 🌳🧠⚡️? Our latest preregistered neuroimaging study, now out in Nature Communications, suggests it can. We find that virtual nature exposure reduces both subjective and neural pain responses, even when compared to matched control environments. A 🧵 1/6
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Nature exposure induces analgesic effects by acting on nociception-related neural processing - Nature Communications
Virtual nature exposure reduces self-reported pain and is associated with decreased brain responses linked to somatosensory and nociceptive processing, providing new insights into the underlying mecha...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56870-2
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen
3 months ago
What better way to end 2025 than getting our paper published in Global Environmental Change 🥳💚 We studied perceptions of the feasibility of climate-relevant behavior change and how these perceptions connect to income differences and climate policy support. Let me tell you all about it🧵👇
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Springer Nature
3 months ago
Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, important and downright strange discoveries about how the human brain, one of the most complex objects in the known universe, works, and 2025 didn’t disappoint. Here are 10 of the most fascinating brain discoveries of this year:
#Neuroscience
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The 10 Most Mind-Blowing Discoveries About the Brain in 2025
From glowing neurons to newborn memories, here are the most fascinating brain discoveries of 2025
http://spklr.io/63327BxZgc
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Peter Kirsch
3 months ago
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming “Psychology and the Brain” conference, which will take place in Heidelberg from June 3 to 6, 2026. Conference registration and submission of contributions are now open. Visit us at
pug2026.org
#pug2026
#biopsychology
#psychophysioloy
#neuroscience
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🚨New paper out! We show that Deep sleep in the TPJ is linked to implicit racial bias! 💤 ➡ Our results suggest that local aspects of sleep may account for inter-individual differences in social cognition. 🧠 To the paper 👉🏼
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dr. Sara B. Chadwick
3 months ago
We are hiring an Associate Prof in Social Psychology at UW-Madison! All areas of specialization are open. It’s a quick turnaround time for apps (due Jan 9th) but we are excited to add someone to our area!! Please apply and spread the word!
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/associa...
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Associate Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
https://jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/associate-professor-madison-wisconsin-united-states-0af0d7ce-1e07-4da7-8814-06cb5ed1f933
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Daniel Swain
4 months ago
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
4 months ago
A comparison of data from 64,000 individuals in 64 countries with their self-reports of well-being suggests LLMs cannot provide valid predictions for subjective well-being, in part due to biases rooted in global digital and economic inequality. In PNAS:
https://ow.ly/yHIt50XC4z3
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Max N. Burger
4 months ago
Do climate disasters change us? New research with Hoenow & Karki (RWI Essen) examines Germany's devastating 2021 Ahrtal flood. We'd expect a disaster in your backyard to spark urgent climate action—but does it actually? Our findings: it's complicated. 🧵 Paper (OA):
doi.org/10.1007/s105...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
4 months ago
Ventromedial striatal dopamine dynamically integrates motivated action and reward proximity
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.691784v1
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Thomas Hinault
4 months ago
A multilayer of time Kenza Bennis investigated daily reconfigurations of EEG functional networks in older adults and highlighted their associations with the presence of AD biomarkers, and longitudinal cognitive trajectories over seven years! A great collaborative work !
doi.org/10.1007/s113...
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Diurnal dynamics of multilayer brain networks predict cognitive trajectories in aging - GeroScience
Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) is a highly dynamic process that varies across different times of the day within each individual. Although this variability was long considered to be noise...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-025-01974-2
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Matthew Apps
4 months ago
*PhD funding through the
@mrcaimdtp.bsky.social
* interested in doing a PhD aimed at understanding the brain mechanisms underlying how sleep impacts on motivation in health and Parkinsons Disease? Want to learn computational modelling & brain imaging? Get in touch.
more.bham.ac.uk/mrc-aim/phd-...
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PhD Opportunities – MRC AIM
https://more.bham.ac.uk/mrc-aim/phd-opportunities/
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BPS Environmental Psychology Section
4 months ago
**JOB OPENING: Assistant Professor in Social Psychology / Environmental Psychology** Deadline: 25 January Details here:
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
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Assistant Professor in Social Psychology/ Environmental Psychology
Assistant Professor in Social Psychology/ Environmental Psychology, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></...
https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/6323/0/460000/15539/assistant-professor-in-social-psychology-environmental-psychology
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Dr Sarah Payne
4 months ago
Are you a PhD or MSc student interested in people's transactions with environments? Want to discuss your work with peers & 2 mentors? The ECR workshop
@iaps2026.bsky.social
is for you! Deadline 9th January. Be where many experts in the field once started out.
stories.surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026/#gr...
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IAPS Conference 2026
29 June - Friday 3 July 2026, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom. The theme of IAPS 2026 is Sustainability as Wellbeing: Towards healthy, green, and equitable communities.
https://stories.surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026/#group-section-Early-Career-Researchers-XfmxLry438
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Nature Human Behaviour
4 months ago
In this study, Piray shows a problem of low statistical power in many studies that use Bayesian model selection with computational modelling in psychology and neuroscience.
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Addressing low statistical power in computational modelling studies in psychology and neuroscience - Nature Human Behaviour
Piray shows a problem of low statistical power in many studies that use Bayesian model selection in the context of computational modelling in psychology and human neuroscience.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02348-6?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nathumbehav
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
4 months ago
Posterior Cortex Isolation Enhances Detection of Alpha Desynchronization During Sustained Attention
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688558v1
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
4 months ago
Selective engagement of the primate orbitofrontal cortex during value-based but not perceptual decisions
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688922v1
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Center for Environmental Neuroscience
4 months ago
The rise and future of environmental neuroscience in environmental psychology 🌎 Online 📅 18.11. 3pm CET Lindsay McCunn
@viuniversity.bsky.social
Both disciplines seek to understand the human condition. How can the connection be strengthened? ➡️ Join us online!
shorturl.at/AbkjX
#Neuroskyence
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CEN Colloquium: Lindsay McCunn, The rise and future of environmental neuroscience in environmental psychology
https://shorturl.at/AbkjX
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SfN Journals
5 months ago
New in
#JNeurosci
from Hynes et al: Ventral striatal cholinergic interneurons influence risky decision-making and motor impulsivity differently in male and female rats across learning in a gambling task.
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0764-25.2025
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Donner Lab
5 months ago
🚨New preprint on
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
: “Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence” by Alessandro Toso,
@ayeletarazi.bsky.social
,
@jrochav.bsky.social
,
@ktsetsos.bsky.social
& Tobias H. Donner 🔗
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence
Mounting evidence indicates that decisions emerge from a competition between populations of neurons encoding the different choice options. Theoretical models propose that the outcome of this competiti...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.684827v1
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
5 months ago
Intrinsic electrophysiological activity maps a latent dimension of poor sleep quality and reduced cognitive performance: a magnetoencephalography study using Cam-CAN data.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.01.686036v1
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Kate Wassum
5 months ago
We’re hiring a technician!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
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Matteo Lisi
5 months ago
We are hiring, come work with us! Please share widely 🙏 and do get in touch if you have questions about the Department Deadline: December 1st
#neurojob
#psychscisky
#neuroskyence
#VisionScience
#academicsky
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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
5 months ago
#Call
for Postdoc.Mobility. Expand your
#research
experience with a stay abroad. If you would like to find out more about this call, take part in our online information event on 17. November 2025. ➡️
sohub.io/51a4
🗓️Submission deadline: 3 February 2026
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Matthew Apps
5 months ago
Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the
@msnlab.bsky.social
in the
@thechbh.bsky.social
. Deadline 27/11. More info:
tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7
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The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/the-computational-and-neural-dynamics-of-human-motivation-and-cognitive-control/?p189023
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Shawn Rhoads
5 months ago
📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in
@natcomms.nature.com
Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly 🧵
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Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...
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SANS
5 months ago
How do our brains learn when choices affect both ourselves and others? New work by
@shawnrhoadsphd.com
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@aa-marsh.bsky.social
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@thepsychologist.bsky.social
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@drjocutler.bsky.social
, et al. in
@natcomms.nature.com
reveals shared neural computations for prosocial & antisocial learning
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
5 months ago
Sleep deprivation constrains dynamic configurations of integrated and segregated brain states impacting cognitive performance
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.21.683658v1
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CNS 2026 Annual Meeting
5 months ago
#CNS2026
Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop, Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Grand Ballroom CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more:
isrw.bio.uci.edu
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IIASA
5 months ago
🌍 Applications for
#YSSP2026
are open! Spend your summer at IIASA in Austria with researchers from around the world tackling global challenges. 🧠 For advanced PhD students 🗓️ 1 Jun–28 Aug 2026 ⏰ Apply by 12 Jan 2026 (midnight CET) Build your network. Advance your research:
iiasa.ac.at/capacity-dev...
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Brain and Sleep Research Laboratory
7 months ago
Enhancement of Sleep Slow Wave Activity using Transcranial Electrical Stimulation with Temporal Interference
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Enhancement of Sleep Slow Wave Activity using Transcranial Electrical Stimulation with Temporal Interference
Slow waves mediate restorative functions of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. To enhance slow wave activity (SWA, 0.5-4 Hz) non-invasively, we employed a novel neuromodulatory tool, Transcranial El...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.11.25333452v1
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Is confirmation bias a real cognitive flaw, or a statistical ghost created by our models? My new PNAS paper shows a startling result: fitting Q-learning models to behavior in bandit tasks detect a bias, even from the behavior of a perfectly rational Bayesian learner.
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David Poeppel
5 months ago
CogNeuroLanguage: new by
@lauragwilliams.bsky.social
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@jeanremiking.bsky.social
(w Alec Marantz & me) shows how the brain maintains-updates continuously unfolding lang hierarchy during comprehension, anchoring ling theories to biological implementation
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the human brain | PNAS
Speech comprehension involves transforming an acoustic waveform into meaning. To do so, the human brain generates a hierarchy of features that conv...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422097122
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
5 months ago
Map of spiking activity underlying change detection in the mouse visual system
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