Elkan Akyurek
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Cognitive neuroscience. Professor, University of Groningen
@rug.nl
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Şahcan Özdemir
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Our latest paper is no longer behind a paywall! We show that visual bias in working memory toward interference can be moderated by motor control 🧠. Check it out!
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Motor Control Processes Moderate Visual Working Memory Gating
Gating processes that regulate sensory input into visual working memory (WM) and the execution of planned actions share neural mechanisms, suggesting a mutual interaction. In a preregistered study (Op...
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/45/47/e0673252025
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Olaf Dimigen
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Our detailed tests of high-speed OLED monitors for vision, eye-tracking, and EEG research are finally out in 𝐵𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑀𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑠. So why did it take 1.5 years to publish this? Because we discovered a new property of OLEDs that vision researchers should be aware of... [1]
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Ryszard Auksztulewicz
8 days ago
ANOTHER assistant professorship available in my department. Focus on contemporary neuroimaging applications to neuropsychology and psychopharmacology.
#NeuroJobs
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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Assistant Professor Neuroimaging
Assistant Professor Neuroimaging
https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Assistant-Professor-Neuroimaging/1361968457/
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Nick Myers
9 days ago
New paper with
@paulm-k.bsky.social
and Mark Stokes on how we switch internal attention between working memory contents. Beta-band oscillations tracked the magnitude and success of these switches.
www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1...
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Human Beta Oscillations Reflect Magnitude and Fidelity of Priority Shifts in Working Memory
Flexible prioritization in working memory (WM) is supported by neural oscillations in frontal and sensory brain areas, but the roles of different oscillations remain poorly understood. Recordings in h...
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/46/11/e1548252026/
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Berna Güler
10 days ago
Happy to share that I will give a colloquium talk at the Heymans Institute for Psychological Research, University of Groningen, on June 2 I will present my work on how experiences are segmented into meaningful events, and how contextual stability and working memory contribute to this process ✨
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Alex J. Hoogerbrugge
15 days ago
Investigations into whether we can search for multiple targets in a simultaneous fashion have led to mixed findings. In this new PsychScience article, we report that people CAN search concurrently, but don't always DO so... 🧵
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Rosanne Rademaker
15 days ago
To conclude: It’s looking like feedback is a plausible mechanism to invoke latent states in EVC, and is necessary to maintain flexible and distractor resistant visual thoughts. As usual, there’s much more cool stuff in the preprint, so check it out! 11/11
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.27.690959v1
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Eren Günseli
about 1 month ago
Excited to share our new paper on how distraction affects memory retrieval. Using a continuous report paradigm, we show that distraction reduces whether memories are accessed but not how precisely they are represented.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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New preprint! Imagine you’re locked in a lab, doing a working memory task, in which two items are presented and successively tested each trial. If you knew in advance which item would be tested first, would you encode it differently, with priority? 1/3 Our answer:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.04.722761v1
23 days ago
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David_Pascucci
28 days ago
Read our latest
#perspective
on spatiotemporal routines in perception and cognition, published in
@natrevpsychol.nature.com
👉
rdcu.be/fgYWU
, with Árni Kristjánsson
@icevislab.bsky.social
, thanks to
@snsf.ch
@thesensech.bsky.social
@fbm-unil.bsky.social
@epfl-brainmind.bsky.social
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Spatiotemporal routines in visual perception
Nature Reviews Psychology - Perception unfolds within richly structured spatiotemporal environments but is often studied in simplified contexts. In this Perspective, Pascucci and Kristjánsson...
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Brad Postle
about 1 month ago
Effects of TMS on the Decoding and Electrophysiology of Priority in Working Memory
www.eneuro.org/content/13/4...
More evidence for a (not-inhibitory) role for oscillatory dynamics in the low beta band in the encoding of priority in WM
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Effects of TMS on the Decoding and Electrophysiology of Priority in Working Memory
The flexible control of working memory (WM) requires prioritizing immediately task-relevant information while maintaining information with potential future relevance in a deprioritized state. Using do...
https://www.eneuro.org/content/13/4/ENEURO.0346-25.2026
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Veera Ruuskanen
about 1 month ago
How robust is the large-pupil advantage in visual detection? Turns out, very! Here we show with
@cogsci.nl
that the effect persists for different stimulus colors, eccentricities, and retinal adaptation-states ✨👀 Check it out in JEP:HPP:
doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...
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Nika Adamian
about 1 month ago
Tenure-track position in Denmark "with a particular focus on visual perception, including visual attention, working memory, and visual neuroscience"
#neurojobs
#neuroskyence
#visionscience
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology
The Department of Psychology at the University of Southern Denmark invites applications for a full-time position as tenure-track Assistant Professor. The position is a six-year tenure-track appointmen...
https://fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/da/sites/CX_1001/job/3818
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Sebastiaan Mathôt
about 2 months ago
❤️🔥 Exciting new preprint ❤️🔥
#Pupil
constriction causes, by itself and independently of visual stimulation, activity in the human
#retina
and
#visual
system. w/
@anavili.bsky.social
@veerahelmisofia.bsky.social
@hakankarsilar.bsky.social
@olaf.dimigen.de
1/4 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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PLOS Biology
about 2 months ago
How do experiences reshape our internal representations of the world?
@bstaresina.bsky.social
&co show that learning sequential experiences reshapes how the
#brain
represents what we see; a post-learning nap strengthens these predictive changes
@plosbiology.org
🧪
plos.io/4dJGwMC
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Yuanyuan did a great job on this one! If you're interested in working memory & EEG, stay tuned for a couple more projects from her, coming out soon.
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Ingmar de Vries
2 months ago
JOB ALERT: PhD opening in my lab!
@cimecunitrento.bsky.social
in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. The project will use advanced analysis methods of MEG data to investigate how our world's naturalistic hierarchical structure facilitates predictive neural processing.
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Zurich Cognition Lab
2 months ago
We have a new PhD position at the University of Zurich to work on visual working memory. For more info see here:
www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec...
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Open Positions
https://www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec/allgpsy/Jobs.html
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Faculteit GMW - University of Groningen
2 months ago
🎓 𝐁𝐒𝐒 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 - We are proud to announce the upcoming promotion at BSS! 👇🏻 Sophia Wilhelm - Working memory undercover: Searching for traces of synaptic states in neuronal activity across wake and sleep 👉 Read more:
edu.nl/xwf39
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Pascal Mamassian
3 months ago
A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels:
www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a...
Deadline: May 4th, 2026
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Open Rank Faculty Cluster Hire Search for the New Department of Cognitive Science at Bocconi - Bocconi University
https://www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-and-research/faculty/faculty-recruiting/open-rank-faculty-cluster-hire-search-new-department-cognitive-science-bocconi
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Aidan Horner
3 months ago
Exciting news! The
@yorkpsychology.bsky.social
are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience.
#neuroskyence
#cognition
#psychscisky
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Jobs - The University of York
https://jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lecturer-in-psychology-605280.html
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We have a new preprint out, in which
@zehan-camilla.bsky.social
, me, and Mark Nieuwenstein studied retrieval in episodic memory! Full read here:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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OSF
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ruxmb_v1
3 months ago
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Nursena Ataseven
3 months ago
I am happy to be attending
#CNS2026
with the Yale Wu Tsai Institute travel award to present this paper👇🏻 as a poster - it’ll be on Monday from 2:30-4:30pm (session E), come check it out!
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Şahcan Özdemir
3 months ago
I am glad to attend
#CNS2026
in beautiful Vancouver🇨🇦! I will present my work on action planning in visual working memory. In this project, we focus on the factors leading motor planning such as selective attention, affordances and task requirements. Meet me at the Poster Session B (B38)!
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Working Memory, Cognition, & Development Lab
3 months ago
We are looking for a new colleague!🧠🇨🇭🦩 A new post doc position is available in our lab - check the link for more details!
www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...
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Job Opening
Annonce d'ouverture de poste
https://www.unige.ch/fapse/womcogdev/https-www-unige-ch-fapse-womcogdev-accueil/equipe/recrutement/recrutement
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Some cool work by the indomitable
@nursenaataseven.bsky.social
Check it out👇
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Miles Wischnewski
3 months ago
Are you interested in psychological experiments, but feel a little unsure about programming. Try OpenSesame. Not only has it a user-friendly GUI, it is also connected to SigmundAI, an AI assistant that can basically make the experiment for you! Super cool stuff by @cogsci.nl
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Melinda Sabo
4 months ago
🚨 Job alert🚨 My former lab in Germany led by Daniel Schneider is recruiting a postdoc. Daniel’s research sits at the intersection of memory and attention, and the ideal candidate will have expertise in EEG and/or fMRI. 👉Job ad in English:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/br2vg...
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Sophia Wilhelm
4 months ago
🎉 My first first-author paper was just accepted in JEP:HPP! We asked what “active” vs “passive” WM states do - do they protect against interference? Across 4 behavioural experiments we find no reliable protection. Updated preprint here:
doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.05.578913
@elkanakyurek.bsky.social
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Feature and space-based interference with functionally active and passive items in working memory
Functionally active and passive states in working memory have been related to different neural mechanisms. Memoranda in active states might be maintained by persistent neural firing, whereas memoranda in passive states might be maintained through short-term synaptic plasticity. We reasoned that this might make these items differentially susceptible to interference during maintenance, in particular that passively maintained items might be more robust. To test this hypothesis, we gave our participants a working memory task in which one item was prioritised (active) by always probing it first, while the other item was deprioritised (passive) by always probing it second. In two experiments, on half the trials, we presented an interfering task during memory maintenance, in which the stimuli matched either the feature dimension of the memory items (colour or orientation), or their spatial location. Whether the interfering task appeared on a given trial was unpredictable. In a third experiment where participants were given prior knowledge of the interference condition, and finally in a fourth experiment we used a reward-based prioritisation cue. Across experiments, we found that both active and passive memory items were affected by interference to a similar extent, with overall performance being closely matched in all experiments. We further investigated precision and probability of target response parameters from the standard mixture model, which also showed no differences between states. We conclude that active and passive items, although potentially stored in different neuronal states, do not show differential susceptibility to interference. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.05.578913
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Alon Zivony
4 months ago
Have you ever wanted to study individual differences in attention only to be frustrated by prohibitive low reliability? If so, what a coincidence! Let me introduce you to the first study from the newly formed Sheffield PandA lab: Using RSVPs to measure the speed of attention:
rdcu.be/e0t0A
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Eren Günseli
5 months ago
New preprint on how working memory (WM) supports event segmentation. Using load-sensitive EEG markers, we test whether WM accumulates information within events or instead reactivates prior event information at boundaries.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Eren Günseli
6 months ago
Our new preprint is out! Using a continuous-report paradigm, we show that divided attention reliably disrupts long-term memory retrieval by reducing accessibility—not precision. Two experiments + mixture modeling + TCC. Link:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/rf42w_v2
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WOinActie.bsky.social
7 months ago
9 december! Zegt het voort!
ukrant.nl/hoger-onderw...
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Hoger onderwijs hoopt met nieuwe staking druk te leggen op de formatie
Het hoger onderwijs staakt op 9 december opnieuw tegen de bezuinigingen. Onder andere WOinActie, studentenvakbonden, FNV en de Algemene Onderwijsbond (AOb) hopen zo druk te leggen op de formatie.
https://ukrant.nl/hoger-onderwijs-hoopt-met-nieuwe-staking-druk-te-leggen-op-de-formatie/
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Eelke Spaak
7 months ago
🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab:
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
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Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/postdoc-position-neural-circuitry-underlying-working-memory
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New preprint! Working memory contents can be decoded from alpha band power. But does working memory maintenance really depend on these oscillations? We say no, because we found that alpha power decoding only works for prioritized items, not deprioritized ones. 1/3
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Sustained alpha oscillations serve attentional prioritization in working memory, not maintenance
Recent theory on the neural basis of working memory (WM) has attributed an important role to "activity-silent" mechanisms, suggesting that sustained neural activity might not be essential in the reten...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.16.682668v1
8 months ago
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Daniel Pacheco Estefan
8 months ago
Job alert!🚨 Join us
@uab.cat
to investigate human memory representations with intracranial recordings, eye-tracking, immersive VR and deep learning. This is a fully funded, four-year PhD position at the Prediction and Memory Lab. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
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Rosanne Rademaker
8 months ago
We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the
#Bernsteinconference
this week.
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Gregor Thut
8 months ago
Open postdoc position👈 We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).
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Sebastiaan Mathôt
9 months ago
Komende maandag (22 sep) geven
@irisgroen.bsky.social
,
@theodanes.bsky.social
, Jackie Higgins, Yaïr Pinto en ik een lezing bij
@sggroningen.bsky.social
. Een spannende avond vol mooie verhalen en wetenschap! 🌿🦇🤖🌍 Kom ook!
@rug-gmw.bsky.social
#groningen
#wetenschap
👇
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Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition
9 months ago
Registration for the 20th NVP Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition Winter Conference is open! ✅ You can register and submit your abstract here:
www.conftool.pro/nvp2025/
. 📅 Early bird registration until Oct 1. ✨For more information:
www.societyforbrainandcognition.nl/conference-nvp
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Conference – Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition
https://www.societyforbrainandcognition.nl/conference-nvp
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Miles Wischnewski
9 months ago
🚨WHOHOO!! I am happy to share that I received the
#ERCStG
for my project PRECHRON: The Prefrontal Chronometer for Organizing Working Memory. I am going to study
#neuraloscillations
during
#workingmemory
at the
@rug.nl
@rug-gmw.bsky.social
#brainstimulation
#TMS
#EEG
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Evie Vergauwe
11 months ago
Postdoc position open in our
#workingmemory
lab! See here for more info:
www.unige.ch/fapse/womcog...
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Jelmer Borst and I are looking for a PhD candidate to build an EEG-based model of human working memory! This is a really cool project that I've wanted to kick off for a while, and I can't wait to see it happen. Please share and I'm happy to answer any Qs about the project!
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
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Vacatures bij de RUG
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000BEAP&cat=wp
11 months ago
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Marieke van Vugt
11 months ago
Totally agree: What we stand to lose when foreign students are seen as a threat (although I am biased, because I was one of those...)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What we stand to lose when foreign students are seen as a threat
International students enrich university communities and strengthen civic life. We must defend their place in global education.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02032-9
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Rosanne Rademaker
11 months ago
Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details:
www.rademakerlab.com/job-add
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PhD position — Rademaker lab
https://www.rademakerlab.com/job-add
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I certainly had a blast! Thanks David, Maelan, and Michael for organizing this great workshop!
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Floris de Lange
about 1 year ago
🚨PhD position alert!🚨 Joint PhD position with
@fedemar.bsky.social
@predictivebrain.bsky.social
and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!
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PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-PhD-position-in-biological-foundations-of-neural-control/821898502/
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Dock H Duncan
about 1 year ago
Check out our new paper in j.neuroscience using ssvep’s in eeg to track early attentional capture by distracting stimuli!!
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David_Pascucci
about 1 year ago
Looking forward to this one...Join us for a workshop on feedback in perception & neural processing — with top international speakers. Hosted by
@fbm-unil.bsky.social
&
@icepfl.bsky.social
🎓 LNDS & EDNE PhDs: credits via poster Register:
tinyurl.com/3snapbcp
@snf-fns.ch
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David_Pascucci
about 1 year ago
Happy to share a funded PhD opportunity in our collaborative project with Árni Kristjánsson
@icevislab.bsky.social
& and David Whitney (UC Berkeley). Applications are now open, feel free to reach out.
@fbm-unil.bsky.social
#PhD
#perception
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