How can neurocomputation help us understand gambling addiction? 🎲 Join us next Wednesday at lunch time for a #caiantalk by Prof. Jan Peters ( @peterslab.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social) on "Skewed mental models: a neurocomputational perspective on problem gambling."

Thanks to our research coordinator for coordinating our first symposium since inauguration.

On the train back to HH, having attended some really fascinating talks on naturalistic neuroscience in Bonn the last days! Many thanks for the great organisation & choice of speakers @bachlab.bsky.social @sabinekrabbe.bsky.social & @predictivebrain.bsky.social. Hope there'll be a next time🧠🥽 #NN2026

We are looking forward to hosting the #NN2026 symposium tomorrow and Friday @unibonn.bsky.social. Schedule and abstracts can now be downloaded from our conference website. If you are looking for directions, we also got you covered. 🗺️ www.nn2026.uni-bonn.de/en/directions

How does attention drive risky choices? 🎲👁️ Join us next Wednesday for a #caiantalk by Prof. Jan B. Engelmann (@uva.nl) on "Distinguishing individual & contextual channels of attention in risky decision-making."

📢Publication Alert: New Paper on Human Pavlovian Fear Conditioning! It has been speculated that psychophysiological responses to an outcome during learning could express prediction errors. ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #associativelearning #psychophysiology #PavlovianFearConditioning

⏰Reminder: Our next #caiantalk is taking place tomorrow!

⏰Don't forget to register for our NN2026 symposium! Registration closes Sunday night at midnight (CET). Hurry up and get one of the last tickets at the low price of 20 EUR. ➡️ eveeno.com/281015206 #naturalisticneuroscience #nn2026 #neuroscience

[1/2] Join us next week at caian @UniBonn for a hybrid guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gluth (University of Hamburg) on "Unraveling the neural and computational principles of information integration in complex decisions". #caiantalks #decisionmaking #neuroscience Details below ⬇️

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION! 🚨 We are extending the abstract submission deadline for #NN2026 to April 12, 2026! Information on how to submit your abstract: 🔗 nn2026.uni-bonn.de/en/abstracts #Neuroscience #BrainResearch #UniBonn #CognitiveScience

Our centre is not just hosting this event. We are also opening our lab doors to symposium participants.

Today at 10 a.m. local time, Dominik Bach will speak on "Critical intelligence and mechanisms of naturalistic adaptive behaviour in humans" in Vancouver. www.cogneurosociety.org/symposia/?sy...

We are hosting a symposium on naturalistic neuroscience this spring. Follow this page for updates. 👇

📡🧠New preprint: check out our purpose-built OPMEG-compatible VR goggles and their validation with several cognitive tasks. Towards naturalistic human neuroscience. Read more here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #naturalisticneuroscience #neuroimaging #opm #opmeg

[1/3] New paper on approach-avoidance conflict behaviour and psychiatric symptoms out in #TranslationalPsychiatry - with Juliana Sporrer & Filip Melinscak. OA article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #anxiety #preclinicalresearch #learning #memory #mentalhealth

How to conduct behavioral experiments ethically in VR? Learn more in our next #InVirtuo talk this Friday at 2 p.m., when Dr. Konstantinos Armaos (@bachlab.bsky.social) and Clemens Uhing (@iwe-bonn.bsky.social) from our consortium talk about this challenge and how they approach it in their research.

Next week: Hybrid talk by @martandreatta.bsky.social (University Hospital Tübingen) on “When context matters in shaping defensive responses.” 📅 Thu, Jan 28, 2026 | 13:00 📍 Computer Science @unibonn.bsky.social + online #aversivelearning #psychophysiology #VRresearch #context ⬇️ More details below

Dominik Bach is presenting at #CNS2026 in Vancouver! 🧠Looking forward to share the latest data and connect with the global neuro community! Who else is going to be in Vancouver March 7-10? Let's grab a coffee! ☕️ www.cogneurosociety.org/schedule-of-... #Neuroscience #AcademicChatter

New paper published! 🎉“A systematic review of pharmacological effects on human aversive memory” is now available in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, providing the first broad synthesis across 36 compounds, different memory stages, and 13 biological systems. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

OPMEG Research Is Coming to Bonn! 🎉 We are excited to announce that over the course of the next three years, Dominik Bach will install and establish an infrastructure for #OPMEG research at University of Bonn's medical campus.

Yesterday, we opened the doors to our labs and participated in @unibonn.bsky.social's #diesacademicus. We had a full house with over 30 visitors, as many interested people came to take a look around and try out one of our VR games.

Next guest in our lecture series #caiantalks is Charley Wu (@thecharleywu.bsky.social (@tuda.bsky.social ), who will speak on "Generalization Guides Exploration Across Development, Social Contexts, and Memory" on Thursday, Dec 11. 👉Visit our website for more information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en

Reminder: this event is taking place today. Join us at 1 p.m. for Manos Konstantinidis #caiantalk.

Next guest in our lecture series #caiantalks is Emmanouil (Manos) Konstantinidis ( @warwickuni.bsky.social ), who will speak on "Sources of information and confidence in experiential risky choice" next Wednesday (19/11/2025). 👉Visit our website for more information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en

🗓️ Mark your calendars: the next #BernsteinConference will take place September 28 to October 1, 2026, in Frankfurt am Main! Follow the link below to meet the first confirmed speakers. More to come! 👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co... #BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro

📆Save the date: new lecture series [1/4] This Wednesday, October 29 at 1 p.m., we are launching a new, hybrid series of guest talks organized the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) in Bonn.

📢📄New preprint: 94 empirical benchmarks for associative learning models. A consortium of 21 learning experts surveyed the literature and expert community for robust empirical phenomena, which we graded by reproducibility and generality.

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

📢Publishing alert: New theory paper out on experiment-based calibration: formal model, relation to criterion validity, role of confounds, and data-generation model. #mathematicalpsychology #calibration #simulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 Job alert: We are looking to hire a student research assistant for programming work in Java in Bonn. Prior experience with Spring Boot is desired. Deadline: October 5, 2025. Read the full job description and how to sumbit your application here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...

Just posted with @serenxia.bsky.social and @pharmacopsychology.bsky.social : a systematic review of pharmacological effects on human aversive memory. We searched data bases for 215 candidate drugs and summarise the evidence from 100 studies on 36 compounds following #PRISMA2020 protocol.

[1/2] Ever wondered how your brain learns to anticipate negative events? 🧠 We just helped to map the brain's 'fear network'! This #ENIGMA consortium study found that while fear responses are universal, task design and clinical status yield relevant differences in brain activity.

📢 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!

📢 Our paper is out now! We propose an unsupervised skeleton-based temporal action segmentation framework. If you are interested in exploring actions in skeleton sequences without human annotations, check it out: Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.04513 Project page: uzaygokay.github.io/SMQ/

#bignews: @unibonn.bsky.social now has a Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience and it is already growing! Welcome to Bonn, Professor Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! New #caian website and more updates will follow within the next few weeks. www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/news

👋 Our lab is hiring: we are currently recruiting for at least two more student research assistants for programming and VR studies! 🔎 Find out more about requirements and deadlines here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/jobs

Today our paper "Skeleton Motion Words for Unsupervised Skeleton-based Temporal Action Segmentation" was accepted for #ICCV2025. 🎉 Congrats all around to the collaborators, of whom only @uzaygokay.bsky.social seems to be active here 🦋.

👨‍💻👩‍💻We are hiring! We are looking to recruit a student research assistant for some programming work in R. Deadline for applications is July 31, 2025. More info here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...

This Friday, our lab is going to host a visitor from Cologne. If you can, we would be delighted to have you join this guest talk.👇

🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓Brief reminder that the deadline to apply for our job opening as a PhD student is this Sunday. Don't hesitate - join our team in Bonn!

📢We are looking to hire a PhD student at @unibonn.bsky.social to investigate the cognitive mechanisms of human decision-making under threat in #VR. Apply by June 15. More information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo... #vrthreat #PhDposition #jobalert #researchjob #neuroscience #psychology

New from the lab with J. Brochard & P. Dayan: Theoretical review on #criticalintelligence: How to make rapid decisions with utmost precision when under threat. We identify computational challenges, candidate solutions & cognitive experiments to disambiguate them www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How do animals and humans develop a survival plan in a fraction of a second, much faster than a computer? ⌛ Read the answer in our 🔥new article here👇 (of course #openaccess). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

👉 Check out our new #CogLearn Toolkit for #Unity: we built and validated (across 5 samples) an immersive #VR paradigm for human avoidance learning. Basic version can be controlled by simple text files; more control via publicly available Unity toolkit. doi.org/10.3758/s134... #humanavoidancelearning

This month, we welcomed Steven Lieu as a PhD student to our team @unibonn.bsky.social. Looking forward to working with you! 🙌

New from the lab: comparing CR in human Pavlovian reward conditioning/retention over 7 days across 2 samples. Bradycardia is best index of learning & retention, pupil dilation only for retention.

👉New review from the lab on measurement validation in social sciences. #MTMM has long been the gold standard - but is often cumbersome. We contrast it with a fresh approach: experiment-based calibration. We offer clear guidance when to use which. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 JOB ALERT: Postdoc & PhD position in computational neuroimaging/computational psychiatry, to work with existing fMRI & behavioural (big) data. Apply by March 31 and reach out any time for more information. www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo... Image: K. Ojala, A. Tzovara 2022 (CC BY 4.0)

🎂PsPM is turning 15, and we are celebrating with a new release: Version 7.0.0. Streamlined user experience, improved robustness, and better maintainability. All teaching material on our website is updated too: bachlab.github.io/PsPM/ #PsPM #psychophysiologicalmodelling

Check out our new #preprint on Critical Intelligence: a review on how the brain (might) generate rapid complex decisions under threat. 🧠 With Jules Brochard & Peter Dayan. doi.org/10.31234/osf... #Neuroscience #criticalintelligence #decisionmaking