If you would like to teach theoretical modeling skills to your psychology or cognitive science students, or would like to learn these skills yourself, check out our open online textbook: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/

Happy #BINW26 everyone! My name is Jheannelle Johnson, an incoming MSL candidate at Northwestern, and I’m the Director of Development for Black In Neuro. The future I’m reimagining is one where optimism meets opportunity for those who wish to enter neuroscience regardless of their background.

Black In Neuro@blackinneuro.bsky.social · last wk.

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Dracula 🧛‍♂️ has authored a paper condemning predatory journals as bloodsuckers. And he's already been cited! New entry to my collection of hoaxes. We are up to 46 hoaxes spread over a whopping 461 pages! bit.ly/StingPred

How does the brain respond to news of human lives at risk? For money, the brain responds more with the amount that could be lost. For human lives, the response collapses, and a life lost abroad doesn't hit like one at home. The wiring behind compassion fade: doi.org/10.1093/scan...

Most neurons seem to be generalists, not specialists. Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure. Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience www.newscientist.com/article/2581...

Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - Nature

Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.

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Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Thanks to Kshipra Guranandan, my notebook on how to design efficient fMRI experiments (for activity, connectivity and pattern analysis) is now available in Python as a Jupyter notebook (as well as previous Matlab): github.com/RikHenson/fM...

GitHub - RikHenson/fMRIefficiency

Contribute to RikHenson/fMRIefficiency development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The strength of this result will shape everything that happens next. Higher turnout = signals strength Strong mandate = leverage Don’t wait - vote as soon as your ballot arrives. #DefendSussex We've been sold the story across Britain that this is inevitable. It isn't. Stand-up. Vote.

Are you like Danny? Have you voted yet? Have your colleagues? Turnout is everything. ✅ Vote ✅ Remind colleagues ✅ Support your department reps This is collective - every vote counts - every job matters! #DefendSussex

We're finally getting the tools to study replay in humans. But why bother? What can we learn from it that we don't know from rodent recordings? Our thoughts are now out in a new TICS Forum Great fun writing this w @smfleming.bsky.social + @maritpetzka.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

What can we learn from studying replay in humans?

Noninvasive methods are making it possible to study neural replay in humans. Although focused on alignment with rodent findings, human research often …

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Congrats to @masudhusain.bsky.social on being elected to FRS!

The Royal Society@royalsociety.org · 2mo ago

Professor Masud Husain FMedSci FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a neurologist and neuroscientist whose research focuses on understanding human cognition and its disorders. #RSFellows https://royalsociety.org/people/masud-husain-38121/

We are happy to share our research, recently published in Nature Communication! Using a naturalistic memory task, we show that life events are represented in the brain in different formats, highlighting the flexibility of the memory system. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Episodic events are flexibly encoded in both integrated and separated neural representations - Nature Communications

People often need to remember unique details while also finding connections across experiences. Here, the authors show that the brain flexibly links related events while preserving their distinct feat...

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Impressive but sobering stuff for us fMRI researchers... looking forward to digging in!

Stephanie Noble@sneuroble.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So glad to finally share work years in the making! What started with fMRI effect size benchmarks ended up showing that conventional study planning detects ~half of expected brain effects, suggesting more distributed processes than the lit shows (+ new methods for mass univ effect/power estimation)

A recent paper by Epp et al. in NN claimed that ~40% of reported BOLD findings could be misinterpreted. In our reanalysis, we identified several statistical issues that, in our view, undermine these conclusions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 👇 1/11

Lovely work using PREVENT cohort (and Cam-CAN in a lesser role ;-)

TCD School of Psychology@tcdpsychology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Genetic risk of Alzheimer's disease is associated with loss of brain network segregation in midlife" - New paper published, co-authored by Professor Lorina Naci. Read the full paper here: https://ow.ly/fS1j50Z35L5 #Neuroscience @lorinanaci.bsky.social thenacilab.bsky.social TrinityNeuroscience

This is the May cover of NN but it has already been debunked on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Such a clear statement about the ridiculous pace of publishing (not just NN).

Nature Neuroscience@natneuro.nature.com · 3mo ago

Check out our May issue! www.nature.com/neuro/volume...

Many of you asked how we create those pretty whole-brain plots with the cortical outline. We just made it available as a Python package: pni-lab.github.io/quickbrain/

Feedforward sweep is a bad idea. And brains don't seem to do it.

Daniel Anthes@anthesdaniel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited about our new preprint: “The illusory simplicity of the feedforward pass: evidence for the dynamical nature of stimulus encoding along the primate ventral stream” arxiv.org/abs/2604.12825 Work with Sushrut Thorat, Anna Mitola, Paolo Papale, Peter König & Tim Kietzmann 🧵 thread below

Our new paper on aging and temporal order memory (with @jzacks.bsky.social) is now out in Psych & Aging! Using a narrative paradigm, we found that older adults have preserved event-based memory organization and show greater knowledge-related benefits in temporal memory than younger adults. 🌟

Only ONE day left! 🚨⌛ Register today and claim your place on SPM For MEG/EEG 2026!

Department of Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Deadline Approaching! ⌛🚨 Register before the 14th of May and secure your place in the SPM For MEG/EEG course for 2026! Link to Register ➡️ onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...

Research-based revision advice

Candice Morey@candicemorey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's exam season, which means it is time to revise. Can AI help your revision process? Possibly. But definitely not if you let it do the important work for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DQS...

It was wrong when the media did this to Ed Miliband when he was leader and it is wrong to do this to Polanski. Genuinely have no idea how awfulness like this gets past editors… It’s really not that hard to criticise policies or politicians without being antisemitic.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Recent Telegraph and Times cartoons of Green Party leader Zack Polanski, challenged for deploying antisemitic tropes + caricatures of a Jewish politician, by the Green party and by others.

Lastly, on methodological note, peak-locking was essential here. Memory reactivation is temporally variable, so standard cue-locked analyses lacked the sensitivity needed to detect it. Aligning trials to the moment of maximal decoding revealed what stimulus-locked analyses could not. [7/7]

Nice study looking at memory cuing when recalling information about a movie (Sherlock - obvs). Within-event cuing little better than between-event cuing. In fact, gist recall is better following a cue from the preceding event which may help "maintain contiguity". www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Frontiers | Separating the details while maintaining the story: within event episodic integration and across event semantic contiguity in memory

The within > across effect refers to improved memory for information cued from within the same event compared to across events. Although this effect has been...

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Unmissable!

International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow@icom-memory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧠 ICOM is back! The International Conference on Memory (ICOM7) returns 26–30 July 2027 in Glasgow, bringing together researchers from neuroscience, psychology, and beyond. 🔗 Learn more and sign-up for the newsletter here: icom-memory.org #ICOM7 #MemoryResearch #Neuroscience #Psychology

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Palantir in the NHS - my latest about questions of efficacy and ethics bmj.com/cgi/content/...

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On #NationalWalkingDay don't get lost ... www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...