Back home, another badge to add to the collection! Thanks @ebbsociety.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to present my PhD work at @wohrlab.bsky.social. It’s always exciting to talk about science! And also thanks @fens.org for awarding me the Childcare grant! #FENS2026

Great experience attending @ibnsconnect.bsky.social annual meeting in Cape Town! I presented work from my PhD from @Wohrlab in a poster and a talk in a symposium session. I am grateful to IBNS for the Travel Grant and for this opportunity. It was also wonderful experience #IBNS2026 #PhDLife

🎉 This is finally out on @natcomms.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com! Ever wondered what happens to your #brain when you become an expert at something? 🧠 If the answer is “yes” (+bonus points if you like #chess), check out our latest #fMRI work below! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Andrea Costantino@costantinoai.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Super excited to share a new preprint! We asked a simple-but-big question: What changes in the brain when someone becomes an expert? Using chess ♟️ + fMRI 🧠 + representational geometry & dimensionality 📈, we ask: 1️⃣ WHAT information is encoded? 2️⃣ HOW is it structured? 3️⃣ WHERE is it expressed? 1/n

Last week Dr. Theresa Kisko, @fjrsousa.bsky.social & @parnian-saberi.bsky.social had the opportunity to share their work at #IBNS2026! What a great experience! Thanks @ibnsconnect.bsky.social

📣The Laboratory of Biological Psychology is hiring! 📣 We are looking for a full-time lab tech to help us in the daily operation of the lab. Friendly & inclusive work environment guaranteed! Check here for more details: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... ⏰Apply by May 27th.

Congratulations to @ozgesungur.bsky.social & Emilie Bartsoen for this achievement! Dr. Özge Sungur was nominated IBNS Fellow for her contribution to the Society and to the field of behavioral neuroscience, while Emilie Bartsoen is the new Trainee Representative 🎉. Thanks @ibnsconnect.bsky.social!

New research shows that an animal’s personality, like being bold, shy, social, or aggressive can directly impact whether it survives in the wild. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Open call for a permanent MEG Lab Manager position for our new MEGIN scanner at CIMeC Trento. You have extensive MEG experience, a degree in physics, engineering, neuroscience: Apply here lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/bando-pta/co... Deadline 29th April! p.s. call in Italian but foreigners welcome!! 🌎

It was with great pleasure that I have received the news that I was awarded the IBNS Travel grant to attend the IBNS Annual Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. Thank you @ibnsconnect.bsky.social (IBNS) for this opportunity, looking forward for this opportunity.

Wöhr Lab@wohrlab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Second great news of the day: Dr. Theresa Kisko received a Early Career Achievement award from @ibnsconnect.bsky.social! And @fjrsousa.bsky.social won a second travel award this year to attend #IBNSSouthAfrica! Congrats 🎉

How to assess the roles of vision and language to reading? We studied how purely visual computational models for word and letter recognition processed visual Braille (⠉⠑⠗⠏⠑) and found that they don't replicate human behavioural / neural results, showing the need of language processing in reading

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Feedforward computational models of vision do not explain expert neural processing of visual Braille in the human visual system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.14.718353v1

Impressive work conducted by @yi-joan-lin.bsky.social from @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social. Check it out below 👇🏼

yi-joan-lin.bsky.social@yi-joan-lin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 Very happy to share our *Neuron* paper: Rethinking neuroaesthetics authors.elsevier.com/a/1miuj3BtfH... With @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social & Johan Wagemans, we argue that neuroaesthetics should move beyond a focus on beauty alone and embrace the multidimensional nature of aesthetic experience.

Big news! Our WöhrLab team members received an impressive number of awards recently! Thanks to @ebbsociety.bsky.social, @neurowissg.bsky.social & @fens.org, @liviadicrescenzo.bsky.social, Sara Mejía Chávez, @tianhuawang.bsky.social & @fjrsousa.bsky.social will be able to attend #FENS2026! Congrats🎉

Second great news of the day: Dr. Theresa Kisko received a Early Career Achievement award from @ibnsconnect.bsky.social! And @fjrsousa.bsky.social won a second travel award this year to attend #IBNSSouthAfrica! Congrats 🎉

Out now another piece of my PhD. In short, we show that learning a new script, with or without line junctions (├ v. ⠗), mostly relies on the linguistic mapping of one script to a pre-existing orthography, with limited contribution of the script's visual features doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02788-1

Connecting the dots: Similar visual orthographic acquisition for Braille or line junctions - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Most written systems share basic shape features with natural objects such as line junctions, a commonality thought to be at the basis of fluent reading. Studies that compared reading acquisition for d...

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🚨New paper alert from #HopLab! Check the preprint below 👇🏼

Tim Maniquet@tmaniquet.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🔥 We have a new preprint! 🔥 It's really nice, I recommend reading it Here's a summary question: Can FFA activation predict RT to faces? ⏬ Check out the answer below ⏬ @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thanks @ebbsociety.bsky.social for this amazing opportunity! It’s a pleasure for me to share my work at such international conference. #FENS2026

@ebbsociety.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🎉Great news! The EBBS Awards for #FENS2026 are out! Supporting young scientists also means giving them real opportunities to grow, connect, and share their research at international meetings. Congrats to all awardees! 🚀🧠 www.ebbs-science.org/EBBS_awards

I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been awarded a #MargueriteMarieDelacroix research grant to continue studying ASD-related biological mechanisms in a new mouse model. I’m deeply grateful for the renewed support and looking forward to starting this new project. Stay tuned for the results!

Congratulations to Samuël Budniok for successfully defending his PhD doctoral thesis “oxytocin across species: from mechanisms in rodents to implications for human attachment development”. Well done!

📣New paper in LBP by Samuel Budniok with Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Guy Bosmans, and @mhvij.bsky.social. Check it out below! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The party drug MDMA (“ecstasy”) shows promising efficacy as adjunct to psychotherapy. The psychostimulant with entactogenic properties is known to induce arousal and euphoria. We now studied the neurochemistry underlying the behavioral effects of MDMA in rats lacking serotonin in the brain.

Just attended another interesting meeting organized by #StichtingMarguerite-MarieDelacroix. Very intriguing talks and discussions. I’m very glad to be part of this! Thanks to the organizing committee and scientific board, and for the inspiring words by Prof. Dr. Rudy Van Coster.

Super excited to share a new preprint! We asked a simple-but-big question: What changes in the brain when someone becomes an expert? Using chess ♟️ + fMRI 🧠 + representational geometry & dimensionality 📈, we ask: 1️⃣ WHAT information is encoded? 2️⃣ HOW is it structured? 3️⃣ WHERE is it expressed? 1/n

Another LBP story has reached the end: yesterday Laura Vercammen from Bram Vervliet’s lab successfully defended her PhD! Congrats, Laura! @tombeckers.bsky.social @lauraluyten.bsky.social

There is always a bit of time for fun! Last week we had a LBP social event with a customised quiz about our colleagues and faculty, pizza and..

🚨New paper in LBP! Check it out below 👇🏼

Hans Op de Beeck@hansopdebeeck.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New paper (and thread) on the representational dynamics of the main dimensions of object space: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... 1/n

New paper (and thread) on the representational dynamics of the main dimensions of object space: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... 1/n

Our Behavioural Brain Research special issue on Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents is growing, rapidly – and actually a lot faster than I manage to post about it. Nine new manuscripts got accepted since my last post. Quite impressive work. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Two #comment articles with opposite perspectives about the role of #animals in #biomedical #research have been featured in the scientific journal #Nature, fueling a polarised discourse that can confuse and misinform the public and decision-makers. #NAM #SciencePolicy www.eara.eu/post/eara-co...

EARA COMMENT: Nature highlights polarised discourse over the value of animal research

Two comment articles with opposite perspectives about the role of animals in biomedical research have been featured in Nature.

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‼️ New paper alert in LBP! Check this recently published paper from @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social group below 👇🏼

Tim Maniquet@tmaniquet.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It's finally out! Our work with @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social & @costantinoai.bsky.social is published. We went looking for dissociations between types of recurrence in DNNs, but we found something quite different.. hopefully that can tell us somehting about our models! rdcu.be/eLwBA