Title: Memory-based and surround-based pattern completion show distinct laminar profiles in human V1 @zirui-zhang.bsky.social, Clement Abbatecola, Y Huang, Y Lazarova, AT Paton, @marwimber.bsky.social, @chrislevelt.bsky.social, @mattlark.bsky.social, @larsmuckli.bsky.social & Lucy S Petro

Dublin is a walkable, English-speaking capital with a big tech/AI sector. Applicants of all backgrounds welcome. Unsure if you fit? Email admin@cusacklab.org for an informal chat. www.cusacklab.org/vacancies

Some months ago, I wrote a skeptical reply to a commentary on bots in online studies in PNAS, arguing that no evidence yet exists for such bots. Together with the authors of the original commentary, we now show that bots can pass (almost?) all online cognitive studies with human-like performance 1/n

Christoph Strauch@cstrauch.bsky.social · 4w ago

How much of a risk are LLM-generated bots for online behavioral experiments? We present results of an entirely natural language prompt-generated agent, capable of absolving any of the 26 experiments we tested it on. Most tasks are passed with data that can pass as human osf.io/preprints/ps... (1/)

So thankful to the University of Cambridge for enabling a new chapter in the long history of the APU/CBU (since MRC decided to close all its units…)

University of Cambridge@cam.ac.uk · last mo.

Cambridge University announces a new Cambridge Mind and Brain Institute focused on understanding and improving brain health across our lifespan, from early childhood through to old age. Find out more 👉 https://bit.ly/4hpgZsl @mrccbu.bsky.social

📣 Check out our latest preprint with @kianobre.bsky.social, spearheaded by the incredible @dxywei.bsky.social! Across four experiments, we compare the behavioural and neural signatures of selecting real-world objects in perception and working memory. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Searching across working memory and perception

Searching for objects of interest is an essential and pervasive activity in adaptive cognition. In everyday situations, we often search for relevant content in our surroundings and in mind at the same...

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Our latest findings show that when we remember the duration of a visual event, we don’t use the same organisational format in working memory as when we retain other visual features such as colour. Check out our recent preprint, led by @annavanharmelen.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.64898/202...

To learn how brains compute, we need to experimentally adjudicate among competing computational hypotheses. How do we do this in the age of complex neural network models? New review paper: “Making models disagree to learn how brains compute” with @talgolanneuro.bsky.social @heikoschuett.bsky.social

Proud to share new fMRI work by the fabulous Or Yizhar (not on Bsky): on the manifold level(s) of abstraction of visual working memories in visual cortex. With a fantastic team, Fabio Bauer, Inés Pont Sanchis, and @hanzule.bsky.social, supported by @erc.europa.eu 
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6/ While "spiralling out of control" sounds hyperbolic, it's close to what some world-leading climate scientists are warning. This year's One Earth paper on the risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory finds Earth system components closer to destabilisation than previously thought.

The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory

Earth’s climate is now departing from the stable conditions that supported human civilization for millennia. Crossing critical temperature thresholds may trigger self-reinforcing feedbacks and tipping...

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🌈 New preprint! With Sage, Melissa, and Kia (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social, @scenegrammarlab.bsky.social, @kianobre.bsky.social), we explore how attention is divided across external perception and internal working memory - revealing a dynamic trade-off between these two domains. doi.org/10.64898/202...

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dynamic prioritisation of attention when external and internal demands compete https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.06.743163v1

Weird, how reality is more alarming than ostensibly "alarmist" climate scientists were not too long ago. And this is still just at the beginning of a warming trend that will continue for several decades at least (unless human beings suddenly become much smarter than ever before. I have my doubts.)

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3mo ago

The rise in Niño 3.4 region sea surface temperatures over the past few weeks has been nothing short of astonishing. We are now hotter than any days during the 1997/1998 super El Niño event, and we are still many months from the peak.

Check out our latest insights on proactive visual and motor prioritization dynamics in working memory, now out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Proactive Visual and Motor Prioritization Differentially Scale with Cue Reliability

Environmental cues enable the brain to anticipate and prepare for upcoming behavior, such as by selectively prioritizing relevant visual representations and associated action plans in working memory i...

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Interested in how people perceive and remember the speed of visual objects? Our paper (see also the blueprint/ thread below) is now out in the Journal 📔 of Vision!

Rosanne Rademaker@rademaker.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Many things in the world move, and can even move behind other things. When will the cat reappear? To predict this, remembering the cat’s speed will likely help. But... how do people remember something like speed, which is defined by displacement over both (🤯) space and time? TWEEPRINT ALERT! 🚨🧵1/n

It's not "the new normal": this heatwave shows that we're never going to have "normal" again - by @mjflepage.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2531...

If you aren't terrified by this heatwave, you should be

The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt, says Michael Le Page

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I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to postle@wisc.edu

Feeling really proud of this one: a review of Bayesian efficient coding with Máté Lengyel and Paul Bays (@bayslab.org) is now available online in TICS! authors.elsevier.com/a/1nF3i4sIRv...

We have two job openings in my lab currently — for a postdoc (100% FTE some teaching four years) and a postdoc/phd student (75% FTE no teaching three years). Check them out at www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/be...

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... #neuroskyence

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...

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📣🚨📣 Job alert 📣🚨📣 Phd position (Maastricht, The Netherlands) at the intersection of neuroscience, AI, and legal psychology. Apply now!! 👇 vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

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

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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A multi-lab replication effort (@eegmanylabs.bsky.social) of the contralateral delay activity (CDA) has just been published online! In brief, the set-size effect appears to be robustly observed, but CDA correlation with VWM capacity is not reliably strong. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Many claim memory biases toward percepts reflect corruption in sensory signals. We challenge this view by showing that ppl adapt their integration rationally w/ experience. w/ @timbrady.bsky.social Humans adaptively integrate memory and perception based on stimulus history | osf.io/preprints/ps...

The Obleser lab will be hiring soon! New postdoc (fully funded) and new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded). Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct. Watch out for official announcements! Please be in touch. auditorycognition.com obleserlab.com hoerhanse.de lemmi.uni-luebeck.de

Our latest findings: bringing together the core insights so far from our NWO-funded project on "Externally driven internal attention", led by @annavanharmelen.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excellent opportunity to join our wonderful vision science / cognitive neuroscience community in Giessen! Application deadline is tomorrow! 🚀

Kaiser Lab@dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments. More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... Please share!

We believe visual neuroscience is undergoing a paradigm shift — and the Beyond Binding exchange in @TrendsCogSci makes it visible. Five papers, excellent critics, and a discussion that sharpened and nuanced our argument. Thread 👇

Here’s to Joey finding our preprint on biorxiv already before I saw the email it had successfully uploaded 🥂Tweeprint (/blueprint) will follow soon. With @amit-rawal.bsky.social and @mjwolff.bsky.social

Joey Saito@jsaito25.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Converting color memory toward a spatial format to benefit behavior www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share a new paper spearheaded by the wonderful @baror-shira.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum @erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:

My first TEDx talk just came out. It's always fun to talk about your own research area to the general audience, and its even more fun when you are lucky enough to be supported by such a platform. Happy to hear your thoughts :-) youtu.be/UyUclyHx8d8?...

How reality is simulated by your brain | Surgya Gayet | TEDxEindhoven

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