Pyramidal cells in the cortex send a long apical dendrite to layer 1. What is its role? What happens when it's gone? ✂️ A causal spatial role for apical dendrites in the cortex Out today with @kenneth-harris.bsky.social, @carandinilab.net and @fedrossi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A causal spatial role for apical dendrites in the cortex

Cortical pyramidal neurons project a long apical dendrite to layer 1 (L1), to receive synaptic inputs that are thought to provide contextual and possibly suppressive modulation. In visual cortex, thes...

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🧠 New preprint! How does the brain build specialized, efficient representations as we grow up? We used manifold learning to track the "intrinsic dimensionality" (ID) of brain activity in ~800 participants (aged 3mo–53yrs), as they performed naturalistic tasks and rested/slept.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2w ago

Developmental tuning of functional manifold dimensionality across the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.24.740635v1

It's been almost 10 years since we had the idea: TMS to the EBA to improve anorexia patients' body perception. We got the ethics in 2017, collected the data from 2019 to 2024, and now it is finally published in Translational Psychiatry 🎉 ! #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Theta burst stimulation of extrastriate body area for body perception in anorexia nervosa: a randomized controlled trial - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Theta burst stimulation of extrastriate body area for body perception in anorexia nervosa: a randomized controlled trial

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New paper 🧵! There's a lot of interest in how brain regions represent information in fMRI. One popular approach uses searchlights that roam across the brain to decode conditions. We built a method to uncover the sub-networks within searchlight maps.

Excited to be at #ohbm2026 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social presenting our real-time fMRI paper just published in @natneuro.nature.com ! come learn more at my talk on Wed at 9am in the symposium on “Closed-loop fMRI Neurofeedback” in Room E

Erica Busch@elbusch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:

Check out this brilliant set of results from @elbusch.bsky.social !!

Erica Busch@elbusch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:

🎉New paper out today in Nature Reviews Psychology🎉 with @mjdahl.bsky.social, @mariamaly.bsky.social, and @thiasmittner.bsky.social. We've been working on a unified framework for attentional states and the dynamics of transitions between them. 🧵

In 2011, my interests in cognitive neuroscience converged on one stubborn intuition: it made no sense that how the brain learns and how it pays attention should be two fundamentally different processes.

Ignacio Saez, PhD@ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How does your brain filter out the noise and focus enough to learn efficiently? In our newest preprint, we use intracranial recordings + computational modeling to explore how selective attention shapes learning and state representations in the human brain 🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/🧵

Canonical neurodevelopmental trajectories of structural and functional manifolds elifesciences.org/articles/103...

Canonical neurodevelopmental trajectories of structural and functional manifolds

Contrary to prior work, principal axes of structural and functional connectivity are established early in life, remaining stable and undergoing refinement throughout development.

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Meet @esfinn.bsky.social, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social. Finn is a 2026 APS Spence Award recipient whose research focuses on individual variability in brain activity and behavior. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Complexity is ubiquitous in the world around us. But different stimuli are complex for different reasons. Does the mind nevertheless represent a ‘unified’ notion of complexity across domains? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show the answer is: yes! osf.io/preprints/ps...

🎊New Lab Alert! I'll be starting at the 🧡University of Texas at Austin🧡 this August! More info to come. thesonglab.github.io I send my deep gratitude to my mentors, Monica @monicarosenb.bsky.social, YC @ycleong.bsky.social, ShiNung @shinung.bsky.social & Zach @zreagh.bsky.social, for everything.

🎉New positions!🎉 Postdoc and Research technician openings in our lab @yale for computational psychiatry research. Technician position a great stepping stone to grad school. More info: rutledgelab.org/positions Work w/big data from our smartphone apps and large clinical samples happinessquest.app

Postdoc and Research Technician Positions — Rutledge Lab

Now hiring a postdoc and a research technician with an interest in neuroeconomics or computational psychiatry.

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(1/5) Our paper is out now in Neuron! bsky.app/profile/cp-n... The LPFC has fine-scale organization that gets missed in group-averaged data because of inter-individual variability. It is visible in individuals in both resting-state and task data.

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Very excited about this project, led by @zachladwig.bsky.social We show that an individual’s lateral prefrontal cortex has reliable and highly detailed network organization missed in past group approaches. Full🧵 coming soon!

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New preprint from Ashwin Srinivasan! TL;DR: Giving people control over transitions in a TikTok-like interface improved subsequent memory; predictability of transitions did not. Segmentation and control: Control over transitions differentially impacts within-event memory osf.io/preprints/ps...

Can you make your life feel “longer” in retrospect? Add a dose of change and novelty in the present to later expand memories of your past. Excited to share our work on how dopamine-related processing bends memory to reflect the passage of distinct events. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/can...

Our first foray into horror movies was recently published. Former grad student David Gregory used them as a means to study temporal memory for threatening events. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41965942/

Arousal and valence differentially shape temporal memory for naturalistic events - PubMed

While emotional arousal and negative valence both alter episodic memory, their contributions to different facets of temporal memory remain unclear. Here, we examined two components of temporal memory ...

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New Perspective out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We consider why neuroimaging analyses struggles to predict adolescent mental health, discuss approaches for improving prediction, and provide open-source implementations and tutorials: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Revamping neuroimaging analysis to reveal biomarkers of adolescent mental health - Nature Mental Health

Neuroscience research struggles to link neurobiological phenotypes with real-world mental health experiences, especially in youth. Here the authors challenge assumptions in functional neuroimaging stu...

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🚨Preprint Alert 🧠 Our new preprint „Menarche onset is an inflection point for mental health and brain development“ is now online! 👉 Preprint available here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCL

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Now out in PNAS with @jaeyoungson.bsky.social, Alice Xia, @apaxon.bsky.social & @orielf.bsky.social. Medial temporal lobe encodes predictive representations of people's real-world social networks which afford them key advantages in social navigation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

Medial temporal lobe encodes cognitive maps of real-world social networks | PNAS

Humans routinely solve social problems by navigating densely interconnected networks&mdash;gossiping strategically, brokering across cliques, and coordin...

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I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Join us for a postdoc @ the Donders Institute; application deadline March 24. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Postdoc Position: Affective Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Postdoc at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

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So glad to *finally* have this out!! Major thanks to both Clare and Emily

Emily Finn@esfinn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7

Movie reconstruction from mouse visual cortex activity

Movie reconstruction from mouse visual cortex activity

Naturalistic movie reconstruction from mouse visual cortex activity achieves high spatial and temporal fidelity.

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New lab preprint! Human Navigation Behaviour and Brain Dynamics in Real-world Contexts with co-authors: @pfvelasco.bsky.social and @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2603.11347

New preprint from Lindsey Tepfer (@ltjaql.bsky.social) and me! We silenced portions of internal monologues in two films to manipulate participants' access to characters' thoughts. Using ISC and RSA, we found that this aligned later neural processing of the narrative & encoding of trait impressions.

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Access to others' internal monologues aligns neural processing of narratives and trait impressions: https://osf.io/7v9md

Major congrats to @peterakirk.bsky.social for getting this out! It's an absolutely great read :)

Peter Kirk@peterakirk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our latest work on the neurobiology of subjective emotional experience in anxiety is out now in SCAN 🧠 Brief summary below 👇 doi.org/10.1093/scan...

My review with @caterinagratton.bsky.social is (apparently) open access for those who couldn't see it before: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... We discuss individual differences in brain network organization and how to home in on and talk about commonalities in the face of such differences

Dense Phenotyping of Human Brain Network Organization Using Precision fMRI

The advent of noninvasive imaging methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) transformed cognitive neuroscience, providing insights into large-scale brain networks and their link to cog...

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