📢 PhD position in Developmental Language Modelling (PLZ RT) What can human language acquisition teach us about training language models? Join us as a PhD! mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-developmental-language @carorowland.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social

📢 PhD position in the NeuroAI of Language Why can LLMs predict brain activity so well? We're hiring a PhD student to find out -- AI interpretability meets neuroimaging Deadline March 20 Please RT 🙏 👇 mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-neuroai-language

Do we need a Nature paper for that? Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact - Nature Machine Intelligence

Suzgun et al. find that current large language models cannot reliably distinguish between belief, knowledge and fact, raising concerns for their use in healthcare, law and journalism, where such disti...

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Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language. tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬 1/n

The brilliant @kasiamojescik.bsky.social and Martha McGill join @claudiahammond.bsky.social and @catherineloveday.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 All in the Mind this morning to launch our new public survey of vivid memories. You can take part here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, Are there multiple subtypes of autism, and how vivid are your memories?

A new study suggests that autism’s genetic profile differs with age at diagnosis.

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Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization? @rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print): go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky 🧵👇

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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Vacancy alert! Prof. Ineke van der Ham and I are looking for a post-doc (from early 2026 on). For this project we aim to investigate why some individuals often get lost: a condition recently coined atopia. The project involves behavioral, eye tracking and potentially fMRI. See dewegkwijt.com

Elke schooldag staat leren centraal. Gek eigenlijk dat er geen vakken zijn die je leren hoe je dit het beste aanpakt. In een nieuwe Klokhuis-aflevering geven Erik Scherder (vanaf een sportveld) en ik (vanuit onze Sylvius VR labs) tips om je te leren leren: hetklokhuis.nl/tv-uitzendin...

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there. Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8... #neuroscience

Principles for proper peer review

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In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Confronting the connectivity crisis in human M/EEG research

The cognitive neuroscience community using M/EEG has not converged on measures of task-related inter-regional brain connectivity that generalize acros…

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New preprint out together with @mheilbron.bsky.social We find that a stimulus' representational magnitude—the L2 norm of its DNN representation—predicts intrinsic memorability not just for images, but for words too. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Representational magnitude as a geometric signature of image and word memorability

What makes some stimuli more memorable than others? While memory varies across individuals, research shows that some items are intrinsically more memorable, a property quantifiable as “memorability”. ...

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Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms? Our physically constrained model of cortico-hippocampal interactions - complete with fast geometrically informed numerical simulation (available at embedded github repo) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...