New preprint ! 🎺 👇 We show that objects can facilitate scene recognition irrespectively to their semantical link to the scenes. TMS to Object-selective LOC eliminated such facilitation! Congratulations to Aaron for his first paper coming from a chunky master thesis project!

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

Behavioral and causal evidence for object-based scene recognition in visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.29.735096v1

Final work from my PhD is out as a preprint, my last project at Trento before moving to Western! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... In this work, we ask: how is food represented in visual cortex?🧵

Object dimensions underlying food representations in visual cortex

Recent work has revealed two food-selective areas in the lateral and ventromedial occipitotemporal cortex (OTC). These studies have shown that food selectivity in these regions cannot be explained by ...

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PhD position (4 years, paid) on an NWO-funded project on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, supervised by Dr. Mieke Donk (main PI) and me! For more information: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

Thrilled to see our paper @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the brilliant (Bsky-less) PhD student Ziliang Xiong from @erc.europa.eu project #TicklishHuman! We asked: -Is human ticklishness shared across cultures? -Can we explain where on the body we are ticklish? 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human ticklishness is a widespread, culturally shared and bodily organized sensory experience - Nature Human Behaviour

Ticklishness is a familiar but poorly understood experience. Xiong and Kilteni show that ticklishness is culturally shared and follows a distinct bodily topography. They evaluate different theories on...

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🚨Out now in J Neurosci! 🧠 Using fMRI and EEG, we mapped where and when contextual knowledge of real-world objects emerges within the visual system - even when those objects are viewed in isolation. @dkaiserlab.bsky.social @peelen.bsky.social www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1...

Spatiotemporal Representations of Contextual Associations for Real-World Objects

In the real world, objects always appear in context. Many objects are reliably associated with a certain scene context (e.g., pots appear in kitchens) and other objects that appear in the same context...

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🔭JOB ALERT🔬 Fully-funded PhD (+ soon postdoc) openings in my lab @cimecunitrento.bsky.social in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. TOPIC: Investigating predictive neural representations in naturalistic settings using MEG-based dynamic RSA

New preprint ! 🎺 👇 We show that objects can facilitate scene recognition irrespectively to their semantical link to the scenes. TMS to Object-selective LOC eliminated such facilitation! Congratulations to Aaron for his first paper coming from a chunky master thesis project!

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

Behavioral and causal evidence for object-based scene recognition in visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.29.735096v1

New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys. Spoiler alert: they aren't Thread 🧵 [1/9]

JOB ALERT: PhD opening in my lab! @cimecunitrento.bsky.social in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. The project will use advanced analysis methods of MEG data to investigate how our world's naturalistic hierarchical structure facilitates predictive neural processing.

Multi-task fMRI outperforms resting-state fMRI for revealing task-invariant organization of the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.09.710558v1

Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think. We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science. Read more and sign here: www.slow-science.com

New research from @peelen.bsky.social, shows our brain actively predicts how they should look based on the 3D structure of the environment. Even when objects are temporarily hidden from view, their expected orientation can be decoded from activity in the visual cortex. 👇 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

How the brain predicts objects in a changing world | Radboud University

In everyday life, we often encounter objects that are partially hidden or only seen from the corner of our eye. Our brain is remarkably good at keeping track of objects, and new research reveals how t...

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Now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: our short response to @neurosteven.bsky.social & Edward de Haan's recent paper on the binding problem. We argue that the binding problem arises because of tradeoffs faced by any information processing system, including the brain and DNNs. shorturl.at/RGXzt

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

The ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience. Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place. More news soon. #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026

Home - ESCAN 2026

ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

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Donders Institute seeks to appoint a new Scientific Director to lead our internationally oriented and interdisciplinary organisation 🌍🧠 Are you ready to help shape the future of brain, cognition, and behaviour research?👇 www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Scientific Director Donders Institute | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Scientific Director Donders Institute at the Donders Institute? Check our vacancy!

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This month's #TMS MultiLab meeting will be given by @phivph.com Phivos Phylactou, on: "The eyes are the window to t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ brain excitability" Friday 28th, 14:00 GMT 👀🧠🧲⚡️ Get the meeting link from our GitHub pages or Slack channel - get in touch if you can't find it! github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

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Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab

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🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.

Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

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🧠 Regularization, Action, and Attractors in the Dynamical “Bayesian” Brain direct.mit.edu/jocn/article... (still uncorrected proofs, but they should post the corrected one soon--also OA is forthcoming, for now PDF at brainandexperience.org/pdf/10.1162-...)

Regularization, Action, and Attractors in the Dynamical “Bayesian” Brain

Abstract. The idea that the brain is a probabilistic (Bayesian) inference machine, continuously trying to figure out the hidden causes of its inputs, has become very influential in cognitive (neuro)sc...

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👀 Interacting or non-interacting: that is the research question... 📢 New pre-print out on social interaction perception in preverbal infants: osf.io/preprints/ps.... In collaboration with @Emilie Serraille, @jrhochmann.bsky.social and @ljubapi.bsky.social. 🧵 An animated thread 👇 #neuroskyence

Please RT - Open PhD position in my group at the Donders Center for Neuroscience, Radboud University. We're looking for a PhD candidate interested in developing theories of learning in neural networks. Applications are open until October 20th. For more info: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

PhD Position: Theory of Learning in Artificial and Biologically Inspired Neural Networks | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD candidate Theory of Learning in Artificial and Biologically Inspired Neural Network? Check our vacancy!

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🚨WHOHOO!! I am happy to share that I received the #ERCStG for my project PRECHRON: The Prefrontal Chronometer for Organizing Working Memory. I am going to study #neuraloscillations during #workingmemory at the @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social #brainstimulation #TMS #EEG

🎉 #Donders #Cube Award for Sharon Unsworth 🎉 for her outstanding commitment to the #Kletskoppen #Festival. 🏆 Poster prizes went to: • Danielle Houwing (MPI) • Marco Gandolfo (DCC) • Chinmaya Mishra (MPI) • Zehra Kazmi (DCN) • Umut Can ALTIN (DCC) www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

Donders Cube Award for Sharon Unsworth during Donders Day | Radboud University

As part of the Donders Sessions, this year’s annual poster session was expanded into a full-day event featuring engaging talks and poster presentations. Sharon Unsworth was awarded the Donders Cube fo...

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The TMS-RAT v1.0 is now being tested! It's a checklist / guidance tool to help researchers report #TMS studies & to facilitate quantitative comparisons in #systematicreviews & #meta-analyses All the data will be made freely available; an interactive website will be coming. Stay tuned! tms-rat.org

PhD Call 📢📢📢 Are you interested in a PhD in Cognitive and Social Neuroscience? Join us! We are booking for highly motivated and inspired future researchers! Waiting for you in Rome! 🗓️ Deadline 19th June Useful links👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 phd.uniroma1.it/web/concorso... phd.uniroma1.it/web/pagina.a...

👁️💡 How much do we really see? @marco-gandolfo.bsky.social reveals how our brains process the unexpected, with surprising differences across age and gender. With over 14,000 participants at muZIEum, it’s the largest public #inattentional #blindness experiment to date. 🔗 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

Visitors muZIEum contribute to science | Radboud University

A study by Marco Gandolfo shows how our brain processes information and how this differs by gender and age. 14 thousand participants in this study were visitors to the muZIEum in Nijmegen who took par...

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New preprint out! “Separate Neural Representations for Physical and Communicative Social Interactions: Evidence from Data-driven Voxel Decomposition” w/ @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social @lisik.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

A collection of modules, datasets, and other resources for learning to program in R, geared toward students in psychology and neuroscience: ritcheym.github.io/ppn/

PhD position opening in Padova. It is a multidisciplinary project in Experimental Aesthetics and Psychology of Art. www.bertamini.org/lab/MIRACLE....