1/ Our brains probably don’t store a new copy of “red” when we encounter something red. Yet we can reinstate distinct memories of red objects. How do we reuse what we already know when encoding memories? Excited to share new work led by @haoliu4391.bsky.social, with @marcelomattar.bsky.social 🧠🧵

1/10 🧠 Imagine seeing a cute dog before it runs away. A few seconds later, your friend tells you this was a Corgi. To remember this experience later, your brain has to link the dog (who is now out of sight) with the name you just heard.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 6d ago

The human hippocampus retroactively binds experiences across time https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.20.760394v1

Should your therapist look like you? As a Lebanese therapist, I've experienced the magic of validating another person through shared language & customs. And yet, similarity isn't always what helps us grow. My essay below explores benefits & limitations of "identity matching" in therapy!

The MindCORE Fellows Application is open! We seek applications from recent PhDs in neuro, psych, ling, philo, comp sci, or other cog sci discipline for our 3-yr postdoc. MindCORE is Penn's interdisciplinary effort to understand human intelligence & behavior. mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctora...

very excited that the full version of this is now online! and especially so bc it includes a commentary by yours truly (with support from @aaronbornstein.bsky.social and @meganakpeters.bsky.social) - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Blind ignorance or rational inattention? On the history and future of metabolic considerations for cognitive models | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Blind ignorance or rational inattention? On the history and future of metabolic considerations for cognitive models - Volume 49

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David Colaço@davidcolaco.bsky.social · 4w ago

The complete version of @phaueis.eurosky.social and my BBS target article, "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling," is now available. It includes 32 commentaries and our response. Please share #philsci #philsky #cogsci

Bespoke: Models are highly variable and play a variety of useful roles in scientific investigation and inference

Dan Levenstein@dlevenstein.bsky.social · 4w ago

Broke: all models are wrong but some are useful Woke: models are useful because they are wrong

I am recruiting graduate students for UCI's PhD in Cognitive Sciences - www.cogsci.uci.edu/graduate/pro... The lab's focus is on how relational structure and combinatorial reasoning is implemented in human brains and large language models--and if they are similar.

Broke: all models are wrong but some are useful Woke: models are useful because they are wrong

Thrilled to announce that I will be joining the University of Miami as an Assistant Professor of Psychology next year! I am recruiting a PhD student to start in Fall 2027 — please reach out if you are interested in joining the lab! For more info check out my website: dan-mirea.com

New lab preprint! @khoudary.bsky.social presents a tour-de-force: a new model of how uncertain expectations should help resolve uncertain sensations, supported by re-analysis of four experiments in monkeys (behavior, ephys) and humans (behavior, fMRI, EEG, intracranial) @meganakpeters.bsky.social

ari ☀️@khoudary.bsky.social · 4w ago

how does memory support perceptual decisions made under uncertainty? this question has scaffolded my entire PhD, and I'm so excited to share part of it in this ✨new preprint ✨ w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social! link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Looking for a postdoc in comp neuro and human brain imaging? Interested in foraging? Join our international collaboration with Jon Rubin, @jyotikab.bsky.social, & @davidrobbe.bsky.social be.bsky.social to study the neural basis of foraging behavior! cmu.wd115.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

Postdoctoral Research Associate – Cognitive Axon Lab – Dietrich College

The Cognitive Axon Lab, in the Department of Psychology and Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute, seeks applications for a multi-year Postdoctoral Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University. T...

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For the first time in a while, a philosophy professor has been awarded one of the MacArthur genius grants...

A Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows - Daily Nous

Felipe De Brigard, professor of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience at Duke University, principal investigator at the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab, and core faculty of […]

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big congrats to my mentor @felipedebrigard.bsky.social for being recognized for his incredible work on memory & forgiveness! also props to his student @gabrielafm.bsky.social who is leading this research and to lab manager @kmiceli.bsky.social

NPR@npr.org · 4w ago

The MacArthur Foundation has just announced its latest batch of 20 fellows. Among the recipients of the $800,000 "no-strings-attached" fellowships are researchers who were recognized for their work at the intersection of science and justice. n.pr/4ynOvq0

how does memory support perceptual decisions made under uncertainty? this question has scaffolded my entire PhD, and I'm so excited to share part of it in this ✨new preprint ✨ w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social! link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Memory retrieval explains dynamic effects of expectations on perceptual decisions

Expectations—prior knowledge of environmental statistics—support adaptive behavior by reducing uncertainty during inference. However, the questions of where expectations come from and how that ought t...

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🚨Postdoc hiring alert! 🚨 Applications for the Flatiron Research Fellows 2027 cohort at the Center for Computational Neuroscience are now live: apply.interfolio.com/193800. Come work with us!

📣 NEW PREPRINT ALERT! 📣 📝Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... When choosing between options with multiple attributes, what does the brain actually compare - individual attributes or integrated option values? We combined EEG + eye-tracking to find out... and found evidence for the latter 🧠

Fixation-evoked potentials reveal neural signatures of hierarchical value-integration during decision-making

Many decisions require maintaining beliefs across multiple levels of representation, from sampling and integrating information to forming action plans. To elucidate these processes and reveal the neur...

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New commentary! Are scientists and laypeople alike under persistent illusions of understanding? Shiffrin, Stigler, & Keil (2026) seem to think so. I argue this isn't the case w/ @sharonchungsl.bsky.social, Adam Harris, @davidlagnado.bsky.social & @singmann.bsky.social: rdcu.be/3swzbgH3ePva

PREPRINT UPDATE🥳👇: 🧠learning under uncertainty & metacognitive processes are not as generalizable as previously thought! both evolve differently depending on structure & stimulus set osf.io/preprints/ps...

Rochelle Kaper@rochellekaper.bsky.social · 10mo ago

super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Check out our lab’s new work on astrocytic temporal structure in fear learning and memory with co-author @ryguy.io and collaborators Marc Howard and Rui Cao! Stay tuned for more work following up on this study! ⭐️

Steve Ramirez@okaysteve.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 new work from the lab! "Hippocampal astrocytic sequences emerge during learning and memory recall" by @ryguy.io & @rsuthard.bsky.social thank you to the entire team for your camaraderie and for muscling through science together 🧠 -- we welcome all feedback! nature.com/articles/s41...

delighted to have been able to chip in on this newly published paper by @wiktoriakozyra.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social on how confidence “biases” arise from normative Bayesian models!

Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · last mo.

Our paper “Confidence is detection-like in high-dimensional spaces” is now published in Open Mind, led by @wiktoriakozyra.bsky.social and @kevingoneill.github.io direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Hi friends & colleagues! I’m on the hunt for a tenure-track home! I’m a BRAIN Initiative K99/R00 scholar studying learning & memory at the intersection of experimental neuroscience, theory, & machine learning/AI. I’d love to connect & would appreciate help spreading the word! web.mit.edu/hsw/www/

Excited to share this new preprint from @lindseytepfer.bsky.social, @chujunlin.bsky.social, and me, in which we investigate the different ways our brains allow us to change our minds about people! "The neurocomputational mechanisms of naturalistic trait impression updating" osf.io/preprints/ps...

How do we prevent memories from competing to guide attention? More distinct hippocampal representations for competing memories are linked to precise preparatory coding in visual cortex & more accurate eye movements to target locations. Thrilled to share this work by the incomparable Serra Favila!

(belated) Congratulations to Dr. @dalezhou.bsky.social on winning a 2026 NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the @bbrfoundation.bsky.social! @mikeyassa.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social @ucisocsci.bsky.social @ucibiosci.bsky.social

What is information, really? Instead of arguing for a single valid interpretation, we propose a pluralistic view where rigorous alternatives coexist — each with affordances and limits Finally published: “Four faces of information in natural systems” 🧵

Are brains and artificial neural networks converging onto universal representations? There is a seductive idea making the rounds in NeuroAI / machine learning: train systems well enough, and they all converge on the same representation of reality (i.e. a unique world model). We have thoughts™ 1/n

The Umwelt Representation Hypothesis: rethinking Universality

Recent studies reveal striking representational alignment between artificial neural networks (ANNs) and biological brains, leading to proposals that all sufficiently capable systems converge on univer...

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DR @khoudary.bsky.social !!! so incredibly well deserved💗 so proud of you and cannot wait to continue to watch you soar✨

aaron bornstein@aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Dr. Ari @khoudary.bsky.social on a successful PhD defense! @meganakpeters.bsky.social and I are so proud of all you have accomplished and excited for what you will do at @pennmindcore.bsky.social!

We are thrilled to have @khoudary.bsky.social continue their scholarly journey with us next month and are also excited to see what they will do here @upenn.edu! But for now, celebrations are in order for Dr. Khoudary! 🎉

aaron bornstein@aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Dr. Ari @khoudary.bsky.social on a successful PhD defense! @meganakpeters.bsky.social and I are so proud of all you have accomplished and excited for what you will do at @pennmindcore.bsky.social!

it has been my pleasure and privilege to get to work with you, DOCTOR @khoudary.bsky.social, for the past nearly 6 years! @aaronbornstein.bsky.social are so proud of the stellar scientist (and philosopher!) you have become. so grateful to have been along for the ride 😊

aaron bornstein@aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Dr. Ari @khoudary.bsky.social on a successful PhD defense! @meganakpeters.bsky.social and I are so proud of all you have accomplished and excited for what you will do at @pennmindcore.bsky.social!

How do we make good decisions with little experience? Adults can rely on memories of past choices. In our new study in @pnas.org we show kids & teens do something similar–but what they remember turns out to be quite different! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Developmental changes in memory structure and precision alter the use of retrieved episodes during decisions for reward | PNAS

Most widely studied option evaluation strategies rely on knowledge accumulated across repeated experiences. But how should options be evaluated in ...

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