Happening this morning at #CCN poster session C, @zahmb.bsky.social will present ‘Mechanisms of Emergent Analogical Mapping’ 2026.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=p... please check it out if you’re at CCN!
Poster Presentation
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Ata Karagoz
@atabk.bsky.social
Postdoc at UChicago in Bakkour lab. PhD from WUSTL. Interested in how we build models of the world, naturalistic neuroimaging, and reinforcement learning.
Don't miss @jlineuro.bsky.social poster today at #CCN2026! Come learn how people's behavior during planning can reveal their self-efficacy beliefs. Really excited about this work with Jing & @markkho.bsky.social 🎉
Jing Li@jlineuro.bsky.social · 16h agoDo people plan based on their true ability or what they think they can do? We built a computational model of self-efficacy in planning and a novel task 🧗 that measures self-efficacy from behavior. With @angelaradulescu.bsky.social and @markkho.bsky.social. Poster C23, Wed 9:30–11:15 am #CCN2026
Let's continue our #CCN2026 Back2NY discussion: how can studying machines help us cognitive scientists understand the mind? In work with @ycleong.bsky.social , we use VLMs as a natural comparison case to probe the origins of affect-biased attention. Poster F91, Rosenthal, Thur, 1:45–3:30 pm.
👇presenting POSTER TMRW @ #CCN2026: *Metacognitive sensitivity governs adaptive representational compactness in hierarchical structure learning🧠* 📍C59 🕐 wed aug 5 9:30 - 11:15 AM w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social 😊 tinyurl.com/mv2zpbch @cogcompneuro.bsky.social
Metacognitive sensitivity governs adaptive representational compactness in hierarchical structure learning.pdf
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New Preprint Alert! With @jasonleng.bsky.social @ashenhav.bsky.social @shenhavlab.bsky.social “Characterizing the causes, dynamics, and consequences of choice deferral” osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵🧵🧵
First foray into characterizing hippocampal-mesolimbic contributions to substance use. Props to awesome former post-doc Blake Elliott for steering the charge. A few more substance-use related papers are in the pipeline! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Hippocampus–Ventral Striatum Connectivity Is Associated With Binge Drinking Frequency in Adults
Contextual information, such as spatial locations and social groups, are known to propagate reward-seeking behavior including binge drinking. Animal models suggest that context-evoked drug and alcoho....
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We are also conducting an open-area search for a tenure-track assistant professor in neuroscience. Please consider applying or forward to others who may be interested. psychology.uiowa.edu/about/job-op...
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Learn more about the job opportunities available at University of Iowa in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
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Lance Ying, Ryan Truong, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Samuel J. Gershman: Using Theory of Mind to Arbitrate between Social and Non-social Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28601 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.28601 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.28601
Lance Ying, William Van Uitert, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Samuel J. Gershman: Pragmatic Reasoning in Design https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26322 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.26322 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.26322
📢 PhD opening in comp. cog. neuro. in Toulouse: thalamo-frontal model of cognitive control. Modelling/EEG experience is welcome but not required. Application deadline: 8 Sept. 2026 Details: sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/eDrkeXfjdW... #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #EEG #neuroskyence #compneurosky
heading to nyc to give a talk at the Metacognition Science Satellite at #CCN2026 this sunday🗽🤔 catch me in the metacognition in novel task domains session @ 2:30🤗 w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social
Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨 Announcing another edition of the Metacognitive Science satellite in NYC, August 2nd 2026 (day before CCN) 🧠 🧪 Abstract submission is now open and closes May 15th! metacognitivescience.org Co-organised with @meganakpeters.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social @dobyrahnev.bsky.social
Evidence accumulation modeling of learning, repetition, and control adaptation processes in Stroop and contingency learning: https://osf.io/v2s5y
Please spread the word: We’re recruiting a postdoc! 📣 We study how shifting brain & attentional states shape memory and how people experience their worlds. fMRI/iEEG + a fun, supportive lab community + space to pursue your own ideas. 📅 Apply by Aug 15 tinyurl.com/fx5k7teb
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Thank you for this feature! I'm admittedly awkward on video, but I really enjoyed working on the spotlight piece and taking a bigger picture view of my research trajectory!
Association for Psychological Science@psychscience.bsky.social · 6d agoMeet @ycleong.bsky.social, assistant professor at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on how social context and affect construct subjective experience. Leong is also a 2026 APS Spence Award recipient www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Go work with an excellent scientist and all around star of a human being!
Neal Morton@nealmorton.bsky.social · last wk.My lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is recruiting a full-time research coordinator! We study how human memory supports optimal decision making in both familiar contexts and new situations, using behavioral and neuroimaging data with model simulations. hamllab.org/positions/re... 🧠📈
I'm recruiting two postdocs (or potentially PhD students) to work on projects at the intersection of cognition, neuroscience, and AI (with a particular emphasis on mechanistic interpretability). Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... and please share!
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Excited to finally share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com: Hippocampal ripples initiate cortical dimensionality expansion for memory retrieval www.nature.com/articles/s41... With @s-michelmann.bsky.social and @doellerlab.bsky.social
Hippocampal ripples initiate cortical dimensionality expansion for memory retrieval - Nature Communications
How past experiences are reconstructed from memory remains unclear. Here the authors used intracranial EEG to show that hippocampal ripples reshape the geometry of cortical representations, supporting...
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Replay of procedural #memory is independent of the #hippocampus doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience
Thompson, Rollik and colleagues show that, during sleep, the brain replays procedural memories in the striatum independently of the hippocampus. Replay content was shaped by prior reward and error out...
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good morning!! it's day 2 of #cogsci2026, and we're so excited to hear about new work from Seo-young Lee, Jess Mankewitz, Polina Tvilodub, Jinyi Kuang, and Karla Perez!
My lab is hiring! We are recruiting a full time research coordinator to support our projects on memory brain states. More info and application: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Other at University of Virginia
Apply for Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Other at University of Virginia
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We're hiring professional track faculty in Psychology at UT Austin! Two Asst/Assoc Professor of Instruction positions & one Clinical Asst/Assoc Professor position for a licensed clinical psychologist. Instruction: apply.interfolio.com/188637 Clinical: apply.interfolio.com/188633 Please share!
How do people learn abstract knowledge over generations in a crafting game with rich structure? Come by my talk in the cultural evolution session on Friday morning at #CogSci2026 to find out!
Rayna did some fabulous work, check it out!
Rayna Tang@raynatang.bsky.social · 2w agoExcited to share that my first-ever first-author paper (w/ @atabk.bsky.social @AngeliqueDelarazan @zreagh.bsky.social) is now out in PNAS! Building a story to link two objects boosts associative memory and inference, but not memory for the objects themselves. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who wants to innovate at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience, and machine learning. 📍Munich 📅Flexible start: 10/2026–03/2027 ⏳Full consideration by 14/08/2026 💼Funded for 2 years, extension possible Discover, grow, collaborate, eat cake.
Our paper is out in @natmachintell.nature.com! We trained multiple RNNs to perform free recall. The best-performing ones learned a strategy akin to the memory palace technique. See thread below for more info. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A neural network model of free recall learns multiple memory strategies - Nature Machine Intelligence
Li et al. show that recurrent neural networks optimized for free recall discover diverse, human-like memory strategies beyond classical temporal context models, with top models using an index-based me...
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A neural network model of free recall learns multiple memory strategies www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A neural network model of free recall learns multiple memory strategies - Nature Machine Intelligence
Li et al. show that recurrent neural networks optimized for free recall discover diverse, human-like memory strategies beyond classical temporal context models, with top models using an index-based me...
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Planning to start talking with potential postdoc candidates by the end of this week. The position is very open in terms of topic area. Let me know ASAP if you might be interested!
aaron bornstein@aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 3w agoLooking to work with a postdoc. Prior experience with fMRI and computational modeling required, interest in psychiatry desired. Fellowship provides three years salary plus independent travel/equipment funds. Send CV and 2-3 manuscripts (preprints OK).
Brenda Milner is a hero and 108!! She did a lot more than discover the hippocampus is linked to declarative memory, but that work is the most famous.
Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 3w agoNeuroscientist Dr. Brenda Milner is recognized as one of the fundamental founders of modern cognitive neuropsychology. She proved the hippocampus is essential for forming long-term "declarative" memory (facts, names & events). She was born #OTD in 1918--she's 108 years old today! #WomenInSTEM
Aaron and his group are doing incredibly cool work, go join the fun!
aaron bornstein@aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 3w agoLooking to work with a postdoc. Prior experience with fMRI and computational modeling required, interest in psychiatry desired. Fellowship provides three years salary plus independent travel/equipment funds. Send CV and 2-3 manuscripts (preprints OK).