Dr. Tianjiao Zhang's landmark study of naturalistic navigation has been accepted in Nature Neuroscience! Encoding models fit 28,134 features to fMRI from a virtual taxi-driving task, revealing 11 distinct cortical regions that transform perception into action. Read the preprint. gallantlab.org

Shout-out to @torwager.bsky.social and the CAN Lab, who created this amazing resource for all #placebo researchers! 💊 Check it out: scienceofplacebo.org

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Launching scienceofplacebo.org: a living bibliography of placebo and nocebo research. New papers screened & tagged daily by design, population, outcome and findings, with a searchable database (currently about 5,000 papers), an interactive researcher map, events, news and discussion.

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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Quantifying memory recall is hard! Luckily, natural language processing (incl. #LLMs) offers new, automated, and scalable ways to do that! Great new review by Fenerci & @signysheldon.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Studying memory narratives with natural language processing

Cognitive neuroscience research has begun to use natural language processing (NLP) to examine memory narratives with the hopes of gaining a nuanced understanding of the mechanisms underlying differenc...

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Aging Brains Maintain Robust Language Networks Despite Cognitive Decline - Neuroscience News

A new MIT study reveals that the brain's language network remains robust and unchanged in older adults, even as executive functions and memory decline.

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🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 Apply: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Consciousness depends on the brain successfully coordinating activity across different scales. Emergent Multiscale Organisation of Neural Dynamics Fragments in Anaesthesia doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... #neuroscience

If you would like to teach theoretical modeling skills to your psychology or cognitive science students, or would like to learn these skills yourself, check out our open online textbook: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/

Happy #BINW26 everyone! My name is Jheannelle Johnson, an incoming MSL candidate at Northwestern, and I’m the Director of Development for Black In Neuro. The future I’m reimagining is one where optimism meets opportunity for those who wish to enter neuroscience regardless of their background.

Black In Neuro@blackinneuro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 It's Roll Call time! Kick off #BINW26 by introducing yourself! Share a selfie or short video telling us who you are, what you do, and the future you're helping reimagine. 🧠 Tag us and use #BINRollCall so we can celebrate our amazing community! Tag 3 BIN members you'd like to see join Roll Call ✨

Dracula 🧛‍♂️ has authored a paper condemning predatory journals as bloodsuckers. And he's already been cited! New entry to my collection of hoaxes. We are up to 46 hoaxes spread over a whopping 461 pages! bit.ly/StingPred

How does the brain respond to news of human lives at risk? For money, the brain responds more with the amount that could be lost. For human lives, the response collapses, and a life lost abroad doesn't hit like one at home. The wiring behind compassion fade: doi.org/10.1093/scan...

Most neurons seem to be generalists, not specialists. Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure. Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience www.newscientist.com/article/2581...

Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - Nature

Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.

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Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Thanks to Kshipra Guranandan, my notebook on how to design efficient fMRI experiments (for activity, connectivity and pattern analysis) is now available in Python as a Jupyter notebook (as well as previous Matlab): github.com/RikHenson/fM...

GitHub - RikHenson/fMRIefficiency

Contribute to RikHenson/fMRIefficiency development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The strength of this result will shape everything that happens next. Higher turnout = signals strength Strong mandate = leverage Don’t wait - vote as soon as your ballot arrives. #DefendSussex We've been sold the story across Britain that this is inevitable. It isn't. Stand-up. Vote.

Are you like Danny? Have you voted yet? Have your colleagues? Turnout is everything. ✅ Vote ✅ Remind colleagues ✅ Support your department reps This is collective - every vote counts - every job matters! #DefendSussex

We're finally getting the tools to study replay in humans. But why bother? What can we learn from it that we don't know from rodent recordings? Our thoughts are now out in a new TICS Forum Great fun writing this w @smfleming.bsky.social + @maritpetzka.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

What can we learn from studying replay in humans?

Noninvasive methods are making it possible to study neural replay in humans. Although focused on alignment with rodent findings, human research often …

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Congrats to @masudhusain.bsky.social on being elected to FRS!

The Royal Society@royalsociety.org · 4mo ago

Professor Masud Husain FMedSci FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a neurologist and neuroscientist whose research focuses on understanding human cognition and its disorders. #RSFellows https://royalsociety.org/people/masud-husain-38121/

We are happy to share our research, recently published in Nature Communication! Using a naturalistic memory task, we show that life events are represented in the brain in different formats, highlighting the flexibility of the memory system. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Episodic events are flexibly encoded in both integrated and separated neural representations - Nature Communications

People often need to remember unique details while also finding connections across experiences. Here, the authors show that the brain flexibly links related events while preserving their distinct feat...

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Impressive but sobering stuff for us fMRI researchers... looking forward to digging in!

Stephanie Noble@sneuroble.bsky.social · 5mo ago

So glad to finally share work years in the making! What started with fMRI effect size benchmarks ended up showing that conventional study planning detects ~half of expected brain effects, suggesting more distributed processes than the lit shows (+ new methods for mass univ effect/power estimation)

A recent paper by Epp et al. in NN claimed that ~40% of reported BOLD findings could be misinterpreted. In our reanalysis, we identified several statistical issues that, in our view, undermine these conclusions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 👇 1/11

Lovely work using PREVENT cohort (and Cam-CAN in a lesser role ;-)

TCD School of Psychology@tcdpsychology.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Genetic risk of Alzheimer's disease is associated with loss of brain network segregation in midlife" - New paper published, co-authored by Professor Lorina Naci. Read the full paper here: https://ow.ly/fS1j50Z35L5 #Neuroscience @lorinanaci.bsky.social thenacilab.bsky.social TrinityNeuroscience

This is the May cover of NN but it has already been debunked on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Such a clear statement about the ridiculous pace of publishing (not just NN).

Nature Neuroscience@natneuro.nature.com · 5mo ago

Check out our May issue! www.nature.com/neuro/volume...

Many of you asked how we create those pretty whole-brain plots with the cortical outline. We just made it available as a Python package: pni-lab.github.io/quickbrain/

Feedforward sweep is a bad idea. And brains don't seem to do it.

Daniel Anthes@anthesdaniel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited about our new preprint: “The illusory simplicity of the feedforward pass: evidence for the dynamical nature of stimulus encoding along the primate ventral stream” arxiv.org/abs/2604.12825 Work with Sushrut Thorat, Anna Mitola, Paolo Papale, Peter König & Tim Kietzmann 🧵 thread below

Our new paper on aging and temporal order memory (with @jzacks.bsky.social) is now out in Psych & Aging! Using a narrative paradigm, we found that older adults have preserved event-based memory organization and show greater knowledge-related benefits in temporal memory than younger adults. 🌟

Only ONE day left! 🚨⌛ Register today and claim your place on SPM For MEG/EEG 2026!

Department of Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Deadline Approaching! ⌛🚨 Register before the 14th of May and secure your place in the SPM For MEG/EEG course for 2026! Link to Register ➡️ onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...