I am excited to share the new preprint with @antcalcagni.bsky.social “Towards a Geometric Characterization of Multiverse Analysis” arxiv.org/abs/2607.11345 #Statistics #OpenScience #SensitivityAnalysis 🧵👇

Towards a Geometric Characterization of Multiverse Analysis

Multiverse analysis makes explicit how empirical conclusions depend on alternative, defensible analytical specifications. Standard approaches usually generate the multiverse first and then summarize i...

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🔴 New results 🔴 How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for perception? 👁️👂🧠 Thrilled to share our new results on brain-wide distributed processing underlying natural vision and audition! Link and 🧵 👇

⚫️ NeuroAI Symposium 2026 - it was a blast! ⚫️ Groundbreaking talks, lively discussions and inspiring ideas across #NeuroAI topics! 🧠🤖 A huge thank you to all our speakers, organizers, and participants for making #NeuroAISymposium2026 such a success 🙌 📸 Highlights at neuroaisymposium.com

What is the interplay between representations learned from (language) surface forms alone, and those learned from more grounded evidence (e.g.,vision)? Excited to share new work understanding “Cross-modal taxonomic generalization” in (V)LMs arxiv.org/abs/2603.07474 1/

How to start the year off right 😊 Our commentary in Nature Mental Health proposes using AI and VR to simulate experiences similar to those produced by traditional psychedelics, offering a novel pathway to advance psychedelic-assisted therapy research🤩 Link 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

AI-generated virtual psychedelics bridge digital and therapeutic frontiers in mental health research - Nature Mental Health

Psychedelic-assisted therapy shows promise for mental health treatment but faces regulatory, methodological and safety challenges. In this Comment, we propose using artificial intelligence and virtual...

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Antonino Greco@agreco.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🔵 New comment paper out in Nature Mental Health! 🔵 @natmentalhealth.nature.com We propose AI-generated psychedelic-like experiences in VR as a non-pharmacological and controllable research tool to bridge digital and psychedelic mental health research Link 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🧵👇

The real problem isn’t p-values, it’s the epistemology behind them. Science shouldn’t depend on arbitrary thresholds that change with context. Knowledge should accumulate, not collapse into yes/no verdicts. Turning continuous evidence into discrete “significance” decisions is information loss

Anne Scheel@annemscheel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >

📢 Deadline extended! 📢 The registration deadline for #SNS2025 has been extended to Sunday, September 28th! Register here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/reg... PS: Students of the GTC (Graduate Training Center for Neuroscience) in Tübingen can earn 1 CP for presenting a poster! 👀

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Are top-down feedback connections enough for robust vision? We found ConvRNN with top-down feedback exhibiting OOD robustness only when trained with dropout, revealing a dual mechanism for robust sensory coding with @marco-d.bsky.social, Karl Friston, Giovanni Pezzulo & @siegellab.bsky.social 🧵👇

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🔵 Proud and honoured to share a project I had the chance to contribute to. It’s been a long journey of research and collaboration, exploring how humans and deep neural networks perform in sound localization 👂📍 Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Robust spatial hearing beyond primary interaural cues in humans over deep neural networks

Spatial hearing allows humans to localize sound sources in the azimuth plane using interaural time (ITD) and level (ILD) differences, but the contribution of additional auditory features remains uncle...

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Antonino Greco@agreco.bsky.social · last yr.

🔵 Proud to share our new preprint 🔵 We compared humans and deep neural networks on sound localization 👂📍 Humans robustly localized OOD sounds even without primary interaural cues (ITD & ILD) Models localized well only in-training distribution sounds, failing on OOD regime Link & full story 🧵👇

🧠⏱️ New preprint! We found that temporal prediction errors are more strongly encoded when an overt response is required, and this encoding occurs in motor rather than sensory space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇

Honored to receive the ✨HIH Paper of the Year Award✨ for our work on predictive learning published in @natcomms.nature.com last year! Huge thanks to @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social and all collaborators — this recognition means a lot! 🙏 Check out the paper here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Predictive learning shapes the representational geometry of the human brain - Nature Communications

This study shows that the human brain aligns its neural representations to the statistical structure of sensory inputs, and that the magnitude of this representational shift correlates with the synerg...

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Hertie-Institut für klinische Hirnforschung (HIH)@hih-tuebingen.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Congrats to Dr. Antonino Greco for winning the “HIH Paper of the Year Award” during yesterday's Neuroscience Campus Get Together for his publication “Predictive learning shapes the representational geometry of the human brain” in Nature Communications. Well done! 🙌 More info: tinyurl.com/mw3kkc36

Word learning is usually about what a word does refer to. But can toddlers learn from what it doesn’t? Our new Cognition paper shows 20-month-olds use negative evidence to infer novel word meanings, reshaping theories of language development. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🤩New preprint out! 🎉 We explore the neural signatures of predictive coding during the acquisition of incidental sensory associations. Huge thanks to @agreco.bsky.social for leading this work!

Antonino Greco@agreco.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Can humans learn sensory regularities that are irrelevant to ongoing behavior? Yes, and we reveal the predictive coding mechanisms behind their acquisition Our results support uncertainty minimization over environmental state transitions as a core objective of brain function 🧵👇

The European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning is coming to Tübingen! 🌸

EWRL@ewrl-org.bsky.social · last yr.

Time to submit your paper! EWRL submissions are open!💫 Check out the Call for Papers here: euro-workshop-on-reinforcement-learning.github.io/ewrl18/

🙌 Hot off the presses @natcomms.nature.com! We created a custom #Minecraft environment to study a long-standing puzzle in cognitive science: How do humans flexibly adapt their individual and social learning strategies in dynamic, realistic situations? Check it out 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

🧠 What happens in the brain when we turn ideas into stories, and what makes a story truly creative? Our latest study explores the neural mechanisms supporting semantic control during narrative ideation. #fMRI + #LLMs Out in Communications Biology @commsbio.bsky.social A thread 👇

My latest installment of brain state modeling in creativity is out @ Psychophysiology! We found generating novel metaphors is associated with widespread alpha-band synchronization early on in ideation and, paradoxically, alpha-desynch right before response. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Verbal creativity in generating novel metaphors is widely recognized, but its electrophysiological basis has not been investigated. By applying brain state analysis to EEG data, we identify oscillato...

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Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the A.M. Turing Award for developing the theoretical foundations of reinforcement learning, a key method behind many major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. 🧵

🚨 New Preprint!! LLMs trained on next-word prediction (NWP) show high alignment with brain recordings. But what drives this alignment—linguistic structure or world knowledge? And how does this alignment evolve during training? Our new paper explores these questions. 👇🧵

Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Language-like efficiency in whale communication

Whale vocalizations follow efficiency rules seen in human language, revealing striking similarities in communication systems.

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Cognitive psych is often traced back to the 1950s. Psychology is often traced to Wundt's lab in 1879. Textbooks speak of "proto-psychologists" like Fechner & Helmholtz in the 1800s... Westerners all. Have you heard about Ibn al-Haytham, whose work predated them by 100s of years? 1/4

How do spatiotemporal patterns of brain activity evolve from childhood to adulthood? 🧠✨ Find in the latest from @tingsterx.bsky.social and ⭐coauthors 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My prediction is that in 30-50 years, not a single neuroscientist will study the brain in terms of "regions". These will be the last localizationist-driven decades 🔮 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@thelablab.bsky.social · 2y ago

🗣️ Language is widely distributed throughout the brain 🧠 In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our new study! Can visual hallucinations in virtual reality shape high-level cognitive processes? 🧠🍄👾 Check out our article to find out more! 🚀

Antonino Greco@agreco.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 Psychedelics alter cognition profoundly, but is the alteration of the visual perception causally related to high-level cognition modulation? In VR, we found that simulated visual hallucinations affect high-level human cognition in specific ways! Link 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.co... 🧵👇

We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️‍🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...

As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone

The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write

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“Women leave or consider leaving [faculty positions] because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty

Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.

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How critically or favorably do we cite ourselves? How favorably do we cite collaborators? Do high h-index scholars cite more critically than low h-index scholars? Are some disciplines (or countries) more critical than others? Why? Check out our new manuscript: arxiv.org/abs/2411.09675

Happy New Year🎉 Thrilled to start 2025 with $1M from @cziscience.bsky.social @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social to study the maternal brain using AI! Grateful for the chance to advance science for mothers worldwide 🧠 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @susanacarmona.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social

Our new paper! "Analytic theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models" lead expertly by @masonkamb.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292 Our closed-form theory needs no training, is mechanistically interpretable & accurately predicts diffusion model outputs with high median r^2~0.9