Tolles Interview mit @ulrikebingel.bsky.social vom Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR) 🔽 www.gesundheitsforschung-bmftr.de/de/mit-dem-p...

Mit dem Placebo-Effekt wirken viele Behandlungen besser - DLR Gesundheitsforschung

Wie gut eine Therapie wirkt, wird auch durch den Placebo-Effekt beeinflusst. Wie sich dieser beeinflussen lässt und welche Rolle Therapeutinnen und Therapeuten dabei spielen, erläutert Professorin Ulr...

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Check out the new preprint from the amazing @adamjcurtis.bsky.social! Memory Benefits for Schematically Incongruent Sequences Depend on the Type of Violation #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

Adam Curtis@adamjcurtis.bsky.social · last wk.

📢 New preprint with @aidanhorner.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social investigating how schematic violations shape memory for sequences of events. Memory Benefits for Schematically Incongruent Sequences Depend on the Type of Violation osf.io/preprints/ps...

A key challenge for computational psychiatry is to distinguish state from trait markers and go beyond cross-sectional studies. Here we show that as paranoia waxes and wanes in patients with schizophrenia, so too do volatility priors

Biological Psychiatry@biologicalpsych.bsky.social · last wk.

Individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders expect greater volatility in the world, and this cognitive bias is linked to paranoia and delusion severity over time.

Neue Perspektive der Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie in der Psychologischen Rundschau: KI aus Sicht der biologischen Psychologie und Neuropsychologie: Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Grenzen econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1...

KI aus Sicht der biologischen Psychologie und Neuropsychologie: Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Grenzen: Eine Perspektive der Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie: Psyc...

Zusammenfassung: Die Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie (BNP) untersucht die biologischen Grundlagen psychischer Prozesse – von molekularen Mechanismen bis hin zu endokrinen Regulationssyste...

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The PhD position in our lab closes 31 July - apply now!

Peter Kok@peterkok.bsky.social · last mo.

And the PhD position is here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Deadline: 31 July. Sadly the PhD position is only available to students eligible for UK home fees. 3/3

A lay summary explains this cool study from @stefaniebrassen.bsky.social et al. 😍 www.clearskyscience.com/en/10.1038/s...

The Power of Expectations@sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Amazing new work from project A06 led by Eun Jin Shim and @stefaniebrassen.bsky.social! 🤩 This study examined whether positive expectations improve outcomes in depressed patients and whether individual placebo responsiveness predicts treatment success 💊 Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to Sihui Zhang and team Ioannis Terzidis, @rosenblaug.bsky.social & Christoph Korn! It was a pleasure to be a (small) part of this one: Pupil dilation reflects prediction errors in learning about others’ personality traits 👀⁉️https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsag060

Pupil dilation reflects prediction errors in learning about others’ personality traits

Abstract. Learning about others’ personality traits is crucial for building personal relationships. This learning process can be conceptualized as reductio

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'The enormous and overwhelming -not to say pathetic- admiration, even adoration of the author for her subject is barely acceptable'

Gordon Ramsay Says 'Pathetic' on MasterChef

ALT: Gordon Ramsay Says 'Pathetic' on MasterChef

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Friedrich Merz wollte doch was gegen hohe Krankenstände machen - wie wäre es, die Psychotheraphie nicht kaputt zu sparen?

More than words: Experience shapes #placebo pain relief through additional brain pathways 🧠 We're excited to share our latest publication in @natcomms.nature.com! 🤩 🔗 Read the paper: rdcu.be/fuxmn #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #PainResearch #BrainImaging #TeamScience #Reproducibility

The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social

Volume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

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An exciting MEG+pupillometry study by @quiringehmacher.bsky.social demonstrating coordination between mechanisms mediating perception and learning. Sensory cortex tracks prediction error continuously in a graded manner, while the brainstem only responds once crossing a threshold. Excellent summary👇

Quirin Gehmacher@quiringehmacher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New preprint w/ @akalt.bsky.social, Juliane Schubert, Nathan Weisz, & @clarepress.bsky.social 🎉 Predictive-brain accounts treat "prediction error" as one signal. We find it's two jobs, in two dissociable systems. And one of them you can watch in the pupil, as people listen to a story. 🧵 (1/9)

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

A bee analogue of Kohler's insight learning experiments

Science Magazine@science.org · 2mo ago

A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. https://scim.ag/4vs08dC

#ECR, PhDs and postdocs, take note! Are you aiming for a professorship and would like to lead an independent junior research group? Then come to our info session about the DFG's Emmy Noether Programme, its eligibility requirements and your funding opportunities. Full Details▶️ sohub.io/gnb1

Proud to share @carina-ufer.bsky.social's new preprint on prior precision as a key in perceptual inference under competing priors. 👇

Carina Ufer@carina-ufer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨New preprint w/ @fabianschneider.bsky.social @helenblank.bsky.social Within the predictive processing framework, we found something counterintuitive: a more precise prior can make a cause less likely to be inferred. Sounds wrong but makes sense. Here's why👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 📜1/11

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics a...

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Online Now: Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

#PuG2026 was a fantastic conference! Now you can already safely the date for #PuG2027 in Oldenburg: 6-8 May, 2027! 🧠

Fantastic resource of German sentences to study predictive processes! Thank you @esterner.bsky.social & @franziskaknolle.bsky.social

Franziska Knolle@franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am so proud of the amazing work by @esterner.bsky.social!🤩 This database is fantastic to extract validated and linguistically described sentence stimuli! We even have downloadable recordings of the stimuli! ‼️It’s a great resource when you’d like to design a German language paradigm! Enjoy!!😊

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations

Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics

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Call for papers: ICHR/ECHR 2026 (deadline June 15) The next meeting of ICHR will be at TU Munich (Oct 19-21), hosted by the fantastic @franziskaknolle.bsky.social! Get your abstracts in and join us for *the* meeting on voices, visions, presences & more - with 5 stellar keynotes 1/n

We have two job openings in my lab currently — for a postdoc (100% FTE some teaching four years) and a postdoc/phd student (75% FTE no teaching three years). Check them out at www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/be...

It's that time of the year: IGOR is going to #PuG2026 in Heidelberg! 🧠 Interested in open and reproducible science? Come meet us, discover our latest work, and get involved. 🧵 Check the thread below for all our events #PuG2026 #IGOR [1/6]

Mit seinem Werk über das Bewusstsein erlangte David Chalmers vor 30 Jahren große Popularität. Im Juni diskutiert er in Bochum alte und neue Fragen zum Thema.

Internationale Koryphäen diskutieren das Problem des Bewusstseins

Vor 30 Jahre veröffentlichte David Chalmers sein bahnbrechendes Buch „The Conscious Mind“, in dem er eine Wissenschaft des Bewusstseins theoretisch fundieren wollte. Im Juni kommt er nach Bochum.

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Now out in Nature Neuroscience: "Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand". www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our eyes don't linger because recognition is hard; they linger to remember. Let me take you on a quick tour. 🧵

Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand - Nature Neuroscience

By combining magnetoencephalography and eye tracking, this study sheds light on why people fixate on some parts of natural scenes longer than others. Rather than visual complexity, fixation durations ...

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💭 How, when, and where do we remember events we have truly experienced? Philosophers and computational neuroscientists are working together to answer this question. Learn more in this @ruhr-uni-bochum.de story feat. Bernstein member Sen Cheng 👉️ bit.ly/4fz8n2R #Neuroskyence #BernsteinNetwork 🧠 📈

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

How much do treatment expectations matter in depression? Our new paper underscores the translational value of experimental placebo models for understanding and predicting real-world expectation effects. Part of our work in @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social Read more: rdcu.be/fiAkd

Acute placebo responsiveness predicts longitudinal expectation effects in antidepressant treatment

Translational Psychiatry - Acute placebo responsiveness predicts longitudinal expectation effects in antidepressant treatment

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What an inspiring day focussing on Translation in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience! Thanks to Sigrid Elsenbruch, Dirk Scheele and Adriane Icenhour for bringing us together and the great talks and discussions. So glad to have such amazing colleages nearby and in our Network!

The Power of Expectations@sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 3mo ago

After the lunch break, our CRC speaker @ulrikebingel.bsky.social is now talking about the role of expectations for health and treatment outcomes ⚕️👩‍⚕️💊 Very important in all this: the patient perspective! 🙌

Rethinking hierarchy: the auditory system as an integrated cortical–subcortical network www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rethinking hierarchy: the auditory system as an integrated cortical–subcortical network - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

The auditory system differs from other senses in the complexity of its subcortical pathways. King and colleagues examine how subcortical structures transform sound representations and integrate sensor...

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