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Mark Blumberg@marksblumberg.bsky.social · 5d ago

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...

A special highlight of our work on precision fMRI of the prefrontal cortex

WCIA 3 News@wcia3news.bsky.social · 2w ago

Out of the 30 million MRIs performed in the United States every year, data shows about 22% of those are on the brain. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois are mapping out ways to see the results at a more detailed level.

Two time scales of adaptation in human learning rates doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Two time scales of adaptation in human learning rates

Humans adapt learning rates on both a fast and a slow time scale, and the central orbitofrontal cortex may represent the slow time scale.

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We're excited to welcome three new post-docs to the lab this month: Dr. Chenye Bao (University of Missouri) Dr. Gizem Filiz (Washington University in St. Louis) Dr. Veronica Zarr (University of Utah) Exciting times ahead!

Interested in timing, motor control, attention, working memory and/or stuttering? ⌛️ Curious to see how we try to bring these together in one study? 🧐 Check out our most recent, hot-off-the-press manuscript, born out of fun cross-field and cross-lab discussions ✨ Very excited to see this out ☀️🍾

Brain and Cognition Lab@brognition.bsky.social · 3w ago

🧵 New paper led by @irenetxeberria.bsky.social in press at Current Biology! A collaborative effort between the Brain and Cognition Lab and the Brain, Speech & Language Lab ⭐ Does the temporal organisation of action selection differ in stuttering? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A thread 👇

We're hiring a full-time Lab Manager for the Cognitive Flexibility Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland, studying cognitive control via brain recording, stimulation, and computational modeling. Ideal for research experience before grad school: cfd-lab.com/join

On my way to Barcelona to attend the #Fens forum. Let me know if you are there and would like to meet. Very happy to chat about @plosbiology.org and learn about your research.

The final version of this is now out at Cortex: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks much to @russpoldrack.org and two other reviewers for highly constructive feedback on the earlier version, and especially to @annemscheel.bsky.social, who suggested Cortex and edited the paper.

Jan R. Wessel@janw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I reviewed 5+ fMRI papers on response inhibition within roughly the last year, and the same points come up over and over again. So I wrote a short note last week entitled "The unique limitations of BOLD-fMRI in the study of response inhibition". You can read it here. osf.io/preprints/ps...

New work by former undergraduate student Ziqi Fu, in collaboration with @annaweinberg.bsky.social , finds that impulsive people don't make riskier choices, but they sure make risky choices faster! Just out in Affective Science link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Off the Cuff: Self-Reported Positive Urgency Predicts Rapid Choices During Risky Decision-Making - Affective Science

Impulsivity is a multifaceted personality trait reflecting a tendency to act on immediate urges, often linked to maladaptive real-world behaviors. One facet of impulsivity, Positive Urgency—the tenden...

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Thrilled to be featured in the @thetransmitter.bsky.social Liftoff Series! Grateful for the opportunity to share more about our launching lab's ethos and the big questions surrounding mechanisms of affect and mental health we aim to tackle in the coming years! 🧠

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · last mo.

In this month’s “Liftoff,” @marisosa.bsky.social discusses the challenges and excitement of task-switching as a new PI, and @debyee.bsky.social shares how she plans to foster a culture of reproducibility in her lab. #neuroskyence By @franciscorr25.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/liftoff-new-...

We have a new Cognitive Control Collaborative website: www.cognitivecontrol.net Six labs, more than 20 trainees, six years of collaboration (and counting). Consider joining us, many of us are looking for new grad students in the fall!

Here's a bit of unusual work on error processing and error awareness from our lab, which we've been working on off and on for around eight years: www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245... Details in thread

Pupil dilation indexes – but does not causally influence – conscious error detection: a double-blind, placebo-controlled investigation of performance-monitoring using atomoxetine.

Conscious error detection is accompanied by error-related changes in phasic autonomic activity. This autonomic response is diminished in older age – accompanied by impairments in the conscious detecti...

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#PuG crowd: interested in cognitive control? Come to our symposium “Cognitive Control: Domain-General, Domain-Specific, or Neither?” happening on Friday at 2 pm (room: HS07). We have a fantastic line-up: @annalschubert.bsky.social, Linda Bräutigam, @sarahdepue.bsky.social, Daxun Zhu, and myself. 👇

Does anybody have a favorite book recommendation to get an incoming college Biology student excited about (cognitive/clinical) neuroscience?

As a child, I always thought scientists learned by thinking hard until they have a great idea or insight. As a scientist, I mostly learn by realizing exactly how every great idea or insight I think I have is actually dumb and trivial. Anyway I just spend Saturday night in the lab for no reason.

New research from @neuroecologylab.bsky.social @oxcin.bsky.social helps address the large between-species gap that currently exists in #TranslationalNeuroscience by building a mouse-to-human brain translational model from gene expression. Read #openaccess now 👇

Translating brain anatomy and disease from mouse to human in latent gene expression space

Our work provides i) a quantitative bridge across evolutionary divergence between the human and the predominant preclinical species, ii) a predictive framework to help design and evaluate disease mode...

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Here's a list of things I'd rather do than try to open NWB data: - Chew on a ball of tinfoil - Drive an icepick into my eye socket - Take a full gainer into a cesspool - Watch James Harden play basketball List to be continued...

New preprint alert! This one led by @neurozarr.bsky.social. Veronica wanted to know how neural traveling waves change during general anesthesia, so we dug back into some of the Utah array data that my PhD advisor collected back in the mid aughts. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Lindsey Power, Sylvain Baillet, et al: A neuroscientist’s guide to neural burst detection doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Headed to #SOBP2026? Come visit our posters on stress and mental effort! F325: Investigating the Role of Serotonin in Stressor Controllability and Mental Effort Allocation (me!) S297: Learning and Generalization of Stressor Controllability for Mental Effort allocation (Tony El Nemer)

How does the human #brain stop movements under realistic conditions? @janw.bsky.social &co show that a fronto-basal ganglia circuit featuring the #SubthalamicNucleus rapidly engages & releases inhibition of specific movements, depending on environmental context @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/41UKLxR

📣 Postdoc in Human Neurophysiology & Neurorehab 📣 The Real-Time NeuroRehabilitation Lab at the U of Iowa is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Scholar! Motor control, EEG/TMS, neurorehabilitation, and real-time multimodal methods. 📅 Summer/Fall 2026 📧 sara-hussain@uiowa.edu Please share!

New work, now out in PLoS Biology. Using intracranial recordings & EEG, we find that the human STN rapidly engages / releases motor inhibition depending on task context, does so in tight accord w/ frontal cortex, and shows little to no lateralization while doing so. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A cortico-subthalamic circuit rapidly engages and releases inhibition of specific movements depending on the environmental context

How does the human brain stop movements under realistic conditions? Using intracranial recordings and multi-variate EEG decoding, this study shows that a fronto-basal ganglia circuit featuring the sub...

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Jan R. Wessel@janw.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New preprint from the lab, led by post-doc @cheolsoh.bsky.social and former post-doc Mario Hervault (now Asst Prof at UGrenoble). The boys used synchronous intracranial recordings from the human subthalamic nucleus & EEG to study β bursts during global & selective response inhibition. Details in 🧵

Sightseeing in Urbana, Illinois / Sightseeing in Bloomington, Indiana

We are EXTREMELY stoked that the Cognitive Control Collaborative is adding a sixth lab this year, as Debbie Yee will join us as a new Asst Prof in the UI Psych department! Great times ahead, can't wait!!!

Debbie Yee@debyee.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm SO pleased to announce that I'll be starting as an Asst Prof at @psychiowa.bsky.social this August. The lab will focus on neural & computational mechanisms of motivation, affect, & decision-making, with the aspirational goal of translation to neuropsychiatric disorders. 🧠 yeelabneuro.com

Here's an updated version of this paper. Unrelatedly if anyone knows how I can tweak my OS to explode my computer if I ever start a word document with the words "The limitations of SSRT..." please send me a fax. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Jan R. Wessel@janw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I reviewed 5+ fMRI papers on response inhibition within roughly the last year, and the same points come up over and over again. So I wrote a short note last week entitled "The unique limitations of BOLD-fMRI in the study of response inhibition". You can read it here. osf.io/preprints/ps...

ICYMI at #CNS2026, we have a new mentorship program! Learn more and sign up NOW to be a mentee or mentor: www.cogneurosociety.org/new-cns-ment... #neuroscience

New CNS Mentorship Program Now Open

New mentorship program for CNS!

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Proud of this one, led by former lab student Ali Caron (not on bluesky) and online at @jocn.bsky.social. direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Human Gaze Behaviors Track Abstract Stimulus Categories

Abstract. Categorization, or the ability to group stimuli according to behavioral relevance, is a cornerstone of abstract cognition. Neurophysiological studies in nonhuman primates have revealed that ...

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Slight but exciting departure from typical projects for me: I’m happy to share our paper finding that frontal beta event characteristics predict antidepressant response to sertraline (SSRI) has been accepted at J Psychiatric Research! 1/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #psychscisky #neuroskyence

Transient frontal spectral events from EEG predict antidepressant response to sertraline in depression

Resting-state scalp electroencephalography (EEG) is a promising method for predicting patient outcomes of antidepressant treatments. Machine-learning-based EEG analysis of averaged power features (APF...

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