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Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses - Nature Neuroscience

Top-down projections from the orbitofrontal cortex carry predictive signals that grow with sound experience and suppress the auditory cortex via inhibitory circuits, revealing a predictive mechanism f...

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Any thoughts about these two questions? @fatatiti.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @c-rothkopf.bsky.social

Konstantina Kilteni@kkilteni.bsky.social · 5mo ago

But (1) why would external vibrations be "predicted" because of the reaching movement of the limb? I always struggle with this assumption in tactile suppression. Do you assume that the external vibrations during movement are being "mistaken" for sensory feedback of movement?

Hi Fabian, interesting work, thank you! I understand that the pattern you describe applies to externally generated stimuli during a reaching movement, rather than to self-generated stimuli that result from the movement itself.

Fabian Tatai@fatatai.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Why is touch perceived as weaker during movement? In our new preprint 📝, we examine tactile suppression during reaching. Using optimal control theory, we show that tactile suppression reflects dynamic, uncertainty-dependent integration of forward model predictions and sensory feedback.

New paper out from @noacemeljic.bsky.social at @ejneuroscience.bsky.social ! He studied whether the availability of visual input changes the temporal modulation of tactile perception during movement! 👇👇👇 (spoiler: and it does!)

Noa Cemeljic@noacemeljic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happy to share that our new paper has been published in the European Journal of Neuroscience (@ejneuroscience.bsky.social)! Using psychophysics, we show that vision fine-tunes self-touch predictions, leading to the temporal modulation of somatosensory perception during movements to self-touch.

“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks

Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...

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New paper from the lab: we look at changes in cerebellar grey matter with aging and how it can account for changes in cerebellar function. 1. Cerebellar volumes from all regions decrease similarly 2. Topological organization stayed similar 3. No structure-function relationship was found

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Aging is associated with uniform structural decline across cerebellar regions while preserving topological organization and showing no relation with sensorimotor function https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705695v1

So great! Mechanical engineers study the physics of elephant whiskers. Unlike mice, elephants don’t whisk. The physics of their whiskers suggests they amplify touch. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Functional gradients facilitate tactile sensing in elephant whiskers

Keratin composites enable animals to hike with hooves, fly with feathers, and sense with skin. Mammalian whiskers are elongated keratin rods attached to tactile skin structures that extend the animal’...

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Over 100 confirmed visitors to this conference, and there is still room to join for next week! Nijmegen, NL, 5-6 Feb

wimpouw@wimpouw.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL. Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.

Main postdoc study out! We can redefine prefrontal cortex regions with single-unit activity! Grateful to @carlenlab.bsky.social and @weltgeischt.bsky.social who made this crazy project real. Thanks to all co-authors, collaborators, and reviewers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A prefrontal cortex map based on single-neuron activity - Nature Neuroscience

The authors mapped spontaneous and choice activity across mouse prefrontal cortex. The activity maps aligned with intrinsic connectivity rather than anatomical subregions, suggesting that connectivity...

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Are you interested in a MSc/PhD in human sensorimotor neuroscience? Learn to design experiments, analyze data, read & write papers, present at conferences, & work with a vibrant group of students & faculty in a world-class research environment. #neuroskyence #psychscisky gribblelab.org/join.html

Jörn Diedrichsen@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!

Our latest work is now a version-of-record article (rather than a reviewed preprint) at @elife.bsky.social : elifesciences.org/articles/90780 with co-authors Kahori Kita, Scott Albert, Bob Scheidt, @rezashadmehr.bsky.social, and John Krakauer.

Separating the control of moving and holding in human post-stroke arm paresis

Patients with stroke often show impairment in both moving and holding the arm, deficits that are dissociable experimentally, suggesting that moving and holding are controlled by separate neural mechan...

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Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception | PNAS

Conscious awareness refers to the subjective experience of perceiving, thinking, and feeling and the ability to report these experiences. These per...

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Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL. Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.

New preprint! tinyurl.com/y6z57dsm How do people discover an effective strategy when the environment shifts—say, when adapting to an unfamiliar trackpad? Our take: strategic motor adaptation isn’t a smooth process of error reduction but rather a process of hypothesis testing. 🧵

Hypothesis Testing Governs an Efficiency-Flexibility Trade-off in Strategic Motor Learning

It remains unknown how people discover an effective movement strategy when the environment changes (e.g., when adapting to a new computer trackpad). We propose that strategic adaptation operates throu...

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On a roll with papers this week. PNAS paper with @michealdebarra.bsky.social giving some evidence to the idea that people turn to the supernatural because of uncertainty about causal processes. BONUS of curing whooping cough with donkeys and warts with snails 🐌

Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 8mo ago

1/ 🧵 New PNAS paper by CCE’s @michealdebarra.bsky.social @aiyanakoka.bsky.social with Angel V Jiménez and Nachita Rosun🎉 📄 Why do people turn to religious or supernatural cures? 🧪🏺 #evolpsy #evolanth #evolutionarybehaviouralsciences #culturalevolution

How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all times, Yes, I teach it to students daily, and refer to it in lots of papers. Sorry. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all time

I believe we should talk about the mistakes we make.

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Did you know the heart imprints onto the voice? New preprint spearheaded by Marijn Hafkamp, confirming (seemingly forgotten) research from the 80's and testing for the first time possible biomechanical mechanisms (evidence points to heart-lung-voice interactions). wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...

"Neuroscientists need better training in computational methods." We got you. Join us in July: neuromatch.io/courses/ Our #ComputationalNeuroscience course is the perfect way to gain practical experience and build a strong foundation in this field.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 8mo ago

As neuroscience expands, @thetransmitter.bsky.social asks, how can neuroscience training programs best meet the needs of students and the field? See what survey respondents had to say: www.thetransmitter.org/training/how... #neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience

*13th MindBrainBody Symposium* 📆 Mar 9-11, 2026 🏠 #Berlin & virtual (deadline: Jan 8, 2026) Keynotes: - @ulrikebingel.bsky.social - Karl Friston (online) - @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social - Sonja Kotz - Julian Thayer ...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters. Let's meet!

So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system. #interoception #neuroskyence

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 9mo ago

How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

Come be my colleague! We are looking for an applicant who can strengthen our research profile in computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or computational modelling of social processes. international.au.dk/about/profil...

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

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This month's #TMS MultiLab meeting will be given by @phivph.com Phivos Phylactou, on: "The eyes are the window to t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ brain excitability" Friday 28th, 14:00 GMT 👀🧠🧲⚡️ Get the meeting link from our GitHub pages or Slack channel - get in touch if you can't find it! github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

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Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab

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Big thanks to this afternoon’s #SfN25 symposium speakers for illuminating mechanisms of sensory cancellation across species and modalities, and especially to @kkilteni.bsky.social for organizing!

🚨🚨 We're hiring !! Looking for postdoc? Come work in an international, collaborative and stimulating environment on mechanisms of human upper limb motor control 👇👇👇 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/386645

Postdoc Position on Systems Neuroscience, Motor Control at UCLouvain, Belgium

Project Title: Multi-disciplinary, multi-lab investigations of the neural bases of human sensorimotor control Project Description:

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🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.

Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

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Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS! @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social By me + Hanna Hillman We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs

The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...

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