This paper is now out in @pnas.org : www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Long-horizon associative learning as a unifying framework for statistical learning across scales | PNAS

Sensory inputs are rich with temporal patterns that unfold across multiple timescales. Uncovering these regularities is essential for anticipating ...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last yr.

A proposal for unifying statistical learning at different scales: Long-Horizon Associative Learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.12.642610v1

What a cool work!

Théo Morfoisse@theomorfoisse.bsky.social · last wk.

When children start school, how do their brains change to support learning of formal mathematics? Our new paper, with @standehaene.bsky.social, just out in PNAS, followed ~50 children with yearly fMRI scans over 3 years, from preschool to 2nd grade, to see how this network develops. 🧵

When children start school, how do their brains change to support learning of formal mathematics? Our new paper, with @standehaene.bsky.social, just out in PNAS, followed ~50 children with yearly fMRI scans over 3 years, from preschool to 2nd grade, to see how this network develops. 🧵

are you a puzzle-enjoyer, or would you like to become one? try out a game or two at mitpuzzles.com! we're trying to figure out the factors that separate novice from expert problem solving, and what changes with experience, using self-motivated puzzle solving

Is spatial navigation innate 🧠? Using #NeuroPixels we show that the #torus 🍩 underlying the #GridCell map exists already on day 10 in rats — before pups open eyes and ears and before they start upright walking. 🧵1:4 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper in Nature Communications 🎉 Led by @romanececchi.bsky.social, with @sgluth.bsky.social, we show that attention shapes value normalization in human reinforcement learning. Eye-tracking models explain nonlinear reward scaling better than an ad hoc parameter. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From Syllables to Words: EEG Evidence of Different Age Trajectories in Speech Tracking and Statistical Learning in Infants at High and Low Likelihood for Autism https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.20.689632v1

We have a new postdoc position to work on Neuro AI and human intracranial recording with Pierre Bourdillon and I: Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Lab info: bourdillon-titan-lab.fr feel free to RT ;)

An ordinal Language of Thought supports human memory for regular sequences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.14.725160v1

Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr

🚨 Post-doc Job ALERT! Interested in using AI to better understand how the brain enjoys music? Or how auditory processing changes in Hearing Loss? Want to eat your weight in 🥖, 🧀, and 🍷? Click on this! #neurojobs, #blackinneuro, #neuroskyence, #psychjobs research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Postdoctoral Position in AI, Machine Learning and Auditory Neuroscience - Research

Paris, France | Institut de l’Audition (Institut Pasteur)Duration: 24 months (flexible start)Supervisor: Keith Doelling (INSERM) About the position We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to focus...

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Poster tonight at #cosyne26 (1-079)! @wanqingjiang.bsky.social & @noehamou.bsky.social show that mice learn hidden community structure in a 15-odour graph even when transition statistics are flat. Fun collaboration with @saxelab.bsky.social that started with East London coffees ☕!

📢 PhD position in Developmental Language Modelling (PLZ RT) What can human language acquisition teach us about training language models? Join us as a PhD! mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-developmental-language @carorowland.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social

Excited to share our new paper in @pnas.org with @bnmorillon.bsky.social & @valentinwyart.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We study three core inference systems, and how their interaction shapes human learning and decision-making.

Our #IASL26 conference on statistical learning aims to bring together scientists from different disciplines who study how humans👨‍👧🧑‍🦳, as well as other species 🐒🦜 and systems 🤖🔠, learn regularities. ↖️🔍🔎↗️ If your work touches on this theme from any angle, we would love to receive your abstract!

Morten H. Christiansen@mh-christiansen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 You only have one week left to submit your 200-word abstract for the 2026 installment of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning (#StatLearnBCBL), which will take place in San Sebastian, Spain June 10-12 #IASL26 www.bcbl.eu/events/stati...

🔎Updated preprint "Humans use a dual policy to improve inferences during epistemic information seeking" by Yinan Cao, Clémence Alméras, Junseok Lee, Inès Maye, and Valentin Wyart. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Volatility-driven learning in human infants

Infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament.

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Marseille folks: I’m organizing a one-day workshop on Distributed Computations for Flexible Behavior (Apr 16, Timone Campus) with a great line-up of speakers bridging theory, circuits & whole-brain dynamics! 🧠 Free registration (mandatory, incl. lunch): fannycazettes.limesurvey.net/172448?lang=...

@summerfieldlab.bsky.social and I are very happy to share this paper! Building on work by @scychan.bsky.social, we show that how people learn depends on the distribution of examples they see, and changes in a way that’s very similar to transformer models.

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · 8mo ago

In this Article, @jacquespesnot.bsky.social and @summerfieldlab.bsky.social compare humans to transformer networks in a task designed to distinguish "in-weights" and "in-context" learning processes.

Our paper on the human brain networks sensitive to geometric shape is now final in @elife.bsky.social, with nice videos by Mathias Sablé-Meyer explaining each figure! A geometric shape regularity effect in the human brain elifesciences.org/articles/106...

A geometric shape regularity effect in the human brain

fMRI and MEG results in adults and children show encoding of abstract geometric regularities in dorsal-parietal, temporal, and frontal regions, pointing to a system for symbolic geometric representati...

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1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

Really cool to see the version of record finally out ! Hats off, Mathias :)

Mathias Sablé-Meyer@mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Excited to see this Version Of Record of my work out in @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/articles/106... We investigate the mental representation of geometric shapes in adults and children using fMRI and MEG. Each figure has a video of me explaining the figure: go and read it, or read below.

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

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Some numbers seem to show up everywhere. Think of 10, 12, 24, 36... Others—like 26 or 34—don’t get the same attention.Why? In our new paper with @standehaene.bsky.social and @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social, we argue it's because of how the mind builds number concepts. 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

I'm very pleased to share our latest study: ‘Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain’, by L Evanson, P Bourdillon et al: - Paper: ai.meta.com/research/pub... - Blog: ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fa... - Thread below 👇

Deep bidirectional interplay between sensory integration and latent rule discovery https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.29.651167v1

La croisade anti-écrans part en vrille. Pourquoi la tribune du 29 avril signée par cinq sociétés médicales est tout sauf un argumentaire rigoureux fondé sur des résultats probants. Ma nouvelle chronique en libre accès dans l'Express: www.lexpress.fr/sciences-san...

Faut-il vraiment interdire les écrans avant six ans ? Les dessous d'une croisade qui part en vrille

Selon notre chroniqueur Franck Ramus, spécialiste de ces questions, la tribune publiée le 29 avril et signée par cinq sociétés savantes est "tout sauf un argumentaire rigoureux fondé sur des…

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📢 New publication alert! 📢 👂Ever struggled to understand natural speech in a noisy environment? 🤔 Our new research shows that moving rhythmically can actually help you hear better! royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/ZWRPM... with: @strijkers.bsky.social & Noémie teRietmolen 🧵👇

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants

Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

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I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees. Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

PhD opportunity - ERC ThoughtOrigins

We are seeking a graduate student in comparative cognition to work on a ERC-funded project (to Isabelle Dautriche) to investigate the format of thought in the absence of a language in two populations:...

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