How do #brains align during social interaction? @manuelvarlet.bsky.social &co show that interbrain info alignment emerges rapidly & strengthens with practice; distinct neural processes support sensory synchrony (early) & shared cognitive representation (late) @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3KnoweJ

This study shows that human pairs adopt stable cooperative, competitive, or mixed strategies. A computational model predicts dyadic choices and links these strategies to interaction dynamics, payoffs, and cost of cooperation. @violapriesemann.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Continuous dynamics of cooperation and competition in social decision-making - Communications Psychology

Using a continuous social foraging game, this study shows that human pairs adopt stable cooperative, competitive, or mixed strategies. A computational model predicts dyadic choices and links these str...

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Collaborating minds think alike, processing information in similar ways in a shared task | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... New publication in PLOS Biology: plos.io/4hBhuPy Denise Moerel, with @tgro.bsky.social, @drquekles.bsky.social, Sophie Smit at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social

Collaborating minds think alike, processing information in similar ways in a shared task

Whether great minds think alike is up for debate, but the collaborating minds of two people working on a shared task process information alike, according to a study published November 25th in the open...

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🚨 Only two weeks left to apply for our international visiting scholarships! DM or email m.varlet@westernsydney.edu.au if you’re interested.

The MARCS Institute@marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Applications are now open for the MARCS International Visiting Scholar Program 2026! 🌏 We are pleased to offer scholarships for PhD students and postdocs for visits of 1–3 months before the end of 2026. 📅 Applications close 4 December 2025. If you are interested, email marcs@westernsydney.edu.au

Dynamic neural processing of self-other synchronisation error in interpersonal coordination sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dynamic neural processing of self-other synchronisation error in interpersonal coordination

The human capacity to produce precisely synchronised actions with others is critical for everyday cooperative activities. Such interpersonal coordinat…

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Dr Denise Moerel and colleagues' article on how our brains make decisions in competitive settings is out now! Read the full Conversation article here: theconversation.com/even-in-a-si... The article published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience: academic.oup.com/scan/advance...

Even in a simple game, our brains keep score – and those scores shape every choice we make

Humans are surprisingly bad at being unpredictable.

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New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature

A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...

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❗️Preprint alert ❗️ When I was a college student in my neuroscience classes, I was always told that neuroimaging research involves a trade-off between statistical power and available resources. But what if you could have both? 1/n

Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents

Rhythmic neural activity is considered essential for adaptively modulating responses in the visual system. In this opinion article we posit that visua…

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🚨 Come work with us, we’re hiring! 🚨 See below our 2 postdoc positions at @institutpasteur.bsky.social in Paris. Funded by our ERC Synergy grant, this is a collaboration with the labs of Víctor Borrell in Spain ( @borrell-lab.bsky.social), Laurent Nguyen in Belgium and Kristian Franze in Germany 🧵⬇️

How can sharing our uncertainty with others alter our confidence when we're alone? Delighted to share the lab's new paper, with Einar Andreassen and @cdfrith.bsky.social. Particularly pleased as it's Einar's first! Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

⏱️ Speed up your path to publication! At Aperture Neuro: 📜 Submission ➡️ Final decision: 100 days (median) 📚 Submission ➡️ Publication: 144 days (median) 🌟We are open access, low cost, and welcome innovative research formats. 🔗 Submit today and make an impact faster: apertureneuro.org/about

🚨 New paper out with @samnastase.bsky.social and @haxbylab.bsky.social! We use representational similarity analysis to test how well behavioral, semantic, and visual models capture cortical representational geometries when viewing naturalistic action videos: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark. (Deadline January 6) international.au.dk/about/profil...

Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University

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

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A starter pack for people interested in inter-brain synchrony and simultaneous brain recording of all kind! Check if you're on it and, if not, let me know! #hyperscanning #dualeeg go.bsky.app/T1LTrQS

link.springer.com/article/10.3... Study of 45 mother-child dance pairs compared 2 synchrony measures: cross-wavelet transform (CWT) of head movements & generalized CWT for multiple body parts. Simple CWT correlated with interaction quality scores; complex GCWT didn't, despite capturing more detail

Dance with me? Analyzing interpersonal synchrony and quality of interaction during joint dance - Behavior Research Methods

This methodological paper examines the assessment of interpersonal synchrony during a joint dancing task between mothers and their children (aged 4 to 5 years) using OpenPose. This pose estimation too...

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Nature Neuroscience is hiring a computational/systems/cognitive editor! Come join our team! Happy to answer any questions. springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Neuroscience

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Neuroscience Location: New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Berlin or Shanghai Application Deadline: January 6, 2025 About Springer Natur...

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Full paper: van Rooij, I., Guest, O., Adolfi, F. et al. Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science. Comput Brain Behav (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s421...

Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science - Computational Brain & Behavior

The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of cognitive scien...

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New 716 hour EMG dataset just dropped ✨ ai.meta.com/blog/open-so...

Advancing Neuromotor Interfaces by Open Sourcing Surface Electromyography (sEMG) Datasets for Pose Estimation and Surface Typing

We’re releasing emg2qwerty and emg2pose—two large datasets and benchmarks for sEMG-based typing and pose estimation, as part of the NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks track.

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New paper story time (now out in PNAS)! We developed a method that caused people to learn new categories of visual objects, not by teaching them what the categories were, but by changing how their brains worked when they looked at individual objects in those categories. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain | PNAS

Learning requires changing the brain. This typically occurs through experience, study, or instruction. We report an alternate route for humans to a...

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🚨Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience with @drquekles.bsky.social @manuelvarlet.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social & David White to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan #postdoc #cogneuro #ACNS2024 tinyurl.com/SuperRecogni...

Get in touch if you want to visit in 2025 🧠🇦🇺

The MARCS Institute@marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

✈️ This week, we welcomed our final #International #VisitingFellow for 2024 and bid farewell to three others - just in time to announce that applications for 2025 scheme are now open! Apply to come and visit for 2-3 months. PhD Candidates & ECRs welcome. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3ztnrufd

**We are recruiting** Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/

My lab has been working on comparing neural representations for the past few years - methods like RSA, CKA, CCA, Procrustes distance We are often asked: What do these things tell us about the system's function? How do they relate to decoding? Our new paper has some answers arxiv.org/abs/2411.08197

Final call! One week left to apply for this postdoc in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social We’re looking for a cognitive neuroscientist to join a four-year project, investigating how we learn from other people about the uncertainty in our own minds 🧠 💭 Any Qs feel free to email 📧

Daniel Yon@danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m still hiring! 🧠 Two weeks left to apply for this postdoc w/ me @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social You’ll use fMRI to study how metacognition, social cognition, prediction and learning connect. And you’ll join a collaborative team across Birkbeck, Oxford, Yale and the Institute of Philosophy.

The brain expresses activity in complex patterns, reflecting the influence of cytoarchitectural, biochemical & genetic properties. Eigenstrapping is our method for inferring the similarity between two such brain maps while excluding spurious (chance) relationships www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you're applying to #PhD programs and interested in Human + #AI Collaboration, @mattgroh.bsky.social is recruiting a student to join him at Kellogg 🧪 Lab site: human-ai-collaboration-lab.kellogg.northwestern.edu PhD application: www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/admissions/p...

Human-AI Collaboration Lab (HAIC)

Investigating how to boost human problem solving capabilities with AI

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The Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC) and Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) are holding a joint meeting in 2025, to be held at UNSW in Sydney, from June 17-20. Abstract and symposium submissions are open! epc.psy.unsw.edu.au/index.html

Planning to apply to PhD programs? Join our dynamic department at @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social 🧠🌲 Our lab has an opening this cycle for someone with an interest in understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms of human interaction How to apply (deadline Dec 1): pbs.dartmouth.edu/menufeature/...

Heard y'all like some science animations! 🧪🧠🟦 Sometimes interesting stuff might be hiding in the state-space of neurons, even if the individual neurons' activity does not seem particularly interesting! 💫