#Call for proposals: Brain health The European Partnership for Brain Health is launching a call for multinational projects aimed at improving #BrainHealth, with a focus on neurological, mental and sensory disorders. Submission deadline: 10 March 2026 (pre-proposals) ➡️ sohub.io/x6bi

Happy new year! If you'd like to start it on a POSitive note, we have a new scale led by Kelsie Lopez and now preprinted measuring dimensions of promotional socioemotional experiences in development validated for retrospective reporting in childhood, adolescence 1/n osf.io/preprints/ps...

Ever wondered how MRI creates images from inside the body? We made a child-friendly explainer video (german) 🎥👇 youtu.be/k-KCyoUP9vA #scicomm

Wie wir mit Magnetresonanztomographie (MRT) das Gehirn sichtbar machen

YouTube video by NMR Kids Lab

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"Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" Is uite literally what you'd see if coliderbias:

Join the talk by Prof. Matsudaira today @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social ! Thrilled to welcome Prof. Matsudaira today and to hear all about her intergenerational work and the TRIO study that is conducted in Japan 👨‍👩‍👧🌼🧠

Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development@jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In our next #ResearchSeminar, Prof. Dr. Izumi Matsudaira will discuss “From Parents to Offspring: Unlocking Brain Development Through the “TRIO Study”. 📅 December 15th, 2:30 p.m., Andreasstrasse 15 in Zurich, AND 3.46. Everyone is welcome, no registration is needed.

For more context, see also the @nature.com News & Views article about this work, where I unpack what it means when genetic risk for psychiatric disorders overlaps with normal-range traits, including some positive associations with education-related outcomes: rdcu.be/eT4U7

Andrew Grotzinger@andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social · 9mo ago

1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Online Now: Sensory processing sensitivity: theory, evidence, and directions

Sensory processing sensitivity: theory, evidence, and directions

In recent years, scientific interest in sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), a personality trait reflecting increased sensitivity, reactivity, and deeper processing of stimuli, has grown exponentially. Building on this momentum, we synthesise recent SPS literature to discuss several central themes, including SPS assessment, relations to other personality traits and diverse positive and negative outcomes. We propose a novel account of SPS grounded in predictive processing, that bridges cognitive, neural, and computational domains. Specifically, we posit that brains of high-SPS individuals consistently assign high precision to incoming sensory signals. This account offers a unified explanation for the phenotypic consequences of heightened sensory sensitivity. We review behavioural and neural evidence that indirectly supports this account, and delineate important avenues for future research.

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YES! "to explain all human cognition, we inherently must include development". Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy - Ward - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy

In this paper, we argue that Predictive Processing cannot be a unifying account of cognition until it can explain infant development. We show why development is crucial for understanding human cognit...

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The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

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Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉 📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH... 🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

Golia Shafiei@goliashf.bsky.social · 2y ago

(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com ! Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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The paper is 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia' and it's worth reading in full. It’s a great resource for educators, administrators and anyone concerned about AI in the classroom. And a great resource for those educators already eager to stand up to AI-happy admins.

So true and beautifully said @pdimanova.bsky.social ❤️Having your sweet peanut there made it even more special. Intergenerational care at its best: science and family on your poster, in our hearts and spirits, across the community. #Flux2025 brought it all together!

Plamina Dimanova@pdimanova.bsky.social · last yr.

Attending Flux 2025 feels like being home academically! Thanks everyone for the interesting talks, insightful discussions, and inspiring conversations. Huge thanks to @noramraschle.bsky.social for the opportunity to immerse in the developmental cognitive neuroscience society again 🧠

I had an amazing time at #Flux2025 presenting our research and connecting with colleagues!

✈️ The NMR Kids Lab is heading to #Flux2025 in Dublin! We can’t wait for inspiring talks, lively poster sessions, and connecting with colleagues in developmental neuroscience. 👉 Visit our lab's presentations! Each poster comes with a cartoon-style story summarizing the science 🧠🎨 #brains #scicomm

A common neural signature between genetic and environmental risk for mental illness www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

Please, I beg everyone panicking about “kids these days” to just display the full scale on the y-axis of their (not so) terrifying charts. Oh wait, maybe that story would not sell 🤔 mikemales.substack.com/p/how-to-go-...

How to go viral with dire-sounding – but phony – “statistical trends”

Those bent on creating anti-internet panics keep rigging their presentations.

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Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube! Please like and repost to help us get the word out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization 🧵

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Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...

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We recorded simultaneous brain activity from 27 teacher–learner pairs as they taught each other facts about unfamiliar items as well as eye-gaze, speech, nodding and breathing.

We're thrilled to see our new meta-analysis on childhood maltreatment and interoception published in Nature Mental Health! 🧠💔 Led by our @juliaditzer.bsky.social, we found that emotional abuse/neglect is linked to lower trust in bodily signals — a risk factor for mental health issues. 👇👇👇

Julia Ditzer@juliaditzer.bsky.social · last yr.

My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩 With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals. rdcu.be/eu8bo 1/🧵

It was an honor to lead this project as first author. Thanks to my wonderful co-authors Christian Woll, Clara Burger, Alisa Ernst, Ilka Böhm, @alzietlow.bsky.social & @susangarth.bsky.social for their support and expertise! 🫰 Full paper: rdcu.be/eu8bo

A meta-analytic review of child maltreatment and interoception

Nature Mental Health - Interoception, the perception of internal bodily signals, is crucial for mental and physical well-being, yet the origins of disruptions in interoception are not well...

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Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems - Nature

Shared inter-brain neural dynamics, reflecting aspects of social interaction including self and other’s behaviours, arise in GABAergic neurons of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of socially interact...

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New paper! When do children trust others and when do they come up with their own ideas? Kids 8+ considered and weighed each person's confidence to decide whether to form new beliefs. With @janengelmann.bsky.social and @celestekidd.bsky.social Free here: dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc...

Children Use the Relative Confidence of People With Conflicting Perspectives to Form Their Own Beliefs

We provide evidence that children sensibly integrate the judgments of different people who disagree according to their confidence. We asked children (ages 5–10 years, N = 92) to make judgments about ...

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Synchrony and subjective experience: the neural correlates of the stream of consciousness: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Synchrony and subjective experience: the neural correlates of the stream of consciousness

Human subjectivity, our first-person conscious experience of the world, is among the deepest scientific mysteries. This opinion article lays out an approach to examining the neural correlates of subje...

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Our latest work, "Investigating short windows of interbrain synchrony: A step toward fNIRS-based hyperfeedback", is now out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social 🧠💡🎉 doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... We've taken a key first step toward hyperfeedback - i.e. neurofeedback based on interbrain synchrony with fNIRS 🧠🔄🧠

Investigating short windows of interbrain synchrony: A step toward fNIRS-based hyperfeedback

Abstract. Social interaction is of fundamental importance to humans. Prior research has highlighted the link between interbrain synchrony and positive outcomes in human social interaction. Neurofeedba...

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🤩IT'S A PREPRINT 😍 Adolescents' social sensitivity isn't a bad thing—it's adaptive! In our new study, led by amazing Andrea Gradassi @connectedmindslab.bsky.social, we show that teens learned to copy successful peers faster than adults in a new multiplayer exploration task. osf.io/preprints/os...

Excited to share thoughts on growing brains, behavior, and how social contexts shape development - looking forward to exchanging ideas, bridging boundaries, and enriching perspectives together! Thanks for the invite 👇

Philipp Kanske@kanske.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us for a talk by the fantastic @noramraschle.bsky.social GROWING BRAINS - STUDYING THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF HUMAN BEHAVIORS ACROSS SPACE (BRAIN), TIME (DEVELOPMENT) AND GALAXIES (SOCIAL CONTEXTS) 1 July 2025, 1pm CEST @tudresden.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

Evidence in support of the "Brain from the inside out": Response to movies is dominated by intrinsic brain dynamics. The dynamic itself is barely alternatered by the task of watching movies. Human intracranial recordings from 5000 electrodes, now out in eLife. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...