“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social‬ In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social‬ offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...

Are you passionate about neuroimaging methods and would like to work with us? 🚨 4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠 Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W Pls 🔁

Contact person: For further inquiries please contact Katalin Szigeti, PhD, the Training Unit Coordinator of the CoE (margit.katalin.szigeti@univie.ac.at).

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We are a bit late for this, but happy new year from the SCAN unit! 🎈 We are thankful for the productive and joyful times together and looking forward to another year of exciting research! 🤩 Here is our 2024 in review 👇

'Accelerating scientific progress through Bayesian adversarial collaboration' -- out now in the latest issue of Neuron. @hohwy.bsky.social, Karl Friston & I propose a formal framework for designing & evaluating adversarial tests of competing theories.

New paper from the SCAN-Unit out in @eLife. Do violent video games decrease our empathy and numb us towards real violence? Let’s find out! elifesciences.org/articles/84951 Lengersdorff et al. (2023) (1/12)

Neuroimaging and behavioral evidence that violent video games exert no negative effect on human empa...

After playing violent video games for 7 hr over the course of 2 weeks, human male participants show neither signs of decreased empathy for the pain of another person nor of decreased responsivity to v...

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For those interested in the coolest present for @clauslamm.bsky.social anniversary - we wrote a “paper”named “How to be a good supervisor: a mixed-methods case study of Claus Lamm” 🤓 here the link ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...

Happy new year from us! 🥳😊 Following with our tradition we present to you our year in figures and wish you all the best for 2024!

Maybe the amygdala is not angry or sad or afraid – it’s just misunderstood! “An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex” is online www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @scanunit.bsky.social @haubensaklab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at [1/8]

🚨We have a new perspective out today in @natureclimate called “Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research” shorturl.at/dyN35 where we call on #Neuroskyence researchers to help combat #climatechange 🧠