“The big takeaway is that we should keep thinking about motor signs,” @jessicafattal.bsky.social said. “We need more research and to continue thinking practically about how we can integrate these things into practice and into helping people with serious mental illness.” #ClinicalScience

Motor Abnormalities Predict Mental Illness in Both General and Specific Symptoms

Understanding how motor abnormalities relate to psychological disorders may provide insight into mechanisms underlying mental health issues, disease progression, and potential treatments.

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So excited to be at #CCN2026 this week with our lab and our wonderful collaborators. Here’s where to find everyone. Please come say hi, we’d love to hear your thoughts!

1/8 Breathing seems automatic. But it's a finely tuned motor behavior that has to be controlled. In this preprint, I map the circuits that match a fly's respiration to the metabolic demands of flight and mitigate the risk of dehydration. 🧵🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Kudos to @science.org for this self-analysis of the peer review process. These kind of data are never shared and don't have to be. Wildly refreshing to see it out in the open. Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals

Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.

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This graph took me 3 years to make. It's perhaps the largest-ever #metaanalysis of #TMS #BrainStim data. It includes my first real scientific discovery 🧵: When you stimulate the hand with a brief electric pulse, your brain and spinal cord are momentarily less excitable: muscle output decreases 1/n

So thrilled to be joining the Psychology Department at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as an assistant prof next summer! I'll be recruiting for PhD/postdoc to start in Autumn 2027, so if you're interested in using computational approaches to studying human cognition please get in touch!

I am honoured to share that I have been selected as a recipient of the 2026 BBRF Young Investigator Grant! 🎉 I am incredibly grateful to the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation for this support and to my mentors, collaborators, colleagues, and trainees for their encouragement and support.

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Nearly a decade after starting the project, the first major results from our comparative connectomics work is online! Comparing the head direction circuits of the central complex in bees, ants and flies, recapitulating >300million years of evolution.

New preprint from the lab! Led by PhD students @vuslatakcay.bsky.social, Lisa Spänig and Wouter-Michiel Vierdag (EMBL), we investigated the development and differentiation of cerebellar unipolar brush cell progenitors (UBCPs). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Conserved cerebellar rhombic lip compartmentalization and Eomes regulatory networks govern unipolar brush cell development

The rhombic lip (RL) gives rise to all cerebellar glutamatergic cell types, including unipolar brush cells (UBCs). Disruptions to UBC development can lead to the neurodevelopmental disorder Dandy-Walk...

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The published version of Matheus' paper is now published at Geroscience: Mistakes matter, age doesn’t: task outcome modulates implicit motor adaptation similarly in young and older adults link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Mistakes matter, age doesn’t: task outcome modulates implicit motor adaptation similarly in young and older adults - GeroScience

Despite several age-related processes impacting motor performance, older adults often retain the ability to implicitly adapt to sensory prediction errors. Here, we leverage the fact that implicit adap...

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We have a few spots left in our upcoming workshop in Eugene, OR October 12-14, 2026. Please join us! greenhouselab.github.io/motorbrainst... #neuroskyence #sensorimotor #TranscranialMagneticStimulation

The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs

Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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🧠👤How does our #brain develop? Find out in this comprehensive review on human brain development across multiple scales, from large-scale anatomical structures to microstructural architecture and functional organization across the lifespan. @saharahmad.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Multiscale brain development across the human lifespan - Communications Biology

A comprehensive review on human brain development across multiple scales, from large-scale anatomical structures to microstructural architecture and functional organization across the lifespan.

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No Evidence of Experimenter Demand Effects in Three Online Psychology Experiments

No Evidence of Experimenter Demand Effects in Three Online Psychology Experiments

Abstract. Experimenter demand effects occur when participants alter their behavior to align with perceived study hypotheses, threatening internal validity. Concern about demand effects is pervasive…

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We're hiring! Postdoc position to study the neural control of reaching using high-density multi-area electrophysiology. 5 years of funding, great collaborative environment. Please share with anyone who may be interested. For details, see: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pruszynski Postdoc 2026

Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...

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If an action results in error, each neuron requires an individualized teaching signal that guides change in its output. This is the credit assignment problem of learning. Are there neurons in the brain that can compute such a sophisticated teaching signal? Yes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Climbing fibers encode the gradient of a loss function for the cerebellum

Neurons in the brain are often many synapses away from motoneurons, yet if a movement results in error, each distant neuron needs a teacher that considers its specific contribution to production of th...

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New paper: Spinal circuitry modeled for locomotion using spatial transcriptomics and cell-type projections. Local excitation, long-range inhibition, and a longitudinal skew—an asymmetric "Mexican hat"—give rhythm, rotational dynamics, and gait, with no pacemakers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠 New preprint! How does the brain build specialized, efficient representations as we grow up? We used manifold learning to track the "intrinsic dimensionality" (ID) of brain activity in ~800 participants (aged 3mo–53yrs), as they performed naturalistic tasks and rested/slept.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2w ago

Developmental tuning of functional manifold dimensionality across the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.24.740635v1

💡What makes some ideas spring to mind while others we have to reach for? We built an #NLP #fMRI #MachineLearning framework to find out. New study from our lab, led by @kaixiangzhuang.bsky.social out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧵 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CognitiveNeuroscience #Fudan #ISTBI

out today! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Chaz Firestone@chazfirestone.bsky.social · last mo.

You press ‘send’ on a high-stakes email but hesitate when lifting your finger. You make a chess move but linger on the piece before letting go. Familiar? In @pnas.org, Hanbei Zhou @ruizhegoh.bsky.social @ianbphillips.bsky.social & I show that response *duration* tracks confidence! shorturl.at/A9NVe

I realized that I was invoking the term 'configural psychometrics' on my updated website without defining the term. In fact it's a whole framework! So, I just sank half the day into writing this page that explains the framework from top to bottom. Enjoy! www.dynamicpsychlab.com/configural-p...

Replay of procedural #memory is independent of the #hippocampus doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience

Thompson, Rollik and colleagues show that, during sleep, the brain replays procedural memories in the striatum independently of the hippocampus. Replay content was shaped by prior reward and error out...

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Scientists just settled a decades-old debate about the brain’s mirror neurons

Scientists just settled a decades-old debate about the brain’s mirror neurons

A new study reveals that mirror neurons don’t just care about final goals. Instead, these brain cells work together in dynamic networks to continuously track the specific physical details of observed movements in real time.

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New preprint w/ Leo Tiokhin & @lakens.bsky.social! Registered Reports (RRs) are great for science b/c publication is guaranteed before results are known, reducing publication bias & QRPs. This feature supposedly also makes them great for *scientists*. But is that really true? 1/ tinyurl.com/4sy993rr

Career incentives make Registered Reports unattractive under realistic academic conditions

Registered Reports are a publication format designed to reduce publication bias by guaranteeing publication before results are known. This guarantee is considered attractive in the prevailing ‘publish...

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Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus 👀👀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience

Thompson, Rollik and colleagues show that, during sleep, the brain replays procedural memories in the striatum independently of the hippocampus. Replay content was shaped by prior reward and error out...

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It's hard to believe that OECS has now published 200 articles!🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to OECS—our authors, reviewers, readers, and fantastic section editors, and especially @mcxfrank.bsky.social frank.bsky.social and @hbaum.bsky.social Excited for the next chapter!

Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today's #OA spotlight is extra special. Just this week, @mitpress.bsky.social published the 200th article in our OPEN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE. Congrats to @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social! We've come far since the 2023 @cogscisociety.bsky.social in Rotterdam! oecs.mit.edu

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-07-24-list343.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

The cerebellum plays a role in motor learning and reinforcement learning. But does cerebellar learning generalize to all sorts of tasks? Here we test strong prediction: that cerebellar activity tracks passively learned sensory-sensory associations (statistical learning). See below for the answer!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2w ago

Unsupervised nonmotor learning in the human cerebellum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.22.740142v1

Humans Can Learn to Echolocate Neuroscience has begun to look at capacity of sensory areas exhibiting a striking degree of plasticity Changes in primary visual and auditory cortex of blind and sighted adults following 10 weeks of click-based echolocation training🧪 academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...