When we started the visceral mind project, we promised to publish what we found null and otherwise, and we delivered!

Leah Banellis@leahbanellis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The application period for our Artist-in-Residence program INHABIT 2027 starts today! Artists from various disciplines are invited to develop a new project at our Institute or to further explore an existing one. Submit your application here by September 1, 2026: ae.mpg.de/inhabit

Alpha rhythm determines speech perception rate? And speeding it up makes unintelligibly fast speech comprehensible? This is nuts! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Separating the neural correlates of #consciousness from those related to unconscious processing is challenging. This #EEG study by @maelanmenetrey.bsky.social &co suggests two-stages of visual processing as individual stimuli are integrated into a conscious percept. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4wwzxNb

Bumble bees can apparently play with balls, count, recognize faces, & perceive rhythm. A new study out today in @science.org argues they can also solve novel tasks spontaneously without explicit training, challenging the idea that such cognitive skills are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates.😲🐝🧪👇

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees

Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...

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ANOTHER assistant professorship available in my department. Focus on contemporary neuroimaging applications to neuropsychology and psychopharmacology. #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

'A dual-function framework of interoception: the information and coordination modes of interoceptive signaling' by Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Marie Loescher (@marieloescher.bsky.social) & Anthony Clément www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

The #MindBrainBody Symposium 2026 will start tomorrow. The program is now online: mindbrainbody.de Safe travels everybody and very much looking forward to seeing you there ✈️🌍🚞🥾 #MBB2026 #MBB

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A couple of more hours to submit your work and register to attend! Deadline: today (Jan 8, 2026) anywhere on earth. 🌏 🌎 🌍 Do it here: survey.academiccloud.de/f/464284?lan... #interoception #MindBrainBody #neuroskyence

Are you looking for a postdoc position or research assistant experience in the bleeding-edge closed-loop, robotic TMS-EEG? Email me or check out my lab's website for more details. #TMS #Neuromodulation

Another Tutor Drop! 🌟Meet our MESEC Winter School 2026 Tutor: Angelica Kaufmann! We are delighted to complete our expert lineup with Angelica! 🏛️Get ready to engage with her work on animal cognition and the varieties of conscious experience. 🐾 🗓️March 22nd–28th @ibroorg.bsky.social

🔊Announcing ANIMUS 2026: a conference dedicated to the applications of TUS in animal models! Joining us: - Prof. Dr. Til Ole Bergmann, University Medical Center Mainz - Dr. Daniel Whitcomb, University of Bristol - Emma Lescrauwaet, University of Ghent ➡️ Learn more: animus2026.com

🚨New paper alert!! 🚨 In this work by Nadav Amir, with Uri Maoz, we fail to find evidence for ambiguous objects emerging slower/faster to awareness, but do find support for more symmetrical stimuli enjoying preferential access academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Mid-level perceptual features, and not ambiguity, accelerate access to awareness

Abstract. Current theoretical accounts of perception and high-level cognition suggest that awareness plays an active role in disambiguating incoming sensor

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Now out in iScience: Alpha power indexes working memory load for durations How does the brain store 'durations' in working memory? 👇👇👇 www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Collaborative effort between @brainthemind.bsky.social and MNE-Python/INRIA.

main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂 looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible. science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

Submit to our collection :) This is a fantastic opportunity to publish your work on cortico-subcortical loops

Communications Biology@commsbio.nature.com · 7mo ago

Our Cortical-subcortical brain loops cross-journal collection with @natneuro.nature.com, @natcomms.nature.com, & Scientific Reports is open for submissions 🧠 Curated by our board members @talking-bat.bsky.social, @stefanieliebe.bsky.social, & Markus Rothermel. Check at www.nature.com/collections/...

Our special issue on Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness, coedited with Tecumseh Fitch and Adina Roskies, now online royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1939

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Sending huge congratulations to Julio Hechavarría @talking-bat.bsky.social on delivering his very first inaugural lecture today at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! What an exciting start of a new a chapter filled with great ideas, strong science, and bat-driven brainloop insights! 👨🏻‍🏫🦇🧠 #SPP #Neuro

A very useful review and update on the anatomic infratstructure for language: "Brain structural networks underlying language" by Angela Friederici journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Brain structural networks underlying language | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society

The unique human ability to process complex language requires the interaction of multiple brain areas located in the inferior frontal and posterior temporal cortex connected by white matter fiber trac...

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We are looking for an interested student to work with us during an internship on the interplay between implicit timing and hearing for four to six months (full time, including financial compensation) : brainthemind.com/wp-content/u...

Really glad I could contribute to this excellent perspective paper. #Consciousness + #neuroethology + #animal-behavior An interesting mixture for a fun read :)

Yuranny Cabral-Calderin@ycabral.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our paper “Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness” is out in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. Together with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni, we suggest bringing Tinbergen’s framework into consciousness research.

Our paper “Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness” is out in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. Together with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni, we suggest bringing Tinbergen’s framework into consciousness research.

Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Understanding consciousness remains a significant challenge in science. What distinguishes conscious beings from unconscious systems, such as organoids, artificial intelligence or other non-sentient e...

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📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈 Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣 Please get in touch to hear more!

Looking forward to discussing our results on neural and behavioral entrainment to auditory rhythms and tACS. See you today at 4 PM CEST.

LOOPs_spp2411@brainloops.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🧠🎶 Reminder! It’s TODAY!! The LOOPs webinar is today at 4 PM CEST! Join @ycabral.bsky.social for Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment. Join us: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi... #LOOPsWebinar #Neuroscience #AuditoryPerception #SPP

LOOPs webinar is back after the summer break! 🔄🎉 Don’t miss @ycabral.bsky.social on Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment uncovering how neural oscillations shape auditory perception.🧠🎶 🗓️ Oct 8th, 2025 🕓 4 PM CEST 📍 Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

Nice article about our paper published today in @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface. #bioacoustics www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Babies’ cries can make humans physically hotter, research finds

When in distress, babies produce chaotic wails which have pronounced effects on humans, including changes in facial temperature

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Our latest preprint! We find that auditory-motor synchronization behavior is related to the weighting of rhythmic versus melodic predictions during music perception, including long-term enculturated predictions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Auditory-motor synchronization determines the use of predictions in music perception

When listening to music, our brain constantly generates predictions about the timing and pitch of upcoming sounds based on the structure of the music. Individual differences in the ability to make suc...

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The University of Notre Dame is hiring 5 tenure or tenure-track professors in Neuroscience, including Computational Neuroscience, across 4 departments. Come join me at ND! Feel free to reach out with any questions. And please share! apply.interfolio.com/173031

The rig for conducting intracellular recordings from the 🐝🧠 is getting in shape. If you are interested using it here in Würzburg 🇩🇪 contact me. We have an open PhD position expected to be filled until spring 2026. www.spatial-navigation.com/open-positio... #neurethology