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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 09/09/2026

If you thought "everything is everywhere" in the brain: inactivations reveal a clear distinction of labor. Sensory areas sense, colliculus promotes eligible actions (!), and prefrontal cortex integrates. The role of superior colliculus in a logistic decision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Action Prediction Lab / Patric Bach @actpredictlab.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We are currently running our Phd studentship competition (4 year PhD, fully funded -- for details see below), School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen. If you are interested in developing a PhD research proposal with me, please get in touch.

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Raeed Chowdhury @raeedcho.com · 15/04/2026

New preprint! 🧵🧪🧠 doi.org/10.64898/202... Upshot: somatosensory cortex contains both feedback *and* intended movement signals (a.k.a. corollary discharge). These two signals exist orthogonally in neural space, flexibly allowing both fast state estimation and external perturbation detection. 1/

Neural trajectory plot showing neural activity moving through orthogonal corollary discharge and feedback signal subspaces

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School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen @abdnpsych.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

PhD opportunity 🚨 We’re recruiting 3 fully funded PhD studentships at @abdnpsych.bsky.social University of Aberdeen! Work on perception, social cognition & cognitive science in a supportive, interdisciplinary environment 🌍 Open to UK & international students Apply 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

✨ Hybrid Event Alert! The Smoky Mirrors Symposium: Self–Other Actions and Interactions in Real and Virtual Worlds at Aalto University is coming up on 12.12.25 👏 For more information, and to register, click the link below‼️ www.aalto.fi/en/events/sm...

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Smoky Mirrors Symposium: Self-Other Actions and Interactions in Real and Virtual Worlds | Aalto University

We will bring together interdisciplinary work on human–human and human–machine interactions across both real and virtual environments. The symposium will take place at TU Darmstadt (Germany), in a hybrid format.

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Action Prediction Lab / Patric Bach @actpredictlab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Reminder about our project on fMRI/EEG on spatial/social cognition for the EastBio PhD studentship competition. fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy. please share/get in touch Deadline: 15/12/2025

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Action Prediction Lab / Patric Bach @actpredictlab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Interested in a PhD in EEG/fMRI of spatial/social cognition? Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy. tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c Deadline: 15/12/2025

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EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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Jobs - The University of York

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 20/06/2025

I'm so excited to help bring this Computational Neuroscience workshop to life! Join a fantastic group of researchers in Denmark this August (11-14). We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!

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Federico De Martino @fedemar.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

PhD position alert!!! Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Happy to answer any question you may have!

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PhD position in biological foundations of neural control

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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Interesting new lesion meta-analysis of aphantasia, in line with the importance of a specific region in the fusiform gyrus, previously identified by @alfredospagna.bsky.social et al, for visual mental imagery 🧠 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Visual Mental Imagery and Aphantasia Lesions Map onto a Convergent Brain Network

Background Visual mental imagery, the ability to volitionally form perceptual representations without corresponding external stimuli, allows reliving of past events, solving problems and imagining the...

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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

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Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision

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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

There’s much more in the paper! Steve and I look forward to your thoughts in the peer commentary that will come with the article (the call for commentaries will come out soon). You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... and preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps....

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Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision

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Ariel Zylberberg @arielzylberberg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Happy to share our new paper exploring how the brain might represent decision confidence. A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex

At the end of a decision based on evidence accumulation, the neural representation of the accumulation is invariant across decisions. Zylberberg and Shadlen show, nonetheless, that accuracy can be dec...

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UEA School of Psychology @psychologyuea.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A new study by 𝐃𝐫. 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐋. 𝐌𝐜𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 (UEA, School of Psychology), provides evidence that when we know someone’s goal, we subconsciously shift our perception of their actions toward the most relevant outcome. This supports predictive coding theories in social perception and Theory of Mind.

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Observers translate information about other agents' higher-order goals into expectations about their forthcoming action kinematics

Social perception relies on the ability to understand the higher-order goals that drive other people's behaviour. Under predictive coding views, this …

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Leyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

New preprint “Monkey See, Model Knew: LLMs accurately predict visual responses in humans AND NHPs” Led by Colin Conwell with @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social @jacob-prince.bsky.social George Alvarez @taliakonkle.bsky.social & Marge Livingstone 1/n

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Always remember--this is not a case of Trump appeasing Putin--its actually him joining Putin. Its not Munich 1938, its the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I mean you don’t need to do this. Plenty of studies have been done before and conclusively shown there is no link. Don’t waste your money. www.theguardian.com/...

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CDC to study potential links between vaccines and autism despite research showing no connection

It’s unknown whether Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has promoted anti-vaccine views, is involved in study

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Francesca Ferri @fraferri.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Exciting News!! 🌞🌊 Adriatica2025 Summer School on "Brain-Body Interactions and Wellbeing" is back with an impressive lineup of speakers in a stunning beachside setting! 🫀🫁🧠🧘 Save the dates: September 8-12, Pescara, Italy. Stay tuned for more details coming soon! #TEAMLab #MamboLab #Adriatica2025

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I don’t know how I missed this. A group in Beijing have developed an effective brain-inspired vision chip for autonomous machines, robotics, and AI that was inspired by our perception/action account of ventral-dorsal visual processing in primate cerebral cortex.🧪🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A vision chip with complementary pathways for open-world sensing - Nature

Inspired by the human visual system, a vision chip with primitive-based complementary pathways is developed to overcome the power and bandwidth wall of vision systems, achieving fast, precise, robust&...

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

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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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Moritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

New paper! In this study, we identify a previously unreported level of representation in the action recognition hierarchy that is right-lateralized, perceptually highly invariant but not conceptual, and encodes the coarse structure of the effect induced by an action. elifesciences.org/articles/98521

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Decoding the physics of observed actions in the human brain

Inferior parietal and lateral occipitotemporal cortex encode the effects of actions at an abstract level of representation, independently of the body movements that induce them.

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Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

BAMB! is happening again in 2025. Learn how to model your behavioural data, next to the beach in Barcelona! keynotes this year from @athenaakrami.bsky.social and Peter Dayan.

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Mike Anderson @mljanderson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Cool finding, and consistent with EcoPsy expectations. But can we please stop inserting the phrase “specialized for” where the data do not support it (which is most everywhere)?

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Action Prediction Lab / Patric Bach @actpredictlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Who knew my first post here would be about stats? Assume you have 3 conditions A B C, and you're mainly interested whether A and B have opposite effects, while C serves as baseline. The most powerful test is simply t-testing A-B. But how do I convince people (cough reviewers cough) that..

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Stephanie Rossit @stephanierossit.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I am looking for a post-doc on neuroimaging analysis. Come & join my team at UEA (Norwich, UK). The post is for 32 months starting from April. Norwich is a wonderful & affordable city. ➡Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13... ⏰Deadline: 13 February 2025 Questions: s.rossit@uea.ac.uk

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a black and white image of a person 's brain with the letters p and s visible

ALT: a black and white image of a person 's brain with the letters p and s visible

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Moritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

How do our brains generate predictive models of unfolding events? We're seeking for a *postdoc* to address this question in my lab: sites.google.com/site/moritzf...

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Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Spread the word! Another postdoc job in St Andrews-Arché, in the @leverhulme.bsky.social-funded WIKI project! Apply from here: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Looking for a specialist of logic and/or the psychology of reasoning, ideally with expertise in hypothetical thought.

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 28/01/2025

The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Read about some of the projects: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/grants-in-fo...

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