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Aidan Horner

@aidanhorner.bsky.social
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience. Co-director of York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC). Interested in memory, spatial navigation and brain imaging. He/Him www.aidanhorner.org

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 20h
Do animals remember after months of hibernation? In new research from #BiologyLetters, Columbian ground squirrels retained spatial memories after nine months of hibernation, outperforming inexperienced squirrels by 41–98% in their first maze trial after waking doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #Cognition
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Damian Cruse @damiancruse.bsky.social · 22h
📣 Inclusive electroencephalography – a tutorial and media resource 📣 We're proud to announce publication of a tutorial to help make EEG research more inclusive, co-produced with Black and Hijabi students. doi.org/10.3758/s134... @thechbh.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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Inclusive electroencephalography practices for Black and Muslim participation in a White non-Muslim-majority country: A co-produced tutorial - Behavior Research Methods
Most electroencephalography (EEG) research is conducted in White-majority Western countries by White researchers. EEG practices therefore often explicitly and implicitly exclude minoritised groups, le...
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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14/10/2026
too real
'always has been' meme with 'adult life' as earth and 'wait it's just "i'll get tot his soon, when things calm down a bit" forever' as the astronaut getting shot
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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
You might like this adapted Foreword www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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'You are not fragile. You are outnumbered.' | BPS
Professor Peter Fonagy, Chair of the Independent Review into Mental Health Conditions, ADHD and Autism (2026), with his letter to a young person.
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Andrew Quinn @ajquinn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Now in eLife: The effect of age on the neuronal power spectrum, with rigorous checks for reliability and robustness. We run control analyses and establish a framework for future study planning with effect sizes. Not all effects are well powered in the same sample... doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Looks like cool work! Our recent theory preprint might be of interest to you. Hopefully fully published in the not too distance future. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Jakob Voigts @jvoigts.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
How do 🐁deal with complex landscapes? Turns out they learn a lot very quickly. We think they do this by learning a set of repeated sparse paths, which form a type of compressed world model. Joint work with the Hermundstad lab, led by Tzuhsuan Ma and Alison Comrie: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Weekend bake. First since the resurrection of my starter
Tin loaf of sourdough bread on wooden chopping board, from the side Tin loaf of sourdough bread on wooden chopping board, from above
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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I've always felt that I learn best by playing around with things (and breaking them 😅). So I’ve put together a few interactive tools to help NeuroCog bachelor/master students grasp some basic neuroscience concepts. 🔗 www.lindedomingo.com/teaching Thanks @ortiztudela.bsky.social for the idea!
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Disappointing how few people are in the stadium for Greece Vs England today
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New paper! Great work from Hendrik Heinbockel & Lars Schwabe that they were kind enough to involve me in: Targeted stimulation of face-selective visual cortex at retrieval boosts associative face memory in healthy young adults #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
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Targeted stimulation of face-selective visual cortex at retrieval boosts associative face memory in healthy young adults
Abstract. Episodic memory retrieval relies on encoding-pattern reinstatement (EPR), the reactivation of neural representations formed during encoding. Alth
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New paper! Great work from Hendrik Heinbockel & Lars Schwabe that they were kind enough to involve me in: Targeted stimulation of face-selective visual cortex at retrieval boosts associative face memory in healthy young adults #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
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Targeted stimulation of face-selective visual cortex at retrieval boosts associative face memory in healthy young adults
Abstract. Episodic memory retrieval relies on encoding-pattern reinstatement (EPR), the reactivation of neural representations formed during encoding. Alth
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It may have taken 5 days but I think I've nursed my sourdough starter back to life. It was touch and go for a while, but looks like they've pulled through
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just read aloud in her room while she's trying to read another book. It could work!
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
About to finish the final hunger games with my older daughter and it might be the last bedtime story I get to read her 😭
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stochastic parrot therapy bot sounds like a really pretentious prog/math rock band
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Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
First Frost. 5°C in the valley. Hares scampering.
First Frost. 5°C in the valley. Hares scampering.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Except they'll have been swimming in some weird patriarchal-AI culture that probably says therapy is for the weak (unless it's provided by ChatGPT)
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This blows my mind that anyone would try to avoid reading to their child. It's one of the best aspects of parenting. The physical closeness, the sharing of a story, the space to have wider discussions that the story prompts, or just the space for them to talk about what is on their mind.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am never not grateful to hear Nick Drake, which definitely makes me the target audience
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Puts on Radio 6 Music for the first time in a while. 10mins later they play Nick Drake. Living up to the cliché of itself, but never change Radio 6!
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A spectacular Dublin sunrise! 🌅😊
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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We're looking for up to four new members to join the CogSci Society Student Committee. You can apply from anywhere in the world 🌎🌍🌏 You just need to be: • A CSS member; • Enrolled in a PhD program (or a Master’s program with the expectation of continuing to a PhD). Check out the details 👇🧵
Graphic with three illustrated students interacting on the right and large text reading “Become a member of the CogSci Society STUDENT COMMITTEE” on a dark teal background with bright green accents.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Congrats!!!
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Never have I ever enjoyed watching England play football quite as much as in the last couple of weeks
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Congrats!
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Great article by first authors @laurenb29.bsky.social & Will de Cothi: Subicular spatial codes arise from predictive mapping www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Subicular spatial codes arise from predictive mapping - Nature Communications
Subiculum, the primary output structure of the hippocampus, remains an enigmatic structure in spatial processing. Here the authors reimagine subicular spatial responses as emerging from behaviour and ...
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Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reposting, in case you missed it! 8-) Reskeet appreciated!
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We are holding European Research Council Reading Days in Cardiff, Durham, Birmingham & Glasgow for humanities & social sciences researchers interested in ERC funding. You will be able to read previously successful ERC grant proposals from a selection of 50 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/eur...
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ERC Reading Day 2026
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Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Over The Gate. 16°C and cloudy skies. Pheasants galore.
Over The Gate. 16°C and cloudy skies. Pheasants galore.
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bbrfoundation @bbrfoundation.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to the BBRF Goldman-Rakic Prize Recipient, Dr. Sheena Josselyn, for their Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience! . Memory and Engrams . Register & Learn more: ow.ly/z0jz50X0gwk . University of Toronto
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Big tree, as seen on family walk today. Unfortunately the photo doesn't do this magnificent specimen justice
Big oak tree
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Academic salaries in Ireland are better than the UK
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Croatia really weren't great, but damn England were good today
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ooh, that is exciting. Now I want one!
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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nominations are open for the Jeffrey L. Elman Prize! The prize honors mid-career cognitive scientists whose work shows scientific excellence and a real commitment to community building. Deadline: Nov 18 🗓️ Details and how to nominate: cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/ #CogSci #Award
Graphic announcing “Submit your nominations for the 2027 Jeffrey L. Elman Prize,” with the subtitle “For Scientific Achievement and Community Building,” on a dark teal background with a geometric pattern in the lower-left corner.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"forcing them to bring bills into line with national averages to make up shortfalls." 🤔
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International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow @icom-memory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The deadline for symposium submissions is the 2nd November, so you have exactly one month to get your submissions in!!
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/10/2026
early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Honestly, this is bonkers. The amount of effort pollsters go to to ensure samples are representative etc to then go "let's just ask this thing that isn't even human". Even if it was accurate, just no
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congrats Felipe! You know you're a genius when you're named-checked in the title of a paper 😎 philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
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Is De Brigard a simulationist? | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Home coffee machine getting picked up for well needed maintenance which means we're without a machine for the weekend. Wish us luck 🙏
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Deadline is tomorrow!!
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think the first intake was 74, so as I said, we were a little late in celebrating. Great to hear how useful it has been for you! I think it is a Goldilocks degree, just the right amount of stats, methods, theory, science, essays etc.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm of course biased, but one of the things that makes York great, apart from the amazing people, is the York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC). Couldn't ask for a better imaging community and great research facilities 😊
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
HE isn't necessarily a happy place to be right now, but reminders like this of why we are here and how lucky we are to be surrounded by awesome colleagues go a long way to driving away the gloom.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yesterday we celebrated the 50th birthday of @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! A little bit late, but worth the wait and great to see so many old and new colleagues talking about what a fantastic department York Psychology was, is, and will continue to be
Large screen with the words Department of Psychology and 50th Anniversary with a photo of the department underneath a rainbow. The head of department, Lisa Henderson, is standing to the right of the photo
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nice fieldline system!
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