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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

📢 Konstantinos Armaos and Lara Gülpen, postdoc and research assistant at our lab, respectively, will present their poster on a multiplayer VR paradigm for studying social interaction and decision-making under threat at the @vrsummit.bsky.social next week! vrs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/programme-20...

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dominik Bach will be at the ECNP Congress in Munich, 10–13 October 2026, speaking in Session S14 on the dysregulation of perineuronal nets, astrocytes and extrasynaptic transmission in neurodegeneration and mental disorders. 🔗 www.ecnp.eu/congress2026/ #Neuropsychopharmacology #Neuroscience #caian

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This Thursday (Sept 10), we are going to welcome our next guest speaker to a hybrid talk to the caian: Join us in person/on zoom at 1 p.m. CET and hear Assoc. Prof. Fleur Zeldenrust talk about "Heterogeneity in the brain: lessons from theory and experiment". #caiantalks #neuroscience #brainscience

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New publication: Read our systematic review of 116 studies on human avoidance learning. Evidence favours expectancy- and inference-based accounts, while highlighting roles for action valuation, Pavlovian influences and context. #avoidancelearning #cognition #neuroscience #systematicreview Link ⬇️

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Image Credits: Photos 1-10: Volker Lannert/ @unibonn.bsky.social; Photo 11: Steven Lieu; Photo 12: @merleing.bsky.social; Image 13: ChatGPT.

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

👉 Photo credits at the end of this thread.

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

From inspiring talks and posters to discussions that continued between sessions - #NN2026 was all about bringing the naturalistic neuroscience community together. 📸 Here are a few of our favourite moments from the symposium as thread. Thank you to everyone who made it possible!

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

New paper + software: calibr brings experiment-based calibration to R. Compare measurement methods across studies, quantify uncertainty about which performs best, and evaluate whether switching methods is worth the cost. Package: github.com/bachlab/calibr Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Brief reminder for our guest talk with @moritzgw.bsky.social this week.

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

How can multilevel causal modeling help us better explain the relation between neuronal activity and cognition? 🧠 Join us next Wednesday at lunch time for a #caiantalk by Prof. Moritz Grosse-Wentrup (@moritzgw.bsky.social ) to learn more about this computational approach to #neuroscience

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

How can neurocomputation help us understand gambling addiction? 🎲 Join us next Wednesday at lunch time for a #caiantalk by Prof. Jan Peters ( @peterslab.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social) on "Skewed mental models: a neurocomputational perspective on problem gambling."

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

How does attention drive risky choices? 🎲👁️ Join us next Wednesday for a #caiantalk by Prof. Jan B. Engelmann (@uva.nl) on "Distinguishing individual & contextual channels of attention in risky decision-making."

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

In our latest paper, we address this question in a large sample and in four data modalities. We find responses to outcome omission in all data modalities, but also clear and significant evidence against an expression of prediction errors. #predictionerrors #fearconditioning

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

[1/2] Join us next week at caian @UniBonn for a hybrid guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gluth (University of Hamburg) on "Unraveling the neural and computational principles of information integration in complex decisions". #caiantalks #decisionmaking #neuroscience Details below ⬇️

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

[3/3] Correlation matrix between behavioural indices and questionnaires scores - YES

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Next week: Hybrid talk by @martandreatta.bsky.social (University Hospital Tübingen) on “When context matters in shaping defensive responses.” 📅 Thu, Jan 28, 2026 | 13:00 📍 Computer Science @unibonn.bsky.social + online #aversivelearning #psychophysiology #VRresearch #context ⬇️ More details below

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Dominik Bach is presenting at #CNS2026 in Vancouver! 🧠Looking forward to share the latest data and connect with the global neuro community! Who else is going to be in Vancouver March 7-10? Let's grab a coffee! ☕️ www.cogneurosociety.org/schedule-of-... #Neuroscience #AcademicChatter

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

New paper published! 🎉“A systematic review of pharmacological effects on human aversive memory” is now available in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, providing the first broad synthesis across 36 compounds, different memory stages, and 13 biological systems. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Yesterday, we opened the doors to our labs and participated in @unibonn.bsky.social's #diesacademicus. We had a full house with over 30 visitors, as many interested people came to take a look around and try out one of our VR games.

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Next guest in our lecture series #caiantalks is Charley Wu (@thecharleywu.bsky.social (@tuda.bsky.social ), who will speak on "Generalization Guides Exploration Across Development, Social Contexts, and Memory" on Thursday, Dec 11. 👉Visit our website for more information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Next guest in our lecture series #caiantalks is Emmanouil (Manos) Konstantinidis ( @warwickuni.bsky.social ), who will speak on "Sources of information and confidence in experiential risky choice" next Wednesday (19/11/2025). 👉Visit our website for more information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

📆Save the date: new lecture series [1/4] This Wednesday, October 29 at 1 p.m., we are launching a new, hybrid series of guest talks organized the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) in Bonn.

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

📢📄New preprint: 94 empirical benchmarks for associative learning models. A consortium of 21 learning experts surveyed the literature and expert community for robust empirical phenomena, which we graded by reproducibility and generality.

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

📢Publishing alert: New theory paper out on experiment-based calibration: formal model, relation to criterion validity, role of confounds, and data-generation model. #mathematicalpsychology #calibration #simulation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

📢 Job alert: We are looking to hire a student research assistant for programming work in Java in Bonn. Prior experience with Spring Boot is desired. Deadline: October 5, 2025. Read the full job description and how to sumbit your application here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Just posted with @serenxia.bsky.social and @pharmacopsychology.bsky.social : a systematic review of pharmacological effects on human aversive memory. We searched data bases for 215 candidate drugs and summarise the evidence from 100 studies on 36 compounds following #PRISMA2020 protocol.

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

#bignews: @unibonn.bsky.social now has a Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience and it is already growing! Welcome to Bonn, Professor Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! New #caian website and more updates will follow within the next few weeks. www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/news

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

👋 Our lab is hiring: we are currently recruiting for at least two more student research assistants for programming and VR studies! 🔎 Find out more about requirements and deadlines here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/jobs

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

📢We are looking to hire a PhD student at @unibonn.bsky.social to investigate the cognitive mechanisms of human decision-making under threat in #VR. Apply by June 15. More information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo... #vrthreat #PhDposition #jobalert #researchjob #neuroscience #psychology

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

New from the lab with J. Brochard & P. Dayan: Theoretical review on #criticalintelligence: How to make rapid decisions with utmost precision when under threat. We identify computational challenges, candidate solutions & cognitive experiments to disambiguate them www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

New from the lab: comparing CR in human Pavlovian reward conditioning/retention over 7 days across 2 samples. Bradycardia is best index of learning & retention, pupil dilation only for retention.

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

📢 JOB ALERT: Postdoc & PhD position in computational neuroimaging/computational psychiatry, to work with existing fMRI & behavioural (big) data. Apply by March 31 and reach out any time for more information. www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo... Image: K. Ojala, A. Tzovara 2022 (CC BY 4.0)

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🎂PsPM is turning 15, and we are celebrating with a new release: Version 7.0.0. Streamlined user experience, improved robustness, and better maintainability. All teaching material on our website is updated too: bachlab.github.io/PsPM/ #PsPM #psychophysiologicalmodelling

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

On Friday, we are pleased to welcome Professor Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social l for a talk on "The Predictive Brain in the Natural World" at #UniklinikBonn @unibonn.bsky.social . 🎙️🧠 See the image below for details on time and location.

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