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Sydney E. Smith @syd-smith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy to share the final project from my PhD: "Simulated field potentials capture multiple simultaneous processes underlying human temporal attention," now a preprint on bioRxiv. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Zurich Cognition Lab @cognition-zurich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Open Postdoc (80%) in our Lab @uzh-ch.bsky.social (PI: Klaus Oberauer) Topics are: Working memory, long-term memory, attention; experiments, individual differences, computational modeling. Start Dec 2026 to Feb 2027, until June 2030. Apply by Oct 15; Questions to: k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch
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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The deadline to apply for WTI's Postdoctoral Fellowships is October 1. WTI Fellowships provide a competitive salary, structured mentorship, access to world-class facilities + more. Apply today: apply.interfolio.com/189775 #ScienceAtYale
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Tim Ricker @timricker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Recruiting a new PhD student to start Fall 2027. Research would focus on Visual Working Memory, possibly with a developmental approach (but not necessarily). Check out my lab website where the are links to the application and contact info if you have questions. rickermemorylab.com
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Memory & Attention Laboratory
The Memory and Attention Laboratory at the University of South Dakota is part of the Human Factors & Applied Cognition  program in the Department of Psychology . We study memory, attention, and...
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New paper from the Neurosurgery Research Team at BCM! “Neural geometry in the human hippocampus enables generalization across spatial position and gaze” led by @assiachericoni.bsky.social! 🧵 www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
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Neural geometry in the human hippocampus enables generalization across spatial position and gaze
Chericoni et al. show that neurons in the human hippocampus track the positions of multiple agents in a simple pursuit-based video game. They identified place codes for each agent and for gaze. The co...
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Dylan Gee, PhD @dylanggee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The ABCD Study at Yale is hiring a new post-baccalaureate research assistant! This is a great position to gain hands-on research experience in the field and to learn more about adolescent brain and behavioral development! 🧠 @theabcdstudy.bsky.social candlab.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New preprint! In this study, the fantastic Apoorva Sharma demonstrates that the amount of time that passes during motor preparation can "tag" for retrieval otherwise competing motor memories. Modeling work links these fx to putative temporal basis sets in the cerebellar cortex. Feedback welcome!
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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📣 Check out our latest preprint with @kianobre.bsky.social, spearheaded by the incredible @dxywei.bsky.social! Across four experiments, we compare the behavioural and neural signatures of selecting real-world objects in perception and working memory. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Searching across working memory and perception
Searching for objects of interest is an essential and pervasive activity in adaptive cognition. In everyday situations, we often search for relevant content in our surroundings and in mind at the same...
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Freek van Ede @freekvanede.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Our latest findings show that when we remember the duration of a visual event, we don’t use the same organisational format in working memory as when we retain other visual features such as colour. Check out our recent preprint, led by @annavanharmelen.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Jan R. Wessel @janw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New preprint from the lab. We think we have a solution (two, actually) to a long-standing problem in the field of response inhibition. Using two different mathematical approaches, we think we can identify long-hypothesized inhibitory 'trigger failure' trials. More in🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Two types of response inhibition failures in humans
Response inhibition is a key control function that allows humans to perform safe, goal-directed behaviors. The dominant behavioral-computational model holds that response inhibition fails when the inh...
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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🌈 New preprint! With Sage, Melissa, and Kia (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social, @scenegrammarlab.bsky.social, @kianobre.bsky.social), we explore how attention is divided across external perception and internal working memory - revealing a dynamic trade-off between these two domains. doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Clíona Murray, PhD (neé Kelly) @clionamurray.com · 27/07/2026
Happy #BINW26 !! I'm Dr. Clíona Murray and I am the Co-Director of Programming at Black In Neuro. The future that I'm reimagining is one where we can authentically show up in a space that was never designed for us. Each and every member of the BIN community remind me of that. So, thank you all 🫶🏽
A photograph of Clíona taken by her Godson (from a lower angle). She is closing her eyes, has her hands placed beneath her chin and head is tilted to the side with a smile. A photograph of a group of friends on a hike. The background is a typical English country lane with a small single-traffic road central and a large green space to the left of the image. Everyone is smiling, happy and cold!
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Nicole Long @dorsolateralpfc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My lab is hiring! We are recruiting a full time research coordinator to support our projects on memory brain states. More info and application: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
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Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Other at University of Virginia
Apply for Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Other at University of Virginia
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neurosock @neurosock.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This recent post by @earlkmiller.bsky.social got my attention. It shows how abstraction could emerge in the primate PFC. The paper is hard, but the main idea can be simplified to low-dims, so I made fun a little animation. A🧵with my toy model and notes: #neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI
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Brain and Cognition Lab @brognition.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🧵 New paper led by @irenetxeberria.bsky.social in press at Current Biology! A collaborative effort between the Brain and Cognition Lab and the Brain, Speech & Language Lab ⭐ Does the temporal organisation of action selection differ in stuttering? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A thread 👇
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Differences in dynamic motor selection in stuttering
Stuttering involves interruptions to the smooth flow of speech occurring mostly at syllable onset.1 Speech fluency is enhanced in people who stutter (…
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Brain and Cognition Lab @brognition.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The B&C Lab is excited to take part in this year’s @wmsymposium.bsky.social Lab members @william-nm.bsky.social will give his talk on Wednesday (July 15) at 12 pm (CDT) and @sabomelinda.bsky.social on Friday (July 17) at 9 am (CDT). They will present work on the interaction between attention-WM-LTM
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Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Preprint alert! 🚀 Spontaneous eye blinks are often treated as EEG artefacts. We show they can serve as temporal markers of internal attention, aligning with moments of attentional focusing in working memory. Check it out:
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Spontaneous eye blinks as temporal markers of internal attention
Eye blinks are among the largest physiological artefacts in electroencephalography and are typically removed from the recordings. Yet their timing may carry information about cognition. Here, we asked...
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Brain and Cognition Lab @brognition.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
New B&C Lab paper by @gaoyi123.bsky.social in collaboration with @irenetxeberria.bsky.social, Sage (@dynacog-lab.bsky.social), and Kia. 1/n 👉 doi.org/10.1162/JOCN...
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Neural Signatures of Flexible Temporal Orienting under Spatial and Motor Uncertainty
Abstract. The goal-dependent use of temporal expectations enhances visual performance, even without concurrent spatial or motor predictions, yet the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. To ide...
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WMSymposium.bsky.social @wmsymposium.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
ATTENTION!!! The program of Working Memory Symposium (WMS) 2026 (July 14-17) is out! sites.google.com/view/wmsympo... This year, WMS will feature a single stream presentation of 52 talks (39 talks and 13 blitz) + 1 panel discussion across 4 days. Looking forward to seeing you all!!!
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Kristen Wiig: I'm Ready To Party! - Bridesmaids
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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Our cerebellum+RL paper is now out in the Journal of Neuroscience! "The Human Cerebellum Encodes Temporally Sensitive Reinforcement Learning Signals" @sfnjournals.bsky.social @sfn.org www.jneurosci.org/content/46/2...
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The Human Cerebellum Encodes Temporally Sensitive Reinforcement Learning Signals
In addition to supervised motor learning, the cerebellum also supports nonmotor forms of learning, including reinforcement learning (RL). Recent studies in animal models have identified core RL signal...
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Dimensionality reduction is how the brain acquires knowledge. Cool new paper from the late, great, Mark Stokes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience
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Learning shapes neural geometry in the primate prefrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Learning transforms prefrontal cortex activity from flexible, high-dimensional representations into compact, task-relevant and abstract codes, enabling efficient generalization of learned rules to new...
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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
⏰ What time is it? 🧚‍♀️It's research fairy time! Please share widely and nominate early and often (by Aug 2) those fantastic female researchers that we are privileged to have have in our field ✨🪄 forms.gle/Znh4zgtXgWQK...
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The 2026 WomWoM research fairy award
Welcome, fellow working memory researchers! It's time to decide who should be this year's research fairy. If you are not yet aware of the story about this award or would like a refresher, please che...
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3
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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Sometimes the most interesting finding isn’t loss of function—it’s resilience. Our new @pnas.org study shows that memory-guided attention survives left hippocampal sclerosis, with the brain shifting toward the right hippocampus. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Marcus Siems @marcussiems.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
„Potential mechanisms and functional significance of aperiodic neural activity“ Timely review article by Michael Preston Jr, @syd-smith.bsky.social & Brad Voytek
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Brain and Cognition Lab @brognition.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We are excited to share a new publication led by B&C alumnus Gerardo Salvato, in collaboration with fellow B&C alumna Zita Patai and Kia. The study explores how long-term memory helps guide attention, even when critical memory structures are affected by focal pathology www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🎉Save the date! Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug 2. We're celebrating our 6th annual BIN Week with returning favorites like #NeuroRacism, #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora, and #BINRollCall plus a brand new theme: #BlackInTime. ✨ 🧠 #BINW26 #AReimaginedFuture
Promotional graphic for Black In Neuro Week 2026. The design features a retro-inspired sunburst background in shades of orange, gold, cream, blue, and green. At the center is an arch-shaped panel with the text “A Reimagined Future” curved across the top, followed by “Black In Neuro Week 2026.” The Black In Neuro logo, featuring a profile illustration with a brain motif, appears in the center. At the bottom, the dates July 27–August 2 and the hashtag #BINW26 are displayed. Decorative star accents frame the design.
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Freek van Ede @freekvanede.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Finally out: my review in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social covering how my lab and others have been ‘Looking into working memory through micro eye movements’ over the years. What does the microsaccade bias buy us? A lot I argue. Go see for yourself at: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
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Jan R. Wessel @janw.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We have a new Cognitive Control Collaborative website: www.cognitivecontrol.net Six labs, more than 20 trainees, six years of collaboration (and counting). Consider joining us, many of us are looking for new grad students in the fall!
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Cognitive Control Collaborative
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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Sabancı University in Istanbul for a 2-year TÜBİTAK-funded position, with possible extension. Interested candidates can email me with a CV and a brief note about their research interests. More details on gunselilab.com soon.
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Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab | Istanbul | Sabanci Uni.
Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab at Sabancı University - Eren Günseli. We study how memory and attention interact, how humans control what to remember, what to forget, what to attend to, and...
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Ingmar de Vries @ingmardevries.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
❗3x scholar-at-risk positions (2 post MSc, 1 postdoc) at Uni Trento (several departments incl. CIMeC)❗ 1 year + possibility of 1 year extension. Must hold asylum seeker / refuge or SAR status. Please contact me for more info. Please share!
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Dynamic Cognition Lab @dynacog-lab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Attention operates in a changing world, so attentional priority maps must likewise be dynamic. Our (Sage Boettcher, @visualattentionlab.bsky.social, @gwenlliams.bsky.social, Nir Shalev) TiCS paper argues this and propose key questions for future work hoping to account for dynamic priority maps.
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Making time for a dynamic attentional priority map
Attentional priority is typically conceived as a static spatial map, despite attention operating in a continuously changing world. We propose a dynami…
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Once upon a time Sage Boettcher was my fresh-out-of-college Research Assistant. Now she is faculty at Oxford. I am delighted to still be invited to collaborate with her. "Making time for a dynamic attentional priority map" Boettcher, Williams, Wolfe, & Shalev authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Join us on Monday, June 8, to learn about the progress the 2025 @kavliatyale.bsky.social Awardees have made on their Kavli-funded research projects 🧠. Open to all Yale affiliates. 🧬 @zhenlei.bsky.social 🖥️ @clionamurray.com 🔡 @jivr.bsky.social 🦠
Flyer of the 2026 Kavli Awards Research In Progress (06/08/2026) featuring 4 postdoctoral researchers who are 2025 and 2024-2025 Kavli awardees
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Melinda Sabo @sabomelinda.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
#PuG crowd: interested in cognitive control? Come to our symposium “Cognitive Control: Domain-General, Domain-Specific, or Neither?” happening on Friday at 2 pm (room: HS07). We have a fantastic line-up: @annalschubert.bsky.social, Linda Bräutigam, @sarahdepue.bsky.social, Daxun Zhu, and myself. 👇
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I aim pay forward all of their support, optimism, and humor to my future mentees. Which brings me to: my lab at Vanderbilt CCC will be recruiting folks of all levels for Fall 2027! If you'll be at OHBM, come to my talk on 6/17 to get a sense of what we'll be up to — or just shoot me an email 🧠 🥳
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Nick Myers @nick-myers.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New paper with @paulm-k.bsky.social and Mark Stokes on how we switch internal attention between working memory contents. Beta-band oscillations tracked the magnitude and success of these switches. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... #neuroskyence
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Human Beta Oscillations Reflect Magnitude and Fidelity of Priority Shifts in Working Memory
Flexible prioritization in working memory (WM) is supported by neural oscillations in frontal and sensory brain areas, but the roles of different oscillations remain poorly understood. Recordings in h...
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WMSymposium.bsky.social @wmsymposium.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It was AWESOME to see lots of EXCITING WM research spearheaded by early career researchers at @vssmtg.bsky.social!!! WMS community would LOVE to see your cool research in a form of talks and blitz! Abstract deadline is May 31st! (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...)
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Brain and Cognition Lab @brognition.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Make sure you don’t miss the poster of @irenetxeberria.bsky.social in today’s afternoon poster session. 👇 #VSS2026
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Brain and Cognition Lab @brognition.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The B&C Lab is excited to attend the @vssmtg.bsky.social. William, @sabomelinda.bsky.social, and @irenetxeberria.bsky.social will each present posters. Lab alumni @danielagresch.bsky.social and @jamalamal.bsky.social will also present projects conducted in collaboration with the B&C Lab. #VSS2026
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John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Come to Glasgow for ICOM-7, the 7th International Conference on Memory, July 2027! Details below. It'll be my 5th ICOM and my 2nd on organizing committee, and we're fixing a brilliant event, keen to expand the range beyond our core psych/ neuro/ cognitive topics so do sign up and please circulate!
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Olivia Christiano @oliviachristiano.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Excited to see the final version of our manuscript out! We find that OPM-MEG reliably captures neural activity comparable to other neuroimaging methods. Thank you to the reviewers for their thoughtful feedback and to @s-michelmann.bsky.social for his mentorship on this project. 🧠😄
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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Thrilled to have this preprint out, from the amazing Zekun Sun! "Motor abstraction training generalizes to the refinement of specific movement patterns" In brief, across 8 experiments we found evidence of a causal role for abstract representations in motor learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
bump for visibility!
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Nick Myers @nick-myers.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New preprint led by @mateuspsi.bsky.social and @andrecravo.bsky.social dissociating absolute from relative time estimation in the brain. Thanks for having me along! Nice to see this out even though it's also a reminder of how much we miss Mark...
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WMSymposium.bsky.social @wmsymposium.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Abstract submission for WMS2026 (July 14th-17th) is now open! If you are an early career researcher of working memory, please let us hear about your cool work by submitting your abstract (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...). Deadline is May 31st.
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Andrey Chetverikov @achetverikov.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We have 3 PhD positions at our department (www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...). Know a good student interested in working with me on perception / visual memory? I'd be happy to support the proposal! A catch: this person must speak a Scandinavian language as the position implies some teaching duties.
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Tre stipendiatstillingar ved Institutt for samfunnspsykologi (299274) | Universitetet i Bergen
Stillingstittel: Tre stipendiatstillingar ved Institutt for samfunnspsykologi (299274), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Bergen, Søknadsfrist: søndag 16. august 2026
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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
And a postdoc opportunity (T32 program) in anesthesiology @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social with ample opportunities for interactions and collaborations. Details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/janna-...
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Randolph Helfrich @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.
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Jan R. Wessel @janw.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
New work, now out in PLoS Biology. Using intracranial recordings & EEG, we find that the human STN rapidly engages / releases motor inhibition depending on task context, does so in tight accord w/ frontal cortex, and shows little to no lateralization while doing so. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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A cortico-subthalamic circuit rapidly engages and releases inhibition of specific movements depending on the environmental context
How does the human brain stop movements under realistic conditions? Using intracranial recordings and multi-variate EEG decoding, this study shows that a fronto-basal ganglia circuit featuring the sub...
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