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Mehdi Senoussi

@cogsenoussi.bsky.social
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Associate prof. in cognitive (computational) neuroscience at the University of Toulouse (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France). Cognitive control, oscillations, and more. He/him.

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Guillaume Pech @guillaumepech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just finished giving a first two-day workshop on eeg for newcomers. github.com/GuillaumePec... Super nice! I'll redo it. Also the opportunity to highlight the importance of pre-registration, and the desire to work on a paper to explain why almost (if not) all eeg studies are exploratory, for now.
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GitHub - GuillaumePech/EEGWorkshop_BXLCuttingGarden: BXL Cutting Garden 2026 - Workshop
BXL Cutting Garden 2026 - Workshop. Contribute to GuillaumePech/EEGWorkshop_BXLCuttingGarden development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Mehdi Khamassi @khamascience.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ça se passe en direct sous nos yeux. Nous ne pourrons pas dire que nous ne savions pas. Est-ce que mes concitoyennes et concitoyens européens peuvent mieux l'entendre quand ce sont des généraux israéliens qui le disent ? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/w...
Screenshot of an article in The New York Times entitled 'These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat', August 31, 2026.
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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Wherever you go to store data instead of #OSFprojects, please choose a non-commercial provider. Commercial interests are not aligned with scientific interests: They aim at turning your data into money by selling it, training AI models with it and locking us into an ecosystem: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New paper from the BCM Neurosurgery research team! "Neural basis of compositional control" led by @assiachericoni.bsky.social and @justfineneuro.bsky.social ! 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neural basis of compositional control - Nature
Behaviour of human participants in a prey-pursuit task reflects dynamic blending of goal-specific control policies, with hippocampus estimating latent states, anterior cingulate cortex orchestrating p...
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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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Mehdi Senoussi @cogsenoussi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
📢 PhD opening in comp. cog. neuro. in Toulouse: thalamo-frontal model of cognitive control. Modelling/EEG experience is welcome but not required. Application deadline: 8 Sept. 2026 Details: sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/eDrkeXfjdW... #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #EEG #neuroskyence #compneurosky
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Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What is the minimal exposure required to process facial features? In our reply to Mamassian & Wexler in Nat Comm, we address important questions about the limits of this approach and explain why manipulating exposure duration can offer advantages over other common visibility manipulations.
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REPLY TO “The meaningfulness of searching for minimal exposure duration to understand visual perception” - Nature Communications
Nature Communications - REPLY TO “The meaningfulness of searching for minimal exposure duration to understand visual perception”
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#EEGManyLabs @eegmanylabs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New #EEGManyLabs paper out in Cortex! We asked whether contralateral delay activity, or CDA, can serve as a reliable EEG marker of visual working memory capacity. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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Gregor Thut @gregorthut.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Open postdoc position👈 We have an open position, starting early 2026, to work on an exciting project aiming at better understanding the role of thalamo-cortical brain oscillations in perception with a comparative, cross-species (animal-human) component based on electrophysiology (incl. scalp EEG).
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Laura Dugué @lauradugue.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
🚨New preprint from the Dugué Lab! Happy to share our last work on #attention_rhythms, co-led by @cogsenoussi.bsky.social & former Dugué Lab PhD student @lauriegalas.bsky.social, and in collab with Niko Busch 🎉 @upcite.bsky.social | @erc.europa.eu | #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Theta-rhythmic attentional exploration of space
Attention facilitates stimulus processing by selecting specific locations (spatial attention) or features (feature-based attention). It can be sustained on a given location or feature, or re-oriented ...
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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication. At first, what we found was very confusing! But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736 🧵
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Convergent neural dynamical systems for task control in artificial networks and human brains
The ability to switch between tasks is a core component of human intelligence, yet a mechanistic understanding of this capacity has remained elusive. Long-standing debates over how task switching is i...
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Carlos González-García @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! Join the FLARE project @cimcyc.bsky.social to study sudden perceptual learning using fMRI, RSA, and DNNs. 🧠 2 years, fully funded, flexible start More info 👉 gonzalezgarcia.github.io/postdoc/ DMs or emails welcome! Please share!
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Postdoc Position – FLARE Project
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨ osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 04/07/2025
The study suggests a few metacognitive states correlate with rational behavioural adjustments; this might help steering behaviour towards optimality. @lucvermeylen.bsky.social @sebraem.bsky.social @kobedesender.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @mruz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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The temporal dynamics of metacognitive experiences track rational adaptations in task performance - Communications Psychology
Using computational modeling and EEG, the study suggests several metacognitive states correlate with rational adjustments in behavior; this might benefit steering behavior towards optimality
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Excited to announce that our paper (led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Derek Smith) is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com go.illinois.edu/Lee2025_NHB We use 36 days of testing in 4 inhibitory control tasks to examine the precision of inhibitory control measures in *individuals* and how they vary 🧵👇
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Precise individual measures of inhibitory control
Nature Human Behaviour - Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on four inhibitory control tasks, Gratton et al. show that more than 1,000 trials per participant are necessary to reduce...
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Marianne Blanchard @mblanchard.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
On déplore la mise sous tutelle des universités aux US, mais la situation en France est extrêmement inquiétante et pourtant personne (ou presque) n’en parle. Merci à @juliengossa.cpesr.fr de tirer la sonnette d’alarme.
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Laura Dugué @lauradugue.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🚨New article from the #DuguéLab in #PLOS_Computational_Biology, led by @lgrabot.bsky.social! We developed a new model-based neuroimaging approach to study Traveling Waves in visual cortex using MEG-EEG. @erc.europa.eu journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Traveling waves in the human visual cortex: An MEG-EEG model-based approach
Author summary Brain oscillations, thought to be crucial for many cognitive processes, might actually be waves that travel across the brain’s surface. Understanding these traveling waves is notoriousl...
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Marianne Blanchard @mblanchard.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
La région @occitanie.bsky.social n’a pas subventionné le congres de l’Association française de sociologie car « pas assez de dimension recherche »(sic). Par contre Delga introduit fièrement le congres REC avec tous les gardiens de la raison et de grandes figures du monde de la recherche
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Laura Dugué @lauradugue.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
#cog-SUP is a Masters program in Cognitive Science jointly offered by @upcite.bsky.social and @sorbonne-universite.fr! Jérôme Iste, Talia Sander and Joaquín Schlotthauer from the first cog-SUP class is telling you all about it! More info: cog-sup.fr www.linkedin.com/posts/cog-su...
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cog-SUP is a Masters program in Cognitive Science jointly offered by… | cog-SUP
cog-SUP is a Masters program in Cognitive Science jointly offered by Université Paris Cité and Sorbonne Université! Jérôme Iste, Talia Sander and Joaquín Schlotthauer from the first cog-SUP class is t...
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Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 28/02/2025
Excusing Yourself xkcd.com/3057
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Matthias Allritz @realprimatthias.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Me: As the news become more and more dystopian, let's find solace in learning a new language. Duolingo:
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Aurélie Pistono @apistono.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Where do disfluencies come from? Our new study (with @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social and @cogsenoussi.bsky.social) uses Drift Diffusion Modelling (DDM) to investigate semantic interference and disfluency in a Picture-Word Interference task.👇👇👇 🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Disfluencies reflect a... uh... competition between response options: Evidence from a drift diffusion analysis - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Disfluency can occur when a speaker faces difficulty in language production, but it is also as a strategy to stall for time and create an illusion of continuity in speech. To better understand the ori...
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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
New paper with @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social, investigating WM through small eye movements. We found that, even during attempted fixation, gaze patterns not only reflect memory content but also capture its dynamic evolution over time. Available on Nature Human Behaviour www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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