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Ecem Tavacioglu

@ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social
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Ph.D. student at Gamer Lab, University of Würzburg working on #attention #learning #fearconditioning @rtg2660

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Francesco Tortora @francescotortora.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey folks! Check out our new preprint!📍 Bridging animal and human research, we dynamically manipulated contextual properties in VR to investigate how elemental and configural representations interact to shape the human defensive system across multiple response domains. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
PostDoc job for MRI expert in our Neuroimaging Center in beautiful Dresden. Interested in imaging studies & integration of different neuroscience methods? Get in touch! - Thanks for sharing - @tudresden.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12956
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Last conference of the year with the most beautiful view in the world #istanbul #USK26
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Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg @bertsch-lab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
📢 Come join our team! 💼 We're looking for a Head of the Outpatient Center for Psychotherapy Section Children and Adolescents (f/m/d) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. 🔹 Full-time or part-time 🔹 TV-L E14 🔹 4-year appointment, prospect of a permanent position tinyurl.com/yu7k62a4
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Aktuelle Stellenangebote
Leitung der Hochschulambulanz für Kinder und Jugendliche in Voll- oder Teilzeit (TV-L E14)
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Francesco Tortora @francescotortora.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Had a great time at #PuG2026 in Heidelberg. Honored to receive the Poster Prize from @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social , recognizing the work developed during my PhD within @rtg2660.bsky.social Thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @martandreatta.bsky.social for the continous support.
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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
@ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social reports a recent experiment on how human foraging behavior is shaped by the spatial distribution of reward and threat gradients (Poster Session 1, #436)
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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
@em1ly-zoe-burlon.bsky.social shows the results of a recent study on how perceived trustworthiness affects choice and gaze behavior in a social decision task (Poster Session 1, #352)
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
What better way to start #PuG2026 than with a hands-on Neuroanatomy Workshop by Prof. Joachim Kirsch and Prof. Beate Ditzen 🧠
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Here is to another great year at VSS from the Visual Attention Lab!
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Hey #VSS2026 folks 👋 I’ll be presenting our recent work together with @gamerlab.bsky.social and @visualattentionlab.bsky.social today: “Spatial Gradients of Reward and Threat Interact to Guide Human Foraging Patterns.” Come by poster #56.460 ✨ 📍 Where: Pavilion ⏰ When: 2:45–6:45
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Check out our #VSS2026 schedule! @vssmtg.bsky.social
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Thanks to this beautiful group I have my very first marathon medal 🏅 #relaymarathon #UniWue
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
On my way to #VSS2026 ✈️ See you in St. Pete Beach after a 10.5-hour flight, from rainy 9°C Frankfurt to sunny 30°C Tampa 😅 @vssmtg.bsky.social
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I led a roundtable discussion today at #EMHFC2026 on “power abuse in academia” and keep coming back to this: How much of what we accept as “normal” is actually misuse of power?
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Huge applause to @francescotortora.bsky.social for presenting our study “Gradual Extinction via US Intensity Reduction: a Translational Test of Fear Memory Updating in Humans” at #EMHFC2026 👏 Great teamwork, exciting study and results!
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Kicking off this year’s conference season at #EMHFC2026 with the best conference gift ever! #thessaloniki
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Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Want to make peer review more inclusive & equitable? @mattgoldrick.bsky.social and @mariamaly.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar on how to write better, fairer reviews! 📅 June 15th | 12–1:30pm EST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/59ez5azt #PeerReview #AcademicTwitter
A promotional flyer from Reviewer Zero for a webinar titled "So You Want to Participate in Peer Review: How to Write Inclusive and Equitable Reviews." The event is scheduled for June 15th, 12–1:30pm EST. The flyer features a yellow speech bubble with the event title in bold blue text, an illustration of two hands typing on a keyboard, and a QR code and link to register at https://tinyurl.com/59ez5azt. The background is cream-colored with a blue spiral notebook graphic at the top.
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STEM Response Team @stemresponsewlv.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Today we are celebrating the achievements and endeavours of women and girls in science. Recognised or not, their work has been essential to scientific progress. Often ground breaking, sometimes overlooked, but always impactful. #WomenInSTEM #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It was a fantastic workshop with a great instructor! I highly recommend it to anyone who would like to use Git for their research!
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Already missing this office…Had a great time during my short-term research visit @visualattentionlab.bsky.social and in Boston. @bwhpsychresidency.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social
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Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg @bertsch-lab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Come join our team!💼A new PhD position is available in our group, focusing on emotional biases and socioemotional competencies in depression. Feel free to share!😃 #PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening
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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Meet our visiting Grad Student Ecem! She is Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience at the University of Würzburg, studying attentional and learning processes in fear conditioning. At VAL, she focuses on visual foraging under threat, manipulating the spatial distribution of threat and value of targets.
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Sadly learned of the passing of Prof. Margaret Boden, an inspiring thinker. Grateful I had the chance to listen to her talk 7 years ago at the "2018 Religion & Science Conference: AI & Consciousness", organized by Cambridge Muslim College. I found the video, highly recommend it: bit.ly/3IJHoUb
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Not Gizmos, but Ghosts: AI & the Mind - Professor Margaret Boden
2018 Religion & Science Conference: Artificial Intelligence & Consciousness Professor Margaret Boden, Research Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex -- Funded by the John Templeton Foundation -- Support us: http://cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/support-us --- Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CMC_Cambridge Facebook: https://www.fb.com/cambridgemuslimcollege SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/cambridgemuslimcollege Website: http://www.cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/ Subscribe to our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/8cdif
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Pain Expectations: the neural representations of predicted pain in self and others www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Francisco Garre-Frutos @frangfr.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
New paper out! Here we show that attentional biases induced by reward history depend on awareness of such reward history (w/ @jlupiane.bsky.social and @mavadillo.bsky.social). link.springer.com/article/10.3... 👇🧵
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Value-modulated attentional capture depends on awareness - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Value-modulated attentional capture (VMAC) refers to a process by which a priori neutral stimuli gain attentional priority when associated with reward, independently of goal or stimulus-driven attenti...
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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
As somebody who studies self-control (but is bad at it), I read this 2025 open-access review on the self-control of eating (tinyurl.com/bdnebw79) by Mann & Ward w/ great personal interest. I highly recommend it, esp. if you study self-control and/or want to deal w/ your eating regulation challenges.
The opening page of the Annual Review of Psychology article by Traci Mann and Andrew Ward (2025), entitled The Self-Control of Eating.

https://tinyurl.com/bdnebw79 (open access)
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
1/ Exactly 9 years ago, I did my very first international lab internship as a curious, naive undergraduate student at Body Representation Lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. It was my very first hands-on research experience and one of the reasons I chose to pursue an academic path.
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yannik Stegmann and Matthias Gamer: The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I read a really old article on broad and narrow attention by Wachtel (1967), and I found this sentence deeply relatable "...the extremely anxious individual becomes a slave to minor variations in the perceptual field, which demand most of his attention and leave him confused and disorganized."
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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Need an ultra-fast online tool to sketch something in the middle of your meeting or an idea that you have? Try Draw Draw Draw!: ozika.github.io/drawdrawdraw/ I often want to sketch something, but most sites want one to register, no time, just Draw Draw Draw!
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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social ! Deadline Sun 6th July
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I had pleasure of co-organizing my very first symposium together with my supervisor @gamerlab.bsky.social. A heartfelt thank you to all the amazing speakers @ondrejzika.bsky.social, @francescotortora.bsky.social, @ldeserno.bsky.social, @floriansch and participants for their contributions. #PUG2025
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Our symposium continues with @ondrejzika.bsky.social talking about the role of trait anxiety in contextual inference. @gamerlab.bsky.social #PUG2025
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Attention attention! ⏰ Last 20 minutes to drop by Room 2.007 to discuss our recent 7T MRI study togwther with @jasbisch.gitlab.io #PUG2025
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Kicking off the PUG conference with a great talk by @danielamier.bsky.social – looking forward to an inspiring few days ahead!
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Psychologie & Gehirn 2025 @pug2025.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The #PuG2025 final program is online! Browse it or download the PDF version 👇 www.pug2025.org
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PuG2025 | Psychologie und Gehirn
Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the 50th Annual Conference on “Psychology and the Brain (PuG2025),” held from June 18–21, 2025, at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg!
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Only a few days left until @pug2025.bsky.social – our symposium, organized together with @gamerlab.bsky.social 🧠⚡ 🎤 Join us for exciting talks by: @ondrejzika.bsky.social @francescotortora.bsky.social @ldeserno.bsky.social @florianschlagenhauf #PUG2025 #psychophysiology #reinforcementlearning
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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I draw the red line for Gaza
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Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Join us for a zoom talk by Renee Thompson on "The everyday #emotional experiences of individuals with #depressive psychopathology" 5 June - 2:30pm CEST @tudresden.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social @trr393.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...
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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Absolutely well deserved!
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Matthias Wieser @mjwieser.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Had a fantastic time with more than 100 colleagues from across the world at the European Meeting for Human Fear Conditioning we organized in Egmond aan Zee. #emhfc2025
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Matthias Wieser @mjwieser.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Congratulations @kimsobania.bsky.social (1st prize) and @jannateigeler.bsky.social (runner up) and @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social (runner up) for winning the poster awards at the European Meeting on Human Fear Conditioning. Great science, awesome presentations! #emhfc2025
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🎺 #BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! This Friday, May 16th, the brain meeting speaker will be Ron Mangun with a talk entitled "Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will" All are welcome to join us in person or online. Details here: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event/brain-...
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
After serving 130 million meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. WCK trucks loaded with food and cooking fuel have been ready at the Gaza border since early March. wck.org/news/gaza-up...
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World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Congratulations to my former supervisor @mattlongo.bsky.social on the publication of "The Invisible Hand". Grateful to have learned from him during my academic journey!
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Mario Reutter-Dieker @mreutter.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Our article with @gamerlab.bsky.social and @jannateigeler.bsky.social has now been published Open Access 🔓 in Behaviour Research and Therapy🥳 doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
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Nursena Ataseven @nursenaataseven.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Feeling incredibly honored to have been invited to present my PhD project at the University of Würzburg. It was a wonderful experience, and I hope everyone who attended enjoyed the talk as much as I did! 🤗
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A heartfelt thank you to @nursenaataseven.bsky.social for accepting our invitation and contributing to our Research Seminar @uni-wuerzburg.de with the presentation "How Prior Information About Task Regularities Shapes Representations in Visual Working Memory".
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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Gave my first-ever talk in Turkish about my PhD project — at Istanbul University's Cognitive Neuroscience Seminars! Funny how switching languages also shifts how I think. 🧠✨ Feels good to make science a bit more accessible.
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Dimitris Bolis @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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(PDF) Beyond Autism: Introducing the Dialectical Misattunement Hypothesis and a Bayesian Account of Intersubjectivity
PDF | Drawing on sociocultural theories and Bayesian accounts of brain function, in this article we construe psychiatric conditions as disorders of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...
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