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Cognitive Neuroscience - interested in minds, brains, emotions

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
HG Wells is alleged to have remarked "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race”. You could see this shocking chart as an index of civilisation. A country which gets this issue so badly wrong is likely to fail in many other ways.
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FraserWSmith @fraserwsmith.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Very worrying to see such reasoning at 'research intensive russell group institutions' - despite the UKRI acknowledging (as stated in the letter below) the importance of curiosity driven research
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Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
⏰ Last-minute reminder! Only 48 hours left to submit your Poster abstracts and Travel Grant applications for the #BernsteinConference 2026! 🗓️ Deadline: July 1 All information 👉 bit.ly/4rQowo6... #CompNeuro #Neuroskyence #BernsteinNetwork
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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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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Sorry to re-up this, but the media silence on the massive, country-changing shift towards arbitrary justice and authoritarianism is almost the most astonishing aspect of the case. The new dispensation is being normalised even as it's happening. Please spread it far and wide. We need to know. Thanks
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FraserWSmith @fraserwsmith.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Check out our new MSc at UEA Psychology! #PsychSciSky
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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🧵 I gave Claude two things: a short paper (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) and a raw behavioural dataset with 3 lines of variable descriptions. Then I asked it to fit three computational RL models described only by equations in the manuscript. No code, no toolbox, no guidance on the fitting procedure. 1/3
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Congratulations to Ian Thornton and colleagues who published their Mainz-Linez illusion in i-Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social): the red dots appears to wave left and right when one looks at one of the black dots, but they actually move straight journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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FraserWSmith @fraserwsmith.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Can anyone recommend the best available tactile glove systems currently? We are looking for something like the below at a reasonable price ;-) www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky #compneurosky @stephanierossit.bsky.social
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Learning the signatures of the human grasp using a scalable tactile glove - Nature
Tactile patterns obtained from a scalable sensor-embedded glove and deep convolutional neural networks help to explain how the human hand can identify and grasp individual objects and estimate their w...
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
MRC instructs grant review boards to slash funding rates. Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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MRC instructs grant review boards to slash funding rates - Research Professional News
Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls
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UEA School of Psychology @psychologyuea.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We’re excited to kick off our Spring Research Seminar Series!
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🚨 #CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open! CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.
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Dr. Sobana Wijeakumar @drswijeakumar.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Three weeks until the deadline for the fully funded ESRC DTP position with me @notts-psych.bsky.social and @alexhendry.bsky.social. Please share with colleagues and interested students.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Ignorance is power. www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Scary news filtering through about a several-months pause to MRC applicant-led grant calls. BBSRC possibly to follow Anyone know what's going on??
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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
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FraserWSmith @fraserwsmith.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Great PhD opportunity at UEA!
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Kou Murayama @koumurayama.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We are hiring a new Ph. D. student on neuroimaging and/or computational modeling on motivation and emotion. Tübingen is a great place to pursue work on these topics!! uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
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PhD Position on computational modelling and neuroscience (m/f/d)
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Stephanie Rossit @stephanierossit.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Was a great pleasure to record this podcast with James - thanks for having me @psychologyuea.bsky.social
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
@thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a portrait of the state of neuroscience in 2025 through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding. Each view features analyses of major trends and more. Explore the end of year report: bit.ly/4oNeTVC #neuroskyence #StateofNeuro
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026. 2026.ccneuro.org
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Damian Cruse @damiancruse.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🚨 Fully funded PhD scholarship to work with me, Ali Mazaheri, Dhruv Parekh, and Katrien Segaert at the University of Birmingham on new brain-based tools to improve diagnoses of consciousness after severe brain injury. 🚨 Deadline: 9th January 2026 Full details and application form: lnkd.in/ejZkfFbW
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Sushrut Thorat @martisamuser.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🚨New Preprint! How can we model natural scene representations in visual cortex? A solution is in active vision: predict the features of the next glimpse! arxiv.org/abs/2511.12715 + @adriendoerig.bsky.social , @alexanderkroner.bsky.social , @carmenamme.bsky.social , @timkietzmann.bsky.social 🧵 1/14
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Predicting upcoming visual features during eye movements yields scene representations aligned with human visual cortex
Scenes are complex, yet structured collections of parts, including objects and surfaces, that exhibit spatial and semantic relations to one another. An effective visual system therefore needs unified ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...
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BBC Gives Israeli Deaths 33 Times More Coverage, New Study Reveals | Novara Media
An analysis of over 35,000 broadcast segments and articles found that the BBC referenced the 7 October attacks in at least 40% of its coverage - but only 0.5% of articles referenced Israel’s decades o...
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Carl Hodgetts @cjhodgetts.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We’re hiring a permanent Lecturer (R&T) in cog neuro and development / lifespan psychology at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social. Join a supportive, research-intensive dept - with a new MRI scanner on the way 🙂 Info below - and get in touch to learn more! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Hello, @rspb.bsky.social, @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.org.uk. Where the hell are you?
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
"if anything employment outcomes are worsening more rapidly for those with fewer skills looking for blue-collar jobs than the highly skilled seeking knowledge work" on.ft.com/43eYeRZ @jburnmurdoch.ft.com as ever doing the essential work. It's not just AI. And education still matters
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What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong
People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall
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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
NeuroAI Course 📆 13–24 July 2026 🌍 Online & accessible worldwide across 5 time zones Already taken our #ComputationalNeuroscience and #DeepLearning courses (or have equivalent experience)? Then you’re ready for the next step: Neuromatch Academy’s #NeuroAI Course! ➡️ neuromatch.io/neuroai-cour...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends. 90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts. 90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends. Public ownership would make a difference.
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If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership
Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.
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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 26/09/2025
UK theoretical neuroscience workshop - Dec 16 in London. I'll be speaking at this alongside a load of other cool people. Come along! (It's free.) 🤖🧠🧪 dpinotsis.wixsite.com/uk-theoretic...
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Home | UK Theoretical Neuro
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Help @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social understand what early-career neuroscientists need. Take just a few minutes to fill out the survey: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career... #neuroskyence
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
🔴 NEW - Why you should leave X Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch. 📝 latest Substack 👇🏻
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Why you should leave X
A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. This thread explains why. 1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only fo...
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Bangor Imaging Unit @bangorimagingunit.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Welcome new followers! If the BIU is new to you, you might be surprised to know we’ve been operating at the leading-edge of MRI research for almost 20 years! ⭐️ Please check out the below infographic for more history, and read the full annual report on our website. @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
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Edwin Dalmaijer @dalmaijer.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Lecturer JOB! There is a fixed-term (2 years) teaching-focussed Lecturer position open in our department! Focus is on (human!) cognitive neuroscience. I'm not part of the recruitment process, but always happy to answer any questions about Bristol and our School. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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FraserWSmith @fraserwsmith.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Final week to apply: come join us in beautiful Norwich and lead our neuroimaging studies into vision and touch for material perception! (Deadline July 28th) Learn how to integrate neuroimaging results with DNN modelling! @timkietzmann.bsky.social, @stephanierossit.bsky.social
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I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here @imascientist.org.uk · 21/07/2025
A school 30 minutes away from a major research HEI is 2 TIMES LESS likely to receive a scientist visit than a school 15 minutes away 🏫🚗 That’s where I’m a… projects come in! They’re online, no travel involved, so students in any part of the country have the opportunity to connect with scientists.
The image shows a graph showing how the percentage of schools visited by university scientists is lower the longer the drive is from the nearest university. Starting at 69% when it's up to a 15 minute drive, which goes down to 43% for a 15-30 minute drive, and coming down to 15% when it's over 60 minutes. 
Under the graph it says: "Nearly 70% of schools within 15 minutes of a university had visits from university scientists." And "Schools more than 30 minutes away were visited less than half as often". At the bottom of the picture it says "Initial date suggests likelihood of a visit decreases by around 1% per minute's drive".
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UEA Neuropsychology Laboratory (Neurolab) @neurolab.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Big week for the SIGHT trial! Training kicks off at St George’s NHS Trust (Tues) and Cambridge University Hospitals (Thurs) – covering recruitment, intervention, and outcomes. Huge thanks to our brilliant team for getting us here! 💪🧠 #SIGHTtrial #ClinicalResearch #StrokeRehab
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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
How do you ensure a nation fails to cope with drought? Privatise its water system. Almost everyone wants our water renationalised. Almost everyone, that is, except the government. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot
In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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UEA UCU says join a union @uea-ucu.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
BREAKING: University of East Anglia plans to axe THREE vital mental health training programmes, putting 19 jobs at risk. These programmes train frontline NHS mental health workers who work directly with vulnerable patients.
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UEA School of Psychology @psychologyuea.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐄𝐀 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐛 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲! 𝐃𝐫. 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐭 is chairing the 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐎𝐏𝐒𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 ‪@opsyris.bsky.social — bringing together researchers and clinicians to share the latest in psychological stroke research.
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Remember that I used to write blog posts?? It's been an eternity, but I finally wrote another on. This time on leadership gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/l...
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Leadership
A short (let’s see!) blog post about leadership, which has been on my mind lately. But first, a digression. Regular readers will have noticed I’ve not been posting much. This is because…
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FraserWSmith @fraserwsmith.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
We are looking for a post-doc (3 yrs) to lead neuroimaging experiments (using fMRI & EEG) investigating the multimodal basis of material perception deadline **July 28th** #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky #compneurosky @timkietzmann.bsky.social, @stephanierossit.bsky.social
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Senior Research Associate in Cognitive Neuroscience at University of East Anglia
Apply for the Senior Research Associate in Cognitive Neuroscience role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This, to be considered by the House of Commons this afternoon, needs to cause as much political trouble for the government as the welfare bill. Ask your MP to stand up for the right to protest.

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Motion to approve the draft Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025 - Yvette Cooper
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Shane McCracken @shane.mccracken.org.uk · 30/06/2025
We're hiring. We're looking for someone to take the lynchpin role on @imascientist.org.uk Based in our Central Bath office (with a/c today). More info: mangorol.la/2025/06/job-...
📢 Job Opportunity: Project Support


✅ Location: Beautiful Central Bath
✅ Hours: Full-time or Part-time
✅ Salary: £25,000 per year
✅ Start Date: September 2025
🗓️ Application Deadline: Friday 11th July
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Today, the UK government intends to ban the non-violent protesters Palestine Action as a "terrorist" group, exposing anyone supporting them to terrorism charges. In 2 days, 380,000 people have watched this video on YT alone. You're going to need a bigger prison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...
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Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison
YouTube video by Double Down News
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UEA School of Psychology @psychologyuea.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The School of Psychology has been awarded funding through the 𝐍𝐈𝐇𝐑 𝐢𝟒𝐢 𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 to assess the clinical feasibility of the 𝐄𝐲𝐞𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩 (PI: Stephanie Rossit) designed to support attention rehabilitation in people with acquired brain injury. www.nihr.ac.uk/news/over-ps...
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