Reposted by Jet Lagemanmegan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I am not a mathematician, so I am not sure if I can formally sign this, but I wholeheartedly concur and would argue that the same is true for all of science. Yes, we want scientific discovery. But -- like flipping to the back of the textbook to look at the answer key -- 1295
Reposted by Jet LagemanTal Golan @talgolanneuro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026How can we design experiments that make computational models disagree? One section of our new @natrevneuro.nature.com Review with @kriegeskorte.bsky.social and @heikoschuett.bsky.social examines studies that used stimulus sets designed to elicit distinct predictions from competing models. 1/16 114154
Reposted by Jet LagemanHeleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026PhD position (4 years, paid) on an NWO-funded project on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, supervised by Dr. Mieke Donk (main PI) and me! For more information: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...workingat.vu.nlVacancy — PhD position (4 years) on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial AttentionAre you interested in understanding how attention shapes what we see? Would you like to combine behavioural experiments, psychophysics, and eye tracking to uncover how the brain selects and prioritise... 03934
Reposted by Jet LagemanMinds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) @mmb-journal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmbdirect.mit.eduMinds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press 223793
Jet Lageman @jetlageman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Our latest work indicates that when we have to choose how to act to reach our goals, we do not just select the correct motor commands; we select between integrated representations of goals, actions, and expected sensory outcomes. Our results invite us to rethink how the brain controls action! 1318
Reposted by Jet LagemanLiu, Shuze @liushuze.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Do people solve hard problems by first building a mental model, then searching for the best solution? With @gershbrain.bsky.social, our new manuscript suggests a different route: people often start by retrieving cached solutions, and scaffold representations around them. osf.io/preprints/ps... 14319
Reposted by Jet LagemanMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgProgression without progressProgress in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance scientific discovery has made it increasingly realistic to envision automated “end-to-end science” (ETES) systems: integrated pipelines t... 1421150
Reposted by Jet LagemanAnna @annavanharmelen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026It's been a long time coming, but I'm very happy this work has finally come to fruition! 1145
Reposted by Jet LagemanNikolas Karalis @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social · 01/03/2026I’m building a foundational reading list for our lab (systems & circuit neuroscience, compneuro, modeling, neuromodulators, population coding etc.). I’d like to crowdsource recommendations. Which review(s) would you consider mandatory reading for the next generation of researchers? 87625
Reposted by Jet LagemanLitian Chen @ltchen.bsky.social · 23/02/2026📢 New paper in Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with my co-authors: Freek van Ede @freekvanede.bsky.social, Chris Jungerius @cjungerius.bsky.social, and Heleen A. Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social. Grateful to have collaborated with you on this work: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... [1/5]sciencedirect.comGrounding distractor inhibition in action control: Implicit distractor-location learning is viewer dependentSpatial selective attention is typically thought to act as a sensory filter: prioritizing the processing of relevant information at a particular locat… 52010
Reposted by Jet LagemanHeleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 29/01/2026What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps... 210039
Jet Lageman @jetlageman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Do goal-directed actions minimize prediction error? Together with @haslagter.bsky.social and @fahrenfort.bsky.social I identified falsifiable predictions of active inference and reviewed the extent to which they are supported by empirical results. Read the preprint here: tinyurl.com/2by8k3h6osf.ioOSF 03512
Jet Lageman @jetlageman.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Excited for #CCN2025! If you're interested in the role of integrated neural representations during goal-directed action, come check out poster C78 on Friday 2-5 pm! 050