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Atsushi Kikumoto

@kikumotoatsushi.bsky.social
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Studying cognitive control at Brown University & RIKEN CBS. Incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland (starting 2026 Fall). Almost always failing to behave adaptively — but trying. www.cfd-lab.com

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Colin Bredenberg @colin-bredenberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hi all, I'm happy to announce that I have started at the University of Oregon as an assistant professor! My group will use computational methods to study learning and synaptic plasticity. I will be hiring grad students this year--please reach out if you're interested! colinbre@uoregon.edu
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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interested in higher-order cognition and PFC: how *does* the PFC build abstract task representations?! Going to @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2027? Vote for our symposium! cogneurosociety.org/symposium-voting-form/ feat. @desrocherslab.bsky.social @lapate.bsky.social @randolph-helfrich.bsky.social !
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Darcy Waller @darcywaller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pop quiz: What do detailed biophysical modeling, RSA, RNNs, and frequency-specific oscillatory analyses have in common? For the answer, check out our proposal for a @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2027 symposium and vote for it if you feel so inclined! www.cogneurosociety.org/symposium-vo...
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Symposium Voting Form - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
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Darcy Waller @darcywaller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Applied to M/EEG data, they allow us to cross scales of interpretation to understand how we can control dynamic “cognitive representations” at distributed and local levels. Hope to talk more about this with @kikumotoatsushi.bsky.social, @bradpostle.bsky.social, and @haegenslab.bsky.social at CNS27!
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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights:
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Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
✨New PhD Position!✨ Come and work with us on understanding cognition with a mix of cognitive modelling and ultrasound neuromodulation! More info on the lab & position: mic-lab.de/positions/ph... Official job ad: tinyurl.com/miclab-phd 🙏Please RT - deadline is Oct 14 ‼️
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Research Associate (m/f/d): Models, Interventions, and Cognition — MIC-Lab
Models and interventions of cognition.
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Jo Etzel @joetzel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#introduction I'm currently a staff scientist at Washington U in St Louis (USA), but (late 2026, early 2027) looking for a new position. I'm a big fan of task #fMRI, #BIDS, #baseR #Rstats (incl. graphics) and #knitr, #QC, and papers with very extensive #supplementary materials, but not AI.
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I fear that placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality, or treating dimensionality as an end-all quantification of some aspect of neural computation, may lead us down the wrong path, writes @mattperich.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
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Dimensionality—neuroscience’s red herring?
Placing too much emphasis on a specific interpretation of dimensionality may lead neuroscience down the wrong path.
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Biyu Jade He @biyuhe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📣 My lab at NYU currently has two open post-doc positions. We are interested in understanding perception, thinking, and hallucinations. We employ a range of cutting-edge techniques in human neuroscience (e.g., 7T fMRI, MEG, iEEG/DES) and computational approaches (e.g., DNN modeling).
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Atsushi Kikumoto @kikumotoatsushi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2027 at the University of Maryland — Cognitive Flexibility Dynamics Lab, studying cognitive control via brain recording (M/EEG, MRI), stimulation (TUS), and computational modeling. Please email me: cfd-lab.com/join
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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
📢 Announcing the 11th CiNet Conference: "From Biological to General Artificial Intelligence: Computational and Experimental Approaches to Understanding and Modeling the Brain" 5–7 October 2026, CiNet, Osaka, Japan Organized by yours truly & Shinji Nishimoto #neuroskyence #psychscisky #mlsky 🧠🤖 1/
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Debbie Yee @debyee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Are you on the #neurojob #psychjob market this fall? Come be my colleague! The Psych and Brain Sciences department @psychiowa.bsky.social is hiring TT faculty in clinical science and neuroscience, as well as clinical-track faculty. The initial review deadline is Sept 28. More info below!👇
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Heleen Slagter @haslagter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
PhD 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...
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Vacancy — PhD position (4 years) on the Role of Foveal Processing in Spatial Attention
Are 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...
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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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Megan deBettencourt @mdebettencourt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Come work with me at Google! We have an open 6-month temp role on my team - it’s a great opportunity for someone with a cog neuro or psych background interested in exploring big tech. Looking for comp modeling experience (e.g. RL, DDMs) and Python/JS. Reach out to learn more or pass along any names!
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browncopsy.bsky.social @browncopsy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Brown University CoPsy is hiring an Assistant Professor! Research areas: AI & cognition, collective behavior, or brain health. Starting July 2027. Apply by Sept 15: apply.interfolio.com/190677
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Doeller Lab @doellerlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Join us at @mpicbs.bsky.social as a fully funded 4-year PostDoc (m/f/d) in Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience (Area: Functions of the Perirhinal Cortex). Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by 17 August: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/44...?
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Fully funded PostDoc Position (m/f/d) for 4 years in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Area: Functions of the Perirhinal Cortex) - Doeller Lab | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kogniti...
Fully funded PostDoc Position (m/f/d) for 4 years in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Area: Functions of the Perirhinal Cortex) - Doeller Lab | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kogniti...
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Mahveen S Mubarak @mahveenmubarak.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
1/ 🧵 New preprint with @keisukefukuda.bsky.social! Sharing some work from my undergrad thesis 🧠 doi.org/10.31234/osf... Recent work has shown that simply making a prediction can induce a false memory of the predicted event, even when that prediction is left unresolved or directly contradicted.
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Atsushi Kikumoto @kikumotoatsushi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Takuro Zama is presenting resenting at #CCN2026 (Poster B62 in Poster Session B)! Asymmetric Interruption Costs Reflect Transition Structure Shaped by Task-Neutral Attractors: 2026.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=7...
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Meghan Gallo @meghangallo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What predicts mental health disorders' onset and treatment success? Join our free #CCN2026 satellite meeting on the latest computational cognitive neuroscience parsing the multi-scale, dynamical systems of disorders that emerge across development, symptom expression, presentation & treatment.
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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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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I'm recruiting two postdocs (or potentially PhD students) to work on projects at the intersection of cognition, neuroscience, and AI (with a particular emphasis on mechanistic interpretability). Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... and please share!
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Jennifer Bussell PhD @jenbussell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
How does the brain represent the value of knowledge? In our paper--out now at Nature Neuroscience--we identify a representation of intrinsic information value within neural population structures in the orbitofrontal cortex in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02377-y #neuroskyence 🧠🧪 (1/8)
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Representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Mice are motivated to seek information of no extrinsic value. Recording neural activity in orbitofrontal cortex reveals a representation of the value of information that is distinct from the value of ...
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Jet Lageman @jetlageman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Our 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!
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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🧠 New preprint! How does the brain build specialized, efficient representations as we grow up? We used manifold learning to track the "intrinsic dimensionality" (ID) of brain activity in ~800 participants (aged 3mo–53yrs), as they performed naturalistic tasks and rested/slept.
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Excited to see this paper on learning about how to learn out in eLIFE, spearheaded by Jonas Simoens and the team from Ghent incl @sebraem.bsky.social @pieterverbeke.bsky.social and Tom Verguts)
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Casper Kerrén @ckerren.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Excited to finally share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com: Hippocampal ripples initiate cortical dimensionality expansion for memory retrieval www.nature.com/articles/s41... With @s-michelmann.bsky.social and @doellerlab.bsky.social
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Hippocampal ripples initiate cortical dimensionality expansion for memory retrieval - Nature Communications
How past experiences are reconstructed from memory remains unclear. Here the authors used intracranial EEG to show that hippocampal ripples reshape the geometry of cortical representations, supporting...
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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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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The prefrontal cortex across scales: laminar architecture, white-matter constraints, and distributed control in cognition link.springer.com/article/10.1... #neuroscience
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The prefrontal cortex across scales: laminar architecture, white-matter constraints, and distributed control in cognition - Brain Structure and Function
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is often treated as the anatomical seat of executive control. We defend a distributed but structurally constrained account. The PFC is not an exclusive executive locus; it ...
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Atsushi Kikumoto @kikumotoatsushi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We're hiring a full-time Lab Manager for the Cognitive Flexibility Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland, studying cognitive control via brain recording, stimulation, and computational modeling. Ideal for research experience before grad school: cfd-lab.com/join
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Atsushi Kikumoto @kikumotoatsushi.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I presented our work, 'Error Monitoring Emerges from Competing Conjunctive Subspaces,' at the Cognitive Psychology Colloquium at Leiden University. Thank you for the invitation and great discussions!
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