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RLDM @rldmparis2027.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀

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Fondation Fyssen @fondationfyssen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Félicitations à Fosca Al Roumi pour la publication de son article à découvrir dans le n°39 des Annales Fyssen ! Retrouvez également sur notre site web la vidéo de sa remise de prix, ainsi que son discours. www.fondationfyssen.fr/annales/anna...

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Maxence Pajot @maxencepajot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New AI models now show incredible math skill, solving problems that had stumped mathematicians for years. But what about basic geometric abilities? In our new paper in PLOS Computational Biology, we investigate this in vision models: doi.org/10.1371/jour... 1/8

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Can neural networks model the human perception of geometric shapes?

Author summary Recent neural networks have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of visual tasks, often rivaling or surpassing human performance. Yet, it remains unclear whether these system...

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Lucas Benjamin @lucaswbenjamin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Our new paper is now out in @pnas.org! How does the (baby) brain extract regularities from sequences from what-follows-what up to large-scale network structure? What if it all came from a single mechanism? www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're hiring! 2 postdocs + 3 PhD students to join InfantNeuroAI at Trinity College Dublin: awake infant fMRI & OPM-MEG, plus computational models of how infants learn. Aims: understand infant visual cognition, infant neuroimaging methods, more energy-efficient learning 🧵 www.cusacklab.org/vacancies

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Maxime Maheu @maheump.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy to be back! Europe *is* attractive to researchers. More stable positions would let more of us go after the difficult questions rather than the next low-hanging fruit. So many great projects didn't make it this year — I hope they all find a home! #ChooseEurope

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Théo Morfoisse @theomorfoisse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

When children start school, how do their brains change to support learning of formal mathematics? Our new paper, with @standehaene.bsky.social, just out in PNAS, followed ~50 children with yearly fMRI scans over 3 years, from preschool to 2nd grade, to see how this network develops. 🧵

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Initial organization and progressive expansion of the math-responsive brain network during the first school years

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Sam Cheyette @samcheyette.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

are you a puzzle-enjoyer, or would you like to become one? try out a game or two at mitpuzzles.com! we're trying to figure out the factors that separate novice from expert problem solving, and what changes with experience, using self-motivated puzzle solving

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MIT Puzzles

MIT researchers study human cognition through logic puzzles

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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Is spatial navigation innate 🧠? Using #NeuroPixels we show that the #torus 🍩 underlying the #GridCell map exists already on day 10 in rats — before pups open eyes and ears and before they start upright walking. 🧵1:4 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

From Syllables to Words: EEG Evidence of Different Age Trajectories in Speech Tracking and Statistical Learning in Infants at High and Low Likelihood for Autism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Jean-Rémi King @jeanremiking.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

We have a new postdoc position to work on Neuro AI and human intracranial recording with Pierre Bourdillon and I: Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Lab info: bourdillon-titan-lab.fr feel free to RT ;)

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

An ordinal Language of Thought supports human memory for regular sequences www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 03/04/2026

Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr

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Keith B. Doelling @kbdoelling.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🚨 Post-doc Job ALERT! Interested in using AI to better understand how the brain enjoys music? Or how auditory processing changes in Hearing Loss? Want to eat your weight in 🥖, 🧀, and 🍷? Click on this! #neurojobs, #blackinneuro, #neuroskyence, #psychjobs research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

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Postdoctoral Position in AI, Machine Learning and Auditory Neuroscience - Research

Paris, France | Institut de l’Audition (Institut Pasteur)Duration: 24 months (flexible start)Supervisor: Keith Doelling (INSERM) About the position We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to focus...

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Andrew MacAskill @macaskillaf.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Poster tonight at #cosyne26 (1-079)! @wanqingjiang.bsky.social & @noehamou.bsky.social show that mice learn hidden community structure in a 15-odour graph even when transition statistics are flat. Fun collaboration with @saxelab.bsky.social that started with East London coffees ☕!

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micha heilbron @mheilbron.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

📢 PhD position in Developmental Language Modelling (PLZ RT) What can human language acquisition teach us about training language models? Join us as a PhD! mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-developmental-language @carorowland.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social

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Lucas Benjamin @lucaswbenjamin.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Excited to share our new paper in @pnas.org with @bnmorillon.bsky.social & @valentinwyart.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We study three core inference systems, and how their interaction shapes human learning and decision-making.

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BogaertsLab @bogaertslab.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Our #IASL26 conference on statistical learning aims to bring together scientists from different disciplines who study how humans👨‍👧🧑‍🦳, as well as other species 🐒🦜 and systems 🤖🔠, learn regularities. ↖️🔍🔎↗️ If your work touches on this theme from any angle, we would love to receive your abstract!

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yinan cao @ycaoneuro.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🔎Updated preprint "Humans use a dual policy to improve inferences during epistemic information seeking" by Yinan Cao, Clémence Alméras, Junseok Lee, Inès Maye, and Valentin Wyart. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Volatility-driven learning in human infants

Infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament.

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Fanny Cazettes @fannycazettes.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Marseille folks: I’m organizing a one-day workshop on Distributed Computations for Flexible Behavior (Apr 16, Timone Campus) with a great line-up of speakers bridging theory, circuits & whole-brain dynamics! 🧠 Free registration (mandatory, incl. lunch): fannycazettes.limesurvey.net/172448?lang=...

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Jacques Pesnot Lerousseau @jacquespesnot.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

@summerfieldlab.bsky.social and I are very happy to share this paper! Building on work by @scychan.bsky.social, we show that how people learn depends on the distribution of examples they see, and changes in a way that’s very similar to transformer models.

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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Our paper on the human brain networks sensitive to geometric shape is now final in @elife.bsky.social, with nice videos by Mathias Sablé-Meyer explaining each figure! A geometric shape regularity effect in the human brain elifesciences.org/articles/106...

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A geometric shape regularity effect in the human brain

fMRI and MEG results in adults and children show encoding of abstract geometric regularities in dorsal-parietal, temporal, and frontal regions, pointing to a system for symbolic geometric representati...

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Cliona O'Doherty @clionaod.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

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Lucas Benjamin @lucaswbenjamin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Really cool to see the version of record finally out ! Hats off, Mathias :)

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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

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Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

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Maxence Pajot @maxencepajot.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Some numbers seem to show up everywhere. Think of 10, 12, 24, 36... Others—like 26 or 34—don’t get the same attention.Why? In our new paper with @standehaene.bsky.social and @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social, we argue it's because of how the mind builds number concepts. 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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Redirecting

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Jean-Rémi King @jeanremiking.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I'm very pleased to share our latest study: ‘Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain’, by L Evanson, P Bourdillon et al: - Paper: ai.meta.com/research/pub... - Blog: ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fa... - Thread below 👇

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Deep bidirectional interplay between sensory integration and latent rule discovery www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Franck Ramus @franckramus.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

La croisade anti-écrans part en vrille. Pourquoi la tribune du 29 avril signée par cinq sociétés médicales est tout sauf un argumentaire rigoureux fondé sur des résultats probants. Ma nouvelle chronique en libre accès dans l'Express: www.lexpress.fr/sciences-san...

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Faut-il vraiment interdire les écrans avant six ans ? Les dessous d'une croisade qui part en vrille

Selon notre chroniqueur Franck Ramus, spécialiste de ces questions, la tribune publiée le 29 avril et signée par cinq sociétés savantes est "tout sauf un argumentaire rigoureux fondé sur des…

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

📢 New publication alert! 📢 👂Ever struggled to understand natural speech in a noisy environment? 🤔 Our new research shows that moving rhythmically can actually help you hear better! royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/ZWRPM... with: @strijkers.bsky.social & Noémie teRietmolen 🧵👇

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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants

Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

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Isabelle Dautriche @sblldtrch.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees. Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

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PhD opportunity - ERC ThoughtOrigins

We are seeking a graduate student in comparative cognition to work on a ERC-funded project (to Isabelle Dautriche) to investigate the format of thought in the absence of a language in two populations:...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A proposal for unifying statistical learning at different scales: Long-Horizon Associative Learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We are hiring! Come work in sunny Marseille! NeuroSchool PhD contracts in neuroscience are available at Aix Marseille University, France: I submitted one project (#11) for the call for international PhDs: "Investigating Music Listening in Human and Non-Human Primates."

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Lucas Benjamin @lucaswbenjamin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Excited to share our new work led by Ana Fló! We used EEG to show that from birth, human newborns can compute statistical regularities in various dimensions of language, in particular phonemes and voices. elifesciences.org/articles/101... ⬇️

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Statistical learning beyond words in human neonates

Human neonates process regularities in speech's phonetic and voice content in parallel, but only phonetic regularities evoke a specific ERP component in a post-learning phase.

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Imagine listening to a language you don't know. When does one word end, and another begin? Human infants face a similar challenge. Scientists have looked at exactly how babies recognise patterns in speech from birth.

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Splitting speech

Newborn babies can recognise patterns in how voices alternate, as well as detect word-like motifs even when individual syllables are pronounced by various speakers.

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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

New paper from the lab! Mathias Sablé-Meyer used behavior, fMRI and MEG to study the mental representation of geometric shapes (quadrilaterals ranging in regularity from squares and rectangles to random figures). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Fondation Fyssen @fondationfyssen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Call for projects - Postdoctoral Study Grants 2025

Call for Projects : Postdoctoral Study grants
Apply online until Monday, March 31, 2025.
Opening on Monday, February 3
www.fondationfyssen.fr

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Merry Xmas to all my co-authors! Excited to share our work in Science Advances: "The human auditory cortex concurrently tracks syllabic and phonemic timescales via acoustic spectral flux." www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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The human auditory cortex concurrently tracks syllabic and phonemic timescales via acoustic spectral flux

Human auditory cortex tracks specific acoustic features, providing a multiscale temporal template for subsequent speech parsing.

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Maëva L'Hôtellier @maevalhotellier.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

New preprint! 🚨 Performance of standard reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms depends on the scale of the rewards they aim to maximize. Inspired by human cognitive processes, we leverage a cognitive bias to develop scale-invariant RL algorithms: reward range normalization. Curious? Have a read!👇

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Lucas Benjamin @lucaswbenjamin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Check out the new study led by Ana Fló : «These results show that, from birth, multiple input regularities can be processed in parallel and feed different higher-order networks.» Revised version soon in @elife.bsky.social

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