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Omri Raccah

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Postdoc Fellow @Yale | Memory, auditory cognition, consciousness, machine learning omriraccah.github.io

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Amirmasoud Ahmadi @amirmasoud92.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our paper just dropped in the Journal of Neuroscience! How does the brain segment continuous audio into distinct units for speech perception? We show that the auditory forebrain actively decodes temporal landmarks to make this happen. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... #Neuroscience
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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 01/10/2026
Our lab is growing! We're looking for a graduate student to start next fall (applications due on Dec 1) and a postdoctoral researcher to start soon (ad coming soon; starting date is flexible, probably some time next year). subjectivitylab.org
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The Subjectivity Lab · Duke University · Jorge Morales, PhD
Duke interdisciplinary research group led by Dr. Jorge Morales studying vision, mental imagery, consciousness, and introspection.
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Hayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Medial PFC interacts with the hippocampus to retrieve context-congruent memories.. but HOW?? was what started this. Simulating mPFC-HIP🧠, we designed an RNN🤖 that retrieves memories similar in context, on top of self-attention. It learns to retrieve like humans faster! arxiv.org/abs/2609.37791
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A neural network that maintains and retrieves memories based on context
Every day, people continuously infer situational context and adjust the way they understand and remember the world. Context, signaled by the prefrontal cortex, is known to modulate working memory and ...
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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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Chris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Columbia Psychology is hiring for a Cognitive Science/Neuroscience Assistant Professor position as part of our ongoing push to expand our Cognitive research program (including two hires last year). We'll be starting application reviews next week so get materials in asap! apply.interfolio.com/193975
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the Gwilliams Lab and friends are at SNL 2026!! if you're into speech comprehension, intracranial and non-invasive time series, from single neurons to the whole cortex, across ages, using both classic linguistic approaches and advanced ML techniques - we've got something for you! 🧠 🌀 ✨
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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I would like to highlight two postdoctoral positions in the project Neuronal Mechanisms of Reading in Children Using OPM-MEG at the University of Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit��� Deadline 30 Sep.
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Athena Akrami @athenaakrami.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New preprint! 🧠 How do RNNs learn abstract rules from sequences, independent of specific stimuli? By Vezha Boboeva, with Alberto Pezzotta & George Dimitriadis "From sequences to schemas: low-rank recurrent dynamics underlie abstract relational representations" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're very happy to announce that SPAN2027 will be held at NYU on May 20-22, 2027. The conference will be hosted by the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness 🧠 A call for proposals will come soon!
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Mariya Toneva @mtoneva.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨 Two open postdoc positions in the ERC-funded project BrainAlign at the Max Planck Institute in Saarbruecken, Germany: position #1 on NeuroAI: postdocprogram.mpg.de/node/58480 position #2 on human-centered LLM evaluations: postdocprogram.mpg.de/node/58481 Application deadline: Oct 13, 2026
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Zurich Cognition Lab @cognition-zurich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Full ad here: www.psychologie.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:ea96...
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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Two #Developmental TT positions at McGill.. Could include people who study #language and #multilingualism. Please forward to colleagues/advanced trainees who might wish to join us in Montreal, Canada! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...
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Tenure-Track Position (Assistant Professor), Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Disturbances of conscious experience are central features of many psychiatric and mental health disorders. Experimental studies of conscious perception are therefore increasingly cited ....
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Hitting and missing on consciousness
Disturbances of conscious experience are central features of many psychiatric and mental health disorders. Experimental studies of conscious perception are therefore increasingly cited in clinical an....
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Jeff Zacks @jzacks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The call for participation for the first inaugural Event Cognition Conference is live! franco.nd.edu/events/confe... franco.nd.edu/assets/67910...
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David Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🧠 We are hiring 2 RAs to join a decoded neurofeedback project using fMRI & fNIRS to modulate emotional states. Please RT 📅 Deadline: Oct 8, 2026 🔗 www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j... #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #fMRI #fNIRS
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TWO RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS Group
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu       The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Co...
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hiring philosophers at Johns Hopkins! philjobs.org/job/show/32109?
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Associate Professor (endowed chair), Johns Hopkins University - PhilJobs:JFP Associate Professor (endowed chair), Johns Hopkins University
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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Christopher Honey @chrishoney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
1/ How do we sustain mental continuity in the face of interruption? @xianl-explorer.bsky.social found that, while people listen to a story, posterior medial cortex expresses a slowly evolving "background" representation of the story's context, which survived through silence and interfering tasks.
A schematic figure showing an evolving timeline of mental context during an interrupted narrative.
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Joey Heffner @jpheffne.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
SO excited to share that I'll be joining Stanford University as an Assistant Professor in Psychology starting September 2027!! I’m launching the Emotions, Computation, and Choice Lab, where we investigate how emotions guide social cognition and behavior. www.heffner-lab.com
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Emotions, Computation, and Choice Lab
Explore research on how emotions influence social cognition, decision-making, and AI interactions at the Emotions, Computation, and Choice Lab at Stanford University. Join us to study emotions and beh...
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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey our psychology department is recruiting an assistant professor in developmental psychology - please check it out universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
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University & College Vacancies
Connecting talent with opportunity in higher education
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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Our new paper may be one of coolest studies I've ever done. We show that the structures of visual storytelling in comics aligns with the word order of the languages of the comic authors. Here's what we did... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Syntactic headedness aligns with visual narrative structure
Recent research has highlighted how visual narrative sequences involve similar structures and processing as syntax in language, yet no work has asked …
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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New preprint! In this study, the fantastic Apoorva Sharma demonstrates that the amount of time that passes during motor preparation can "tag" for retrieval otherwise competing motor memories. Modeling work links these fx to putative temporal basis sets in the cerebellar cortex. Feedback welcome!
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're hiring! The York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) is looking for a Senior Technical Specialist to support & develop MRI. This is a new role to reflect our commitment to pushing forward MRI research at York. Come join the team! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/seni... #neurojobs #neuroskyence #psychscisky
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Jobs - The University of York
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm very excited about this recent study, led by @pieterbarkema.bsky.social. We find that stimulus representations in the deep layers of V1 can be affected by *later* information: postdiction. See Pieter's thread for more information - and of course the preprint! @jhaarsma.bsky.social #neuroskyence
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The post-hoc montage of perception: deep layers of primary visual cortex encode postdictive percepts
One of the most puzzling aspects of perception is postdiction: later information can change how a previous stimulus is perceived [1,2]. This indicates that perception is not a livestream of the extern...
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Daniel Reznik 🎶 @reznikdaniel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Now out in Hippocampus!! 📣💥 We examined anatomical inputs to the hippocampal region in six species - the tenrec, rat, marmoset, cat, macaque, and human - and found that hippocampal processing operates on fundamentally different types of information across species! (1/3) dx.doi.org/10.1002/hipo...
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Phylogeny of Cortical‐Hippocampal Projections Reveals Selective Elimination of Input From Sensory Regions
The study of cross-species differences in the organization of the cerebral cortex received significant attention during the past century. However, the evolutionary principles governing changes in bra...
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Sebastian Michelmann @s-michelmann.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thrilled to share this with the world! In this work led by Zihan Bai, we asked how episodic memory interacts with working memory and found evidence for a tight integration between the two systems. Zihan walks you through it in his thread 🧵🧠 🔥
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We are hiring a new director for our brain imaging center at Northeastern University (Boston) in the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please spread the word. I'm on the search committee happy to speak with anyone who is interested. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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Associate Professor/Professor and Director, Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center
About the Opportunity About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experientia...
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Speech production is fast, complicated, cool (when the right thing is said...) Covert speech is a nice trick to study this. If you like speech planning, forward models, efference copies, brains this work is (we hope) helpful to clarify the brain mechs. #neuroskyence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Temporally structured motor and auditory representations in covert syllable production | PNAS
Inner speaking—the deliberate generation of speech through covert production mechanisms—is a common human experience. Current accounts propose that...
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David Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Few days left to apply: RA position at BCBL in Spain to work on decoded neurofeedback. Apply here shorturl.at/ehOhf More positions coming v/soon too, so if you’re interested pls get your CVs in now @escop.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social @neurofeedback.bsky.social
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RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS GROUP 2026 (D.S)
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu       The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Co...
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Our department at Furman University is hiring, in social or social cognitive -- In many ways, Furman is a uniquely excellent place to work for someone who values both teaching and research, looking to do both in a liberal arts environment. Happy to candidly answer questions (DM me).
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Tenure-Track Position in Social or Social Cognitive Psychology
Welcome to Furman University's Career Site! IMPORTANT: Load all documents in the My Experience area under Resume/CV. This may include your resume/C.V., cover letter, unofficial transcript, teaching ph...
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Laurent Caplette @laucaplette.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm excited to share that I'll be joining Université de Montréal's School of Optometry as an Assistant Professor this fall! My lab will focus on understanding how we process and represent the dynamic and complex visual world, using AI, behavior and neuroimaging. Recruiting grad students for 2027!
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Jin Ke @jinke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Our paper is now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we found that these rich and idiosyncratic thoughts can be decoded from brain network dynamics and help explain links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior.
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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 26/08/2026
The NSF GRFP solicitation is out. Aspiring Psychology PhD students, the deadline is October 20. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🚨Job Search announcement 🚨 @psychillinois.bsky.social is searching for an assistant prof in cognitive neuroscience. Come join us! Pls RT 🙏 Full ad: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging
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Assistant Professor- Psychology - College of LAS
Duties & Responsibilities
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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Brain Conference on Neural Foundations of Communication: Integrative Approaches Across Species www.fens.org/news-activit... Don't forget to register. Deadline Sept5. Tell your friends. Great topic, great speakers, great place-lots of time for discussion. Not to be missed, I think? #neuroskyence
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The Brain Conference on Neural Foundations of Communication: Integrative Approaches Across Species - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
Location: Heraklion, Crete, Greece Final call for registration deadline (abstracts will only be considered for posters): 16 June – 5 September 2026 This conference is locally organised by the Hellenic...
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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New lab preprint, "Abstract Representations of Sensorimotor Transformations in Human Premotor Cortex." Led by @sanghoonkang.bsky.social , with Juliana Trach. We'd love any thoughts, feedback! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A crucial part of doing science is the art of expressing & engaging with disagreement. Cheng et al show 11 AI models are sycophantic & make users more convinced they're right & less willing to take responsibility or repair conflict. Q. As we adopt AI in science how can we preserve healthy discourse?
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Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...
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Yale Neuroscience @yaleneuro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Department of Neuroscience at Yale is hiring faculty members. We have 2 searches: one general (deadline Oct 15), one focused on computational neuroscience (deadline Nov 30). Apply! apply.interfolio.com/190736 & apply.interfolio.com/190740
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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Looking for a postdoctoral fellowship to study consciousness? Talk to me about applying for this scholarship - we’ve had a wonderful experience with it in the past: azrielifoundation.org/fellows/inte...
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International Postdoctoral Fellowship - The Azrieli Foundation
The Azrieli Fellows Program is an elite group of academics who cultivate a network of leading professionals in Israel and around the world.
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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
New perspective piece out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social with Zaid Zada, @adelegoldberg.bsky.social, and Uri Hasson! We try to articulate some of our excitement about LLMs and discuss what kinds of insights they might provide into the neural computations supporting natural language in the human brain.
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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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Ryan Panela @ryanapanela.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Now published in Acta Psychologica, our research examines how background noise shapes event segmentation during continuous speech listening and its consequences for memory. doi.org/10.1016/j.ac... @alexbarnett.bsky.social | Yulia Lamekina | @barense.bsky.social | @bjherrmann.bsky.social
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Lauren Homann @laurenhomann.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New preprint w/ @barense.bsky.social! How does revisiting real-world memories reshape them, and their links to each other? Here, we examined how retrieval/restudy/no review shape more-naturalistic event memory strength (do we observe a testing effect?) and integration between related memories. 🧵
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Driving in the scanner: a versatile platform for studying naturalistic human spatial navigation openreview.net/pdf?id=Wg9CA...
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Two junior research fellowships @kingscollege.bsky.social opening soon due on Oct 1st. The theme is REPLICATION conceived broadly to encompass different research projects in humanities and social sciences. As a philosopher of science I am esp hoping for applications in #philsci #metascience #hps
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Current research opportunities
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Marta Silva @martamasilva.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Check out our new paper! 🧠 Me, @xiongbowu.bsky.social and @fuentemilla.bsky.social review how reactivation at the end of events support memory formation and propose it serves multiple functions from preventing interference to helping preserve temporal continuity! ✨ www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Neural reactivation supports memory formation when events end
Memory routinely transforms continuous experience into discrete episodes that support flexible retrieval. We propose that these structured representations are established via rapid neural reactivation...
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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Applications are open for WTI Postdoctoral Fellowships! Calling experimental, computational + theoretical researchers working across disciplines to explore human cognition. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/189775 Learn more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/postdoctoral #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale
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Liina Pylkkänen @liinapy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hi new PhDs! I'll soon advertise for a post-doc, but would be happy to receive informal inquiries immediately, as getting the official ad up will take a minute. Looking for strong computational & MEG analysis skills. Email me if this sounds like you and you'd like to join us! @snlmtg.bsky.social
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Laurent Caplette @laucaplette.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Our Viewpoint paper just got accepted at Journal of Neuroscience! @sfnjournals.bsky.social We show that there are actually *two* temporal "dimensions" to consider in visual perception and we discuss the promises of a method to disentangle them. 🧵👇(1/7) t.ly/9DgIF
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A very interesting coverage of the recent work from the lab www.nature.com/articles/s41... conducted by @matthewrlogie.bsky.social & @grassocamille.bsky.social @brainthemind.bsky.social @unicog.bsky.social
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Nested contextual change and the temporal compression of episodic memory - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Nested contextual change and the temporal compression of episodic memory
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