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Theo Schäfer @theoschaefer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Excited to be in New York for #CCN2026! I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow at 10:30 AM about neural belief state dynamics and presenting my poster on August 5 at 9:30 AM. Looking forward to see you! 2026.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8...

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We're finally getting the tools to study replay in humans. But why bother? What can we learn from it that we don't know from rodent recordings? Our thoughts are now out in a new TICS Forum Great fun writing this w @smfleming.bsky.social + @maritpetzka.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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What can we learn from studying replay in humans?

Noninvasive methods are making it possible to study neural replay in humans. Although focused on alignment with rodent findings, human research often …

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

How fast agentic AI has changed our work is head-spinning and there's been a lot of debate in our lab. So we drafted guidelines to help navigate this new reality. Sharing here in the hope it’s useful for others & curious to hear thoughts schucklab.gitlab.io/ai-policy.html #AcademicSky #compneurosky

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Schuck Lab — AI Policy

Schuck Lab policy on generative and agentic AI

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

New preprint! How do threat beliefs drive avoidance & what happens when avoidance prevents us from verifying them? New work showing a bidirectional link between beliefs and avoidance! Lucky to work w @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social @tobywise.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Theo Schäfer @theoschaefer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Happy to share this early Christmas present 🎄: our paper about geometry- and locomotion-dependence of 3D memory got published in PNAS! Joint work with co-first-author Volker Reisner (@reisnerv.bsky.social) as well as Leonard König, Misun Kim & Christian Doeller www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/

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Volker Reisner @reisnerv.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

We’re very happy to share that our work on 3D spatial memory was published in PNAS just before the end of the year! 🎉 Link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (1/8)

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Is cognition a universal feature of the living world? How can we define it? Is a nervous system needed? If so, why? If not, why not? Check this fascinating @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue led by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social & co. on Basal Cognition royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Theo Schäfer @theoschaefer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Check out our new preprint on how environmental deformation and locomotion affect 3D maps! Co-led with @reisnerv.bsky.social, alongside Leonard König, Misun Kim, and Christian Doeller. Very proud of this work!

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

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Luianta Verra @luiantaverra.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It’s a Preprint! 👋 We show how we can dissociate perceptual from value-based mechanisms of generalisation + that stronger gen. in anxiety is associated with value rather than perception. w/ @ondrejzika.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n

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Hongyu_Chang @hongyuchang.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

SEEING THROUGH YOUR EYES 👁️: Excited to share our new paper (which is out now @nature.com !!) with Wenbo Tang, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz✉️, and Azahara Oliva✉️: we discovered a novel sleep microstructure that promotes memory replay! #Neuroscience #hippocampus nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 1/12👇

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Sleep microstructure organizes memory replay - Nature

The temporal microstructure of the brain can multiplex distinct cognitive processes during sleep to support continuous learning.

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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A detailed new look at dopamine signaling suggests neuroscientists’ model of reinforcement learning may need to be revised. #MIT "Dopamine release plateau and outcome signals in dorsal striatum contrast with classic reinforcement learning formulations" #NatureCom www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Happy to share our review on OFC/vmPFC representations in Trends in Neurosciences, written with @nirmoneta.bsky.social and Shany Grossman www.cell.com/trends/neuro... Very short thread below to summarize our review #neuroscience #neuroskyence #compneurosky #PsychSciSky

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Theo Schäfer @theoschaefer.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

One of my PhD projects is online! We show that category prototypes correspond to interpolated states in a cognitive map that guide cortical pattern completion during category-based decisions. w/ Mirko Thalmann, Eric Schulz, Christian Doeller, Stephanie Theves www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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The hippocampus supports interpolation into new states during category abstraction

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