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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Re-post 🔁 is appreciated! #neurojobs: we’re looking for new team members to join us @cmc-unit.bsky.social! If you’d like to study decision-making in naturalistic & embodied contexts (integrating RL, RNNs & cross-species data analysis) in a cool & collaborative research environment 😎, check 👇

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CMC Unit @cmc-unit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We now have open positions in both of our research hubs: a postdoc position at MPI for Biological Cybernetics (Tübingen) and a PhD position at TU Dresden (Dresden), co-supervised by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social. See below for more information 👇

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Niklas Buergi @niklasbuergi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Autism has long been linked to difficulties with Theory of Mind. But what exactly is driving these differences? And what happens in the brain? In our new preprint, we show that adaptive mentalization might be key. A 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro osf.io/preprints/ps...

Repeated Rock-Paper-Scissors task used to study adaptive mentalization, alongside a schematic showing increasingly sophisticated reasoning strategies, from responding to past actions to trying to guess the opponent’s prediction about one’s own next action

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Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Excited to share that I'll be starting as a junior professor and Emmy Noether awardee at the University of Göttingen this October! 🥳 🚀 I'll be hiring #phd students and #postdoc across #machinelearning, #neuroscience and #cogsci: modirlab.github.io/open-positio... Please spread the word! 🙏

Information about Göttingen and equal opportunities

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Tianyuan Teng @tyteng.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

None of this would exist without Hang & Wenliang. Deepest thanks to both of them for making this long journey possible!!

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Tianyuan Teng @tyteng.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We model this as a misspecified expansion prior meeting cognitive constraints: the internal model probabilistically grows with new observations, but more reluctantly as memory burden increases — a Distorted Economical Expansion process.

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Tianyuan Teng @tyteng.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The most surprising result is perhaps that participants can’t even learn a simple structure such as a Gaussian. Instead, they reported 2~3 illusory clusters. More evidence didn't help them find the true structure, but pushed them even further away from it.

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Tianyuan Teng @tyteng.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

You'd think people prefer the simplest explanation of an uncertain world — Occam's razor. Our data says no, across 2 modalities, 2 tasks, 8 experiments: people often perceive illusory structure that isn't there and prefer moderate complexity. Out now in Nature Comms! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Human learning of probability distributions is biased toward moderate structural complexity - Nature Communications

Humans build internal models from online observations to adapt to new environments. Here, the authors show that individuals are biased towards building models with moderate structural complexity, rega...

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