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Virginie van Wassenhove

@virginievanw.bsky.social
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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscientist Head of Cognition & Brain Dynamics brainthemind.com Follow us @brainthemind.bsky.social Co-Director dim-cbrains.fr/fr/dim-cbrains/gouve… Assoc. Ed. direct.mit.edu/jocn Views are mine

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Cognition & Brain Dynamics lab @brainthemind.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our postdoc @lgrabot.bsky.social will be presenting tomorrow at @cuttingeeg.bsky.social a talk on traveling waves!
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Cognition & Brain Dynamics lab @brainthemind.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New article from our postdoc Alejandro Santos-Mayo, from his former lab! Concept2Brain is an AI architecture that turns text or images into predicted cortical activity, enabling researchers to simulate brain patterns and study conceptual representations. shorturl.at/bb0qx
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Concept2Brain: an AI model for predicting neurophysiological responses to text and pictures - Nature Communications
Advancing toward human brain simulation remains a major challenge. Here, the authors introduce Concept2Brain, an AI web tool that predicts neural activity, thus generating synthetic and reproducible E...
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 06/09/2026
Quanta spoke to Sarah Demers, physics chair at Yale University, about AI in physics, and how physicists can benefit or suffer from it. Read the full interview: www.quantamagazine.org/in-an-age-of…
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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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Cognition & Brain Dynamics lab @brainthemind.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New paper out! 🧠🚅 When scientists leave the lab to... take the train! A successful collaboration with @groupe-sncf.com, investigating how train travelers experience duration and distance. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cea.fr , @inserm.fr , @univparissaclay.bsky.social @unicog.bsky.social
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A Journey Into a Traveler's Mental Map: Duration, Distance, and Speed Experienced in High‐Speed Trains
Our study investigates how high-speed transport affects humans’ perception of time, space, and speed. We tested 247 passengers traveling on the French Paris-Lyon high-speed train (TGV) who estimated ....
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
@unicog.bsky.social @cea-joliot.bsky.social 🧠 ready for 🧠
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Quotable Dylan for fellow time and memory researchers ! @brainthemind.bsky.social
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
RIP Avis
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Cognition & Brain Dynamics lab @brainthemind.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We are proposing several internships for Master’s students within our team! If you are interested in temporal cognition and cognitive maps, please feel free to reach out. Details on the projects can be found here: brainthemind.com/openings/
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Opportunities
We are continuously accepting new applicants to get involved in ongoing projects or start new ideas – do get in touch for opportunities that may not be advertised yet! Permanent Positions Please in…
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Tough love
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Just because, toroidal structure in audition ca. 2014... Henry, M. J., Herrmann, B., & @jonasobleser.bsky.social (2014). Entrained neural oscillations in multiple frequency bands comodulate behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(41), 14935-14940.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Time perception follows Weber's law in Drosophila www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
A lucid and thorough analysis of audiovisual synchrony in the literature by Parise^3 ! @cesare-parise.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Quid of longitudinal inter-individual differences?...
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Very psyched about this work!
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Ty for the invite - looking forward to Mind Meeting!
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
À l'approche de l'été, j'aurai l'honneur de partager quelques heures avec @hervedole.bsky.social @rovelli.bsky.social bien d'autres... sur ces histoires de temps! 🕑 🧠 vent-des-savoirs.org/index.php/le... Org. : Gilles Gerbier @cea.fr @inserm.fr @unicog.bsky.social @univparissaclay.bsky.social
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So very lucky to work with incredibly talented humans!
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Manuela Piazza @manpiazza.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The Per2Con group at CIMeC is actively seeking Post-Docs interested in investigating how newborns 👶 🧒 perceive 👁️👂and learn, using 🧠 HD EEG and eye-tracking. ✨You are motivated to work on neurodevelopment: we would love to hear from you to prepare a grant proposal together (Marie-Curie, Fyssen...)
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Open Positions | Research Center
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Borges on how to conquer time www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/02/a...
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Borges on How to Conquer Time
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am t…
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
How hierarchical structures affect the when (what, where) of event memory? Hint: temporal compression 👇 A first virtual reality study by @matthewrlogie.bsky.social as part of experience-project.eu
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The Extended-Personal Reality - Experience Project
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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
It’s out!
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Cognition & Brain Dynamics lab @brainthemind.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
📣New paper out! We successfully replicated our previous work (Azizi et al., 2023), demonstrating that alpha activity is a marker of contextual changes during resting-state. w/ R. Bordas and @virginievanw.bsky.social shorturl.at/bKAFp
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Spontaneous Oscillatory Activity in Episodic Timing: An EEG Replication Study and Its Limitations
Episodic timing refers to the one-shot, automatic encoding of temporal information in the brain, in the absence of attention to time. A previous magnetoencephalography (MEG) study showed that the rela...
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Passage of time in the brain, in the mind, both? Commentary on @lapate.bsky.social recent work #drift #fmri #human #time Please,👇 if we missed relevant observations in the field! w/ @vigano.bsky.social @beneuroscience.bsky.social & R. Bordas @sfnjournals.bsky.social @brainthemind.bsky.social
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Cognition & Brain Dynamics lab @brainthemind.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
New paper from the team and collaborators, showing that alpha power indexes working memory load for durations. www.cell.com/iscience/ful... #time #workingMemory #brainRhythms
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Alpha power indexes working memory load for durations
Biological sciences; Neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience
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Jean-Baptiste André @jbaptistandre.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
1/ 📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris! The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the next academic year. 🗓 Deadline: February 24, 2026 💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A very warm (albeit wintery) welcome to @vigano.bsky.social in the Cognition & Brain Dynamics team 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 ! We're very excited and will follow w/ team science updates of @brainthemind.bsky.social! @cea-joliot.bsky.social #NeuroSpin @unicog.bsky.social
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Matthew Logie @matthewrlogie.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Looking forward to talking about using VR and EEG to study the 'when' of memory with @grassocamille.bsky.social and @virginievanw.bsky.social. Thursday the 8th of January at 11.45am. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPUB...
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Electroencephalography (EEG), Virtual Reality @ Neurospin
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Sze Chai Kwok @kwokszechai.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
with @johnsakon.bsky.social @virginievanw.bsky.social @lapate.bsky.social and others #sfn25
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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration! Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code. Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Congrats @davidpoeppel.bsky.social it is very well deserved!
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Time is relative and brains define simultaneity (TWS) and meaning (TWI) through temporal windows.
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Edvard I Moser @edvardmoser.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
1/5 How does the brain turn the low-dimensional, universal grid cell metric into the rich, diverse codes needed for memory in hippocampal place cells? 🧵 Preprint link 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Functional independence of entorhinal grid cell modules enables remapping in hippocampal place cells
A systems-level understanding of cortical computation requires insight into how neural codes are transformed across distinct brain circuits. In the mammalian cortex, one of the few systems where such ...
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
RIP remarkable Jane Goodall www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Evenement à diffuser pour la fête de la science en @iledefrance.bsky.social @poncerlab.bsky.social @bathellierlab.bsky.social @clairewyart.bsky.social
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 02/08/2025
A substantial number of female physicists in the first half of the 20th century contributed to quantum physics. For the history of physics to properly recognize their work, new approaches are needed, argues Andrea Reichenberger in Nature Reviews Physics. go.nature.com/41mjQuJ #WomeninSTEM ⚛️ 🧪
Hertha Sponer in the lab. Credit: Science History Images/Alamy Stock Photo.
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/07/2025
Octopuses fall for the “rubber arm” illusion, just like us. Learn more: scim.ag/40xyT4y
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DIM C-BRAINS @c-brains.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
La recherche en #neurosciences en @iledefrance.bsky.social Une nouvelle série vidéo pour apprendre et comprendre: youtu.be/RjXOhBqfOLM?... #epilepsie @ap-hp.bsky.social @pitiesalpetriere.bsky.social @poncerlab.bsky.social @virginievanw.bsky.social
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Épilepsie : une maladie du cerveau aux multiples facettes (Épisode 1/3)
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
This essay by Nisheeth Vishnoi is a thoughtful meditation on the nature of science and a rebuttal to the notion that AI systems are going replace human scientists anytime soon. Worth reading. nisheethvishnoi.substack.com/p/what-count...
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What Counts as Discovery?
Rethinking AI’s Place in Science
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Fab time in Italy for TEX Sissa hosted by @dbueti.bsky.social & co, then lovely sciencing w/ @bottinilab.bsky.social. Grazie mille for your hospitality and inspiring discussions!
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
RIP Master Brendel youtu.be/24DugWBRkYg?...
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Alfred Brendel - Schubert - Four Impromptus, D 899
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Brice Bathellier @bathellierlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Two postdoc positions in the lab within the ERC Synergy project "Chronology" in collaboration with S. Ostojic, M. Jazayeri and V. van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social . Two focuses: sound sequences representations across the brain & novel all-optical technology. Contact: brice.bathellier@cnrs.fr
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Sophie Herbst @herbstso.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Episode II of how are durations stored in working memory: Besides replicating our previous findings, we find that alpha power reflects a universal signature of WM load and mediates recall precision, even for abstract information like duration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🔽 co-authors below
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Alpha power indexes working memory load for durations
Timing, that is estimating, comparing, or remembering how long events last, requires the temporary storage of durations. How durations are stored in working memory is unknown, despite the widely held ...
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Our study is out! The number of durations in a sequence, not the duration of the sequence, affects its recall precision in working memory. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Europe Makes a Pitch to Attract Scientists Shunned by the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...
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Europe Makes a Pitch to Attract Scientists Shunned by the U.S.
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/news/welc...
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Welcome initiatives for American researchers
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Postdoctoral opening in my lab thanks to @erc.europa.eu SyG Chronology w/ wonderful @bathellierlab.bsky.social S. Ostojic & M. Jazayeri Interested in characterizing temporal cognitive maps in the human brain? 👇 brainthemind.com/wp-content/u... @unicog.bsky.social @cea-joliot.bsky.social
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Looking forward to another great edition #CNS2025 Come chat with us!
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Wanna be a neighbor? @neuropsi.bsky.social @c-brains.bsky.social
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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Thanks for choosing the decency camp @davidpoeppel.bsky.social
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