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danfeuerriegel.bsky.social
ARC DECRA Fellow. Head of the Prediction and Decision-Making Lab at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Decision-making, predictive brains, neural adaptation, computational neuroscience, EEG, machine learning. He/him
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Thrilled to get my hands on the first copies of my book! “A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality” in bookshops soon - from 26th June 🧠 🍎 (Though Ralphie more interested in the packaging….) www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515... #booksky #neuroskyence

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

New preprint from the lab! We tested for effects of learning scene-object pairings on distributed patterns of EEG signals. We report clear effects on ERPs but not object decoding performance. Led by Morgan Kikkawa w/Marta Garrido www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Neurally-informed modelling unravels a single evidence accumulation process for choices and subsequent confidence reports https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.05.658071v1

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I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Finally the Version of Record of our paper "Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness" is out in @elife.bsky.social as *fundamental* and *compelling*! doi.org/10.7554/eLif....

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

🏁 Big news from #Cogitate!🏁 We’re proud to deliver the first part of our promised open multimodal dataset: iEEG data from 38 patients across 3 centers, collected under a unified protocol. 📄 Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 📀 Data: www.arc-cogitate.com/data-release 💻 Code: github.com/Cogitate-con...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Have recent changes led to uncertainty in your future scientific career? Wonder it's like in Australia? Good news! Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries. Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers! www.monash.edu/research/eme...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

New paper from the lab!! We add to the (lack of) evidence for expectation effects in carefully-controlled predictive cueing designs. doi.org/10.1111/psyp... Led by Carla den Ouden and Máire Kashyap, collaborating with Morgan Kikkawa

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

New paper out in @plosbiology.org w/ Charlie, @phil-johnson.bsky.social, Ella, and Hinze 🎉 We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule! tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Hi #neuroskyence hive mind - can you recommend any really nice examples of OPM-MEG applied to answer systems/cognitive neuroscience questions? Preferably in designs using visual or auditory stimuli, but I'm grateful for any recommendations. Please feel free to promote your own work. Thanks so much!

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

🤖🧠 Paper out in Nature Communications! 🧠🤖 Bayesian models can learn rapidly. Neural networks can handle messy, naturalistic data. How can we combine these strengths? Our answer: Use meta-learning to distill Bayesian priors into a neural network! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Our study using layer fMRI to study the direction of communication between the hippocampus and cortex during perceptual predictions is finally out in Science Advances! Predicted-but-omitted shapes are represented in CA2/3 and correlate specifically with deep layers of PHC, suggesting feedback. 🧠🟦

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Hi #neuroskyence hive mind - can you recommend any really nice examples of OPM-MEG applied to answer systems/cognitive neuroscience questions? Preferably in designs using visual or auditory stimuli, but I'm grateful for any recommendations. Please feel free to promote your own work. Thanks so much!

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

📣cog neuro postdoc opportunity! Interested in studying attention & exploration w/ cutting edge M/EEG? 🧠care about making vision science a bit more naturalistic? 🌱LandauLab is hiring! We seek resourceful, curious and creative researchers who can join the newly forming London-based [email protected]! ...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

metacognitive science! amsterdam! August! if you're at #vss2025 come find me to talk about this exciting meeting! www.metacognitivescience.org

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New preprint from the lab! We used EEG⚡🧠 to map how 12 different food attributes are represented in the brain. 🍎🥦🥪🍙🍮 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by Violet Chae in collaboration with @tgro.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

New paper! @rewaniw.bsky.social, Clay Curtis, and I show that the way visual representations are routed through cortex when seeing vs. remembering affects their precision. We link this to behavior & show how task demand matters (👀 cool animation in 🧵) #neuroscience #visionscience #PhDSky 1/15

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Fantastic work @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social :) and great to see Lionel’s “dynamical independence” approach to emergence off and running 👇🏽👇🏽

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Centroparietal signals track multiple rounds of evidence accumulation in an intermittent evidence task https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.30.651428v1

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

i have uploaded this preprint a while back, but hadn't promoted it directly here. in this piece i explain why i can no longer recommend trainees to participate in my former home field. The End of Conscioussness - osf.io/preprints/ps... but i've learned a lot. thank you for everything. 🧠📈

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

Check out the latest -From Our Neurons To Yours- podcast episode! I discuss my work using large speech and language systems as "model species" to understand how the human brain processes language 🧠

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

We're hiring a postdoc in the FEEL lab at the University of Melbourne. Deadline May 12: get in touch if you have questions! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Come be my colleague at UCL. We are looking for someone working on computational approaches to cognition. In other words, for any type of cognitive modelling or mathematical psychology! #MathPsych

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Turns out Le Pen is not mightier than the fraud.

submitted 73 days ago • 420 comments

Leaky evidence accumulation accounts for perceptual confidence and subjective duration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.17.643717v1

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - really pleased that this paper with Henry Potter is now published in the European Journal of Neuroscience 😊

submitted 90 days ago • 16 comments

We recently published a new member of the #Unfold -family: UnfoldMakie.jl Are you looking for a dedicated #EEG plotting library? Look no more! Based on the powerful @makie.org and ⚡fast #julialang More exciting EEG methods news coming next weeks!! Stay tuned :)

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Tired but happy to say this is out w @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/ We analyse cog neuro theories showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/

submitted 103 days ago • 25 comments

Prediction errors are a cornerstone of predictive processing, but what exactly does the brain predict? Recent studies suggest that even early visual areas may encode high-level visual surprise, raising questions about both the mechanisms and the content of prediction errors...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

i used to have blog on consciousness. i just uploaded my final post there, in which i responded to Alex Gomez-Marin & Anil Seth's recent commentary on the scientific status of IIT. inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina... so long, folks. the world is going nuts. pls take care. 🧠📈

submitted 92 days ago • 8 comments

New blogpost just as weird as my ~every six months big blogposts that happen for no apparent reason usually are "Do you owe other people your knowledge? I think my answer is yes. We do owe each other. Why? Because my mind was built with other people’s knowledge" www.drcathicks.com/post/citatio...

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

If there are planned satellite events to the #ASSC28 #ASSC2025, do not hesitate to reach out so we can disseminate them from the main website. assc2025.gr/programme/sa... #consci

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

2.5 years after ‘the great debate’ at ASSC Amsterdam, we revisit it: Lamme, @standehaene.bsky.social , @smfleming.bsky.social , Boly and @anilseth.bsky.social present their theories, and Melloni and myself try to extract some insights and criticisms. >>> www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

Do you believe that everyone deserves a second chance? (in visual working memory tasks) If so, check out our new preprint and double decision experiment! Led by Paul Garrett, w Anthony Lua, Dan Little, myself, and Philip Smith doi.org/10.31234/osf...

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to have this published …https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr6698

submitted 127 days ago • 5 comments

Visual Snow is Susceptible to the Motion Aftereffect: http://osf.io/u6fcx_v1/

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Another appeal to OPM-, SQUID- MEG researchers. I try to find all people interested in brain magnetism on bluesky. Please respond if you identify as such or tag people who are. It's not a starter pack so there's no limit. Please repost and engage♥️ #psychscisky 🧪 🧠🟦 🤖🧠 🧠📟 🧠📈 bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 197 days ago • 12 comments

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):

submitted 138 days ago • 33 comments

🚨New Pre-print is out! What causes the drift rate to vary across trials? How much does the drift rate variability estimate in the Diffusion Decision Model reflect the true variability? Here, we critically examined this by including trial-level regressors of drift rate. osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 139 days ago • 5 comments

informal announcement: we'll be doing a *cluster* hire of faculty in theoretical/computational neuroscience in the coming year(s). a senior/mid-career person could be selected to bring in 2-3 more ppl of their choosing (subject to committee approval), or we could otherwise hire together a group 1/

submitted 141 days ago • 3 comments

Setting up an fMRI model and getting hit with collinearity errors? Been there! 😢 Try removing regressors? Orthogonal regressors? Other tricks to resolve collinearity errors? Guess what—those fixes might make things worse. We explore why and propose recommendations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

a very cool and short explanation of why we see purple in the rainbow

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