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Now that it's preregistered, super excited to get started on this project! Using a yoked design, @danlucen.bsky.social, @mjgruber.bsky.social and I will ask whether the benefits of curiosity are direct, or dependent on the ability to actively engage in curiosity-guided exploration.

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Dear neuroimagers, here is the Welsh Advanced Neuroimaging Database (WAND) - a new 170-participant multi-modal neuroimaging dataset from the team at CUBRIC. McNabb et al. (2025) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Our lab is hiring a post doc! We are looking specifically for someone with machine learning research experience to contribute to funded simulation projects on learning and/or replay. Please share, and email me if you are interested!!

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We've been able to collect data from hundreds of LGBTQIA+s in neuro/psych, but the vast majority of them are in the US. We're hoping to get a more diverse sample. If you are in academia outside of the US, please share this and consider sending it to colleagues who may be interested.

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Past BNA President, John Aggleton, has published a remarkable book dedicated to his late son, who passed away from a brain tumour. In honour of this, all royalties from the book will be donated to @braintumourrsch.bsky.social 20% discount from Routledge in January. routledge.com/Memory-and-t...

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🚨 New fMRI preprint from our lab 🚨 "Brain dynamics during architectural experience: prefrontal and hippocampal regions track aesthetics and spatial complexity" Led by Lara Gregorians with co-authors, Zita Patai, Pablo Fernandez Velasco & Fiona Zisch. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence

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"The relationships between curiosity and wellbeing: a systematic review" Alisa Priemysheva thoroughly reviewed the literature to synthesise our current knowledge of how different types of curiosity might affect wellbeing. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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🚨 New funded PhD position at UCL 🚨 Funding is provided for a PhD student in our new centre to help work with Fiona Zisch & Sean Hanna to apply agent-based-modelling to analyse the crazy data set from 100+ people navigating a giant maze in PEARL. See details: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...

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Across two studies using desktop VR, curiosity determined how much humans explored and how well the hand-drawn spatial maps they acquired corresponded to the rooms @cjhodgetts.bsky.social, @mjgruber.bsky.social, @danlucen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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"Curiosity shapes spatial exploration and cognitive map formation in humans." We are excited to share this novel paradigm and findings on curiosity-based exploration. This project was led tirelessly by @danlucen.bsky.social in collaboration with @cjhodgetts.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Still looking for a book to read over the holidays? "Memory and the Brain: Using, Losing, and Improving." A new popular science book on memory written by the great John Aggleton! I just ordered my copy and can't wait to start reading. www.routledge.com/Memory-and-t...

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Please repost! Open PhD position on curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence with the amazing @yanafandakova.bsky.social at the University of Trier (Germany). The project is part of a cool international collaboration. :-) #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #neurojobs

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Proud of my first contribution to memory research: “Brain and eye movement dynamics track the transition from learning to memory-guided action” out in @currentbiology.bsky.social, great team effort together with Janina Klingspohr, Marcel Kehl & Bernhard Staresina. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Thank you so much to @sabinehunnius.bsky.social for inviting me to speak and share our findings and future research ideas on curiosity-based learning in development.

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I want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

submitted 97 days ago • 6 comments

We are recruiting Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

We now publish rich fMRI data in Scientific Data where participants viewed magic trick videos. Curiosity, memory, and reward manipulation are available: www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is a result of incredible effort by Stef Meliss (first author). Congrats!!

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I just set up @jcogneurosci.bsky.social ; at some point it will post papers as they publish, if folks want to friend that account. thx

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Great new article in Scientific American on the current state of research on curiosity-based learning. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

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My first postdoc @hkjach.bsky.social's main work has been finally published!! We assessed lots of curiosity personality traits and information-seeking task behaviors and examined the relationship. See what we found... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Happy to share an updated version of our paper, which explores how everyday variability in social and spatial experiences influences how we perceive events. In collab w/ @drberry.bsky.social, Mark Postans, and Angharad Williams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

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How do DA and 5HT drugs alter reinforcement learning? Join us next Wednesday for talks by @anahitm.bsky.social, Diego Pizzagalli, Michael Browning, Roshan Cools, Emma Robinson, Yael Niv, Cath Harmer, Isabel Berwian, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social and Anne Collins. Links etc: acplab.org/2024/11/15/r...

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I am pleased to share that @yanafandakova.bsky.social (Trier, Germany), Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Bordeaux, France), and I (Cardiff, UK) received a collaborative Open Research Area (ORA) grant to study curiosity-based learning across childhood and adolescence. We will soon recruit at all three sites!

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Happy 10th Birthday to our first paper on curiosity and learning!!! 🎉 Exactly ten years ago we published: States of Curiosity Modulate Hippocampus-Dependent Learning via the Dopaminergic Circuit. @charan-neuro.bsky.social www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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I will be recruiting 💫two PhD students💫 for my new lab! (computational learning & memory applied to individual & interactive behavior: rouhanilab.com). Feel free to e-mail if interested and catch me at SfN! (poster 06 at 1 PM on Wed 10/09)

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My lab at UCRiverside is once again recruiting grad students - come join us if you're interested in studying memory using EEG and/or fMRI in younger and older adults! You can check out more info on my grad app FAQ: bit.ly/dzmac Lots of my other fab colleagues are also recruiting: bit.ly/ccngrad

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Wow! Our Wellcome-funded Public Engagement Science Enrichment project the "Curious Brain" together with Science Made Simple and five primary schools across Cardiff has concluded with an inspiring showcase event at Techniquest - the science museum in Cardiff. www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/28...

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Thank you to @katejj.bsky.social @hugospiers.bsky.social to invite Ellen O’Donoghue and me to speak at the UCL “Getting Lost in Buildings” conference about our current research and future research plans on how curiosity affects exploration of spatial environments.

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Boston College is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track) in Computational Cognitive Science: apply.interfolio.com/153274 Please share!

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Thank you to @nivimani.bsky.social and all the members of the new Graduate School on Curiosity at Göttingen for the inspiring talks and discussions during the Curiosity Theory kick-off meeting! Can’t wait to come back for a sabbatical in 2025 and see their first findings and lots more discussions!

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After an excellent #CNS2024, great to see our paper officially published at J Cogn Neurosci: Curiosity Satisfaction Increases Event-related Potentials Sensitive to Reward #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1162/jocn...

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Are you at #CNS2024 and curious about hippocampal subfields and how they support curiosity and memory? Drop by Tamas Foldes' (@sinandrei.bsky.social) poster E45 on Monday 15th April 2.30 - 4.30pm. #CUBRICcardiff @cjhodgetts.bsky.social

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My lab is recruiting new members for an NIH-funded project to uncover neural mechanisms of motivation and its regulation w fMRI neurofeedback and innovative multivariate modeling. Please share! Full postings: careers.duke.edu/job-invite/2... Postdocs careers.duke.edu/job-invite/2... ResearchCoord

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Many people enjoy trivia, but some people are way better at it than the rest of us. What is different about how their memory works? Our research (led by Monica Thieu, w/ Lauren Wilkins) characterizing the memories of trivia experts vs. non-experts is now out and featured in @sciam.bsky.social!

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Hi new blue sky users! If you are into neuroscience, neuroimaging, neurobiology, or any related topics, don't miss the largest relevant feed: #neuroskyence! bsky.app/profile/did:... You can post with '#neuroscience', '#neuroskyence', '🧠📈', or '🧠🟦'! 🧪

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We are looking for a new colleague - please share 👇 Full #professorship in general #psychology at TU Dresden It's a great psych department with fantastic resources and colleagues. Get in touch w/ questions @dgps.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @s4sn.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/11075

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Curiosity Satisfaction Increases Event-related Potentials Sensitive to Reward - a great collaboration with Tim Rueterbories and Axel Mecklinger at Saarland University doi.org/10.1162/jocn...

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Postdoc alert! Come work with me on an ESRC project on the role of narratives in the learning and retention of educational material. 2 year position, start date flexible but no later than 1st September. Application deadline 1st March. #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

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It’s happening. #jneurosci #sfn #openscience

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Open letter to the Society for Neuroscience leadership (led by Rich Ivry) regarding the climate impact of the annual meeting: bit.ly/LetterToSfNL...

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Been saving this for my first post here. As part of a new Research Training Group on Curiosity to be established at Göttingen (www.uni-goettingen.de/de/681631.html), we advertise a PhD position in developmental curiosity research in my group. More details here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/document/...

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Exciting opportunity for a permanent research position in the Computation, Cognition and Neurophysiology team led by the excellent Mathilde Bonnefond and Jérémie Mattout at the CRNL (INSERM/CNRS) in Lyon

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Thank you to the great @cjhodgetts.bsky.social for inviting me for a talk and lots of inspiring discussions at Royal Holloway London!

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