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Very exciting study by @akalt.bsky.social on automatic rhythmic continuation of visual sequences, and how this signal may be read out by motor systems in timing tasks. I love the demonstration that the visual system extrapolates rhythmic sequences of rotating gratings even when task-irrelevant. 🧠🟦

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

New MEG paper by @jhaarsma.bsky.social and @dotproduct.bsky.social‬! Same design and behavioural results as our 7T layer fMRI study (www.jneurosci.org/content/43/4...), but now shedding light on the temporal dynamics of the sensory signals underlying false percepts. #neuroskyence

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I'm really happy to host Dr @mkwittmann.bsky.social in the London JDM seminar. For more info visit our website www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... All welcome!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Completing the mouse, ANN, human trilogy of projects, here are two openings to study cognitive map deficits in human psychosis patients with the inimitable @mattnour.bsky.social Using functional neuroimaging and planning tasks. If you’re keen to join us then apply!

submitted 32 days ago • 0 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 38 days ago • 3 comments

🚨 Come work with us! 3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty. More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2 Please share widely 🔁

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Registrations are now open for the Symposium on the Biology of Decision-Making (SBDM), 16-18 June 2025 in Lyon! Please check out our exciting program and register until May 1st for early registration rates! sbdm2025.github.io

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

Our first fMRI in a while where we investigate the neural bases or multi-step Reinforcement Learning and found a clear functional dissociation between the parietal and the peri-hippocampal cortex. More info by Fabien, below

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In further exciting developments, we can announce that our two keynotes for this year's Metacognitive Science Meeting will be Simona Ghetti @simonag.bsky.social (Psychology, UC Davis) and Ingmar Posner (Oxford Robotics Institute) 🥳 See sites.google.com/view/metacog... for more information

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Our brains use basic ‘building blocks’ of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study led by Dr Marco Wittmann from UCL PALS. 👉 Find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Why I value peer review - new World View in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4w5795ua I discuss why peer review is still important and useful despite some of the challenges, and reflect on some personal peer review experiences. Interested to hear what others think about peer review 🙂.

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

How do cognitive maps fail? And how can this help us understand/treat psychosis? My lab at @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc tinyurl.com/2p935hhz and RA tinyurl.com/3myfpb78 to answer these questions in mouse models. Here's why you might want to join: 🧵

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Two new papers led by Iris Traast! In both, we ask how an interaction partner’s race affects impression formation via instrumental learning—that is, based on interaction choices and partner feedback. We tested this in the USA (Black vs. White; in JEPG) and the NL (White vs. Moroccan; in GPIR).

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

Registration now open for the upcoming Erice Workshop at the Ettore Majorana Centre. For cutting-edge research on oxytocin and vasopressin, highlighting how these neuromodulators shape brain function, behavior, and cognition. In the memory of Larry Young 👉 centromajorana.it/neuromodulat...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks Andrea, I hope all is well!

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

👇 Closing date 30.04. Contact me if you have any questions.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

🚨New post alert 🚨 We are recruiting at UCL for permanent faculty in Computational Cognition. Please circulate and/or apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML927/l... The dept is wonderful - exciting & clever research; supportive; dynamic. Feel free to send qus my way. @uclpals.bsky.social #NeuroJobs

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Exciting Brain meeting coming up today with Christian Ruff! @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

🎺 #BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! This Friday’s brain meeting will be given by Christian Ruff. Join us to learn about Risk Attitude: Preference or Perception. Everyone is welcome, in person or online. Full details here: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event/risk-a...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

⭐️PhD in Cognitive/Computational Psychology⭐️ Use Reinforcement Learning to study how mis/misinformation affects us. For full funding, one has to be eligible for UK home fees. Please Share!! @queenmarycbb.bsky.social Deadline: April 20. For more information: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Important initiative from @elife.bsky.social.

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Looking forward to this week's Consciousness Club with Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social on "Becoming aware of the world and ourselves" Wednesday 26th March, usual time of 11am-1230pm UK time All welcome! For details on how to join please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

We are excited to post a new preprint with Shiyi Liang @shiyiliang.bsky.social: 'Reinforcement learning is positively associated with anhedonia symptoms' osf.io/preprints/ps... (a bit late here – a version was online back in December) @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

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🚨 New paper 🚨 Out in @commspsychol.bsky.social: "Manipulating attention facilitates cooperation" with Claire Lugrin and @ccruff.bsky.social We use gaze data and display manipulations in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma games and find that these manipulations can drive choices through attention 👇

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Up bright & early at the BBC this morning to record Radio 4´s Start the Week! You can hear me talking about my new book ‘A Trick Of The Mind’, and discussing the imprint that uncertain times can leave on our minds and brains 🧠 Broadcast live at 9pm, or on catch up thereafter! Tune in!

submitted 104 days ago • 4 comments

Our brains use basic ‘building blocks’ of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study led by @uclpals.bsky.social researchers.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Many congratulations on this excellent work @mkwittmann.bsky.social @yongling.bsky.social @cormacd.bsky.social

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Our brains use basic ‘building blocks’ of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study led by Dr @mkwittmann.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social in @nature.com

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 108 days ago • 7 comments

US version. thank you very much @vikingbooks.bsky.social. I like the black cover more!

submitted 110 days ago • 4 comments

Very honoured to have written a little something for @aeon.co about zero, absence, and consciousness. It was a real pleasure to write, and very curious to know what people think! 0️⃣🧠 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #consci

submitted 111 days ago • 4 comments

We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation" To apply and for more details, please see: RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

New preprint out with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social! When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge? We compare continual learning in humans and artificial neural networks, revealing similar patterns of transfer & catastrophic interference (1/8) osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to this Royal Society discussion meeting in London on the self. Registration is free! royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Excited to see this now out in the world! We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/N

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