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New preprint! Thrilled to share my latest work with @esfinn.bsky.social -- "Sensory context as a universal principle of language in humans and LLMs" osf.io/preprints/ps...

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🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences. We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

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Check out our new study by @atabk.bsky.social! He tweaked a word list memory task to have hidden rules at encoding, which shifted and created “event boundaries.” People recalled pre-boundary words more, and post-boundary words less. Other fun bits in the paper include a reinforcement learning model!

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We were blown away by the public response to our findings that the infant brain can store memories. Many people wrote to share with us their first memories. To help us capture these reports, we created a short, anonymous survey. We hope you might also consider taking it. Please share with others! 🧠🧪

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Job alert 🚨 We’re hiring a full-time research staff assistant at Columbia starting Fall 2025! The position will focus on several topics in the lab, including the cognitive & neural mechanisms underlying dynamic social perception using fMRI & natural language processing. Link: freemanlab.org/ra2025

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Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

is anyone working on cortical waves (traveling, rotational, etc) looking for a faculty position? we'll soon be hiring in Korea, at our center where multiple labs (ephys, optical imaging, human neuroimaging) are interested in collaborating w/ theoreticians pls DM/email for informal inquiries 🧠📈 🧠💻

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

What can AI teach us about how the brain understands language? In today's podcast, we explore how LLMs are helping neuroscientists study how we process language with Stanford psychologist and faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social. neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/what-ch...

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Very cool paper showing that Crows can spot the odd shape out of a set where all other shapes are similar. @scinews.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛

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Excited that we are recruiting for a new postdoctoral program in Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience at #WashU! Get in touch if you have questions! sites.wustl.edu/systemsneuro...

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It seems as good a time as any to share that I've accepted a new job as Lecturer of Cognitive Neuroscience (equivalent to assistant prof) at the University of Manchester in the UK! I dusted off the blog to say a bit more about why I'm excited for this move: tomdonoghue.github.io/ms/2025/04/1...

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As someone directly affected by this, let me be clear: I'd rather lose my job because Harvard chose to fight than keep my job and see a generation of white supremacists parade its corpse around like a war trophy.

submitted 23 days ago • 43 comments

For people interested in the spinal cord, there is now an open postdoc position at UCL working on OP-MEG of the spinal cord, with Prof. Sven Bestmann. Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Excited to share a preprint from work with @rewaniw.bsky.social and Serra Favila, where we show that visual cortex responses during memory retrieval are spatially tuned to the locations of objects previously seen only once It's an early draft — feedback is welcome! See 🧵 for more #neuroskyence 1/7

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We're inviting proposals for the ✨Broadening Participation in Cognitive Science initiative✨, with grants of up to $5,000 to support events or projects that increase accessibility and inclusion in #CogSci Deadline: June 13 🗓️ Learn more and apply at cognitivesciencesociety.org/broadening-p...

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check it outtttt abstract submissions are open!!

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🔆 Announcement time!! 🔆 In Spring 2026, I will be joining the NYU Psychology department as an Assistant Professor! My lab will study the computational cognitive science of moral judgment and how we can use that knowledge to build AI systems that are safe and aligned with human values.

submitted 30 days ago • 11 comments

Are you interested in research experience before applying to PhD programs? Or just want to learn more about cognitive science? Consider joining my lab as a lab manager (joint w/the Griffiths Lab). We will begin reviewing applications one week from today: cognition.princeton.edu/news/2025/op...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

We're excited to share that our lab is hiring for the position of Lab Manager/Research Assistant. A great opportunity to join our lab! You can find full details and apply via the link below: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN515/r... Please feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested!

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Incredibly cool and innovative work by @elbusch.bsky.social

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This afternoon (Sun 1:30-3:30p) at #CNS2025, Zach Reagh @zreagh.bsky.social, Janice Chen, James Antony @jameswardantony.bsky.social, and I will be speaking in Symposium 1: Creating the structure of ongoing experience. Come by for a dose of narratives, events, causality etc @cogneuronews.bsky.social

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Grateful to be gathering and hearing exciting science from the cog neuro community at #CNS2025! We’ve got new ideas to share: Sat 3p - poster A94 from Jean Ye Sun 5p - C147 from @zhoui.bsky.social Mon 10am - 📱symposium! feat @davidclewett.bsky.social, @barense.bsky.social, @liladavachi.bsky.social

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6 funded PhD studentships available on place and memory: placememory.net/apply-now-fo...

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Goldstein et al. link acoustic, speech, and linguistic data with brain activity during real-life conversations to create a model that predicts neural responses during speech with high accuracy. https://www.nature.c...

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Post-doctoral funding for those who have, or will have, a PhD by Sept 10th. I would be happy to support an application for someone for the 2 years of post-doctoral funding provided. Would start April 2026 at the earliest point: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

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Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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I very much enjoyed this fascinating real world memory paper-- congrats @barense.bsky.social and team! Makes me rethink my use of the term "naturalistic memory" when I'm actually referring to (fictional) movies and narratives 😂! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I’m planning to hire an RA for my new lab at the University of Miami (www.jam-lab.org) to start August 1st! Please feel free to get in touch or share with anyone who may be interested! umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCareerStaff/job/Coral-Gables-FL/Research-Associate---Psychology_R100085344-1

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE... Important and painful

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LLMs have shown impressive performance in some reasoning tasks, but what internal mechanisms do they use to solve these tasks? In a new preprint, we find evidence that abstract reasoning in LLMs depends on an emergent form of symbol processing arxiv.org/abs/2502.20332 (1/N)

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments

The MAC lab is hiring a full-time lab manager to start in June! You will have the opportunity to conduct research projects relating to long-term memory and concept knowledge (methods include online and in-person behavioral experiments, fMRI, TMS). Apply by March 26 careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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preprint updated - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Each of us perceives the world differently. What may underlie such individual differences in perception? Here, we characterize the lateral prefrontal cortex's role in vision using computational models ... 1/ 🧠📈 🧠💻

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Excited to kick off 2025 with new research in #MachineLearning, #Decoding, #MusicNeuroscience! Our paper, “Temporally Dissociable Neural Representations of Pitch Height and Chroma”, now in @sfnjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @xiangbin-teng.bsky.social! 🧠🎵 1/n

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We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post... Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723

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Excited to share our preprint "Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search" 🧠✨ We leverage iEEG to elucidate the fast neural mechanisms by which long multimodal narratives are unfurled in continuous memory-search tinyurl.com/wjkr3dvf

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The saga continues: significant decoding of voluntary imagery in early visual cortex during aphantasia - but a lack of cross-decoding with perception, maybe suggesting different sensory formats? www.cell.com/current-biol...

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postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/

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Excited to share that our paper 'Distinguishing Neural Correlates of Prediction Errors on Perceptual Content and Detection of Content' is now published! With @smfleming.bsky.social, @peterkok.bsky.social and heroic scanning during the pandemic by Oliver Warrington! direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

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For those at the Eastern APA: I'm giving a talk tomorrow at 11am, in the Sugar Hill room (lower level)! I'll argue that there are no phenomenal sorites.

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Have you wondered where scene perception and memory intersect in the brain? Do you want to localize these areas? In a preprint, @carolinerobertson.bsky.social, Deepa Prasad, Brenda Garcia, and I detail this topography and release these parcels and our localizer. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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I'm very happy that this paper by Francecso Mantegna (now Oxford) and Joan Orpella (now Georgetown) is published. Congrats for some heroic data wrangling! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Unusual experiment (mental imagery of speech planning+MEG) shows cool perspective on speech production

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Excellent interview of @neddo.bsky.social (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1f...)

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