bachlab
@bachlab.bsky.social
Algorithms for survival. Investigating the computing architecture of the mind and brain at its limits. 🧠
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https://www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en
Lab account for science only.
https://www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en
Reminder: this event is taking place today. Join us at 1 p.m. for Manos Konstantinidis #caiantalk.
Next guest in our lecture series #caiantalks is Emmanouil (Manos) Konstantinidis ( @warwickuni.bsky.social ), who will speak on "Sources of information and confidence in experiential risky choice" next Wednesday (19/11/2025).
👉Visit our website for more information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en
👉Visit our website for more information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Reminder: this event is taking place today. Join us at 1 p.m. for Manos Konstantinidis #caiantalk.
Next guest in our lecture series #caiantalks is Emmanouil (Manos) Konstantinidis ( @warwickuni.bsky.social ), who will speak on "Sources of information and confidence in experiential risky choice" next Wednesday (19/11/2025).
👉Visit our website for more information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en
👉Visit our website for more information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Next guest in our lecture series #caiantalks is Emmanouil (Manos) Konstantinidis ( @warwickuni.bsky.social ), who will speak on "Sources of information and confidence in experiential risky choice" next Wednesday (19/11/2025).
👉Visit our website for more information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en
👉Visit our website for more information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en
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🗓️ Mark your calendars: the next #BernsteinConference will take place September 28 to October 1, 2026, in Frankfurt am Main!
Follow the link below to meet the first confirmed speakers. More to come!
👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro
Follow the link below to meet the first confirmed speakers. More to come!
👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🗓️ Mark your calendars: the next #BernsteinConference will take place September 28 to October 1, 2026, in Frankfurt am Main!
Follow the link below to meet the first confirmed speakers. More to come!
👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro
Follow the link below to meet the first confirmed speakers. More to come!
👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro
📆Save the date: new lecture series
[1/4] This Wednesday, October 29 at 1 p.m., we are launching a new, hybrid series of guest talks organized the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) in Bonn.
[1/4] This Wednesday, October 29 at 1 p.m., we are launching a new, hybrid series of guest talks organized the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) in Bonn.
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
📆Save the date: new lecture series
[1/4] This Wednesday, October 29 at 1 p.m., we are launching a new, hybrid series of guest talks organized the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) in Bonn.
[1/4] This Wednesday, October 29 at 1 p.m., we are launching a new, hybrid series of guest talks organized the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) in Bonn.
📢📄New preprint: 94 empirical benchmarks for associative learning models.
A consortium of 21 learning experts surveyed the literature and expert community for robust empirical phenomena, which we graded by reproducibility and generality.
A consortium of 21 learning experts surveyed the literature and expert community for robust empirical phenomena, which we graded by reproducibility and generality.
October 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
📢📄New preprint: 94 empirical benchmarks for associative learning models.
A consortium of 21 learning experts surveyed the literature and expert community for robust empirical phenomena, which we graded by reproducibility and generality.
A consortium of 21 learning experts surveyed the literature and expert community for robust empirical phenomena, which we graded by reproducibility and generality.
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Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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September 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
📢Publishing alert: New theory paper out on experiment-based calibration: formal model, relation to criterion validity, role of confounds, and data-generation model.
#mathematicalpsychology #calibration #simulation
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#mathematicalpsychology #calibration #simulation
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September 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
📢Publishing alert: New theory paper out on experiment-based calibration: formal model, relation to criterion validity, role of confounds, and data-generation model.
#mathematicalpsychology #calibration #simulation
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#mathematicalpsychology #calibration #simulation
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📢 Job alert: We are looking to hire a student research assistant for programming work in Java in Bonn. Prior experience with Spring Boot is desired. Deadline: October 5, 2025. Read the full job description and how to sumbit your application here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...
September 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
📢 Job alert: We are looking to hire a student research assistant for programming work in Java in Bonn. Prior experience with Spring Boot is desired. Deadline: October 5, 2025. Read the full job description and how to sumbit your application here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...
Just posted with @serenxia.bsky.social and @pharmacopsychology.bsky.social : a systematic review of pharmacological effects on human aversive memory. We searched data bases for 215 candidate drugs and summarise the evidence from 100 studies on 36 compounds following #PRISMA2020 protocol.
September 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Just posted with @serenxia.bsky.social and @pharmacopsychology.bsky.social : a systematic review of pharmacological effects on human aversive memory. We searched data bases for 215 candidate drugs and summarise the evidence from 100 studies on 36 compounds following #PRISMA2020 protocol.
[1/2] Ever wondered how your brain learns to anticipate negative events? 🧠 We just helped to map the brain's 'fear network'! This #ENIGMA consortium study found that while fear responses are universal, task design and clinical status yield relevant differences in brain activity.
Neural correlates of human fear conditioning and sources of variability in 2199 individuals - Nature Communications
A large brain imaging study of over 2000 people worldwide shows that fear conditioning engages brain regions linked to emotion and attention, with differences in individuals with anxiety or depression...
doi.org
September 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
[1/2] Ever wondered how your brain learns to anticipate negative events? 🧠 We just helped to map the brain's 'fear network'! This #ENIGMA consortium study found that while fear responses are universal, task design and clinical status yield relevant differences in brain activity.
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📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
August 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.
🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io
🚨closes September 12th!
📢 Our paper is out now!
We propose an unsupervised skeleton-based temporal action segmentation framework. If you are interested in exploring actions in skeleton sequences without human annotations, check it out:
Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.04513
Project page: uzaygokay.github.io/SMQ/
We propose an unsupervised skeleton-based temporal action segmentation framework. If you are interested in exploring actions in skeleton sequences without human annotations, check it out:
Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.04513
Project page: uzaygokay.github.io/SMQ/
Skeleton Motion Words for Unsupervised Skeleton-Based Temporal Action Segmentation
Current state-of-the-art methods for skeleton-based temporal action segmentation are predominantly supervised and require annotated data, which is expensive to collect. In contrast, existing unsupervi...
www.arxiv.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
📢 Our paper is out now!
We propose an unsupervised skeleton-based temporal action segmentation framework. If you are interested in exploring actions in skeleton sequences without human annotations, check it out:
Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.04513
Project page: uzaygokay.github.io/SMQ/
We propose an unsupervised skeleton-based temporal action segmentation framework. If you are interested in exploring actions in skeleton sequences without human annotations, check it out:
Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.04513
Project page: uzaygokay.github.io/SMQ/
#bignews: @unibonn.bsky.social now has a Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience and it is already growing! Welcome to Bonn, Professor Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! New #caian website and more updates will follow within the next few weeks.
www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/news
www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/news
August 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
#bignews: @unibonn.bsky.social now has a Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience and it is already growing! Welcome to Bonn, Professor Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! New #caian website and more updates will follow within the next few weeks.
www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/news
www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/news
👋 Our lab is hiring: we are currently recruiting for at least two more student research assistants for programming and VR studies!
🔎 Find out more about requirements and deadlines here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/jobs
🔎 Find out more about requirements and deadlines here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/jobs
June 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
👋 Our lab is hiring: we are currently recruiting for at least two more student research assistants for programming and VR studies!
🔎 Find out more about requirements and deadlines here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/jobs
🔎 Find out more about requirements and deadlines here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/jobs
Today our paper "Skeleton Motion Words for Unsupervised Skeleton-based Temporal Action Segmentation" was accepted for #ICCV2025. 🎉 Congrats all around to the collaborators, of whom only @uzaygokay.bsky.social seems to be active here 🦋.
June 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Today our paper "Skeleton Motion Words for Unsupervised Skeleton-based Temporal Action Segmentation" was accepted for #ICCV2025. 🎉 Congrats all around to the collaborators, of whom only @uzaygokay.bsky.social seems to be active here 🦋.
👨💻👩💻We are hiring! We are looking to recruit a student research assistant for some programming work in R. Deadline for applications is July 31, 2025. More info here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...
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June 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
👨💻👩💻We are hiring! We are looking to recruit a student research assistant for some programming work in R. Deadline for applications is July 31, 2025. More info here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...
This Friday, our lab is going to host a visitor from Cologne. If you can, we would be delighted to have you join this guest talk.👇
🚨 Can VR training help police officers prepare for interaction with victims of domestic abuse and gendered violence? How would such an interview simulator look like, and what should it train? What should avatars in such a scenario look like to make them believable and the training a success? 🙍♀️ 🧕
June 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This Friday, our lab is going to host a visitor from Cologne. If you can, we would be delighted to have you join this guest talk.👇
🧑🎓👩🎓Brief reminder that the deadline to apply for our job opening as a PhD student is this Sunday. Don't hesitate - join our team in Bonn!
📢We are looking to hire a PhD student at @unibonn.bsky.social to investigate the cognitive mechanisms of human decision-making under threat in #VR.
Apply by June 15.
More information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...
#vrthreat #PhDposition #jobalert #researchjob #neuroscience #psychology
Apply by June 15.
More information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...
#vrthreat #PhDposition #jobalert #researchjob #neuroscience #psychology
June 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🧑🎓👩🎓Brief reminder that the deadline to apply for our job opening as a PhD student is this Sunday. Don't hesitate - join our team in Bonn!
📢We are looking to hire a PhD student at @unibonn.bsky.social to investigate the cognitive mechanisms of human decision-making under threat in #VR.
Apply by June 15.
More information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...
#vrthreat #PhDposition #jobalert #researchjob #neuroscience #psychology
Apply by June 15.
More information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...
#vrthreat #PhDposition #jobalert #researchjob #neuroscience #psychology
June 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📢We are looking to hire a PhD student at @unibonn.bsky.social to investigate the cognitive mechanisms of human decision-making under threat in #VR.
Apply by June 15.
More information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...
#vrthreat #PhDposition #jobalert #researchjob #neuroscience #psychology
Apply by June 15.
More information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...
#vrthreat #PhDposition #jobalert #researchjob #neuroscience #psychology
New from the lab with J. Brochard & P. Dayan: Theoretical review on #criticalintelligence: How to make rapid decisions with utmost precision when under threat. We identify computational challenges, candidate solutions & cognitive experiments to disambiguate them www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New from the lab with J. Brochard & P. Dayan: Theoretical review on #criticalintelligence: How to make rapid decisions with utmost precision when under threat. We identify computational challenges, candidate solutions & cognitive experiments to disambiguate them www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How do animals and humans develop a survival plan in a fraction of a second, much faster than a computer? ⌛
Read the answer in our 🔥new article here👇
(of course #openaccess).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read the answer in our 🔥new article here👇
(of course #openaccess).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Critical intelligence: Computing defensive behaviour
Characterising the mechanisms underlying naturalistic defensive behavior remains a significant challenge. While substantial progress has been made in …
www.sciencedirect.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
How do animals and humans develop a survival plan in a fraction of a second, much faster than a computer? ⌛
Read the answer in our 🔥new article here👇
(of course #openaccess).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read the answer in our 🔥new article here👇
(of course #openaccess).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
👉 Check out our new #CogLearn Toolkit for #Unity: we built and validated (across 5 samples) an immersive #VR paradigm for human avoidance learning. Basic version can be controlled by simple text files; more control via publicly available Unity toolkit. doi.org/10.3758/s134...
#humanavoidancelearning
#humanavoidancelearning
The CogLearn Toolkit for Unity: Validating a virtual reality paradigm for human avoidance learning - Behavior Research Methods
Avoidance learning encompasses the acquisition of behaviours that enable individuals to evade or withdraw from potentially harmful stimuli, prior to their occurrence. Maladaptive avoidance is a crucia...
doi.org
May 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
👉 Check out our new #CogLearn Toolkit for #Unity: we built and validated (across 5 samples) an immersive #VR paradigm for human avoidance learning. Basic version can be controlled by simple text files; more control via publicly available Unity toolkit. doi.org/10.3758/s134...
#humanavoidancelearning
#humanavoidancelearning
This month, we welcomed Steven Lieu as a PhD student to our team @unibonn.bsky.social. Looking forward to working with you! 🙌
May 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This month, we welcomed Steven Lieu as a PhD student to our team @unibonn.bsky.social. Looking forward to working with you! 🙌
New from the lab: comparing CR in human Pavlovian reward conditioning/retention over 7 days across 2 samples. Bradycardia is best index of learning & retention, pupil dilation only for retention.
April 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
New from the lab: comparing CR in human Pavlovian reward conditioning/retention over 7 days across 2 samples. Bradycardia is best index of learning & retention, pupil dilation only for retention.
👉New review from the lab on measurement validation in social sciences. #MTMM has long been the gold standard - but is often cumbersome. We contrast it with a fresh approach: experiment-based calibration. We offer clear guidance when to use which.
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Calibration experiments: An alternative to multi-method approaches for measurement validation in consumer research
Measurement validation in consumer research is ideally performed within the context of a multi-trait multi-method matrix (MTMM). While statistically w…
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April 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
👉New review from the lab on measurement validation in social sciences. #MTMM has long been the gold standard - but is often cumbersome. We contrast it with a fresh approach: experiment-based calibration. We offer clear guidance when to use which.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...