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Dan Feuerriegel
@danfeuerriegel.bsky.social
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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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@violetchae.bsky.social and Lauren Fong showcasing neural correlates of evidence accumulation for dietary and voluntary decisions at #ACNS2025 @acnsau.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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@jie-sun.bsky.social taking us through his joint modelling of neural and behavioural data in recognition memory tasks @acnsau.bsky.social #ACNS2025
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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danfeuerriegel.bsky.social
In advance of the Black Friday sales, @tgro.bsky.social and I highlight the tactics that retailers use online. Including tips to help you keep your cool during the shopping frenzy.

theconversation.com/heres-what-b...

@psychunimelb.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social
Here’s what Black Friday sales shopping does to your brain
Black Friday is a psychological event, carefully designed to take advantage of how your brain makes decisions. But you can stay one step ahead this sales season.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
danfeuerriegel.bsky.social
In advance of the Black Friday sales, @tgro.bsky.social and I highlight the tactics that retailers use online. Including tips to help you keep your cool during the shopping frenzy.

theconversation.com/heres-what-b...

@psychunimelb.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social
Here’s what Black Friday sales shopping does to your brain
Black Friday is a psychological event, carefully designed to take advantage of how your brain makes decisions. But you can stay one step ahead this sales season.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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kobedesender.bsky.social
"How disconfirmatory evidence shapes confidence in decision-making"! Now out in @commspsychol.nature.com
w @annikaboldt.bsky.social & Yishu Sun
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Thread ↓↓↓

#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Metacognition #Confidence
October 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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maiajuliet.bsky.social
super excited to say that the first paper from my PhD has been published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 🧠!!

“I could have done otherwise”: the neural bases of counterfactual representations -> doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
danfeuerriegel.bsky.social
New preprint from the lab led by @violetchae.bsky.social! We debut an open EEG dataset for research into food cognition and dietary choices.

Featuring data from 117 different brains relating to 120 different food stimuli.

@tgro.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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violetchae.bsky.social
Our new preprint on the FOODEEG open dataset is out! EEG recordings and behavioural responses on food cognition tasks for 117 participants will be made publicly available 🧠 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
FOODEEG: An open dataset of human electroencephalographic and behavioural responses to food images
Investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying food choices has the potential to advance our understanding of eating behaviour and inform health-targeted interventions and policy. Large, publi...
www.biorxiv.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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tgro.bsky.social
🌏 Come spend some time with us in Sydney! 🇦🇺

@marcsinstitute.bsky.social is offering International Visiting Scholarships for PhD students + postdocs.

Spend 1–3 months collaborating, exploring ideas, and building connections.

📅 Apply by 4 Dec
📍 Sydney, Australia

Curious or keen? DM or email me
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
danfeuerriegel.bsky.social
Our new research led by @violetchae.bsky.social has been featured on the ABC Lab Notes podcast! Listen to learn how much work your brain is doing when you wander down the grocery store aisles.

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Lab Notes: How your brain chooses your next snack - ABC listen
It's mid-afternoon and time for a treat! Do you choose a healthy piece of fruit, or do you head straight for the chocolate?  It turns out that well before we consciously decide what we're going to ea...
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
danfeuerriegel.bsky.social
Interested in how we make preference-driven decisions, and how this is implemented in the brain?

We report that neural correlates of evidence accumulation (CPP, Mu/Beta) are also observed during value-based decisions.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Led by @laurencf.bsky.social (Lauren Fong)

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Tracing the neural trajectories of evidence accumulation and motor preparation processes during voluntary decisions
Voluntary decisions have previously been described by where they arise in the brain and how actions corresponding to one's choice are prepared. However, the processes by which these internally guided ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
danfeuerriegel.bsky.social
New article in @theconversation.com - featuring some exciting new findings on how our brains rapidly encode a wide range of food properties when we see a food item.

Your brain is doing a lot of work when you scroll through food delivery apps!

Led by @violetchae.bsky.social w/ @tgro.bsky.social
violetchae.bsky.social Violet Chae @violetchae.bsky.social · Oct 22
Using EEG 🧠⚡ and representational similarity analysis, we mapped how the neural representations of food attributes (e.g., taste & health) unfold over time when viewing foods🍎🍰🥗 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social

theconversation.com/our-brains-e...

doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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violetchae.bsky.social
Using EEG 🧠⚡ and representational similarity analysis, we mapped how the neural representations of food attributes (e.g., taste & health) unfold over time when viewing foods🍎🍰🥗 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social

theconversation.com/our-brains-e...

doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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chazfirestone.bsky.social
This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.

Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇
Screenshot of a paper abstract: “Core knowledge” refers to a set of cognitive systems that underwrite early representations of the physical and social world, appear universally across cultures, and likely result from our genetic endowment. Although this framework is canonically considered as a hypothesis about early emerging conception — how we think and reason about the world — here we present an alternative view: that many such representations are inherently perceptual in nature. This “core perception” view explains an intriguing (and otherwise mysterious) aspect of core-knowledge processes and representations: that they also operate in adults, where they display key empirical signatures of perceptual processing. We first illustrate this overlap using recent work on “core physics”, the domain of core knowledge concerned with physical objects, representing properties such as persistence through time, cohesion, solidity, and causal interactions. We review evidence that adult vision incorporates exactly these representations of core physics, while also displaying empirical signatures of genuinely perceptual mechanisms, such as rapid and automatic operation on the basis of specific sensory inputs, informational encapsulation, and interaction with other perceptual processes. We further argue that the same pattern holds for other areas of core knowledge, including geometrical, numerical, and social domains. In light of this evidence, we conclude that many infant results appealing to precocious reasoning abilities are better explained by sophisticated perceptual mechanisms shared by infants and adults. Our core-perception view elevates the status of perception in accounting for the origins of conceptual knowledge, and generates a range of ready-to-test hypotheses in developmental psychology, vision science, and more.
October 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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renrutmailliw.bsky.social
New BBS article w/ @lauragwilliams.bsky.social and Hinze Hogendoorn, just accepted! We respond to a thought-provoking article by @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, and argue that it's premature to conclude that conscious perception is delayed by 350-450ms: bit.ly/4nYNTlb
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September 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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epares.bsky.social
Check out our reviewed preprint, now out in eLife!
With @spk3lly.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social and Anna Geuzebroek

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

While we work on improving the [solid] paper based on the reviews, here are the key take-home messages:
Perceptual glimpses are locally accumulated and globally maintained at distinct processing levels
elifesciences.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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kobedesender.bsky.social
Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman

Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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jangrundemann.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature
Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.
www.nature.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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mamassian.bsky.social
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social
🚨Our preprint is online!🚨

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?

Read on to find out more! 🧵
September 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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kobedesender.bsky.social
Common neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o.

Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
September 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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psychopy.org
Shout out to Australian researchers! 🇦🇺 (and folks in the southern hemisphere) 🌏

We're excited that our Ambassador Ben Lowe (@brainboyben.bsky.social) will be hosting a pre-conference workshop at #ACNS2025 (@acnsau.bsky.social) on getting started with PsychoPy!

Sign up here👇
shorturl.at/gvnUU
ACNS 2025 Pre-Conference Workshops - Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society
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www.acns.org.au
September 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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ohbm-australia.bsky.social
⏰ Don’t forget – The OHBM Australia Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting is coming up!

📍 Melbourne
📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025

Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮

📢 Register to secure your place today!

ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
OHBM Australia: 2025 Annual Meeting
OHBM Australia: Uniting the Australian human brain mapping community
ohbm-aus.github.io
September 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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binarythis.bsky.social
PSA that there is cheap (good!) lunch on campus at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre cafe. The woman today told me I was only the third person in for the day — it’s quiet and they need our support! Level 4 of the building with the student food court. UniMelb people please reshare 🙏🏼
September 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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corcorana.bsky.social
The first major output of the @templetonworld.bsky.social @arc-intrepid.bsky.social adversarial collaboration testing IIT & predictive processing theories of consciousness is out now

arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
Integrated information and predictive processing theories of consciousness: An adversarial collaborative review
As neuroscientific theories of consciousness continue to proliferate, the need to assess their similarities and differences -- as well as their predictive and explanatory power -- becomes ever more pr...
arxiv.org
September 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM