Serge Dumoulin
@sergedumoulin.net
Neuroscientist at the crossroads of vision, cognition, and computational neuroimaging.
Director, Spinoza Centre | PI, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience | Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | sergedumoulin.net
Director, Spinoza Centre | PI, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience | Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | sergedumoulin.net
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Excited to share that my first article is now published in Communications Biology!
Humans and many animals have an innate ability to rapidly perceive numerosity—the number of objects in a visual scene. But how does our brain process this fundamental capability?
Read the full paper: rdcu.be/eRxMi
Humans and many animals have an innate ability to rapidly perceive numerosity—the number of objects in a visual scene. But how does our brain process this fundamental capability?
Read the full paper: rdcu.be/eRxMi
Numerosity adaptation suppresses early visual responses
Communications Biology - Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors....
rdcu.be
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Excited to share that my first article is now published in Communications Biology!
Humans and many animals have an innate ability to rapidly perceive numerosity—the number of objects in a visual scene. But how does our brain process this fundamental capability?
Read the full paper: rdcu.be/eRxMi
Humans and many animals have an innate ability to rapidly perceive numerosity—the number of objects in a visual scene. But how does our brain process this fundamental capability?
Read the full paper: rdcu.be/eRxMi
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41...
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41...
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors. Therefore, numerosity adaptation effects begin in early sensory stages of processing.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Numerosity adaptation suppresses early visual responses - Communications Biology
Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors. Therefore, numerosity adaptation ef...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors. Therefore, numerosity adaptation effects begin in early sensory stages of processing.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
The paper demonstrating that #psilocybin alters contextual computations is out in @natcomms.nature.com : doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Thanks to the reviewers and coauthors : @marcoaqil.bsky.social , @tknapen.bsky.social , @gillesdehollander.bsky.social , and Nina Vreugdenhil
Thanks to the reviewers and coauthors : @marcoaqil.bsky.social , @tknapen.bsky.social , @gillesdehollander.bsky.social , and Nina Vreugdenhil
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The paper demonstrating that #psilocybin alters contextual computations is out in @natcomms.nature.com : doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Thanks to the reviewers and coauthors : @marcoaqil.bsky.social , @tknapen.bsky.social , @gillesdehollander.bsky.social , and Nina Vreugdenhil
Thanks to the reviewers and coauthors : @marcoaqil.bsky.social , @tknapen.bsky.social , @gillesdehollander.bsky.social , and Nina Vreugdenhil
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We have an exciting 4-year PhD position available @maastrichtu.bsky.social focusing on intracranial EEG recordings to investigate how hippocampal ripples contribute to human memory processing.
For more info: tinyurl.com/r5c49zuy (closing date Nov 2nd)
Please help spread the word! #neurojobs
For more info: tinyurl.com/r5c49zuy (closing date Nov 2nd)
Please help spread the word! #neurojobs
PhD Candidate: Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying human memory
PhD Candidate: Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying human memory
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October 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We have an exciting 4-year PhD position available @maastrichtu.bsky.social focusing on intracranial EEG recordings to investigate how hippocampal ripples contribute to human memory processing.
For more info: tinyurl.com/r5c49zuy (closing date Nov 2nd)
Please help spread the word! #neurojobs
For more info: tinyurl.com/r5c49zuy (closing date Nov 2nd)
Please help spread the word! #neurojobs
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
No I don't!
I actually want to save time from doing useless admin stuff, so I can spend MORE time reading, understanding and writing research papers!
I actually want to save time from doing useless admin stuff, so I can spend MORE time reading, understanding and writing research papers!
October 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
No I don't!
I actually want to save time from doing useless admin stuff, so I can spend MORE time reading, understanding and writing research papers!
I actually want to save time from doing useless admin stuff, so I can spend MORE time reading, understanding and writing research papers!
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...
#neuroscience
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...
#neuroscience
Principles for proper peer review
jocnf.pubpub.org
October 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...
#neuroscience
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...
#neuroscience
Simple but excellent guidelines for peer review
New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review"
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
Principles for proper peer review
doi.org
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Simple but excellent guidelines for peer review
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Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...
10 AI Prompts for Academics
making those hard jobs a little easier ...
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October 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
Nice demo by Mark Lescroart @neuromdl.bsky.social on EPI imaging of a single #fMRI slice. Great for teaching! :)
vimeo.com/143701608?fl...
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fMRI_EPI_KspaceAcquisition_short
This is a demonstration of how a single slice of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is collected. Before this makes any sense, you will need to understand…
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October 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Nice demo by Mark Lescroart @neuromdl.bsky.social on EPI imaging of a single #fMRI slice. Great for teaching! :)
vimeo.com/143701608?fl...
vimeo.com/143701608?fl...
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory!
We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
🧵1/9
We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
🧵1/9
Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events - Nature Communications
When people recall a movie, their eye movements and brain activity resemble those observed during the viewing. These behavioral and neural reactivations are linked through a common process, likely ref...
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory!
We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
🧵1/9
We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
🧵1/9
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
Thanks to all (co)authors & reviewers for their contribution to this study on #layer specific changes in #sensory #cortex across the #lifespan in #humans & #mice now out in @natneuro.nature.com Here is a short summary of our findings 1/6
🧠 The human brain ages less than thought and in layers – at least in the area of the cortex responsible for the sense of touch. See study @natneuro.nature.com by @estherkuehn.bsky.social and colleagues at DZNE, @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de:
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Layer-specific changes in sensory cortex across the lifespan in mice and humans - Nature Neuroscience
The principal layer architecture of the sensory cortex is altered with aging. The authors show that overall thinning of the primary somatosensory cortex is driven by deep layer degeneration but that l...
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August 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience job opening in our own
@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social department. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social department. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience job opening in our own
@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social department. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social department. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
August 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
Doctoral researcher in solid-state NMR of semiconductors, the Erlangen Center for Interface Research and Catalysis in the solid-state NMR group of Dr. Dorothea Wisser at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/doctora... #NMRjobs #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
Doctoral researcher in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of semiconductors (m/f/d)
www.jobs.fau.de
July 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Doctoral researcher in solid-state NMR of semiconductors, the Erlangen Center for Interface Research and Catalysis in the solid-state NMR group of Dr. Dorothea Wisser at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/doctora... #NMRjobs #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
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NeuroHackademy 2025 started today! Our 10th summer school/hackathon in neuroimaging and data science @uwescience.bsky.social, the 8th supported by NIH/NIMH. You can follow along, with videos of lectures in this YouTube playlist, posted almost as soon as they happen: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
NeuroHackademy 2025 - YouTube
Neurohackademy is a summer school in neuroimaging and data science, held at the University of Washington eScience Institute. This year’s course will be held ...
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July 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
NeuroHackademy 2025 started today! Our 10th summer school/hackathon in neuroimaging and data science @uwescience.bsky.social, the 8th supported by NIH/NIMH. You can follow along, with videos of lectures in this YouTube playlist, posted almost as soon as they happen: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
The Minnesota ultra-high-field meeting will again offer the popular hands-on layer-fMRI analysis pre-workshop on practical aspects.
October 13th-14th 2025.
Registration: sites.google.com/umn.edu/2025...
October 13th-14th 2025.
Registration: sites.google.com/umn.edu/2025...
July 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Minnesota ultra-high-field meeting will again offer the popular hands-on layer-fMRI analysis pre-workshop on practical aspects.
October 13th-14th 2025.
Registration: sites.google.com/umn.edu/2025...
October 13th-14th 2025.
Registration: sites.google.com/umn.edu/2025...
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons.
Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social
Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons.
Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social
Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
Werner Reichardt, credited with discovering the neural circuitry for motion detection in the retina in the 1950s, did so on borrowed time.
July 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Werner Reichardt, credited with discovering the neural circuitry for motion detection in the retina in the 1950s, did so on borrowed time.
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists !
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain
www.unicog.org
July 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists !
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
July 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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July 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com!
@elicastaldi.bsky.social, Evelyn Eger, @manpiazza.bsky.social
🔢 We reveal how the brain represents numerosity across the entire visual system, from early visual areas to high-level association cortices.
👇 A thread
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@elicastaldi.bsky.social, Evelyn Eger, @manpiazza.bsky.social
🔢 We reveal how the brain represents numerosity across the entire visual system, from early visual areas to high-level association cortices.
👇 A thread
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
July 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com!
@elicastaldi.bsky.social, Evelyn Eger, @manpiazza.bsky.social
🔢 We reveal how the brain represents numerosity across the entire visual system, from early visual areas to high-level association cortices.
👇 A thread
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@elicastaldi.bsky.social, Evelyn Eger, @manpiazza.bsky.social
🔢 We reveal how the brain represents numerosity across the entire visual system, from early visual areas to high-level association cortices.
👇 A thread
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
This should be bigger news - the Dutch parliament decided to strongly reduce non-human primates experiments. Subsidy for the large primate center - which includes important virology research unique in Europe - is gradually reduced to zero by 2030. Going towards the end of NHP research in NL...
Het amendement van Ines Kostić (#PvdD) c.s. over middelen voor het verminderen van apenproeven, is aangenomen. (36725-VIII-11) #TweedeKamer
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July 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
This should be bigger news - the Dutch parliament decided to strongly reduce non-human primates experiments. Subsidy for the large primate center - which includes important virology research unique in Europe - is gradually reduced to zero by 2030. Going towards the end of NHP research in NL...
Reposted by Serge Dumoulin
Don’t miss our upcoming CCN satellite event, Applying Computational Models to Clinical Disorders (August 11th). This session will showcase how computational methods are transforming our understanding and treatment of sensory disorders
dlwiki.nin.nl/ccn_2025
#CCN2025 #CompNeuro #VisionScience
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#CCN2025 #CompNeuro #VisionScience
Computational insights into clinical disorders (August 11, 2025)
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference satellite event on computational models and clinical disorders
dlwiki.nin.nl
July 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Don’t miss our upcoming CCN satellite event, Applying Computational Models to Clinical Disorders (August 11th). This session will showcase how computational methods are transforming our understanding and treatment of sensory disorders
dlwiki.nin.nl/ccn_2025
#CCN2025 #CompNeuro #VisionScience
dlwiki.nin.nl/ccn_2025
#CCN2025 #CompNeuro #VisionScience