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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to see this paper out! It's the culmination of a project begun in the depths of the pandemic with Sabrina Karjack and @zoengo.bsky.social . We continue our exploration of how children generalize when their episodic memory is not yet mature.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The dependence of children’s generalization on episodic memory varies with age and level of abstraction - Nature Communications

Children’s ability to generalize from episodic memories varies by both age and the level of abstraction. Here, the authors show that lower level generalization increasingly depends on episodic memory with age, whereas higher level generalization shows no such relationship.

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Doeller Lab @doellerlab.bsky.social · 2d

⏳ Deadline approaching! Apply by 13 Oct for the Postdoc in Cognitive Neuroscience at MPI Leipzig.

Doeller Lab @doellerlab.bsky.social · 15d

Join us at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig as a Postdoc to explore cognitive maps in the human brain: learning, memory & the formation of structural representations. Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by 13 October: postdocprogram.mpg.de/node/21187

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 2d

If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me!

I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.

#psychscisky #neuroskyence

Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 2d

It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs

How to get PhD funding in the UK

It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...

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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 9d

🔎Wir suchen zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine engagierte und kompetente Persönlichkeit für die

Verwaltungsleitung (m/w/d)
in Vollzeit | unbefristet | #Leipzig
Bitte hier bewerben: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?

#wissenschaft #administration #career #maxplanck

Verwaltungsleitung (m/w/d) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften

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Helen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 2d

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **

Deadline: 2nd December

1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6

2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj

Happy to chat to interested applicants.

Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu

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Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · 5d

With many thanks to @colinlever.bsky.social for stimulating discussions.

Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · 5d

New preprint from the lab and great work by Fei Wang. We show how subiculum trace vector cells can be modeled consistent with known effects in CA1. Traces are driven by a mismatch learning rule to keep associative memories in line with experience.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dynamic updating of cognitive maps via traces of experience in the subiculum

In the classical view of hippocampal function, the subiculum is assigned the role as the output layer. In spatial paradigms, some subiculum neurons manifest as so-called boundary vector cells (BVCs), ...

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Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · 14d

Surprise, surprise!

hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

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Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · 29d

A while in the making, here's a short paper on how one might get from spatial to episodic memory with temporal indexing, sequence generation via grid cell analogs, + a bit of perspective/review on time, wider HPC function ...

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · 29d

... and a direct link to the application portal:
www.cbs.mpg.de/vacancies/op...

Open positions

Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Vacancies, Open positions

www.cbs.mpg.de

Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join us as part of the Neural Computation Group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig:
www.cbs.mpg.de/psychology/n...

Neural Computation

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Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · Sep 8

Dear colleagues, we have an open PhD position in computational neuroscience - spatial memory models and intracranial recordings - fully funded. Re-advertised, candidates are ideally available in the near future. A collab. with 4 labs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/yc84ctap

PhD position or a Doctoral Candidate in computational neuroscience. (m/f/d) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften

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Shrey Dixit @shreydixit.bsky.social · Jul 31

We did it! 🏆 We won Phase 1 and placed 2nd overall in the Algonauts 2025 Challenge. So proud of the crew
@keckjanis.bsky.social,Viktor Studenyak,Daniel Schad,Aleksandr Shpilevoi. Huge thanks to @andrejbicanski.bsky.social and @doellerlab.bsky.social for support. Report: arxiv.org/abs/2507.17958

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Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · Jun 18

I am not an expert on EEG or CLT, but this seems to be the most expected result ever, and yet very important to show.

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

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Simon Kern @skjerns.de · Jun 16

preprint alert 🚨
1/ Can we accurately detect sequential replay in humans using Temporally Delayed Linear Modelling (#TDLM)? In our recent study, we could not find any replay and decided to dig deeper by running a hybrid simulation with surprising results. Link to preprint & details below 👇

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Jun 16

From today, every paper submitted to Nature -if published - will be accompanied by peer reviewers comments & authors rebuttal.

We started the trial in 2020; we now want to open up the review process & showcase its role in shaping & improving papers
🧪 #AcademicSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers

From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.

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Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · May 22

Congrats Volker (‪@reisnerv.bsky.social‬). Collab with Doellerlab, modeling by Viktor Studenyak via the Neural Computation Group

Volker Reisner @reisnerv.bsky.social · May 22

New preprint! We explored how learned movement patterns affect our sense of traveled distance and proposed a neurocomputational model that leverages embodied memories to denoise spatial codes.

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Re-enacting steps supports human path integration consistent with motor-corrected grid cell drift

Efficient navigation, especially in the absence of vision, requires path integration - the continuous updating of spatial position from self-motion cues. However, path integration is prone to cumulati...

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Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · Apr 29

My colleague Dan Bush (not on BSky) at UCL is looking for a post-doc. Focus on intracranial EEG and single cell recordings from epilepsy patients + MEG recordings from healthy volunteers during spatial and episodic memory tasks. Apply here
tinyurl.com/n6nkty8e

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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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · Feb 20

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.

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Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · Jan 22

Out in PLOSCompBio: Spiking, neuro-mechanical CPG model ...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

No hippocampus here :-), but CPG people will hopefully enjoy this.

Also, great to work with Biorob at EPFL again, and congrats to Alessandro.

Balancing central control and sensory feedback produces adaptable and robust locomotor patterns in a spiking, neuromechanical model of the salamander spinal cord

Author summary In this paper, we developed a computational model to investigate how salamanders move, both while swimming and walking. Unlike previous studies that often oversimplified the dynamics of...

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · Dec 7

Our group after a week long Strüngmann Forum in Frankfurt! Group 1 rocks!! @russellepstein.bsky.social @andrejbicanski.bsky.social @lukaskunz.bsky.social @flaviodonato82.bsky.social @ekfarran.bsky.social and others I can’t find yet on Bluesky

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Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · Feb 15

looks very interesting!

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Feb 3

Postdoc alert! Come work with me on an ESRC project on the role of narratives in the learning and retention of educational material.

2 year position, start date flexible but no later than 1st September.

Application deadline 1st March.

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

Jobs - The University of York

jobs.york.ac.uk

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Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · Feb 1

Applications will be considered until filled (as long as the advert is up). The MPI in Leipzig also has a great scientific community with a lot of potential for collaborations.

Andrej Bicanski @andrejbicanski.bsky.social · Feb 1

Dear colleagues, I am advertising two fully funded PhD positions in my new group. Topics can cover grid cells, retrosplenial cortex, head direction, subiculum and boundary coding + cog maps more generally. Please direct potential candidates to the ads: www.cbs.mpg.de/stellenmarkt...

Stellenangebote

Bewerbermanagement, Max-Planck-Institutes für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, MPI CBS, Stellenangebote

www.cbs.mpg.de

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