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Anika Löwe @anikaloewe.bsky.social · 23d

In misty Porto for #ICON2025 and excited for all the science this week. I’m giving a talk tomorrow morning on insight in neural networks and humans at the « Sudden Learning Across Systems » symposium. Looking forward to discussing spontaneous cognition!

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Aug 22

Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social

#compneuro #neuroskyence

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Replay in the human visual cortex during brief task pauses is linked to implicit learning of successor representations | PNAS

Humans can implicitly learn about multistep sequential relationships between events in the environment from their statistical co-occurrence. Theore...

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Anika Löwe @anikaloewe.bsky.social · Aug 18

So proud of my partner’s performance at #CCN25 in collaboration with aiar collective. EEG-modulated live set where different frequencies change the sound of the synthesizer. Speakers and light tubes are synced to the different EEG channels. I’m biased, but I think this is so cool!

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Monika Schönauer @mschoenauer.bsky.social · Aug 15

Interested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.”

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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Anika Löwe @anikaloewe.bsky.social · Jul 4

Finishing the media spree tomorrow morning at 11.10 on @rbb24.de - really blown away by the media attention that our paper has received. Seeing our work covered in print in The Times the day after my 30th birthday was a pretty sweet gift :)

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Marit Petzka @maritpetzka.bsky.social · Jun 27

Interested in whether sleep and (a)periodic EEG activity increase the probability to have an insight? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Thanks to @anikaloewe.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social & Maria Tzegka for a great teamwork. I really enjoyed it!

Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excited to share our latest work spearheaded by @anikaloewe.bsky.social & @maritpetzka.bsky.social. 20 min naps increased the chance to solve an insight task if sleep reached N2 stage; but the EEG spectral slope was the best predictor of insight dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
#compneuro #psychscisky

N2 sleep promotes the occurrence of ‘aha’ moments in a perceptual insight task

Sleep supports memory consolidation, but can it also facilitate memory reorganization? This study reveals that N2 sleep, but not N1 sleep during a nap, increases the likelihood of having an 'aha' mome...

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Anika Löwe @anikaloewe.bsky.social · Jun 27

Super happy to see our latest work out in @plosbiology.org : N2 sleep during short naps increased the likelihood of insight in a decision task. The steepness of the spectral slope best predicted insight, beyond sleep stages alone. With dream team @maritpetzka.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jun 27

That "Aha!" moment... Can sleep facilitate memory reorganization? @nicoschuck.bsky.social @anikaloewe.bsky.social @maritpetzka.bsky.social &co reveal that N2 #sleep (but not N1) increases likelihood of having an 'aha' moment about a previous #DecisionMaking task @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k8F2v3

A single illuminated light bulb among many unlit ones. Image credit: Pixabay user ColiN00B.

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excited to share our latest work spearheaded by @anikaloewe.bsky.social & @maritpetzka.bsky.social. 20 min naps increased the chance to solve an insight task if sleep reached N2 stage; but the EEG spectral slope was the best predictor of insight dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
#compneuro #psychscisky

N2 sleep promotes the occurrence of ‘aha’ moments in a perceptual insight task

Sleep supports memory consolidation, but can it also facilitate memory reorganization? This study reveals that N2 sleep, but not N1 sleep during a nap, increases the likelihood of having an 'aha' mome...

dx.plos.org

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Monika Schönauer @mschoenauer.bsky.social · Jun 20

Which oscillations support memory reprocessing in the sleeping brain? 🧠💭💤
At #PuG2025, I will present data by Jessica Palmieri indicating that “Both Slow Waves and Sleep Spindles are Essential for Successful Targeted Memory Reactivation.”

Poster: B 235
📅 Fri, 20.06.2025, 13:00 – 14:30
📍2.XXX, Z6

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Jun 10

New preprint! How do we integrate new information into prior knowledge? We find that existing knowledge enables rapid new learning but that interleaved replay during sleep promotes integration of new and old information. Modeling suggests a sleep context suppression mechanism.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · Jun 15

Very excited to be part of this symposium at @pug2025.bsky.social where I will discuss the role of anxiety in inference :)

Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · Jun 15

Only a few days left until @pug2025.bsky.social – our symposium, organized together with @gamerlab.bsky.social 🧠⚡
🎤 Join us for exciting talks by: @ondrejzika.bsky.social @francescotortora.bsky.social @ldeserno.bsky.social @florianschlagenhauf

#PUG2025 #psychophysiology #reinforcementlearning

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BrAInWorlds @brainworlds.bsky.social · Apr 25

In the next #BrAInWorldsJournalClub, Anika Löwe @anikaloewe.bsky.social will present the work of Jacob Bakermans @bakermansjjw.bsky.social & Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social (2025): doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01908-3. Join @ilka-diester.bsky.social & @mschoenauer.bsky.social for the discussion!

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Anika Löwe @anikaloewe.bsky.social · Apr 24

Super excited about this!

Johannah Völler @jvoeller.bsky.social · Apr 23

📣 ICON Symposium

Really excited to announce our symposium at @ICON this year on Sudden Learning Across Systems!

Together with lots of cool people: @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @anikaloewe.bsky.social @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social and Andrea Greve!

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Mar 19

Does Sleeping on a idea work? Nice to see our work led by the amazing @anikaloewe.bsky.social and @maritpetzka.bsky.social featured together with other studies in the WaPo:

www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

Our preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Does sleeping on an idea work? Here’s what science says.

Scientists are finding experimental evidence that the transition between wakefulness and sleep is a portal for creative thought.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Katja Kleespies @katjakleespies.bsky.social · Feb 26

Does sleep affect the relationship between representations formed in different memory systems? Check out our new preprint on how sleep resolves the competition between explicit and implicit memory: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sleep Resolves Competition Between Explicit and Implicit Memory Systems

Sleep supports stabilization of explicit, declarative memory and benefits implicit, procedural memory. In addition, sleep may change the quality of memory representations. Explicit and implicit learni...

www.biorxiv.org

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Ellie Holton @eleanor-holton.bsky.social · Feb 24

New preprint out with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social! When does new learning interfere with existing knowledge? We compare continual learning in humans and artificial neural networks, revealing similar patterns of transfer & catastrophic interference (1/8) osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · Feb 21

🚨💫🤖 RLDM Workshop announcement:

"Game on: Leveraging Gamification in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience"

Contributed talks submissions now OPEN: shorturl.at/0p0Jd

Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin!
w/ @luiantaverra.bsky.social & @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social

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Anika Löwe @anikaloewe.bsky.social · Feb 14

Many thanks to my thesis reviewers @nicoschuck.bsky.social @helencbarron.bsky.social @paulm-k.bsky.social and Sebastian Gluth for a super fun discussion

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Anika Löwe @anikaloewe.bsky.social · Feb 14

Life updates: I defended my thesis and moved to the mountains to do a Postdoc with @mschoenauer.bsky.social - excited to continue working on learning and sleep ⛰️🌙

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Monika Schönauer @mschoenauer.bsky.social · Dec 3

🚨Job alert‼️🚨
The Imaging Memory and Consolidation Lab @unifreiburg.bsky.social is looking for a PhD candidate interested in sleep and memory in aging! 🧠💤
Please spread the news!

Deniz Kumral @denizkumral.bsky.social · Dec 2

My 1st message: “hello world”
My 2nd message: JOB ALERT- please share❗
We are looking for 1 PhD candidate If you are interested in #sleep and #memory reprocesing in aging, please get in touch!

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Nov 27

Our work on inductive biases in reinforcement learning is out: tinyurl.com/yfc74e3u

By the fantastic
@noahedrich.bsky.social

Ppl learn faster from slowly changing features; we argue this reflects an inductive bias. Teamwork w @ericschulz.bsky.social & S HallMcMaster
#neuroskyence #compneuro

An inductive bias for slowly changing features in human reinforcement learning

Author summary Learning experiments in the laboratory are often assumed to exist in a vacuum, where participants solve a given task independently of how they learn in more natural circumstances. But h...

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Nov 15

Happy to share our review on OFC/vmPFC representations in Trends in Neurosciences, written with @nirmoneta.bsky.social and Shany Grossman
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Very short thread below to summarize our review
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #compneurosky #PsychSciSky

ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Anika Löwe @anikaloewe.bsky.social · Nov 15

nice work - thanks for sharing!

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Nov 14

interested in abrupt shifts in behavioral strategy, and which factors can cause them in neural nets? anika elegantly boiled it down to the simplest case and shows that noise, gating and regularisation can make very simple neural nets „pop“. truly enjoyed this collab in a great team

Anika Löwe @anikaloewe.bsky.social · Nov 14

First post here: our latest paper on insight-like learning dynamics (and the factors causing them) in humans and ANNs journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... published last month in PLoS Comp Bio. with @nicoschuck.bsky.social @summerfieldlab.bsky.social @saxelab.bsky.social Paul Muhle-Karbe and Léo Touzo

Abrupt and spontaneous strategy switches emerge in simple regularised neural networks

Author summary Insights, or aha-moments, are a remarkable phenomenon in human cognition that is unique in a number of ways: they are accompanied by a powerful subjective experience, occur abruptly aft...

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Anika Löwe @anikaloewe.bsky.social · Nov 14

First post here: our latest paper on insight-like learning dynamics (and the factors causing them) in humans and ANNs journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... published last month in PLoS Comp Bio. with @nicoschuck.bsky.social @summerfieldlab.bsky.social @saxelab.bsky.social Paul Muhle-Karbe and Léo Touzo

Abrupt and spontaneous strategy switches emerge in simple regularised neural networks

Author summary Insights, or aha-moments, are a remarkable phenomenon in human cognition that is unique in a number of ways: they are accompanied by a powerful subjective experience, occur abruptly aft...

journals.plos.org

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