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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 8d

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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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 16d

📢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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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 27d

Image: Deep A.I. image generator.

#studentjob #studentprogrammer #unibonn

bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · 27d

📢 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...

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Sep 8

Take a peak at the #preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Sep 8

We searched data bases for 215 candidate drugs and summarise the evidence from 100 studies on 36 compounds following #PRISMA2020 protocol.

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Sep 1

[2/2] Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

#FearConditioning #BrainResearch #MentalHealth #Neuroscience

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Sep 1

[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...

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Elliott Wimmer @elliottwimmer.bsky.social · Aug 28

📢 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!

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Aug 13

📢 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/

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...

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Aug 4

#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

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Jun 30

👋 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

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Jun 26

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 🦋.

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Jun 26

👨‍💻👩‍💻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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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Jun 18

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.👇

InVirtuo 4.0 @invirtuo.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚨 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? 🙍‍♀️ 🧕

bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓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!

bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Jun 2

📢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

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Jun 2

📢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

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · May 22

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...

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · May 22

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...

Critical intelligence: Computing defensive behaviour

Characterising the mechanisms underlying naturalistic defensive behavior remains a significant challenge. While substantial progress has been made in …

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · May 15

Thanks to all collaborators, including @jackbrookes.bsky.social, who seems to be the only one active on this platform.

bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · May 15

👉 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

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...

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · May 12

This month, we welcomed Steven Lieu as a PhD student to our team @unibonn.bsky.social. Looking forward to working with you! 🙌

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Apr 30

Hi, can we still join? We are researching human behavior.

bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Apr 30

👉 Link to article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library

Pavlovian appetitive conditioning is an important experimental model, but its quantification remains heterogeneous. In a study with visual CS and primary US (fruit juice), we show that heart period r....

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