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Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social · Jun 22

Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology

Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations acr...

www.nature.com

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EDIA @ediatoolbox.bsky.social · May 20

📢 Huge thanks to everyone who visited our EDIA poster at #VSS2025
We had a packed 4.5 hours of great discussions on XR research tools & eye tracking.

✨ Stay tuned, open-source release coming soon!
🔗 edia-toolbox.github.io

#XR #Research #Academic #OpenSource

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Felix Anderl @felixanderl.bsky.social · Apr 27

Super spannendes Interview in der @lagedernation.org mit Anne Brorhilker @finanzwende.bsky.social
Habe einiges über Strafrechtsverfolgung in Steuerfragen gelernt und war entertained von der true crime story.
open.spotify.com/episode/4OFJ...

LdN428 CumEx & Co: Wie der Staat durch Steuerbetrug Milliarden verliert - und warum er sich das gefallen lässt (Interview Anne Brorhilker, Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende)

Lage der Nation - der Politik-Podcast aus Berlin · Episode

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Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social · Mar 30

#OHBM2025Brisbane
#BrainConnectivity
If you visit the land down under for OHBM25, join us for the satellite Brain Connectivity Workshop on beautiful Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). Register now to secure the early bird discount.
qimrberghofer.eventsair.com/brain-connec...

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Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social · Jan 30

100 % recommend this summer school in beautiful Barcelona. Loved the hands-on approach. Amazing instructors and tutors. Go and apply.

alexhyafil.bsky.social @alexhyafil.bsky.social · Jan 30

Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2025

BAMB!

Course philosophy Our goal is to teach advanced techniques in model-based analysis of behavior (humans and other animals) to cognitive and computational neuroscientists at PhD and early career levels...

bambschool.org

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · Jan 18

Prior knowledge changes sensory processing in the spinal cord?! 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroskyence

Prior knowledge changes initial sensory processing in the human spinal cord

High-frequency signals at a neuronal population level reveal a cognitive influence on sensory processing in the human spinal cord.

www.science.org

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Douglas Garrett @garrettneuro.bsky.social · Jan 13

*How* does the hippocampus encode the world around us? Leo Waschke and Fabian Kamp bring the 🔥, showing that single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans. Our latest in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans - Nature Communications

The hippocampus is thought to encode the content of stimuli, but how it does so is unknown. The authors show that when hippocampal spiking variability tracks the abstract building blocks of individual...

www.nature.com

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Carsten Finke @carstenfinke.bsky.social · Jan 12

*** Two doctoral scholarships available by Max Planck School of Cognition @MPS_cog and Berlin School of Mind and Brain @MindaBrain funded by DAAD ***

👉 Two topics: (1) Heart and Brain & (2) Autoimmune #encephalitis
👉 International applicants only

All details: mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-pro...

Foto of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain on a sunny day.

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Alik Widge @alikwidge.bsky.social · Dec 18

Out today: cross-species improvement of cognitive flexibility
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The TLDR: remember when we improved human cognition with deep brain stimulation? (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34725508/)
Well, now we did it in rats, and it works the same!
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Striatal stimulation enhances cognitive control and evidence processing in rodents and humans

Developing an animal model of human brain stimulation therapy reveals that striatal DBS enhances the brain’s ability to process conflicting evidence.

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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · Dec 16

🚀 Preprint out! doi.org/10.31234/osf...
We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦

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Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social · Dec 18

I have a thing for probability theory and this article is just a pleasure to read:

Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)

All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.

www.nature.com

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Charlotte Reese Marshall used to be Tom Rhys Marshall @tomrhysmarshall.bsky.social · Dec 3

This is so so so so cool.

CCN comes to Amsterdam.

Which means you can get there from the UK without flying!

I cannot wait.

CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · Nov 12

After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro

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Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social · Dec 2

Just went through it and I really love it - I hope Cog Science will follow this pretty cool new format😀

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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · Nov 25

📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025!

📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de

Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social

#interoception

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Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social · Nov 20

Updated preprint: check it out if you are interested in biases in perception, oscillations and GLMMs.

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

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas

Perception is biased by expectations and previous actions. Pre-stimulus brain oscillations are a potential candidate for implementing biases in the brain. In two EEG studies on somatosensory near-thre...

www.biorxiv.org

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Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social · Nov 20

Feel free to check out my repo for coding resources: github.com/CarinaFo
I am also happy to teach online workshops while I am in Bali waiting for my visa.

CarinaFo - Overview

PhD candidate, neuroscience & cog. psych., studying neural (EEG) & behavioural correlates of expectations in somatosensory perception, Python :blue_heart: - CarinaFo

github.com

Carina Forster @carinafo.bsky.social · Nov 20

It's official. I am moving to Australia to start a position at QIMR Berghofer in the Clinical Brain Networks group led by Luca Cocchi. I will be waiting for my visa in Bali. 🏝️💻Reach out if you are interested in Python coding workshops for scientists (behaviour, EEG/MEG).

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