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Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg @bertsch-lab.bsky.social · 15d

Come join our team!💼A new PhD position is available in our group, focusing on emotional biases and socioemotional competencies in depression. Feel free to share!😃
#PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

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Visual Attention Lab (Wolfe Lab) @visualattentionlab.bsky.social · Aug 29

Meet our visiting Grad Student Ecem!

She is Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience at the University of Würzburg, studying attentional and learning processes in fear conditioning. At VAL, she focuses on visual foraging under threat, manipulating the spatial distribution of threat and value of targets.

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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · Jul 29

Sadly learned of the passing of Prof. Margaret Boden, an inspiring thinker.

Grateful I had the chance to listen to her talk 7 years ago at the "2018 Religion & Science Conference: AI & Consciousness", organized by Cambridge Muslim College.

I found the video, highly recommend it:
bit.ly/3IJHoUb

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jul 25

Pain Expectations: the neural representations of predicted pain in self and others https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.666065v1

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Francisco Garre-Frutos @frangfr.bsky.social · Jul 21

New paper out! Here we show that attentional biases induced by reward history depend on awareness of such reward history (w/ @jlupiane.bsky.social and @mavadillo.bsky.social).
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Value-modulated attentional capture depends on awareness - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Value-modulated attentional capture (VMAC) refers to a process by which a priori neutral stimuli gain attentional priority when associated with reward, independently of goal or stimulus-driven attenti...

link.springer.com

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · Jul 23

As somebody who studies self-control (but is bad at it), I read this 2025 open-access review on the self-control of eating (tinyurl.com/bdnebw79) by Mann & Ward w/ great personal interest. I highly recommend it, esp. if you study self-control and/or want to deal w/ your eating regulation challenges.

The opening page of the Annual Review of Psychology article by Traci Mann and Andrew Ward (2025), entitled The Self-Control of Eating.

https://tinyurl.com/bdnebw79 (open access)

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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · Jul 10

3/ If you're interested, feel free to join us via MS Teams at 12:00 (CET):

Meeting ID: 389 620 314 848 5
Passcode: pC9QU6uR

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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · Jul 10

2/ Today, I’ll be giving a talk there as a PhD student. It means a lot to return to the place where my curiosity for science truly began. I’m grateful to my former supervisor, @mattlongo.bsky.social not only for the kind invitation and for staying in touch all these years, but also for his guidance.

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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · Jul 10

1/ Exactly 9 years ago, I did my very first international lab internship as a curious, naive undergraduate student at Body Representation Lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. It was my very first hands-on research experience and one of the reasons I chose to pursue an academic path.

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Jul 9

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yannik Stegmann and Matthias Gamer:

The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · Jul 3

I read a really old article on broad and narrow attention by Wachtel (1967), and I found this sentence deeply relatable "...the extremely anxious individual becomes a slave to minor variations in the perceptual field, which demand most of his attention and leave him confused and disorganized."

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · Jun 30

Need an ultra-fast online tool to sketch something in the middle of your meeting or an idea that you have?

Try Draw Draw Draw!: ozika.github.io/drawdrawdraw/

I often want to sketch something, but most sites want one to register, no time, just Draw Draw Draw!

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jul 1

Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social !

Deadline Sun 6th July

Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jun 6

Looking for a PhD in #psychology or #cogneuro ? I’m recruiting a fully-funded @leverhulme.ac.uk PhD student to join my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. If you’re interested in metacognition, learning, social cognition and culture I’d love you to apply 🧠👇

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ330/p...

PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence at Birkbeck, University of London

Find a PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in higher education. Click to view more!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · Jun 20

I had pleasure of co-organizing my very first symposium together with my supervisor @gamerlab.bsky.social.
A heartfelt thank you to all the amazing speakers @ondrejzika.bsky.social, @francescotortora.bsky.social, @ldeserno.bsky.social, @floriansch and participants for their contributions.

#PUG2025

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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · Jun 20

Our symposium continues with @ondrejzika.bsky.social talking about the role of trait anxiety in contextual inference.

@gamerlab.bsky.social

#PUG2025

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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · Jun 19

Attention attention! ⏰ Last 20 minutes to drop by Room 2.007 to discuss our recent 7T MRI study togwther with @jasbisch.gitlab.io #PUG2025

Jasper Bischofberger @jasbisch.gitlab.io · Jun 19

Hey #PuG2025! I am excited to present my research on the role of midbrain PAG in the resolution of human approach-avoidance conflict resolution. If that sounds interesting to you, drop by my poster #79 (Room 2.007)!

Me, proudly presenting my poster on human approach-avoidance conflict resolution.

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · Jun 19

See our research at the #pug2025. @jannateigeler.bsky.social now presenting a novel gaze-congruent approach-avoidance task.

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Ecem Tavacioglu @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social · Jun 19

Kicking off the PUG conference with a great talk by @danielamier.bsky.social – looking forward to an inspiring few days ahead!

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Psychologie & Gehirn 2025 @pug2025.bsky.social · Jun 17

The #PuG2025 final program is online! Browse it or download the PDF version 👇 www.pug2025.org

PuG2025 | Psychologie und Gehirn

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the 50th Annual Conference on “Psychology and the Brain (PuG2025),” held from June 18–21, 2025, at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg!

www.pug2025.org

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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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Tom Beckers @tombeckers.bsky.social · Jun 15

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Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · May 26

Join us for a zoom talk by Renee Thompson on
"The everyday #emotional experiences of individuals with #depressive psychopathology"
5 June - 2:30pm CEST
@tudresden.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social @trr393.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social
tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · May 14

Absolutely well deserved!

Matthias Wieser @mjwieser.bsky.social · May 14

Congratulations @kimsobania.bsky.social (1st prize) and @jannateigeler.bsky.social (runner up) and @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social (runner up) for winning the poster awards at the European Meeting on Human Fear Conditioning. Great science, awesome presentations! #emhfc2025

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Matthias Wieser @mjwieser.bsky.social · May 14

Had a fantastic time with more than 100 colleagues from across the world at the European Meeting for Human Fear Conditioning we organized in Egmond aan Zee. #emhfc2025

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Matthias Wieser @mjwieser.bsky.social · May 14

Congratulations @kimsobania.bsky.social (1st prize) and @jannateigeler.bsky.social (runner up) and @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social (runner up) for winning the poster awards at the European Meeting on Human Fear Conditioning. Great science, awesome presentations! #emhfc2025

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