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Florian Bublatzky @fbublatzky.bsky.social · 12d

Just came across this face image database that lists different databases from A-Z libguides.princeton.edu/facedatabases A very nice collection, thanks to
@mtesterman.bsky.social

Research Guides: Face Image Databases: Databases (A-Z)

An A-Z directory of databases of face stimulus images for use in behavioral research

libguides.princeton.edu

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Marcella Woud @marcellawoud.bsky.social · 16d

In meinem Team an der Universität Göttingen ist eine PhD Stelle (3 Jahre, 75%) ausgeschrieben – bitte gerne teilen bzw. bei Fragen melden!

www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Webseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

www.uni-goettingen.de

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Ravi Menon, Ph.D. @northernthrux.bsky.social · Aug 30

For the laminauts. @layerfmri.bsky.social

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 30

Vascular draining confounds laminar decoding in fMRI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672278v1

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Wilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc
as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption.

Details here:

PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7...

Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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Ingrid Johnsrude @ingridjohnsrude.bsky.social · Aug 28

Tenure-track job in audiology at Western's School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, in beautiful Ontario, Canada -- work with a great team, benefit from all the resources that a large research-intensive uni can supply -- and enjoy amazing quality of life!

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Aug 31

Looking Ahead: The New Science of the Predictive Mind. New book by @falkhuettig.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/9781....

Looking Ahead

Cambridge Core - Cognition - Looking Ahead

doi.org

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Helen Blank @helenblank.bsky.social · Aug 11

Layer-specific changes in sensory cortex across the lifespan in mice and humans - Big congratulations @estherkuehn.bsky.social‬ and team!!

Esther Kuehn @estherkuehn.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thanks to all (co)authors & reviewers for their contribution to this study on #layer specific changes in #sensory #cortex across the #lifespan in #humans & #mice now out in @natneuro.nature.com Here is a short summary of our findings 1/6

DZNE research center @dzne.science · Aug 11

🧠 The human brain ages less than thought and in layers – at least in the area of the cortex responsible for the sense of touch. See study @natneuro.nature.com by @estherkuehn.bsky.social and colleagues at DZNE, @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de:

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Helen Blank @helenblank.bsky.social · Aug 11

How do speaker priors shape speech perception? Meet @fabianschneider.bsky.social @ #CCN2025! For a sneak peek at our new findings, see below👇

Fabian Schneider @fabianschneider.bsky.social · Aug 1

🚨 Fresh preprint w/ @helenblank.bsky.social!

How does the brain acquire expectations about a conversational partner, and how are priors integrated w/ sensory inputs?

Current evidence diverges. Is it prediction error? Sharpening?

Spoiler: It's both.👀

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

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · Jul 29

Fascinating sounding preprint by @fabianschneider.bsky.social and @helenblank.bsky.social on the role of predictions along the speech perception processing hierarchy. #neuroskyence

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Jul 25

Sensory sharpening and semantic prediction errors unify competing models of predictive processing in communication https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.23.666354v1

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Helen Blank @helenblank.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thank you, Peter! :)
Big shout-out to @fabianschneider.bsky.social for his great work!

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Franziska Knolle @franziskaknolle.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨Great work led by @esterner.bsky.social showing that individuals with higher schizotypal or autistic traits produce less stable semantic predictions over time, potentially showing the impact of exaggerated belief updating!

Was a fun project und a fantastic team 🤩

Elisabeth Sterner @esterner.bsky.social · Jul 22

⏳ How stable are semantic predictions over time? And how do autistic and schizotypal traits influence this stability?

Excited to see our new paper on the temporal stability of semantic predictions published - together with my supervisor @franziskaknolle.bsky.social and Andrea Greve: rdcu.be/ewV32

rdcu.be

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Ole Goltermann @olegolt.bsky.social · Jul 22

Serious concerns about a new cortical biomarker for pain sensitivity

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.

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Concern About Predictive Performance of a Pain Sensitivity Biomarker

To the Editor Chowdhury et al1 evaluated a biomarker for pain sensitivity, combining peak alpha frequency and corticomotor excitability. The authors report outstanding performance (validation set area...

jamanetwork.com

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Helen Blank @helenblank.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 7

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No

Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

www.forbes.com

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Helen Blank @helenblank.bsky.social · Jun 30

Are you a specialist in the physics behind MRI and want to work at THINK @ruhr-uni-bochum.de? Apply: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4... Thanks for sharing with potential candidates!🧠🙏

MRI Physicist (m/f/x)

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Jun 23

The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025

Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Jun 23

Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]

GitHub - spm/spm-python: The Python interface to SPM

The Python interface to SPM. Contribute to spm/spm-python development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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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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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · Jun 17

🧠♻️ IGOR Symposium
"Open Science Initiatives in Biopsychological Research"
🗓️ Fri, 20.06 | 🕥 10:30–12:00
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@ocklenburg.bsky.social C. Artemenko
@mariame.bsky.social @alinakoppold.bsky.social
@caggursoy.bsky.social @ufangyang.bsky.social
@mreutter.bsky.social @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social [3/6]

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tspisak.bsky.social @tspisak.bsky.social · May 30

As many of you know, I’ve been fascinated by brain attractor dynamics lately.

Thrilled to share a new preprint on their link to orthogonal neural representations, co-authored with Karl Friston:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749
- with implications for both neuroscience & AI!

First in a series - stay tuned!

Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle

Attractor dynamics are a hallmark of many complex systems, including the brain. Understanding how such self-organizing dynamics emerge from first principles is crucial for advancing our understanding ...

arxiv.org

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SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · Jun 10

Patients' treatment expectations may crucially affect their treatment outcomes.☝️

Our new piece in "@jama.com Insights" explores how to help patients have a better experience and better outcomes with their treatments! 🤕

Read it here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · Jun 2

Chancengleichheit von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern hat die DFG als Ziel in ihrer Satzung verankert. Mit dem Monitoring stellen wir jährlich Statistiken bereit, die den Frauenanteil bei Antragstellung und -erfolg, Begutachtungen und DFG-Gremien abbilden. 1/2
www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Chancengleichheits-Monitoring

Das "Chancengleichheits-Monitoring" berichtet jährlich über die Beteiligung von Wissenschaftlerinnen an DFG-Projekten.

www.dfg.de

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Dan Feuerriegel @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social · May 27

New paper from the lab!!

We add to the (lack of) evidence for expectation effects in carefully-controlled predictive cueing designs.

doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

Led by Carla den Ouden and Máire Kashyap, collaborating with Morgan Kikkawa

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

Stimulus expectations are widely assumed to modulate the responsiveness of neurons in the visual system. However, there is currently a lack of clear evidence from electrophysiological studies to supp....

doi.org

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Center for Mind & Cognition @ Ruhr-Uni Bochum @mind-cognition-rub.bsky.social · May 26

One of this week's talks announced by the Center for Mind & Cognition:
📅May 28, 2025, 6pm CET: Karola Marky (Computer Science, Digital Sovereignty Lab, RUB): An Introduction Into Information Privacy
#computerscience #privacy #RuhrUniBochum

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Alfred Anwander @alfredanwander.bsky.social · May 15

#Evolution of #language revisited: Long arcuate fascicle was found in #chimpanzees using high-resolution diffusion MRI #tractography of animals that died naturally in the jungle.
Now in Nature Comm: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@ybecker.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social @taichimpproject.bsky.social

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Judith Holler @judithholler.bsky.social · May 12

New review out on facial signalling in conversation, making the argument that the notion of ‘speech acts’ is outdated due to its unimodal focus, especially in the light of the fundamental contributions of the face towards social action communication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Facial clues to conversational intentions

It has long been known that we use words to perform speech acts foundational to everyday conversation, such as requesting, informing, proposing, or co…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · May 9

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned
Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino

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