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Nicola Molinaro @nicolaml.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢 PhD opening @bcbl_ (San Sebastián, Spain)
Join our ERC project CORTICAL RHYTHMS 🧠 to study how brain rhythms shape second language learning (spoken & signed) with MEG/MRI.
📅 Start Jan 2026 | ⏳ Apply by Sept 15, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/bdwkumn3

PhD CANDIDATE POSITION – ERC ADVANCED GRANT PROJECT - CORTICAL RHYTHMS (Second Language Learning)

at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu

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Levi Kumle @levikumle.bsky.social · Jul 18

This project has only been possible through a real team effort!

In the same spirit, we hope these resources continue to grow, and we really welcome any feedback or contributions to help us improve and expand what we've shared.

Adaptive Behaviour & Cognition Lab @abclab.bsky.social · Jul 18

☁️ Thinking of moving your VR experiments online but not sure where to start? ☁️

We’ve put together a tutorial sharing what we’ve learned, including code and step-by-step practical notebooks.

osf.io/hax47_v1

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jul 15

#Attention modulates sensory contents of #WorkingMemory, but what about motor contents? @irenetxeberria.bsky.social &co show that brain representations of both sensory & motor contents of WM are modulated by attentional shifts, & are temporally uncoupled @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/46bUrY8

Time–frequency activity difference in informative vs. noninformative (neutral) trials in sensors contralateral to the first- and second-prioritized locations and actions. Left: Difference in time–frequency activity in occipital (PO7/PO8) channels contralateral to the first-prioritized location (top) and second-prioritized location (bottom) in informative trials vs. noninformative trials (expressed as a percentage). Right: Difference in time–frequency activity in central (C3/C4) channels contralateral to the first-prioritized action (top) and second-prioritized action (bottom) in informative trials vs. noninformative trials (expressed as a percentage).

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Irene Echeverria-Altuna @irenetxeberria.bsky.social · Jul 15

Looking for a summer read? Look no further! ☀️

Our most recent paper with Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social and @kianobre.bsky.social is out @plosbiology.org! 🪩

Sensory and motor working-memory contents are both prioritised dynamically, but their prioritisation can be temporally decoupled 🧠

Sensory and motor contents are prioritized dynamically in working memory

Attention flexibly modulates sensory contents in working memory, but the dynamics of motor content modulation in working memory remain unclear. This study shows that brain representations of both sens...

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Kaiki @kaikic.bsky.social · May 20

Excited to present my poster today at #VSS2025! Come by Banyan Breezeway this afternoon to explore how our brains learn patterns in time and space to guide attention. Big thanks to Irene (@irenetxeberria.bsky.social), William (@william-nm.bsky.social), Pranava, and Kia for making this work possible!

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · May 2

📢 New paper out in JoN [@sfnjournals.bsky.social]! With Larissa, Freek [@freekvanede.bsky.social], Kia [@brognition.bsky.social] and Sage [@dynacog-lab.bsky.social], we ask which and when WM contents get reselected after an interrupting external-attention task. 🧵 below (1|9) doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

Neural Dynamics of Reselecting Visual and Motor Contents in Working Memory after External Interference

In everyday tasks, we must often shift our focus away from internal representations held in working memory to engage with perceptual events in the external world. Here, we investigated how our interna...

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Mar 20

Explore the newly launched Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center, designed to help you navigate the field with news, expert insights and practical tools. The page also highlights job openings, seminars, and more:

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center

News, perspectives and resources to help navigate the early stages of your neuroscience career

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Dr. Mats W.J. van Es @matsvanes.bsky.social · Feb 24

What features are desirable for an (M/EEG) analysis toolbox?
✓ user friendly
✓ documentation
✓ computational efficiency
✓ analytic flexibility
✓ quality assurance
✓ reproducibility
Our osl-ephys toolbox paper is out now. Check it out!
bit.ly/osl-ephys-fr... @ajquinn.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social

Frontiers | osl-ephys: a Python toolbox for the analysis of electrophysiology data

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Adaptive Behaviour & Cognition Lab @abclab.bsky.social · Feb 28

Newest from the lab out now! ☀️

We explored how long-term memory contributes to naturalistic memory-guided behaviour – not because we have to, but because we choose to.

Find out more: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Long-term memory facilitates spontaneous memory usage through multiple pathways

Many natural behaviors require the flexible coordination of sampling sensory information from the external environment and the use of information from memory. Kumle et al. show that long-term memory s...

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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...

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Dani Gresch @danielagresch.bsky.social · Nov 13

📢 Check out our (Sage Boettcher, Chetan_Gohil, @freekvanede.bsky.social, Kia Nobre) latest publication in @PNASNews on the neural dynamics associated with shifting attention within vs. between external and internal attention. (🧵 below) (1|6) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2406061121

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Irene Echeverria-Altuna @irenetxeberria.bsky.social · Nov 27

First post on here to share our fresh-from-the-oven preprint showing the flexible and dynamic (yet, dissociable) nature of visual and motor working-memory content prioritisation 👀 🙌

With the brilliant Sage Boettcher, @freekvanede.bsky.social, and Kia Nobre ✨

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

Dynamic prioritisation of sensory and motor contents in working memory

Internal selective attention prioritises both sensory and motor contents in working memory to guide prospective behaviour. Prior research has shown how attention modulation of sensory contents is flex...

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