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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · 9d

A few weeks ago, utbildningsradio visited my lab to understand what we do and what it’s good for. Check out the result: youtu.be/1BbcqBywSdc?...

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 13d

Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all).

www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...

Title: Understanding Brain-Body Interactions to Advance Brain Health: A Workshop. Photo: picture of a transparent person with brain and nervous system illuminated.

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 16d

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Sep 5

My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight.

These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.

www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Emotion research has a communication conundrum

In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…

www.thetransmitter.org

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · 26d

I am curious, why do you think people would not consider hunger an “edge case”? I would argue that it can be triggered by external cues (not typically when internal signals signal fullness, but surely that’s also the case for eg happiness that is difficult to trigger externally while sad)?

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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · 28d

Excited to share my first postdoc project in collaboration with @jseubert.bsky.social and @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social , now published with @natcomms.nature.com, where we describe a potential mechanism for flavour integration in the insula. #NeuroSkyence #FlavourScience doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/10

Tastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula - Nature Communications

Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. This study shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion a...

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Jul 14

We found the opposite to be the case: a hungry state enhanced our participants' ability to detect deviant notes in food stimuli. We interpret this as a potential preparatory mechanism for food intake that facilitates discrimination of food and nonfood odor. (3/3)

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Jul 14

In our new paper, @leonieseidel.bsky.social @kkilteni.bsky.social @odorjohan.bsky.social and I asked whether hunger would shift perceptual attention for odor mixtures away from potential indicators of contamination and instead emphasize their food-like components. (2/3)

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Jul 14

🍲🍲 NEW PAPER 🍰🍰
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Food choices are always a tradeoff between the benefits of energy intake and the risk of accidental contamination. The relative importance of these two varies depending on a person's current metabolic need. (1/3)

Sensitivity to contamination of food odours depends on hunger and attention

Detection of deviant notes in food odours protects against accidental contaminant ingestion, but this risk needs to be weighed against the potential c…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · Jan 23

What's the right way to think about modularity in the brain? This devilish 😈 question is a big part of my research now, and it started with this paper with @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social, finally published after the first preprint in 2021! 🤖🧠🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints - Nature Communications

The extent to which structural modularity in neural networks ensures functional specialization remains unclear. Here the authors show that specialization can emerge in neural modules placed under reso...

www.nature.com

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Jan 24

Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula...

The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Jan 11

Only now saw this-congrats Siri!!!

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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · Jan 7

PREPRINT ALERT!
Come and check out our (with @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social and @jseubert.bsky.social) on how overlapping insular codes of retronasal odours and their associated tastes!
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jan 6

Tastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.06.631354v1

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Nov 26

And I look forward to hearing your thoughts 🙂

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Nov 26

Happy to hear!

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Nov 26

If you are thinking that smell and taste probably grasp bodily information, then I think that might be true. Can’t say much about touch :)

Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Nov 26

This has been such a pleasure to work on and make new friends across the senses! In this review, we compare the evidence for perceptual penetrability across the senses-that is, to what extent cognition shapes experience as opposed to biasing it. High in olfaction, low in gustation is my take home :)

Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · Nov 19

Evaluating cognitive penetrability of perception across the senses

Review by Petra Vetter, Stephanie Badde, Elisa Raffaella Ferrè, Janina Seubert & Barbara Shinn-Cunningham

Web: go.nature.com/4hOrQeV
PDF: rdcu.be/d0K0k

#psychology #psychscisky #cogpsy

Flow diagram showing how cognition (red boxes) can influence scene and object perception (green and purple boxes) in audition, vision, pain and haptic perception (arising from a combination of tactile perception and proprioception), olfaction and gustation (with flavour arising from both smell and taste). Cognition also influences tactile perception via changes in body representations (blue box). By contrast, proprioception and vestibular processing (grey) are largely unaffected by cognition.

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Nov 21

🌶️🌶️JOB ALERT 🌶️🌶️Nutrilab@KI is recruiting a postdoc to join the team working on ERC StG OLFLINK. ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... suits a candidate with a cog neuro background, expertise in perception/motivation and interest in gut-brain interactions and food consumption. Come join us in Stockholm!

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Nov 4

Here is the link to the ad in English: ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Nutritional Neuroscience

Do you want to contribute to better health for all? At the Nutritional Neuroscience Group within the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, we study the perceptual experiences associated with food consu

ki.varbi.com

Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Nov 3

New preprint with @agustation.bsky.social and @odorjohan.bsky.social on contributions of perception and metabolic state to flavor pleasantness perception. We find additive instead of the expected interactive effects-also, mere exposure arises rapidly and obscures these effects if not accounted for 🍔

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Nov 2

Dissociable effects of hunger, exposure and sensory overlap on flavour liking: http://osf.io/ucbn4/

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Nov 3

Aw, thanks Siri!

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Nov 1

🍔🍕Job Alert 🍩🍭 Nutrilab@KI is now recruiting a postdoc to join our team working on ERC StG OLFLINK. ki.varbi.com/se/what:job/... suits candidates with a cog neuro background and an interest in gut-brain interactions and food perception! Come join us in lovely Stockholm

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · Oct 26

For years we have tended to discount activation signals in the white matter as artifact. It's becoming clear now that this was a mistake - white matter shows stimulus-driven activation similar (though much smaller) to gray matter. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37824529/

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Putu Agus Khorisantono @agustation.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hey #NeuroSky, we have published the paper from my PhD work, where we show that the orbitofrontal cortex encodes the texture and reward value of fat. Decoding strength is correlated with high fat consumption during a real-life eating task.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
#neuroscience #PsychSciSky

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Janina Seubert @jseubert.bsky.social · Oct 9

We are a fun and collaborative little team of 4 and there are opportunities to also work with neuroimaging or get training in data analysis or other research methods according to your interest.