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Manuela Sellitto @manuelasellitto.bsky.social · 3d

Pavia!

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Manuela Sellitto @manuelasellitto.bsky.social · 3d

Frontiers in Neurology!

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Manuela Sellitto @manuelasellitto.bsky.social · 13d

It’s that time of the year! #ERN

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Manuela Sellitto @manuelasellitto.bsky.social · Sep 5

🧠 New publication out!
👁️‍🗨️ 🫀 In this perspective, we draw parallels with anosognosia
for hemiplegia, commonly seen in acute stroke patients, in the attempt to explain anosognosia for the illness in anorexia nervosa, based on recent
computational accounts

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Frontiers | The adamant adherence to a prior belief: the case of anosognosia in anorexia nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a complex psychiatric disorder marked by restrictive eating and distorted body image. Often, individuals with AN show a persistent d...

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Manuela Sellitto @manuelasellitto.bsky.social · Sep 4

Off to a great start! #FESN #Leipzig

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thalamus and consciousness: a systematic review on thalamic nuclei associated with consciousness
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#neuroscience

Frontiers | Thalamus and consciousness: a systematic review on thalamic nuclei associated with consciousness

IntroductionConsciousness relies on both cortical and subcortical structures and their feedforward and feedback pathways. Within this framework, the thalamus...

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 5

Do you Like our new BRNet logo 🎉

#BRNet2025

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Neil Bramley @neilbramley.bsky.social · Jun 24

Just out in Cognitive Psychology
Lossy encoding of distributions in judgment under uncertainty
By @tadegquillien.bsky.social , me & Chris Lucas

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We find people's 'best guesses' sneakily encode distribution information that guesser & others can reconstruct later

Lossy encoding of distributions in judgment under uncertainty

People often make judgments about uncertain facts and events, for example ‘Germany will win the world cup’. Judgment under uncertainty is often studie…

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Manuela Sellitto @manuelasellitto.bsky.social · Jun 24

Brilliant talk by Matthew Rushworth at the INS 2025

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 15

A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly.

https://go.nature.com/4jPup00

World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression ― and sing

Nature - Device translates thought to speech in real time.

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Manuela Sellitto @manuelasellitto.bsky.social · Jun 9

Sorry to hear that Claudio Luzzatti passed away. Another piece of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience is lost.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Feb 25

A new study reveals that we simplify decisions by storing key choices early and prioritizing critical points. These insights were uncovered through an analysis of London taxi drivers’ navigation strategies.

In @apnews.com: apnews.com/video/how-th...

In @pnas.org:: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Nature @nature.com · Feb 15

Use this form to tell us how the new US administration is affecting your research, or suggest future coverage

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Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature

Use this form to share information with Nature’s news team, or to make suggestions for future coverage.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Manuela Sellitto @manuelasellitto.bsky.social · Feb 3

#HELAU

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf @hhu.de · Feb 3

🎉 Guten Morgen, #HHU und #HELAU an alle Jeckinnen und Jecken!
Wir suchen euch! Wenn am 3. März der Rosenmontagszug durch Düsseldorf zieht, wird unsere Universität mit einem von Jacques Tilly gestalteten Wagen und einer Fußgruppe dabei sein: anlässlich des 60-jährigen Bestehens der HHU. 1/5

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Manuela Sellitto @manuelasellitto.bsky.social · Feb 2

It’s that time of the year:

Richard Dawkins - "Science. It works, Bitches."

YouTube video by We Fucking Love Atheism

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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Jan 28

The symposium “Metacognition and social cognition: common ground or false equivalence?” organised by @smfleming.bsky.social is about to start! With @mkwittmann.bsky.social @vhsouthgate.bsky.social @joebarnby.bsky.social #EWCN2025

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · Jan 12

We all know about inequalities in income & physical childcare but inequalities in cognitive load are often forgotten. This paper is on gender & the household, but there are many other cognitive load inequalities also in the office. Think of who does more mentorship link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cognitive household labor: gender disparities and consequences for maternal mental health and wellbeing - Archives of Women's Mental Health

Purpose Although the division of unpaid household labor has been studied as a driver of global gender inequity, the cognitive dimension of household labor—planning, anticipating, and delegating househ...

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Katerina Fotopoulou @katerinafoto.bsky.social · Jan 10

I am delighted this work by @gerardosalvato.bsky.social et al on the relationship between disturbances in the sense of body ownership & temperature regulation is finally published! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Here is a thread on the long, scientific whodunit 1/11

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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Jan 11

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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Jan 10

Cold hands, altered ownership? We link disturbed body ownership in stroke patients to reduced hand temperature and impaired thermoception. The right Insula & Parietal hubs are key players. We are excited to share our new findings
@naturecomms.bsky.social
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