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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 22h

JEP: General; Psych Science; Nature Human Behaviour

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 1d

Let this be a motto for all of us, when we peer review:
“Review the manuscript in front of you, not the one you wish existed.”
@earlkmiller.bsky.social

JoCNForum @jocnforum.bsky.social · 2d

New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review"

doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Principles for proper peer review

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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 8d

I continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)

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Maria Wimber @marwimber.bsky.social · 13d

A very rich, comprehensive resource on multiple memory traces, covering parallel evidence in humans and other animals!

Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 13d

A memory can be represented at different levels of granularity, from highly specific to generalized.

Different representational formats of a memory can be used at different times or in different contexts, and draw on different neural representations.

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

OSF

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Chris Bird @chrismbird.bsky.social · Sep 4

📣 Helpful thread about a great paper alert!

Okay - I am biased, but I am super proud of this paper and @dkvarga.bsky.social has done a truly awesome job of running this project (3 separate fMRI studies!). Thanks also to our amazing colleagues for their support.

Dominika Varga @dkvarga.bsky.social · Sep 4

So happy to share our paper on the role of the hippocampus as a mismatch detector:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

We show that the hippocampus detects mismatches between ongoing experiences and episodic memories but not generalised schematic knowledge.

See 🧵for how we got here:
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫

I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏

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Anna Weinberg @annaweinberg.bsky.social · 15d

Delighted to share that we are currently hiring for a tenure-track position (open rank) in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at McGill University. Come join a great department! Link to apply: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill....

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John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social · 15d

Join us - hybrid event - 135 registrants - 10 speakers over two days

Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 15d

Day 1 of Amnesia and Identity workshop is tomorrow (24 Sept) at @stir.ac.uk (Pathfoot C22 + online).
Talks: aphantasia & amnesia, memory development, identity in amnesia, lesions & persons.
⏰ 14:00–18:00 (UK)
🔗 Full schedule + online link: placememory.net/events-2/#am...

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Maria Wimber @marwimber.bsky.social · 19d

Stratos’ poster on now!

Maria Wimber @marwimber.bsky.social · 22d

Gutted to miss #ICON2025! Judging by the flood of posts rolling in, it’s clearly THE place to be right now.

Stratos is there to represent the lab though! Swing by at poster P6.66 (😈?) to say hi & hear about our latest work, trying to measure directional plasticity in behaviour. Input very welcome!

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Maria Wimber @marwimber.bsky.social · 22d

Weirdly satisfying experience to use a hedge trimmer for the first time. Cut it all down. Highly recommend for anger management. #chainsawTherapy

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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 27d

Looking forward to #ICON2025 next week! We will have several presentations on mental imagery, reality monitoring and expectations:

To kick us off, on Tuesday at 15:30, Martha Cottam will present:

P2.12 | Presence Expectations Modulate the Neural Signatures of Content Prediction Errors

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Maria Wimber @marwimber.bsky.social · 22d

Gutted to miss #ICON2025! Judging by the flood of posts rolling in, it’s clearly THE place to be right now.

Stratos is there to represent the lab though! Swing by at poster P6.66 (😈?) to say hi & hear about our latest work, trying to measure directional plasticity in behaviour. Input very welcome!

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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · 27d

Looking forward to #ICON2025!

Apart from posters (updates coming), we’ll be at the “Sudden Learning Across Systems” symposium talking about factors behind solving visual disambiguation 👀, memory traces of one-shot perceptual learning and more.

Excited to share and get inspired by your work! 🚀

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Tobias Staudigl @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social · 23d

Also on the way to #ICON2025 in beautiful Porto?

Check the lab’s latest work:
@xiongbowu.bsky.social: Talk in SY16, Tuesday 9.00, room Boavista;
Aditya Chowdhury: Poster P1.11, Tuesday 10.45
@julia-sc.bsky.social: Poster P3.18, Wednesday 10.45
@tafgmcb.bsky.social: Poster 4.32, Wednesday 15.30

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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · 26d

New preprint! 🚨We discuss the long-term memory consequences of fast visual perceptual learning: "From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective"

It's so great to work with @jvoeller.bsky.social and the team! Congrats for your first author manuscript, Johannah!

Johannah Völler @jvoeller.bsky.social · 26d

👩‍💻 New preprint out (FIRST one of my PhD journey) with the incredible @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

"From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Johannah Völler @jvoeller.bsky.social · 26d

👩‍💻 New preprint out (FIRST one of my PhD journey) with the incredible @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

"From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Maria Wimber @marwimber.bsky.social · 28d

Traveling on from beautiful Switzerland to beautiful Edinburgh for #BACN25. Hope to see many of you tomorrow morning, for our symposium on neural re-use of resources for external & internal processing! With @rademaker.bsky.social @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @larsmuckli.bsky.social & Ed Silson

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Sep 8

Very much looking forward to #BACN25 in Edinburgh this week. We'll have five posters from the lab on the first day of conference, so come check them all out!

#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition

British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience @bacn.co.uk · Sep 6

#BACN25 is almost here! See you in Edinburgh on Thursday 11th!
www.bacn.co.uk/conferences

Current, Future and past meetings — BACN

Conferences

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Maria Wimber @marwimber.bsky.social · Sep 6

In Crans-Montana for the SPS conference, and will wake up to this view for the next 4 days… joie de vivre, I say.

Swiss alps at sunset, seen across lake in Crans-Montana.

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · Aug 28

New opinion piece!

@amirtal.bsky.social and I argue that "wake reactivation" is not a scientifically useful construct; It encompasses nonconscious & conscious processes w/ varying levels of elaboration & diverging consequences, leading to conflicting results

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lgli4sIRvW-LQ

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Eitan Schechtman @eitans.bsky.social · Aug 29

For >5 years, the International Sleep Replay Workshops (ISRW) have brought together scientists studying sleep & memory. The next ISRW will be on March 6th in Vancouver (before @cogneuronews.bsky.social). Follow the link for details and to join the mailing list.
isrw.bio.uci.edu

Pls repost! #sleep

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Maria Wimber @marwimber.bsky.social · Sep 3

Grant submitted - first as PI in quite a while. Feels good to be past the writer’s block & 100% excited about an idea!

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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · Apr 21

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Aug 22

Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social

#compneuro #neuroskyence

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Replay in the human visual cortex during brief task pauses is linked to implicit learning of successor representations | PNAS

Humans can implicitly learn about multistep sequential relationships between events in the environment from their statistical co-occurrence. Theore...

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Aug 27

Deadline for these jobs is 5th September, so you've got until next week on Friday to apply! Come join us in beautiful York, complete with Minsters, snickelways, fMRI and OPMs - what more could you ask for?!

#neuroskyence #neurojobs #psychscisky #cognition #psychjobs

Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Jul 21

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Jobs - The University of York

jobs.york.ac.uk

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