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Nico Schuck

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Algorithms of the Mind. Cognitive Neuroscience Prof at Uni Hamburg. http://schucklab.gitlab.io/

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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...

www.pnas.org

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 1d

I am gonna take the option where I get more time to read, understand and write. maybe that AI can go to committee meetings for me?

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 12d

Great PhD opportunity with a dream team!

Laurence Hunt @lhuntneuro.bsky.social · 12d

Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry?

Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital:
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

Development of robust, single-subject markers of predictive inference for computational psychiatry

www.medsci.ox.ac.uk

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 14d

Ondrej is a great scientist and mentor - I highly recommend working with him!

Truly proud that Ondrej is the first faculty to come from our lab.

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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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 19d

wow, great, thank you!

Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 20d

gave it a quick run and got it up in no time. really amazing!

a few fixes are needed but not much. one issue: some of your publications were mixed into my list, I think from a csv file in the docker. having them on my CV looks fancy but I think I should take them out :)

thanks for sharing!

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 22d

looks super interesting!

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 27d

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896

I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Sep 8

New application cycle for graduate students open at the Max Planck School of Cognition, offering fully funded positions, a well structured training programme and lab rotations.

Max Planck School of Cognition @mps-cognition.bsky.social · Sep 4

The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools

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International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬:
🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0
🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Sep 5

🥳 🥳🥳 Congrats Mona!!

Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Sep 4

happy to share slides / material after we did it

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Sep 3

that's useful and even funny. thanks!

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Sep 3

I want to do a session on principles of designing scientific figures with my lab. Any recommendation for good online material? #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

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Isabelle Hoxha @isabellehoxha.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ever wondered why you keep going to that restaurant with stale fries? Is it because you went often in the past (perseveration) or because you remember past good experiences better (positivity bias)? Our study out in PNAS investigates the normative basis for these biases www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Evolving choice hysteresis in reinforcement learning: Comparing the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration | PNAS

The tendency to repeat past choices more often than expected from the history of outcomes has been repeatedly empirically observed in reinforcement...

www.pnas.org

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Aug 31

Go Nir! Excited to see where your journey takes you next.

Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Aug 29

Congrats Lilian! Exciting to have you around so close by Hamburg -- looking forward to our paths crossing soon!

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · Aug 29

👇 #SleepPeeps Please repost to help me spread the word on this study. This is a very big commitment compared to most "online" studies... but I know there are some good participants out there on the interweb who what to help! 🙂👇

Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our lab is starting a new study on dreaming
🚨GREAT NEWS!🚨: YOU may be eligible to participate!

If interested, follow this link to a screening survey: furman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#SleepPeeps #psychscisky #cogsci 🧠🟦

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Deng Pan @dengpan.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.

Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Aug 22

So nice to read some positive news about science funding here for a change. Congrats!

Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Aug 22

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...

www.pnas.org

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Erin Grant @eringrant.me · Aug 19

I’m recruiting committee members for the Technical Program Committee at #CCN2026.

Please apply if you want to help make submission, review & selection of contributed work (Extended Abstracts & Proceedings) more useful for everyone! 🌐

Helps to have: programming/communications/editorial experience.

Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 15

Fill out the form here to be involved in #CCN2026
tinyurl.com/ccn26committee

And definitely fill out the #CCN2025 feedback form!
tinyurl.com/ccn25partici...

CCN 2025 Participant Survey

❗ This is the general CCN post-conference survey. For the application form for positions on the committees at CCN 2026, please see the CCN 2026 Committee Application. Thank you for participating in C...

tinyurl.com

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · Aug 17

Not Yet AlphaFold for the Mind: Evaluating Centaur as a Synthetic Participant arxiv.org/abs/2508.078...

Not Yet AlphaFold for the Mind: Evaluating Centaur as a Synthetic Participant

Simulators have revolutionized scientific practice across the natural sciences. By generating data that reliably approximate real-world phenomena, they enable scientists to accelerate hypothesis testi...

arxiv.org

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Aug 12

Sad to miss #CCN2025! If you want to hear about we have been up to come check out lab posters

generalisation replay @fabianrenz.bsky.social

deep credit assignment through gradient descent @ShanyGrossman

rewards morphing space @nirmoneta.bsky.social

RL gone rouge @elbersgerd.bsky.social

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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · Aug 9

Hi, we will have three NeuroAI postdoc openings (3 years each, fully funded) to work with Sebastian Musslick (@musslick.bsky.social), Pascal Nieters and myself on task-switching, replay, and visual information routing.

Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!

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Laurence Hunt @lhuntneuro.bsky.social · Aug 2

Our new paper is out! When navigating through an environment, how do we combine our general sense of direction with known landmark states? To explore this, @denislan.bsky.social used a task that allowed subjects (or neural networks) to choose either their next action or next state at each step.

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Aug 1

How do humans navigate unfamiliar environments? @denislan.bsky.social @lhuntneuro.bsky.social @summerfieldlab.bsky.social show that humans & deep meta-learning networks combine ‘vector-based’ & ‘transition-based’ strategies for flexible navigation in similar ways @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/45uSwNm

Task design and experimental set-up. Top left: underlying structure of the 8 × 8 grid, unseen by participants. Every state is represented by an image of an object, and these objects and their positions change on every trial. Top right: schematic diagram of the ‘map reading’ phase of each trial. Participants see a top–down view of the grid with objects obscured and successively click on blue squares to reveal ‘landmark’ objects at the location. After 16 clicks have been completed, a yellow square appears. Clicking on the yellow square reveals the ‘goal’ object for the trial. Bottom: schematic diagram of the navigation phase of each trial. Participants start in a random, previously unobserved location and are tasked with navigating to the ‘goal’ object they had just learnt about (displayed at the top). They can navigate in two ways. First, they could choose a direction to travel in by clicking on the corresponding arrow (highlighted yellow). This is analogous to using a ‘vector-based’ strategy. Alternatively, they could choose an adjacent state to travel to by clicking on one of the associated images (displayed in a random order; highlighted blue). This corresponds to using a ‘transition-based’ navigation strategy.

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