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Bernhard Pastötter @pastotter.bsky.social · 18h

Perception–Action Integration Is Linked to Posterior Alpha/Beta Desynchronization. Our EEG study out now and open access in @jocn.bsky.social.

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Perception–Action Integration Is Linked to Posterior Alpha/Beta Desynchronization

Abstract. Stimulus–response (S-R) bindings, which integrate sensory stimuli and motor responses into event files, are transient yet essential for adaptive behavior. This study investigated the EEG osc...

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 3d

doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Principles for proper peer review

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 3d

Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

Why I left academia and neuroscience

Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.

mikexcohen.substack.com

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Bernhard Pastötter @pastotter.bsky.social · 13d

Das ICAN der @unitrier.bsky.social präsentiert EEG, fNIRS und vieles mehr interessierten Kindern und Erwachsenen beim City Campus in Trier. Besucht uns gerne!

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TeaP 2026 @teap2026.bsky.social · Sep 9

📢 SAVE THE DATE for #TeaP2026 in Tübingen 😍 Symposium submissions open on October 1! 🎉 For details, check out our website: coms.app/teap26/ 👍🏼

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Nature @nature.com · Sep 5

It can take weeks to write a grant proposal, so how would it feel to have a machine reject it in seconds?

go.nature.com/42hLWrv

When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions

A Spanish foundation using an artificial-intelligence tool to screen grant applications says it makes the peer-review process more efficient, but other researchers say it’s a breakdown in trust.

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Maria Meier @mariame.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Young Scientist Retreat is the perfect event to get to know fellow PhD students and postdocs working in biopsychology and related fields. I highly recommend it! 👐

bioDGPS and DGPA @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social · Aug 28

Mark your calendars, early career scholars!! ⬇️

This year's Young Scientist Retreat #YSR2025 will take place in Hamburg from October 21 until October 24!

Lab visit & workshop topic/speaker info will be released soon, stay tuned 🔥

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Aug 24

Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
#publishers #retractions

Bar chart showing % of articles retracted, with expression of concern, or no action from different publishers. 100% no action from Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer; 100% retraction from Taylor and Francis.

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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · Aug 11

The emergence of NeuroAI: bridging neuroscience and artificial intelligence — a Comment article by Sadra Sadeh & Claudia Clopath

@sdrsd.bsky.social @clopathlab.bsky.social
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#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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

The emergence of NeuroAI: bridging neuroscience and artificial intelligence - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Neuroscience has inspired artificial intelligence (AI) for decades but, in recent years, AI tools have begun to revolutionize neuroscience research. The emerging field of NeuroAI has the potential to ...

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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · May 14

Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style?

In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · Aug 6

After you fall asleep in the sleep lab, we can decide what you dream about — as Karen Konkoly showed in her PhD work and just published in this new paper:
“Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences”
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Aug 5

2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:

Annual Meeting - Cognitive Neuroscience Society

March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster CNS 2026 Annual Meeting – March 7 – March 10, 2026 We invite you to join us at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2026 Annual Meeting, March...

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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Bernhard Pastötter @pastotter.bsky.social · Jun 18

🧠 Interested in EEG (and fNIRS) correlates of action control? Join our symposium and let's talk brains and bindings! 📅 Friday, 10:30–12:00 @pug2025.bsky.social #PuG2025

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Bernhard Pastötter @pastotter.bsky.social · Jun 17

Meta-analytic evidence for the complex mechanisms underlying congruency sequence effect: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Meta-analytic evidence for the complex mechanisms underlying congruency sequence effect - Psychological Research

Introduction The congruency sequence effect (CSE) refers to a reduction in the congruency effect after incongruent trials compared to congruent trials in a conflict-inducing task. There is an ongoing ...

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Sebastian Gluth @sgluth.bsky.social · Jun 4

Job altert: Postdoc position (100%, 2 yrs) in our lab (@cmdn-lab.bsky.social) in context with the DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating (www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/resea...).

We are looking for people with strong quantitative skills.

Info and application via: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

DFG Research Unit 5389

www.uni-hamburg.de

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Tobias Egner @tobiasegner.bsky.social · Jun 3

New modeling paper, spearheaded by Raphael Geddert and Seth Madlon-Kay, now out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: "Modeling of control over task switching and cross-task interference supports a two-dimensional model of cognitive stability and flexibility".
Free read link: rdcu.be/epatc

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zpid_jobs @zpidjobs.bsky.social · Jun 3

Universität Trier: Techn. Beschäftigte*r (m/w/d) im Psychophysischen Labor (n39/25) leibniz-psychology.org/produkte/job... #Stellenangebot

Trier: Techn. Beschäftigte*r (m/w/d) (n39/25)

Universität: Techn. Beschäftigte*r (m/w/d) im Psychophysischen Labor (n39/25)

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · May 30

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

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Dongyu Gong @dongyugong.bsky.social · May 20

First post on Bluesky! Check out our new paper (w/ @abclab.bsky.social @brognition.bsky.social) in Nature Communications @natcomms.bsky.social (featured in Editors' Highlights🌟)!

We investigated how attention operates differently within WM and LTM:

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

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Paul Frankland @franklandlab.bsky.social · May 14

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.

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A short thread follows for those interested.

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Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry

Nature - A study shows that loss of memory precision associated with systems consolidation can be explained by neurogenesis-dependent reorganization of engram circuitry within the hippocampus over...

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Sophie Herbst @herbstso.bsky.social · May 15

Episode II of how are durations stored in working memory:
Besides replicating our previous findings, we find that
alpha power reflects a universal signature of WM load and mediates recall precision, even for abstract information like duration
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🔽 co-authors below

Alpha power indexes working memory load for durations

Timing, that is estimating, comparing, or remembering how long events last, requires the temporary storage of durations. How durations are stored in working memory is unknown, despite the widely held ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Daniela Mier @danielamier.bsky.social · May 16

Still time to apply! 🎉
(and to become a DGPA member, if you're not already)

Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · May 12

Are you a DGPA member conducting outstanding research in biopsychology, psychophysiology, or neuroscience? Don’t miss the opportunity—apply now for the 2025 Early Career Award! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

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Bernhard Pastötter @pastotter.bsky.social · May 8

FYI: The manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 🥳 Big thanks to my collaborators, the reviewers, and everyone who supported this work!

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Jennifer Gonzalez @cultofpedagogy.bsky.social · Apr 27

How do we build more #retrievalpractice into our lessons? On the podcast, Dr. Pooja Agarwal (@retrievelearn.bsky.social), Dr. Janell Blunt, and Dr. Michelle Rivers share nine simple, easy, fun retrieval strategies that can be added to any lesson. www.cultofpedagogy.com/retrieval-in...

Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers | Cult of Pedagogy

These nine strategies make it quick, fun, and easy to build retrieval practice into any lesson.

www.cultofpedagogy.com

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