UofG School of Psychology & Neuroscience

UofG crows showing our incoming new students the values of hard work, focus and perseverance

Converting percepts into actions in the visual cortex and superior colliculus. at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Converting percepts into actions in the visual cortex and superior colliculus. at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

UK neuroscience graduates! PhD opportunity here at Glasgow SPN: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Closing date July 4

Want people to understand your academic work better? Answer these questions in your writing:

What are the motivations of this project? (Why do it?)

Who are you arguing against?

What alternatives are you rejecting and why?

What follows if you’re right?

These are also good questions for Q&A.

Please distribute: PhD Position in Visual Perception -- joint opportunity in Iceland and Switzerland #visionscience #cogsci #neuroskyence #psychscisky #phd #academia

We love a collaboration between our School and the Learning Scientist. Go have a read at an applied neuroscience perspective of stress and its impact on learning!

Congratulations to the new Dr Chris Turner! Well done to his supervisors too for supporting him all the way to the other side

Always great having such great visitors!

Hot off the press: provocative but plausible findings from SPN 😁 - "older adults are intrinsically motivated to do well on tasks whereas younger age groups perform optimally only after incentivisation"

A spatial code governs olfactory receptor choice and aligns sensory maps in the nose and brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651738v1

I just heard Peter Latham give a presentation on this terrific African summer school. 2/3rds students from Africa, 1/3rd from Europe/Asia, and the most exceptional faculty on the planet (like their new director, Adrienne Fairhall, just elected into the US National Academy). 🤩

I’m thrilled to announce that I will start as a presidential assistant professor in Neuroscience at the City U of Hong Kong in Jan 2026!
I have RA, PhD, and postdoc positions available! Come work with me on neural network models + experiments on human memory!
RT appreciated!
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Very lucky to have some posts to fill @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social. Come join the team.

Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283 University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...

Brain/behaviour people - come to beautiful Scotland - we are recruiting in psychology and neuroscience across all grades! Closes May 12. Details below, and please re-post 🙏

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

More about us here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/psyc...

#neuroskyence #neurojobs

Here's our article @braincomms.bsky.social

Practical Routes to Preregistration: A Guide to Enhanced Transparency and Rigour in Neuropsychological Research
@rjbinney.bsky.social @stephanierossit.bsky.social @neledemeyere.bsky.social @britishneuropsych.bsky.social

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Join us Wed 7 May for the 2nd Neurotechnology Seminar at @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social

Dr Ines Violante & Prof Simon Hanslmayr will explore brain stimulation & memory, with insights into future wearable tech for clinical use.

📍62 Hillhead St | 🕒 3–5pm | 🍷 drinks after!
#Neurotech #Memory

@UofGPsychneuro.bsky.social

Great productive initiative where we had an ECR writing day within the psychology school! Combined with a break in the middle to identify our strengths and weaknesses to identify collaboration opportunities.

Cutting international bachelor programs threatens psychological science » Eiko Fried Dutch universities decided to throw international bachelor programs under the bus to appease the government. This is a terrible idea.

eiko-fried.com/nl-psycholog...

Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems - Robert S. Chavez, Taylor D. Guthrie, Jack M. Kapustka, 2025 Knowing the similarities among others is critical for navigating our social environments and building relationships. However, people can evaluate the similarity...

Very proud to finally share our latest paper "Person Knowledge is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames within Separate Brain Systems," officially out at Psych Science.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283 University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...

We are hiring @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social with 5 posts including a teaching focused role so if you fancy joining our excellent team get applying by May 12th www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Computational Neuroscience, NeuroAI PhD at UCL at University College London on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Computational Neuroscience, NeuroAI PhD at UCL at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

Anyone looking for a PhD in NeuroAI (models of the visual system to spatial system)? @amansaleem.bsky.social and I are looking for someone to start in October. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Get in touch with either of us if you’ve got questions!

Synaptic plasticity rules driving representational shifting in the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience Madar et al. report that behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP), not spike-timing-dependent plasticity, explains heterogeneous place fields shifting in the hippocampus. The probability of BTS...

BTSP, but not STDP, can account for place field changes in hippocampus, out in Nature Neuroscience today:

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

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Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel, professor in cognitive psychology talking about spaced and retrieval practice #IATEFL2025

New preprint ✍️🚨

✨Ontogeny of tactile, vocal and kinship dynamics in rat pup huddling

-Huddle dynamics develop w/o kinship selectivity
-Vocal/internal-state quiets w/ huddling & kin/ touch in yng pups

tinyurl.com/y7vhkwjc

👏 @flor-bela.bsky.social @hughtakemoto.bsky.social @kinshiplab.bsky.social

Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

Amid the Trump admin's dismantling of the US scientific ecosystem, Nobel Prize-winner @ardemp.bskyverified.social writes on @cnn.com: "I’ve already been approached with an offer to relocate my lab to China, complete with a promise of 20 years of stable research funding." www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

Drawbacks to writing your own course book: you can make mistakes.

Upside: a student can let you know they think you’ve made a mistake and you can quickly update it.

Thank you to the student who let me know I mixed up a logit and probit link in an ordinal regression demo 🫡

Representing place locations and orientations in cognitive maps - Nature Reviews Psychology Human navigation involves encoding spatial relationships among places. In this Review, Mou examines the use of cognitive maps for navigation and the circumstances in which both place and orientation i...

Representing place locations and orientations in cognitive maps

Review by Weimin Mou

Web: go.nature.com/4lkRcCH
PDF: rdcu.be/egLln

What Adolescence gets right (and wrong) about teen boys’ brains It may make for a compelling drama, but young men’s minds are more complex, says one neuroscientist

I wrote an Article about the Netflix drama, Adolescence.

I’ll try to post the pdf because it’s behind a paywall (but you might be able read it for free below)

www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

Last week three of my students presented their dissertations at the @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social Undergraduate Conference. Very proud of their achievements and their growth in confidence in communicating their work.

Phase Precession Relative to Turning Angle in Theta‐Modulated Head Direction Cells Grid and place cells typically fire at progressively earlier phases within each cycle of the theta rhythm as rodents run across their firing fields, a phenomenon known as theta phase precession. Here...

New paper from Glasgow Psychology & Neuroscience! Phase precession relative to turning angle in theta-modulated head direction cells, Hippocampus doi.org/10.1002/hipo...