Zahra Rezazadeh

The inferred value of unchosen options spreads to related items in memory Counterfactual thinking — considering what could have come of choosing the other path — can facilitate inference. Previous studies have demonstrated t…

📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social!

Does the value of an unchosen option — inferred through counterfactual reasoning — spread to related items in memory, similar to how the value of a chosen option — acquired through direct experience — does?

In short, yes!

🚀 New workshop before FENS in Barcelona!
Join the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Neuroscience of the Simons Foundation for a hands-on workshop on pynapple & NeMoS.
Learn to analyze and model neural data with open-source tools.
Accommodation & meals included.
Details ⬇️

BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.

You're still in time to apply to BAMB! and learn the art of modeling behavior with us! 🧠

The deadline is this Friday, March 6th.

Run! 🏃‍♂️💨

Apply here:
🔗 www.bambschool.org

Now published in Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social)!

Schulz-Hildebrandt, H. (2026). When purple perceived only at fixation: A fixation- and distance-dependent color illusion. Perception, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0301...

Why You Can’t Remember Being a Toddler This form of amnesia is almost universal, but has long been overlooked.

To get a better sense of precisely when #memories are formed and forgotten, Sarah Power @mpib-berlin.bsky.social built a media room where she observed 400 toddlers: "We've been very surprised at their ability to encode and retain these episodic-like memories." time.com/7380496/why-... @time.com

Come work with @tsawallis.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and myself! 3 yr Postdoc on category learning w/ structured, program-like representations. Funded by the www.theadaptivemind.de Excellence Cluster! Deadline is Mar 15th, details 👇 Please share widely 🙏

Cholinergic modulation of dopamine release drives effortful behaviour - Nature In the nucleus accumbens, acetylcholine boosts dopamine release to promote effortful behaviour.

Cholinergic modulation of dopamine release drives effortful behaviour. @natureportfolio.nature.com

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

Flyer for 2026 edition of the European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany.

The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026!

Deadline: 8 March 2026

www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/

🚨Four postdoc positions at the #ReasonableAI excellence cluster @tuda.bsky.social!
jobs.rhein-main-universitaeten.de/rmu/job/52370
Please share widely 🙏

Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience Summer school in Eresfjord, Norway (July 8th - 26th, 2024)

Applications are now open for the summer school: 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞

🧠 Apply before March 15: www.compneuronrsn.org

📍 Located in beautiful Eresfjord 🇳🇴
🗓️ Between July 6-24

Supported by the @kavlifoundation.org
In collaboration with @kavlintnu.bsky.social

Trainees: check out the Neurobiology of Cognition Gordon Research Seminar that is taking place this summer in New Hampshire. The theme is "Cells, Circuits, and Computation".
www.grc.org/neurobiology...

We review studies showing that when brain areas face similar computational demands in social and non-social context, they perform the same computations. We argue that exaptation (repurposing of traits for new functions) played a key role in brain evolution.

Possible to join online?

🚀 Exciting news! The 4th TWiML Workshop is coming soon
📅 March 6, 2026

Incredible speakers, insightful discussions, and great social moments ahead.
More details coming soon—save the date!

The research group “Sensory Dynamics and Behaviour” of Prof. Dr. Tobias Ackels at the Institute of Experimental Epilepsy and Cognition Research at the University Hospital Bonn invites applications for a position as: Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) The position is initially limited to three years (TV-L E13/100%), starting from April 2026 or as soon as possible.

Postdoc position in systems neuroscience!
Excited to recruit a postdoc for my lab at the University of Bonn.
🔬 In vivo physiology (Neuropixels, 2P/miniscope)
🐭 Head-fixed & freely moving behaviour
💡 Optogenetics/chemogenetics
⏳ Start: ASAP | Application deadline: 28.02.2026
More info below ⬇️

Please spread the word🔊My lab is looking to hire two international postdocs. If you want to do comp neuro, combine machine learning and awesome math to understand neural circuit activity, then come work with us! Bonn is such a cool place for neuroscience now, you don't want to miss out.

As the inner endless loop of "jingle bells" and "last Christmas" is gradually departing, 🚨 reminder about this funding opportunity for postdocs to transition to a PI role by Research Ireland👇

Computer scientist Yann LeCun: ‘Intelligence really is about learning’ The AI pioneer on stepping down from Meta, the limits of large language models — and the launch of his new start-up

Computer scientist Yann LeCun: „Intelligence is really the thing that we should have more of.“ With more intelligence, there’s less human suffering, more rational decisions, & more understanding of the world and the universe: “We suffer from stupidity.” FT
www.ft.com/content/e3c4...

The Reward Positivity signals a goal prediction error The Reward Positivity (RewP) is an electroencephalogram (EEG) feature that emerges following performance feedback and is commonly understood to index both positive and negative reward-prediction error (RPE+ and RPE−, respectively) signals. In contrast to this dominant perspective, we argue that the RewP is an independent EEG feature that selectively responds to positive RPE and is superimposed on a common background signal. We further propose that the RewP signals a goal prediction error: it is elicited by abstract signals instead of by hedonic 'rewards'. This goal prediction error appears to be produced by a critic-like architecture that is associated with the actor–critic framework in reinforcement learning. This perspective emphasizes the role of the RewP in goal attainment and cognitive control as opposed to being a simple indicator of reward receipt.

Online Now: The Reward Positivity signals a goal prediction error

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social.

If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs

Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

Modelling time-resolved electrophysiological data with Bayesian generalised additive multilevel models Providing utility functions for fitting Bayesian generalised additive multilevel models (BGAMMs) to time-resolved data (e.g., M/EEG, pupillometry, mouse-tracking, etc) and identifying clusters.

If you analyse time-resolved data (M/EEG, iEEG, pupillometry, force recordings…) and feel limited by cluster-based permutation tests (CBPTs); especially when trying to determine when an effect starts or ends; you may want to try our new R package: lnalborczyk.github.io/neurogam/
#rstats #brms #EEG

40 percent of MRI signals misinterpreted Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.

Samira Epp and Valentin Riedl show that #fMRI blood-flow signals are not a reliable indicator of #BrainEnergy use. Around 40% can oppose neuronal activity, challenging standard interpretations: go.tum.de/211216

#Neuroscience
@fau.de

📷G.Castrillon

We are hiring a new Ph. D. student on neuroimaging and/or computational modeling on motivation and emotion. Tübingen is a great place to pursue work on these topics!!

uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Here is the link to (freely) sign-up for our symposium!

Humans and Artificial Minds: Mutual influences, for better and for worse

www.eventbrite.com/e/humans-and...

🚨Friends, we’re happy to share that our book is available for pre-order! 🎉
We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience.
It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic.
Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif

My reviewing style has changed over time. Rather than litigate every little thing, and pushing my own ideas, I focus only on 2 things:
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?

Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.

🔈 Our edited volume "Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications", co-edited with @ulrichettinger.bsky.social and Bert Heinrichs, is out.

url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9P5mCROAEn...

#DecisionScience #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Philosophy

Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵

A line attractor maintains aggressiveness during feeding in “hangry” mice Aggression evolved to protect resources such as food from competitors, but animals must balance fighting and feeding so that they facilitate rather than hinder re-establishment of energy homeostasis. ...

The neuroscience of hanger: "When confronted with food and an intruder, hangry mice alternated between feeding and fighting" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#NeuroJobs