Medial temporal lobe encodes cognitive maps of real-world social networks | PNAS Humans routinely solve social problems by navigating densely interconnected networks—gossiping strategically, brokering across cliques, and coordin...

Now out in PNAS with @jaeyoungson.bsky.social, Alice Xia, @apaxon.bsky.social & @orielf.bsky.social. Medial temporal lobe encodes predictive representations of people's real-world social networks which afford them key advantages in social navigation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

Here's the team 🤗 (www.annaschroederlab.com/team)! Thanks for the support @erc.europa.eu, @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social. Group Photo: Carolin Bleese / LMU Faculty of Biology.

Transcranial ultrasound stimulation can reach deep brain regions such as the amygdala, modulate ongoing task-related activity, and bias emotional responses. Nice to see this impressive brainstim-MRI study from @mkflugge.bsky.social lab come together and glad to have been involved.

Symposium submissions are due tomorrow, March 31, 2026!

Anchoring the anchor: judgments of both items assimilate in item-based anchoring Anchoring is a prominent judgment bias which causes people’s estimates of uncertain quantities to assimilate towards recently encountered values. Here…

Out now in Cognitive Psychology, paper spearheaded by @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social showing that questions like "Does a torch cost more or less than a laptop?" can generate mutual anchoring effects: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Example images sketching research in the lab. Top left: MRS voxel locations in medial prefrontal cortex. Top right: EEG time-frequency representation during perceptual choice. Bottom left: screenshot from a foraging paradigm. Bottom right: Drug-induced changes in delay and effort discounting

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We have one postdoc and one PhD student position open in my lab (starting from Sept 2026), neuroscience of decision making and learning. Join us @hhu.de in gorgeous Düsseldorf!

For details please look here:

www.psychologie.hhu.de/en/research-...

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Contextual inference through flexible integration of environmental features and behavioural outcomes Author summary To behave flexibly, animals must determine which situation or context they are in, even when the information that defines that context is incomplete or no longer visible. This problem, ...

Huge congratulations to Jes (not on Bsky) for her paper in @plos.org Computational Biology! A really elegant modelling study on how the brain discovers hidden structure and uses it to guide behaviour. @uclnpp.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social 🧪 📈 🧠 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Poster tonight at #cosyne26 (1-079)!

@wanqingjiang.bsky.social & @noehamou.bsky.social show that mice learn hidden community structure in a 15-odour graph even when transition statistics are flat.

Fun collaboration with @saxelab.bsky.social that started with East London coffees ☕!

First Cosyne for the Mind Mechanisms lab!
We’re broadly interested in world and goal models in the PFC and temporal lobe. Come chat to @adamloydharris.bsky.social and Mingyu Zhu as they present some new findings tomorrow (Thursday) evening. #Cosyne2026 …🧵 1/6

Public communication alters private confidence Andreassen et al. demonstrate that confidence exhibited in public affects our private assessment of confidence.

How does uncertainty transmit from one head to another? Our new paper out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social reveals how public communication alters private confidence.

w/ Einar Andreassen & @cdfrith.bsky.social

@birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
@leverhulme.ac.uk

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How does the brain decide which mental strategy to use when inferring others' beliefs?

Excited to (finally!) see my first first-author paper out @natneuro.nature.com

Summary below 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro

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

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, March 13th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Leonie Koban giving a talk entitled "Social influences on drug and food craving: from behavior to brain signatures" In person or online.

Read more:
www.in.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/events

We used computational modeling to predict, trial-by-trial, the exact moments when learners updated a memory or created a new one.

We then asked what brain regions tracked the shift between these predicted operations.

Excited to share our latest work in @nature.com showing shared neural substrates for parenting and prosocial helping behavior. Full text available here: rdcu.be/e6PnY

The Journal of Neuroscience: 46 (8)

Very excited to share a Special Collection at the Journal of Neuroscience (@sfnjournals.bsky.social) - Central Questions for Social Neuroscience Research. This issue includes some of the latest perspectives on social neuroscience research. Please check it out!👇

www.jneurosci.org/content/46/8

Deciding for others alters metacognition leading to responsibility aversion Making decisions on behalf of other people reduces decision confidence, which leads to responsibility aversion.

Happy to share my first first-author paper, new in Science Advances: Deciding for others alters metacognition leading to responsibility aversion www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceAdvancesResearch @zne-uzh.bsky.social @econ.uzh.ch

Together with the European Social Club, the Society for Social Neuroscience is organizing a "Social brain networking event" during FENS forum fensforum.org, in Barcelona, Spain. It will be held at La Fuga, Consell de Cent 350, on the 7th of July from 7 pm.
@s4sn.bsky.social

S4SN 2026 Join S4SN 2026, August 23-26, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.

Join us in beautiful Montreal for the 2026 S4SN Conference (Aug 23–26)!

Share your latest research, spark new collaborations, and engage with a vibrant social neuroscience community!

Symposium proposals and individual abstract submissions are underway: event.fourwaves.com/s4sn2026/pages

Why do children struggle to recognise objects in cluttered scenes more than adults? Our new paper looks at the development of visual acuity and crowding across childhood, and the way the visual system fine tunes our ability to see detail: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application

🚨 JOB alert: 📢
We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia!
If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

Two side-by-side images depicting the nested hierarchical IPOMDP and the non-hierarchical x-IPOMDP mechanism.

What happens when we can't use recursive belief to compete? We can use anomaly detection instead!

Here, we (led by soon-to-be-Dr @nitalon.bsky.social ) devise a multi-agent account where compression & reward expectation are used to notice deception

jair.org/index.php/ja...

Very much looking forward to this talk and interesting chats!

Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences Nature Communications - Normative theory predicts that feedback should not affect decisions under risk, but past findings disagree. Here, the authors show that feedback shifts risk-taking by...

🧵 New paper in @NatureComms
Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences
Nasioulas, Potier, Cerrotti, Lebreton & me (2026)
Does feedback really improve risky decision-making? Short answer: no! it changes attitudes, not learning. 👇
rdcu.be/e0VcO

Join us at the Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School in picturesque Bad Bevensen for two weeks of intense exchange about Systems Neuroscience!
When: 26 July - 7 August
Where: Bad Bevensen, Germany
Application deadline: 28 February
More details here: www.dpz.eu/pcn2026

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, January 30th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Michael Browning giving a talk entitled "Mechanisms and actions of dopaminergic agonists in the treatment of depression"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

Stefano Palminteri – Medium Read writing from Stefano Palminteri on Medium. Behavioral and computational scientist interested in understanding how humans and machines make decisions and in the history and philosophy of science.

I’ve started posting on Medium, sharing pieces that sit between academic writing and a broader audience. Topics will likely include decision science, AI, and the history & philosophy of science. First article is up (link below).
medium.com/@stefano.pal...

#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺

This Friday, January 23rd, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Ayelet Landau giving a talk entitled "Rhythmic attention negotiates competition along the visual hierarchy"

In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event

We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered.

For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...

Exciting new work by @lspiering.bsky.social showing that people intentionally generate variability in their own behaviour to discern causal consequences in social interactions; because big variability makes cause-effect relationships detectable, while small variability gets lost in noise. 🅰️ ➡️ 🅱️

UCL researchers uncover distinct brain changes in Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementia UCL researchers have used advanced brain imaging to uncover the distinct brain changes between people with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, opening the door to more targeted treatments

Really excited to share first published paper of the year! Thank you to @uclbrainscience.bsky.social for highlighting: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc.... We found different organisational changes in Lewy body disease patients with dementia versus those with intact cognition, using structural gradients.