1/N: Dear cognitive map fans, I’d like to share a model I’ve been working on for a while (clearing backlog :). I show how a vector navigation architecture (VNA) and a “positional inference network” (PIN) can build Universal Cognitive Maps (UCMs) for abstract spaces.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧠 The Mind Meeting Series is back!
Organized by us & Bicanski Lab, featuring leading scientists in cognitive and computational neuroscience.

Our first speaker is @lukaskunz.bsky.social (University Hospital Bonn).

🗓 February 12 | 3:00 PM
📍 In person (Zoom available)

We look forward to seeing you!

A Passage of Time Signal in the Human Brain In a dense-sampling resting–state functional magnetic resonance imaging study, Wang et al. (2025) recorded two individuals’ functional connectivity patterns over 30 consecutive days to find a marker o...

Check out our commentary on a recent paper arguing that neural activity in the (lateral) entorhinal cortex intrinsically drifts over a month-long period in humans.

With @virginievanw.bsky.social @vigano.bsky.social and Raphaël Bordas.

www.eneuro.org/content/13/1...

Now out in iScience: Alpha power indexes working memory load for durations

How does the brain store 'durations' in working memory?

👇👇👇

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Collaborative effort between @brainthemind.bsky.social and MNE-Python/INRIA.

The effects of task similarity during representation learning in brains and neural networks Nature Communications - Here, the authors show learning tasks with similar structures can initially cause interference and slow down learning, but both the brain and artificial networks gradually...

Our new paper, now published in @natcomms.nature.com , asks a simple question: when two tasks share a common structure, does the brain learn them more efficiently? Surprisingly, this was not the case. Thread below (1/7)
rdcu.be/eSwvU

Impact of Task Similarity and Training Regimes on Cognitive Transfer and Interference Learning depends not only on the content of what we learn, but also on how we learn and on how experiences are structured over time. To investigate how task similarity and training regime interact dur...

🚨 New preprint! Impact of Task Similarity and Training Regimes on Cognitive Transfer and Interference 🧠

We compare humans and neural networks in a learning task, showing how training regime and task similarity interact to drive transfer or interference.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com, we show how cognitive maps in the hippocampal system could solve the general problem of representing and relating multiple alternative action plans. 
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

With @doellerlab.bsky.social, Patrick Haggard, @vigano.bsky.social, Daniel Reznik

Super useful, thank you! Could you please add me as well?

New paper out with Rena Bayramova, Christian Doeller, and Roberto Bottini on the link between spontaneous eye movements and the representational geometries of conceptual spaces during verbal fluency tasks doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Happy to share the results of a new exp done in collaboration with Rena Bayramova and Christian Doeller at MPI_CBS, and Roberto Bottini at CIMeC/UniTrento, now out in Nat Comms :)
“Mental search of concepts is supported by egocentric vector representations and restructured grid maps” rdcu.be/ds67W