Hot off the "reels"! The keynote talk by Peter Hagoort, as well as award talks by @theamygdaloid.bsky.social, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @actlab.bsky.social
All up on our YouTube channel now! Check them out:
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#CNS2026 #neuroscience
We dedicate this paper to Jonny Smallwood (1975-2025), who was instrumental in this project from inception to submission.
Jonny thank you for your mentorship & you are dearly missed!
Environmental context can shape how our brains function! 🌟New work🌟 led by all-stars @niaberrian.bsky.social and @monicarosenb.bsky.social shows that environmental exposures in youth are reflected in brain networks that keep our attention focused! 🧠🌲
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devpsy #neuroimaging
New preprint out! We show that the exposome and attention-related brain networks jointly predict attention problems in early adolescence—highlighting how environment and brain function have shared and unique associations with reported attention problems. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Attention fluctuates over time and across contexts—how is this reflected in the brain?🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we show that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects changes in attention. Out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The CANDLab at Yale is hiring a new full-time research assistant! Excellent opportunity to gain post-bacc experience before applying to PhD programs in child and adolescent clinical psychology and neuroscience. 🧠 candlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/YaleCANDLab_RA_2026.pdf
Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7
Congratulations @monicarosenb.bsky.social on your Young Investigator Award! Join us now for her #CNS2026 award talk, about neural signatures of sustained attention, with intro by @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social
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HUGE congratulations to all the brilliant winners & especially to @esfinn.bsky.social & @ycleong.bsky.social for leading absolutely transformational work & being all around good people & friends.
An exciting new Special Issue on Diffusion MRI at Imaging Neuroscience!
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I'm going to present our latest memory model that learns causal inference during narrative comprehension! Stop by the poster on Monday to chat about causality, memory, brain🧠, and AI🤖!
#sfn2025 #sfn25
Interested in how the brain prepares for upcoming tasks? We trained a monkey on “6” different cognitive tasks and recorded prefrontal cortical activity. We examined the neural geometry and dynamics during task preparation. Come check out our poster on SUNDAY(Nov 16) from 1-5 PM!
@hayoungsong.bsky.social has new modeling work explaining these effects! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hidden Markov Models
Speaking of HMMs, really enjoyed this paper on dynamics underlying resting state and other conditions. The idea of a baseline state from which excursions lead to more integrated states is really interesting.
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#neuroskyence
Representation of goal activation in working memory as a function of participant motivation. According to the goal competition hypothesis, goal activation in working memory is influenced not only by cognitive control but also by the level of associated benefits. A goal with little or no benefit (neutral) will be weakly activated in working memory compared to conditions involving incentives (penalty avoidance, reward seeking, or the combination of both). It can be assumed that the combination of reward and penalty leads to stronger goal activation than penalty alone, potentially explaining the higher number of no-go errors observed in the penalty-only condition.
1/ To reduce distraction and boost focus, nothing works better than linking performance to rewards 💰 But what about focusing to avoid penalties? Turns out — it works too… just not as much as combining both!
Check out our new preprint 👇
w/ Ed Vogel and @monicarosenb.bsky.social
Thank you Taraz, that is so kind!!
Thank you Rod! 🙏
:)) thanks Laurel!
Thank you so much Dylan!
🏆 #CNS2026 Young Investigator Award Winners 🏆
Congratulations to Monica Rosenberg and Samuel D. McDougle, recipients of the 2026 Young Investigator Award! 🎉
We look forward to their award lectures at the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada! 🇨🇦✨
@cogneuronews.bsky.social
Thank you!!
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maybe a slide swap?!
Thank you!!! So grateful :)
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1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.
Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬?
We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do!
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇