Working Memory Working Memory provides a comprehensive examination of the neural basis of working memory, defined as the cognitive ability to maintain information ov

Very excited to announce that my textbook on “Working Memory” is now available for pre-order!
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A mathematical theory of evolution for self-designing AIs As artificial intelligence systems (AIs) become increasingly produced by recursive self-improvement, a form of evolution may emerge, with the traits of AI systems shaped by the success of earlier AIs ...

New preprint, on a very different topic: a mathematical theory of evolution for self-designing AI.

AI is increasingly designed by AI. What systems might emerge after generations of self-designing AIs competing for computing resources? ↓

arxiv.org/abs/2604.05142

Sadly, applications to the Advanced Python summer school have dropped significantly over the past 2 years.

Plus, there'll be no external funding for the 1st time in *17 years*.

Likely all because of GenAI - but programming skills still matter🔥

Deadline May 3, please help by sharing:
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“The reason, according to the study, is that women have almost five times the amount of childcare responsibilities that men have.”

How do humans adapt their behavior in natural, uncertain environments? Open PhD position in the collaborative DFG Excellence Cluster “The Adaptive Mind” (theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de)
Apply: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

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Our new paper on how pinniped (seal and sea lion) brains evolved to unlock vocal plasticity is this week's @science.org cover.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Computational Neuroscience: Vision Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

Application deadline coming up in a few weeks for anyone interested. And much thanks to our guest speakers for agreeing to visit and to hang out! meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels:

www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a...

Deadline: May 4th, 2026

Reporter, Nature News Job Title: Reporter, Nature Location: Washington DC or New York (Hybrid Working Model) Application Deadline: March 27, 2026 About Springer Nature Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of re...

JOB OPENING! If you want to work as a reporter with Nature's US news team, this is a VERY RARE opportunity. The beat is physical sciences/energy & environment/technology. DC or NYC location. Deadline 3/27. Join our awesome team! #journojobs

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Towards gender equality in scientific organizations: assessment and recommendations - International Science Council Academies of science, medicine and engineering, along with international scientific unions, play an important role in shaping scientific agendas, recognizing scientific excellence, and advising policy...

Positive news is that progress in gender equality is real. But as someone looking back on years of single parenting (and the sneaking cumulative effects that has on a CV) this strongly resonates: “Women are … 4.5 times more likely to miss opportunities due to care responsibilities”.

Here’s to Joey finding our preprint on biorxiv already before I saw the email it had successfully uploaded 🥂Tweeprint (/blueprint) will follow soon. With @amit-rawal.bsky.social and @mjwolff.bsky.social

**Postdoc position in human category learning**

@thecharleywu.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and I are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead a joint project on human category learning at the Centre for Cognitive Science @tuda.bsky.social.

www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

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/

Recent work has shown how vulnerable online survey research is to LLMs. Motivated by this, we examined our online Posner cueing data from Prolific. It's concerning. We now must carefully consider when (or whether?) online behavioral data can be trusted.
see our comment:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

NSD-synthetic, the out-of-distribution companion dataset of NSD consisting of 7T fMRI responses to 284 artificial images, is now published.

#NeuroAI #CompNeuro #neuroscience #AI

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

🚨Four postdoc positions at the #ReasonableAI excellence cluster @tuda.bsky.social!
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We're hiring! This is a unique opportunity to translate our understanding of neural computation - from circuit-level mechanisms to computational principles - into the human brain, through the establishment of cutting-edge human neural recording capabilities with collaborators in London and abroad.

We’re hiring a Group Leader!

Join us to lead a transformative initiative in human systems neuroscience.

Find out more and apply ⤵️

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Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com!

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

We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks.

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New preprint with @SamJung @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Here we uncover what might be driving the “meaningfulness benefit” in visual working memory. Studies show that real objects are remembered better in VWM tasks than abstract stimuli. But why? 1/

The best part though: Working with amazing graduate student *Maria Servetnik* from our lab, who did all the heavy lifting. Not to mention lots of inspiration & input from @mjwolff.bsky.social. I'm am one very lucky PI 😊 n/n

Check out our *preprint* for some cool correlations with behavior (for foblique effect fans). For now, I’m just happy that these fun data are out in the world. It’s been a minute Chaipat Chunharas & I ventured to dissociate allocentric and retinocentric reference frames (7+ years ago?! 🤫)... 10/n

No matter the exact time point, no matter how we quantified the shift, no matter if we looked at decoding or at representational geometry ¬– the reference frame used by the brain to represent orientations was always smack dab in between retinocentric and allocentric 9/n

Well, throughout perception (when the orientation is on the screen) as well as the entire memory delay (the orientation is held in mind), we discovered a reference frame that is in between retinocentric and allocentric coordinates! 8/n

two german shepherds are laying on the floor in front of a fireplace . ALT: two german shepherds are laying on the floor in front of a fireplace .

Conversely, if representations are allocentric and anchored to the real world, no such shift should be observed. In other words: Cross-generalized decoding to the rescue! If you had to guess… What reference frame do you think visual cortex uses for visual processing? 7/n

The trick? If orientations are represented in a retinocentric reference frame, a decoder trained on head-upright trials would predict a 45º shift in decoded orientation when tested on head-tilted trials (after all, a vertical building becomes diagonal on the retina after head tilt). 6/n

Now, even if the pattern *completely shifts* with head tilt, standard (within time point) decoding can only ever infer the exact same label! After all, we as researchers do not know the underlying shift, only the orientation (and hence the label) that was on the screen. 5/n

We want to decode visual orientation from the EEG signal to uncover the reference frame used by the brain. But we have a problem… A decoder only learns the association between a label (e.g., 45º) and a pattern of brain activity. Presented with a new pattern of activity, the label is inferred. 4/n

Do visual parts of the brain represent visual information in an allocentric or retinocentric reference frame? We used a simple orientation recall task while measuring electroencephalography (EEG) signals from human visual cortex. People had their head upright 😀 or tilted 🫠! 3/n

Visual information in our environment is anchored to an allocentric reference frame – a tall building remains upright even when you tilt your head. But head tilt changes the retinal projection of the building from vertical to diagonal. The building is diagonal in a retinocentic reference frame. 2/n

a husky puppy is laying on the floor with its tongue out and wearing a blue collar . ALT: a husky puppy is laying on the floor with its tongue out and wearing a blue collar .

Here’s a thought that might make you tilt your head in curiosity: With every movement of your eyes, head, or body, the visual input to your eyes shifts! Nevertheless, it doesn't feel like the world does suddenly tilts sideways whenever you tilt your head. How can this be? TWEEPRINT ALERT! 🚨🧵 1/n