Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’ From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Really delighted to share our new article in Current Biology showing that the cingulate-to-dorsolateral prefrontal pathway is not involved in trial-to-trial short-term adaptation but rather in sustained motivational control.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Unraveling the roles of spatial working memory sustained and selective neurons in prefrontal cortex - Communications Biology Neural variability and phase-locking analyses reveal that both working memory-sustained and working memory-selective neurons in the macaque prefrontal cortex contribute to spatial working memory perfo...

Unraveling the roles of spatial working memory sustained and selective neurons in prefrontal cortex
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Rise and spread of a social tradition of interspecies abduction Goldsborough and colleagues report the origin and spread of a cultural tradition of interspecies abduction of infant howler monkeys by male white-faced capuchin monkeys in the wild.

In a recent correspondence, @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social and colleagues report the origin and spread of a cultural tradition of interspecies abduction of infant howler monkeys by male white-faced capuchin monkeys in the wild. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Very much looking forward to the talks-and-discussion today around linking brain & behaviour, with Prof. Susan Healy and Prof. Robert Barton 🧠🦜🐒🐭🤩! It's on Crowdcast www.crowdcast.io/c/linking-br... –everyone welcome to come on stage and discuss.
Thanks to @worldwideneuro.bsky.social for hosting us.

Only few more days to submit your abstract for those two conferences sbdm2025.github.io and sbdm2025.github.io/satellite.html ... Join us in June in Lyon :-)

Congrats to David Attali, Jean Francois Aubry and Marion Plaze for their new TUS study www.brainstimjrnl.com/action/showP...

Two really cool meetings for you in Lyon in June ! sbdm2025.github.io and sbdm2025.github.io/satellite.html. We are looking forward to seeing you :-)

Distributed Activity in the Medial Frontal Cortex Predicts Self-Initiated Action Research indicates that significant damage to primates’ medial frontal cortex (MFC) can impede action initiation when anticipating rewards. However, the specific roles within the MFC related to self-g...

Cool new study from Pierre Pouget's lab : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Motivational control is implemented by a cingulo-prefrontal pathway The neuronal connections between the midcingulate cortex (MCC) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) are associated with multiple cognitive functions, including rapid and long-term adaptive p...

Awesome study by Clemence Gandaux, Charlie Wilson and Manu Procyk on network specific activation in the prefrontal cortex and its impact on motivation doi.org/10.1101/2025... doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Still time to submit your abstract for the 14th Primate Neurobiology Meeting in Goettingen: www.dpz.eu/en/events/pn...

A nice and important practical guide to transcranial ultrasonic stimulation : doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal–prefrontal circuit - Nature Neuroscience The brain uses different valuation schemes across contexts. Elston and Wallis show this is supported by hippocampal encoding of context that is broadcast to prefrontal value subcircuits via theta sync...

Nature Neuroscience

Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal–prefrontal circuit

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Redundant, weakly connected prefrontal hemispheres balance precision and capacity in spatial working memory How the prefrontal hemispheres coordinate to adapt to spatial working memory (WM) demands remains an open question. Recently, two models have been proposed: A specialized model, where each hemisphere governs contralateral behavior, and a redundant model, where both hemispheres equally guide behavior in the full visual space. To explore these alternatives, we analyzed simultaneous bilateral prefrontal cortex recordings from three macaque monkeys performing a visuo-spatial WM task. Each hemisphere represented targets across the full visual field and equally predicted behavioral imprecisions. Furthermore, memory errors were weakly correlated between hemispheres, suggesting that redundant, weakly coupled prefrontal hemispheres support spatial WM. Attractor model simulations showed that the hemispheric redundancy improved precision in simple tasks, whereas weak inter-hemispheric coupling allowed for specialized hemispheres in complex tasks. This interhemispheric architecture reconciles previous findings thought to support distinct models into a unified architecture, providing a versatile interhemispheric architecture that adapts to varying cognitive demands. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

Even at the highest levels of cortex, there is some independence between the cerebral hemispheres requiring their coordination.
Redundant, weakly connected prefrontal hemispheres balance precision and capacity in spatial working memory
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Exciting new work by @kentaro-miyamoto.bsky.social on how we can use our own metacognition to understand some, but not all ,other people!

Open letter of psychologists and neuroscientists for peace in the Middle East We, psychologists and neuroscientists from around the world, call the international community to urgently put pressure towards an immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, to demand that t...

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Foraging conference REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN, Abstract submission for posters also! !! Registrations will stop on November 15 !! !! Deadline for abstract poster submission: postponed to November 8 !!

Only few more days to submit your abstract for the amazing conference on foraging organized by Emmanuel Procyk and Ilya Monosov sites.google.com/view/foragin...

An opportunity to work with the splendid Daniel Yon (and his acolytes, including me).

New perspective in @natrevpsych.bsky.social: human intelligence is a matter of scale of information processing, not genetic changes to one domain. Implications for AI, evolution, and development. - with
@cantlonlab.bsky.social
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The meso-connectomes of mouse, marmoset, and macaque: network organization and the emergence of higher cognition Abstract. The recent publications of the inter-areal connectomes for mouse, marmoset, and macaque cortex have allowed deeper comparisons across rodent vs.

The meso-connectomes of mouse, marmoset, and macaque: network organization and the emergence of higher cognition
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Decision-making shapes dynamic inter-areal communication within macaque ventral frontal cortex Stoll and Rudebeck report spatially and temporally specific patterns of communication between populations of neurons in distinct subdivisions of ventral frontal cortex in macaques performing a two-cho...

Out today, Fred Stoll shows that there are unique patterns of communication between subdivisions of ventral PFC during decision making. Importantly, these patterns are spatially and temporally specific. Check it out www.cell.com/current-biol...

A geometrical solution underlies general neural principle for serial ordering - Nature Communications How the brain sequentially encodes knowledge is not fully understood. Here authors propose a geometric framework for the elusive neural principles of serial reasoning and sequence encoding. Neural rep...

A geometrical solution underlies general neural principle for serial ordering
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Maintenance and transformation of representational formats during working memory prioritization - Nature Communications How prioritization affects the format of visual working memory representations is currently not understood. Analyzing iEEG recordings in epilepsy patients, the authors demonstrate the critical role of...

More evidence for the role of beta in working memory
Maintenance and transformation of representational formats during working memory prioritization
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Many, many years of hard work by Atsushi Fujimoto and Catherine Elorette and our awake behaving NHP study is finally seeing the light of day. All work done in collaboration with @russbeneuro.bsky.social at NKI.

🧪 New paper! science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you are new to Bluesky or just checking back in, you might find my list of Brain and Mind researchers useful! bsky.app/profile/did:... also check out #neuroskyence!

Research Associate - College of Life and Environmental Sciences - 104433 - Grade 6 The role is to provide Research Assistant services to Dr Jo Cutler for her projects on social decision-making and information seeking. Tasks include helping with participant recruitment and testing, c...

🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟

I'm looking for an RA to support new projects
@thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making inc. fMRI and MEG 🧠

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Deadline: 24th September ⏳

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Information search under uncertainty across transdiagnostic psychopathology and healthy ageing Translational Psychiatry - Information search under uncertainty across transdiagnostic psychopathology and healthy ageing

Reduced confidence associated with aging increases information seeking under uncertainty, whereas confidence alterations associated with symptoms of psychopathology do not. Out now w/ Greta Mohr & @robince.bsky.social. #neuroskyence #compneuro #PsychSciSky: rdcu.be/dSPdz