What an amazing day! Thanks to everyone who helped to put it together! Below are a few pictures of our beautiful communities, by one of our photographers,
@n41c0.bsky.social

Last Friday, iBBA joined forces with ABC at the Brakke Grond in Amsterdam, for a vibrant day of talks, posters, and cross-disciplinary discussions. We celebrated the latest advances in brain, cognition, and behaviour research and promoted collaborations between scientists working at the VU and UvA.

Great start of the academic year last Thursday, with our first iBBA colloquium! Together with Leda Cosmides we learnt what it means to be rational and how to properly test for it. Great attendance and wonderful talk! Stay tuned for the next colloquium, info to follow soon ;)

Congratulations to all three for their brilliant and inspiring work advancing psychological and behavioural sciences!

We're thrilled to announce the winners of this first edition:
- Dr. Sisi Wang
- Assistant Professor Matthias Nau
- Assistant Professor Giuliana Spadaro

🌟 Exciting news from iBBA! 🌟

This year, we've launched the brand new "iBBA Recognition of Excellence Award", celebrating outstanding contributions to scientific knowledge in the field of Brain and Behavior by early-career researchers within iBBA.

Jelmer Borst and I are looking for a PhD candidate to build an EEG-based model of human working memory! This is a really cool project that I've wanted to kick off for a while, and I can't wait to see it happen. Please share and I'm happy to answer any Qs about the project!
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Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add

Talks:
• Dr. Sánchez-Fuenzalida: “Predictions, utility & visual illusions in subjective experience”
• Prof. Press: “Learning to perceive & perceiving to learn”
• Dr. van Holst: “Disadvantageous decision-making in gambling disorder”
• Dr. de Gee: “Noradrenaline & prior-belief updating across species”

We learned about measuring subjective experience in vision, using visual tasks to understand disorders like gambling addiction and OCD, the role of learning to predict in vision, and how neuromodulators like noradrenaline shape visual inference.

Huge thanks to everyone from VU & UvA who joined us! And especially to our speakers: Dr. Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida, Prof. Clare Press, Dr. Ruth van Holst, Dr. Jan Willem de Gee. And of course, our presenter Dr Lola Beerendonk.

We just wrapped up an amazing workshop: "Vision as Prediction: Learning, Action & Biases", organized by Dr. Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida & funded by iBBA.

To celebrate the defence of my PhD, and thanks to
@ibbamsterdam.bsky.social, I will host a symposium titled "Vision as prediction: learning, action, and biases" on June 6. Program, registration and more information here: bit.ly/43reOgR

📣 Vote now to support:
🔹 *Explore Your Brain* – by **Tieme Janssen, Nienke van Atteveldt & Funda Jelsma** (Education category)
🔹 *Digital biomarkers for stress* – by **Martin Gevonden, Cor Stoff & Eco de Geus** (Health category)

🗳️ Cast your vote for the VU nominees:
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🎉 Excited to share that iBBA researchers are finalists in the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award (AMSIA), which highlights the most impactful, research-based innovations in Amsterdam! 🧠💡

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We’re excited to share that the work of iBBA member Fenne Roefs, in collaboration with Prof. Chris Olivers, has made waves in the media! Their research aims to make our beaches safer by rethinking the design of beach flags— changes that could have a big impact. Curious? Dive into the story here:

Following our successful 2025 iBBA colloquium with Prof. Martin Rolfs, we’re thrilled to announce the next one on April 10th! The talk will be “Interoception and Cognition” by Prof. Catherine Tallon-Baudry, from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.
All details in the image below 👇

Excited to have Martin Rolfs @rolfslab.bsky.social with us today in Amsterdam to share his work on active vision at the #iBBAColloquium @ibbamsterdam.bsky.social!

A key conclusion: To understand perception, we need to embrace the study of action kinematics! www.nature.com/articles/s44...