Next guest in our lecture series #caiantalks is Emmanouil (Manos) Konstantinidis ( @warwickuni.bsky.social ), who will speak on "Sources of information and confidence in experiential risky choice" next Wednesday (19/11/2025).

👉Visit our website for more information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en

📆Save the date: new lecture series

[1/4] This Wednesday, October 29 at 1 p.m., we are launching a new, hybrid series of guest talks organized the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) in Bonn.

📢📄New preprint: 94 empirical benchmarks for associative learning models.

A consortium of 21 learning experts surveyed the literature and expert community for robust empirical phenomena, which we graded by reproducibility and generality.

📢Publishing alert: New theory paper out on experiment-based calibration: formal model, relation to criterion validity, role of confounds, and data-generation model.

#mathematicalpsychology #calibration #simulation

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 Job alert: We are looking to hire a student research assistant for programming work in Java in Bonn. Prior experience with Spring Boot is desired. Deadline: October 5, 2025. Read the full job description and how to sumbit your application here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...

Just posted with @serenxia.bsky.social and @pharmacopsychology.bsky.social : a systematic review of pharmacological effects on human aversive memory. We searched data bases for 215 candidate drugs and summarise the evidence from 100 studies on 36 compounds following #PRISMA2020 protocol.

#bignews: @unibonn.bsky.social now has a Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience and it is already growing! Welcome to Bonn, Professor Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! New #caian website and more updates will follow within the next few weeks.

www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/news

👋 Our lab is hiring: we are currently recruiting for at least two more student research assistants for programming and VR studies!

🔎 Find out more about requirements and deadlines here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/jobs

📢We are looking to hire a PhD student at @unibonn.bsky.social to investigate the cognitive mechanisms of human decision-making under threat in #VR.
Apply by June 15.

More information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...

#vrthreat #PhDposition #jobalert #researchjob #neuroscience #psychology

New from the lab with J. Brochard & P. Dayan: Theoretical review on #criticalintelligence: How to make rapid decisions with utmost precision when under threat. We identify computational challenges, candidate solutions & cognitive experiments to disambiguate them www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New from the lab: comparing CR in human Pavlovian reward conditioning/retention over 7 days across 2 samples. Bradycardia is best index of learning & retention, pupil dilation only for retention.

📢 JOB ALERT: Postdoc & PhD position in computational neuroimaging/computational psychiatry, to work with existing fMRI & behavioural (big) data. Apply by March 31 and reach out any time for more information.

www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...

Image: K. Ojala, A. Tzovara 2022 (CC BY 4.0)

🎂PsPM is turning 15, and we are celebrating with a new release: Version 7.0.0. Streamlined user experience, improved robustness, and better maintainability. All teaching material on our website is updated too: bachlab.github.io/PsPM/
#PsPM #psychophysiologicalmodelling

On Friday, we are pleased to welcome Professor Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social l for a talk on "The Predictive Brain in the Natural World" at #UniklinikBonn @unibonn.bsky.social . 🎙️🧠
See the image below for details on time and location.