How close are we to understanding neurodegenerative diseases? Join us at the @lifesciswitzerland.bsky.social (LS2) Annual Meeting – with top researchers like Britta Engelhardt and @marcaurelbusche.bsky.social, and discussions led by Daniela Noain & @bogdandraganski.bsky.social.

New preprint! V4 responds to mid-level features that facilitate object recognition from fragments when visual information is sparse.
This study points to possible alternative stimulation sites for cortical prostheses to restore vision. @bogdandraganski.bsky.social @antoinelutti.bsky.social

@bogdandraganski.bsky.social & Tobias Nef from #unibern &
@inselgruppe.bsky.social co-lead the interdisciplinary Innosuisse Flagship consortium “SwissBrAInHealth" aimed at early detection and delay of disease onset in #dementia. 👉Media release: mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releas... Congrats!💐

Herzliche Gratulation! 🎉 #SwissBrAInHealth wird unter der Leitung von @bogdandraganski.bsky.social & Tobias Nef #unibern & @inselgruppe.bsky.social durchgeführt: mediarelations.unibe.ch/medienmittei....
@medfacultyunibe.bsky.social @mariannakruithof.bsky.social

Brain-training games lack solid evidence for improving cognition, but research shows engaging in new, challenging activities—like learning skills or playing effortful games—can enhance memory, processing speed, and brain… #BrainTraining #Cognition #Neuroscience #MentalHealth #MemoryEnhancement

Mooraj et al. (including LIP colleagues @mjdahl.bsky.social, @markuswb.bsky.social, Ulman Lindenberger, and @garrettneuro.bsky.social): Toward a functional future for the cognitive neuroscience of human aging. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Just looking at this beautiful work from Ann Graybiel's lab now out in Current Biology. I need this framed 🤩
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

"the mediodorsal thalamus independently represents cueing and rule uncertainty. This enables the relevant thalamic population to drive prefrontal reconfiguration ... appropriately attributing errors to an environmental change."

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

Striking case of a patient with medial temporal lobe amnesia. He performs at chance in laboratory recognition memory tests, but has nearly perfect recognition accuracy for a real-world experience, with the memories persisting for 15 months!

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

Conférence sur les ECT à l'institut de neuromodulation

How a healthy lifestyle is associated with longevity, less cardiovascular and cancer-related mortality: A plasma metabolic signature of lipid pathways assessed in 4 US cohorts with 28-year follow-up accounts for ~50%
www.cell.com/med/fulltext...

A preprint Jastrzębowska, Ozkirli, Cretenoud, @bogdandraganski.bsky.social & Herzog reports a failure to replicate several of our findings that suggested an association between V1 surface area & certain contextual size illusions. Here is my detailed rebuttal: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
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A neural network model of hippocampal contributions to category learning
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
#neuroscience

Postdoc in our lab! Last day to apply!

Please apply if interested - don’t worry about supporting docs or anything.

(Apologies for the awkward timing on the deadline - it was an HR thing.)

Postdoc job alert! We have an opening in our growing group. The research will focus on neuroimaging of memory and goal-directed decision-making, with decoding of representations with MEG (+ RL, mood, and computational psychiatry)

@ UCL @ FIL @ Max Planck UCL Centre

New PhD studentships available at City, Univ of London, including for PhD in Psychology.
International students are welcome to apply and eligible for full funding for some of the studentships

7 studentships funded by City University — deadline is 29 January 2024:
www.city.ac.uk/prospective-...

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