Janina Seubert
@jseubert.bsky.social
Perceptual/affective neuroscience of food consumption at Karolinska Institutet. https://ki.se/en/cns/janina-seuberts-research-group-nutrilab Young Academy of Sweden,
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A few weeks ago, utbildningsradio visited my lab to understand what we do and what it’s good for. Check out the result: youtu.be/1BbcqBywSdc?...
Lura din hjärna - få äckligt att smaka gott
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October 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
A few weeks ago, utbildningsradio visited my lab to understand what we do and what it’s good for. Check out the result: youtu.be/1BbcqBywSdc?...
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Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all).
www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...
www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...
September 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all).
www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...
www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...
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2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight.
These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
Emotion research has a communication conundrum
In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…
www.thetransmitter.org
September 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight.
These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.
www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
Reposted by Janina Seubert
Excited to share my first postdoc project in collaboration with @jseubert.bsky.social and @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social , now published with @natcomms.nature.com, where we describe a potential mechanism for flavour integration in the insula. #NeuroSkyence #FlavourScience doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/10
Tastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula - Nature Communications
Food aromas stimulate smell receptors in the nose but are often mistaken for tastes. This study shows that aromas induce taste-like patterns in the insular cortex. These results explain the illusion a...
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September 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Excited to share my first postdoc project in collaboration with @jseubert.bsky.social and @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social , now published with @natcomms.nature.com, where we describe a potential mechanism for flavour integration in the insula. #NeuroSkyence #FlavourScience doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/10
🍲🍲 NEW PAPER 🍰🍰
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Food choices are always a tradeoff between the benefits of energy intake and the risk of accidental contamination. The relative importance of these two varies depending on a person's current metabolic need. (1/3)
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Food choices are always a tradeoff between the benefits of energy intake and the risk of accidental contamination. The relative importance of these two varies depending on a person's current metabolic need. (1/3)
Sensitivity to contamination of food odours depends on hunger and attention
Detection of deviant notes in food odours protects against accidental contaminant ingestion, but this risk needs to be weighed against the potential c…
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July 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
🍲🍲 NEW PAPER 🍰🍰
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Food choices are always a tradeoff between the benefits of energy intake and the risk of accidental contamination. The relative importance of these two varies depending on a person's current metabolic need. (1/3)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Food choices are always a tradeoff between the benefits of energy intake and the risk of accidental contamination. The relative importance of these two varies depending on a person's current metabolic need. (1/3)
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What's the right way to think about modularity in the brain? This devilish 😈 question is a big part of my research now, and it started with this paper with @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social, finally published after the first preprint in 2021! 🤖🧠🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints - Nature Communications
The extent to which structural modularity in neural networks ensures functional specialization remains unclear. Here the authors show that specialization can emerge in neural modules placed under reso...
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January 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
What's the right way to think about modularity in the brain? This devilish 😈 question is a big part of my research now, and it started with this paper with @solarpunkgabs.bsky.social, finally published after the first preprint in 2021! 🤖🧠🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula...
The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵
The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵
January 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula...
The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵
The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵
Reposted by Janina Seubert
PREPRINT ALERT!
Come and check out our (with @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social and @jseubert.bsky.social) on how overlapping insular codes of retronasal odours and their associated tastes!
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Come and check out our (with @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social and @jseubert.bsky.social) on how overlapping insular codes of retronasal odours and their associated tastes!
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Tastes and retronasal odours evoke a shared flavour-specific neural code in the human insula https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.06.631354v1
January 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
PREPRINT ALERT!
Come and check out our (with @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social and @jseubert.bsky.social) on how overlapping insular codes of retronasal odours and their associated tastes!
1/n
Come and check out our (with @margaveldhuizen.bsky.social and @jseubert.bsky.social) on how overlapping insular codes of retronasal odours and their associated tastes!
1/n
This has been such a pleasure to work on and make new friends across the senses! In this review, we compare the evidence for perceptual penetrability across the senses-that is, to what extent cognition shapes experience as opposed to biasing it. High in olfaction, low in gustation is my take home :)
Evaluating cognitive penetrability of perception across the senses
Review by Petra Vetter, Stephanie Badde, Elisa Raffaella Ferrè, Janina Seubert & Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
Web: go.nature.com/4hOrQeV
PDF: rdcu.be/d0K0k
#psychology #psychscisky #cogpsy
Review by Petra Vetter, Stephanie Badde, Elisa Raffaella Ferrè, Janina Seubert & Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
Web: go.nature.com/4hOrQeV
PDF: rdcu.be/d0K0k
#psychology #psychscisky #cogpsy
November 26, 2024 at 7:34 PM
This has been such a pleasure to work on and make new friends across the senses! In this review, we compare the evidence for perceptual penetrability across the senses-that is, to what extent cognition shapes experience as opposed to biasing it. High in olfaction, low in gustation is my take home :)
🌶️🌶️JOB ALERT 🌶️🌶️Nutrilab@KI is recruiting a postdoc to join the team working on ERC StG OLFLINK. ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... suits a candidate with a cog neuro background, expertise in perception/motivation and interest in gut-brain interactions and food consumption. Come join us in Stockholm!
November 21, 2023 at 9:59 AM
🌶️🌶️JOB ALERT 🌶️🌶️Nutrilab@KI is recruiting a postdoc to join the team working on ERC StG OLFLINK. ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... suits a candidate with a cog neuro background, expertise in perception/motivation and interest in gut-brain interactions and food consumption. Come join us in Stockholm!
New preprint with @agustation.bsky.social and @odorjohan.bsky.social on contributions of perception and metabolic state to flavor pleasantness perception. We find additive instead of the expected interactive effects-also, mere exposure arises rapidly and obscures these effects if not accounted for 🍔
Dissociable effects of hunger, exposure and sensory overlap on flavour liking: http://osf.io/ucbn4/
November 3, 2023 at 1:09 PM
New preprint with @agustation.bsky.social and @odorjohan.bsky.social on contributions of perception and metabolic state to flavor pleasantness perception. We find additive instead of the expected interactive effects-also, mere exposure arises rapidly and obscures these effects if not accounted for 🍔
🍔🍕Job Alert 🍩🍭 Nutrilab@KI is now recruiting a postdoc to join our team working on ERC StG OLFLINK. ki.varbi.com/se/what:job/... suits candidates with a cog neuro background and an interest in gut-brain interactions and food perception! Come join us in lovely Stockholm
November 1, 2023 at 2:34 PM
🍔🍕Job Alert 🍩🍭 Nutrilab@KI is now recruiting a postdoc to join our team working on ERC StG OLFLINK. ki.varbi.com/se/what:job/... suits candidates with a cog neuro background and an interest in gut-brain interactions and food perception! Come join us in lovely Stockholm
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For years we have tended to discount activation signals in the white matter as artifact. It's becoming clear now that this was a mistake - white matter shows stimulus-driven activation similar (though much smaller) to gray matter. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37824529/
October 26, 2023 at 6:30 PM
For years we have tended to discount activation signals in the white matter as artifact. It's becoming clear now that this was a mistake - white matter shows stimulus-driven activation similar (though much smaller) to gray matter. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37824529/
Reposted by Janina Seubert
Hey #NeuroSky, we have published the paper from my PhD work, where we show that the orbitofrontal cortex encodes the texture and reward value of fat. Decoding strength is correlated with high fat consumption during a real-life eating task.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
#neuroscience #PsychSciSky
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
#neuroscience #PsychSciSky
October 17, 2023 at 10:00 AM
Hey #NeuroSky, we have published the paper from my PhD work, where we show that the orbitofrontal cortex encodes the texture and reward value of fat. Decoding strength is correlated with high fat consumption during a real-life eating task.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
#neuroscience #PsychSciSky
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
#neuroscience #PsychSciSky
My lab is looking to hire a full time research assistant for one year. Main responsibilities are to help with data acquisition and data management for an ongoing behavioral study that studies metabolic modulation of anticipatory food reward processing. ki.varbi.com/se/what:job/...
Forskningsassistent i experimentell psykologi och hjärnavbildning
Vill du bidra till en bättre hälsa för alla? I vår forskargrupp finner du en unik möjlighet att arbeta tätt tillsammans med toppforskare i gränslandet mellan psykologi och neurovetenskap. Du ko
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October 9, 2023 at 6:28 PM
My lab is looking to hire a full time research assistant for one year. Main responsibilities are to help with data acquisition and data management for an ongoing behavioral study that studies metabolic modulation of anticipatory food reward processing. ki.varbi.com/se/what:job/...
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🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you!
🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.
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October 7, 2023 at 12:37 PM
🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you!
🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.
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Fantastic postdoc opportunity!
Our lab is hiring at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour!
One post-doctoral research position at the
@DondersInst to study gargalesis (ticklish touch).
Details below | Deadline 15.10
10 more days to apply!
#youhaveaparttoplay
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One post-doctoral research position at the
@DondersInst to study gargalesis (ticklish touch).
Details below | Deadline 15.10
10 more days to apply!
#youhaveaparttoplay
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive and Sensorimotor Neuroscience at the Donders Centre for Cogniti...
Working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive and Sensorimotor Neuroscience at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancies here!
www.ru.nl
October 5, 2023 at 8:05 AM
Fantastic postdoc opportunity!
Are you in the Brussels area and want to join the debate on how basic science can help identify strategies for more sustainable food production and consumption? Come by and hear my cognitive neuroscience take on this question 🙂 bit.ly/3Lai5Jc
October 5, 2023 at 7:36 AM
Are you in the Brussels area and want to join the debate on how basic science can help identify strategies for more sustainable food production and consumption? Come by and hear my cognitive neuroscience take on this question 🙂 bit.ly/3Lai5Jc
#HiSciSky Janina Seubert here, researcher in psych/ cog neuro from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. I lead a research group that studies encoding and retrieval of sensory pleasure during food consumption. More soon :)
October 1, 2023 at 11:54 AM
#HiSciSky Janina Seubert here, researcher in psych/ cog neuro from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. I lead a research group that studies encoding and retrieval of sensory pleasure during food consumption. More soon :)