Excited to share our new findings: transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation leads to increases in locus coeruleus activity, which correlate with changes in salivary alpha amylase in older individuals. #locuscoeruleus www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

In life, 3 things are certain: death, taxes, and decision-making variability🧠. Our review tinyurl.com/4dcwafc4 explores how computational models 💻 explain variability, their limits, and recent advances. A thread🧵👇

@redmondoconnell.bsky.social @neuromurphy.bsky.social Mark Bellgrove (not on Bluesky)

Does tVNS elicit replicable effects beyond BOLD responses in the brainstem? Yes, pulsed, but not conventional tVNS leads to robust pupil dilation in our new meta-analysis.

Published in Brain Stim w/ @cecivez.bsky.social @akuehnel.bsky.social #neuroskyence 🩺
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Anne Churchland and Felicia Davatolhagh discuss why we must address the gender gap in neuroscience citations.

www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/w...

Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages.

Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter

Are people back on BlueSky? I hope we can leave Twitter behind while keeping the good scientific community we once had there.

We have a new preprint on tVNS-induced pupil dilation. It comes again with a Shiny App to customize the settings. #neuroscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our latest result is out now: phasic and tonic taVNS at rest, under standard params, might both modulate the noradrenergic system in phasic mode only (by proxy of pupil dilation). With the great team
@marzecova.bsky.social and Gerhard Jocham at @hhu.bsky.social 🙌
#neuroskyence

My article, "We know what attention is!" is out in @TrendsCognSci . it argues that our experimental methodology commits us to a simple functional conception of attention. In that sense, we agree on and know what attention is. I will thread about it later. authors.elsevier.com/a/1iGCs4sIRv...

Vagal signals are classically seen as inhibitory but there is lots of evidence suggesting they are way more adaptive than that. @nbkroemer.bsky.social and I packed them into an easily digestible TiCS review for you to feast on 🔥 50 day free access, and a little appetizer 👇 🧠🟦
tinyurl.com/bdh279jv

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

I'm excited to share our preprint on musical rhythm processing 🎵🎵 We show that cortical tracking is influenced by pitch predictability, expertise & enjoyment.

💙 Thanks to @johannarimmele.bsky.social @ckeitelsci.bsky.social and all the others in this huge project 💙

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Do you want to do a phd on #speech and #song and how we use our brain for it #electrophysiology #neuroimaging #motor #rhythm ? Come work with us at the MPI_ae ! Apply here and contact me for questions.

e-recruiting.pro/jobposting/7...

Please forward to everyone interested!

First paper share on BlueSky! Our new result (w Anna Marzecova & Gerhard Jocham): phasic and tonic taVNS at rest, under standard params, might both modulate the LC-NE system in phasic mode only (here: by proxy of pupil dilation) - possibly important for use in tasks. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Both tonic and phasic taVNS protocols induce rapid and transient pupil responses.

Surprising how similar the responses actually are in light of previous studies. Great work by Skora, Marzecova, & Jocham (not on bsky yet). #neuroscience #psychology 🩺

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...