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Katrina Rose Quinn
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Neuroscientist in Tübingen & mother of dragons. Interested in visual perception, decision-making & expectations.
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Katrina Rose Quinn @mightyrosequinn.bsky.social · May 19
Fresh off the press - our latest publication on abstract choices with @siegellab.bsky.social @fsandhaeger.bsky.social @nimanoury.bsky.social @ezezelic.bsky.social at @commsbio.nature.com
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Abstract choice representations during stable choice-response associations - Communications Biology
Human magnetoencephalography reveals neural representations of perceptual choices that are abstracted from motor-responses even during stable choice-response associations. This suggests a general role...
www.nature.com
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degeelab.bsky.social
🧠✨ Exciting new research alert! ✨🧠

Did you know that catecholamines can reduce choice history biases in perceptual decision-making? 🧐🔍

Paper: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

With @donnerlab.bsky.social and @swammerdamuva.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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peterkok.bsky.social
@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖
Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies
Predictions of future events have a major impact on how we process sensory signals. However, it remains unclear how the brain keeps predictions online in anticipation of future inputs. Here, we combin...
www.jneurosci.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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neurograce.bsky.social
Hierarchical interactions between sensory cortices defy predictive coding
Perceptual experience depends on recurrent interactions between lower and higher cortices. One theory, predictive coding, posits that feedback from hi…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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sampendu.bsky.social
Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg:
#psychskysci #neuroscience

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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kathaschmack.bsky.social
Really enjoyed my weekend read on 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: local recurrence amplifies natural input patterns and suppresses stray activity. This review beautifully argues that sensory cortex itself is a site of memory and prediction. Food for thought on hallucinations!

#neuroskyence #neuroscience
markhisted.org Mark Histed @markhisted.org · Sep 25
The brain is incredibly densely connected. Human cerebral cortex may have as many as *one trillion* connections.

Most of those cortical connections are recurrent, inside each area. What do they do?

New paper from me in Annual Reviews: 🧪 🧠📈 1/

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Active Filtering: A Predictive Function of Recurrent Circuits of Sensory Cortex | Annual Reviews
Our brains encode many features of the sensory world into memories: We can sing along with songs we have heard before, interpret spoken and written language composed of words we have learned, and reco...
www.annualreviews.org
September 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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snstuebingen.bsky.social
✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we have Marlene Cohen (@marlenecohen.bsky.social), from University of Chicago

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

#neuroskyence
September 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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snstuebingen.bsky.social
✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we have Floris de Lange (@predictivebrain.bsky.social)

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

#neuroskyence
September 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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snstuebingen.bsky.social
✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we have Tim Kietzmann (@timkietzmann.bsky.social)

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky #NeuroAI
September 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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mamassian.bsky.social
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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snstuebingen.bsky.social
✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we also have Sylvia Schröder (@sylviaschroeder.bsky.social), from University of Sussex

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

#neuroskyscience
September 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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snstuebingen.bsky.social
📢 Deadline extended! 📢

The registration deadline for #SNS2025 has been extended to Sunday, September 28th!

Register here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/reg...

PS: Students of the GTC (Graduate Training Center for Neuroscience) in Tübingen can earn 1 CP for presenting a poster! 👀
a woman in front of a white board with the words take your time written on it
ALT: a woman in front of a white board with the words take your time written on it
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September 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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snstuebingen.bsky.social
✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we have Simone Ebert (@simoneebert.bsky.social) & Jan Lause (@janlause.bsky.social), from Hertie AI Institute, University of Tübingen

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

#neuroskyscience
September 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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snstuebingen.bsky.social
✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Next speaker to present is Arthur Lefevre, from University of Lyon

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

#neuroscience #neuroskyscience
September 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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snstuebingen.bsky.social
✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Next speaker to present is Mara Wolter, PhD student at University of Tübingen in Yulia Oganian lab

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...
September 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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snstuebingen.bsky.social
🔵 Tübingen SNS2025 🔵

Over the next few days, we’ll be introducing you to the brilliant scientists who will be deliver their talks at #SNS2025!

✨ Get ready to meet our speakers! ✨

We are starting with Liina Pylkkänen, from New York University

💬 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...
September 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
mightyrosequinn.bsky.social
Great work from a great team. Congrats guys!🎉
maxplanckcampus.bsky.social Max Planck Campus Tübingen @maxplanckcampus.bsky.social · Sep 9
Colors leave unique ‘maps’ in our brains, so consistent across people that Michael Bannert and Andreas Bartels (both MPI for Biological Cybernetics) could predict which color someone saw...just from fMRI data. 🌈🧠 Their findings point to deep evolutionary roots in how we perceive color.
September 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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carandinilab.net
The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today!

A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature
The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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thetransmitter.bsky.social
“Competent prose generated by a machine, I’ve come to realize, might not be what science actually needs.” ?

By Tim Requarth

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...
From bench to bot: Why AI-powered writing may not deliver on its promise
Efficiency isn’t everything. The cognitive work of struggling with prose may be a crucial part of what drives scientific progress.
www.thetransmitter.org
September 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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micahgallen.com
Excellent new review by @claireocallaghan.bsky.social on how noradrenaline drives learning across multiple scales of neurobiological organization - from cells to networks www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Noradrenaline drives learning across scales of time and neurobiological organisation
The noradrenergic system plays a diverse role in learning, from optimising learning behaviour to modulating plasticity. Work bridging across micro- and macroscale levels is revealing how noradrenaline...
www.cell.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:05 AM
mightyrosequinn.bsky.social
Not long to go now! For those of you who enjoy a more intimate conference with a chance to get to know your favourite speakers I would highly recommend this right here. Reach out if you have any questions :)
snstuebingen.bsky.social Tübingen SNS 2025 @snstuebingen.bsky.social · Aug 29
🔵Tübingen SNS 2025🔵

Registration is still open for the #SNS2025 event on 6-7 October!

Join us for plenary lectures 🗣️, poster sessions📊and social events 👥 about system neuroscience!🧠

Registration at meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025
August 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
mightyrosequinn.bsky.social
Can't wait to see this fantastic line-up 🤩
siegellab.bsky.social Siegellab @siegellab.bsky.social · Jul 9
📢 Exciting News!

Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium #SNS2025 will happen on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October! 🎉

Plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events with leading experts in the field 🧠

registration 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025

See you there! 👋
July 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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mariamolinasan.bsky.social
Can humans use artificial limbs for body augmentation as flexibly as their own hands?
🚨 Our new interdisciplinary study put this question to the test with the Third Thumb (@daniclode.bsky.social), a robotic extra digit you control with your toes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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July 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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maciekszul.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨🚨🚨
Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!
Overview of the simulation strategy and analysis. a) Pial and white matter boundaries surfaces are extracted from anatomical MRI volumes. b) Intermediate equidistant surfaces are generated between the pial and white matter surfaces (labeled as superficial (S) and deep (D) respectively). c) Surfaces are downsampled together, maintaining vertex correspondence across layers. Dipole orientations are constrained using vectors linking corresponding vertices (link vectors). d) The thickness of cortical laminae varies across the cortical depth (70–72), which is evenly sampled by the equidistant source surface layers. e) Each colored line represents the model evidence (relative to the worst model, ΔF) over source layer models, for a signal simulated at a particular layer (the simulated layer is indicated by the line color). The source layer model with the maximal ΔF is indicated by “˄”. f) Result matrix summarizing ΔF across simulated source locations, with peak relative model evidence marked with “˄”. g) Error is calculated from the result matrix as the absolute distance in mm or layers from the simulated source (*) to the peak ΔF (˄). h) Bias is calculated as the relative position of a peak ΔF(˄) to a simulated source (*) in layers or mm.
June 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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plosbiology.org
Rewarding animals to accurately report their subjective #percept is challenging. This study formalizes this problem and overcomes it with a #Bayesian method for estimating an animal’s subjective percept in real time during the experiment @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3HaxiuB
Two examples of how contextual information can bias visual perception. Top: Luminance illusion created by shadows (source: https://persci.mit.edu/gallery/checkershadow). Square B looks brighter than square A but has the same luminance, i.e., they have identical grayscale values in the picture. Bottom: Perception of object motion is biased by self-motion. The combination of leftward self-motion and up-left object motion in the world produces retinal motion that is up-right. If the animal partially subtracts the optic flow vector (orange dashed arrow) generated by self-motion (yellow arrow) from the image motion on the retina (black arrow), they may have a biased perception of object motion (red arrow) that lies between retinal and world coordinates (green arrow).
May 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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cairosofie.bsky.social
🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social
👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.
May 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM