Dan Feuerriegel
@danfeuerriegel.bsky.social
ARC DECRA Fellow. Head of the Prediction and Decision-Making Lab at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Decision-making, predictive brains, neural adaptation, computational neuroscience, EEG, machine learning. He/him
New preprint from the lab led by @violetchae.bsky.social! We debut an open EEG dataset for research into food cognition and dietary choices.
Featuring data from 117 different brains relating to 120 different food stimuli.
@tgro.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social
Featuring data from 117 different brains relating to 120 different food stimuli.
@tgro.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social
Our new preprint on the FOODEEG open dataset is out! EEG recordings and behavioural responses on food cognition tasks for 117 participants will be made publicly available 🧠 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
FOODEEG: An open dataset of human electroencephalographic and behavioural responses to food images
Investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying food choices has the potential to advance our understanding of eating behaviour and inform health-targeted interventions and policy. Large, publi...
www.biorxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
New preprint from the lab led by @violetchae.bsky.social! We debut an open EEG dataset for research into food cognition and dietary choices.
Featuring data from 117 different brains relating to 120 different food stimuli.
@tgro.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social
Featuring data from 117 different brains relating to 120 different food stimuli.
@tgro.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social
Reposted by Dan Feuerriegel
Our new preprint on the FOODEEG open dataset is out! EEG recordings and behavioural responses on food cognition tasks for 117 participants will be made publicly available 🧠 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
FOODEEG: An open dataset of human electroencephalographic and behavioural responses to food images
Investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying food choices has the potential to advance our understanding of eating behaviour and inform health-targeted interventions and policy. Large, publi...
www.biorxiv.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Our new preprint on the FOODEEG open dataset is out! EEG recordings and behavioural responses on food cognition tasks for 117 participants will be made publicly available 🧠 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Dan Feuerriegel
🌏 Come spend some time with us in Sydney! 🇦🇺
@marcsinstitute.bsky.social is offering International Visiting Scholarships for PhD students + postdocs.
Spend 1–3 months collaborating, exploring ideas, and building connections.
📅 Apply by 4 Dec
📍 Sydney, Australia
Curious or keen? DM or email me
@marcsinstitute.bsky.social is offering International Visiting Scholarships for PhD students + postdocs.
Spend 1–3 months collaborating, exploring ideas, and building connections.
📅 Apply by 4 Dec
📍 Sydney, Australia
Curious or keen? DM or email me
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
🌏 Come spend some time with us in Sydney! 🇦🇺
@marcsinstitute.bsky.social is offering International Visiting Scholarships for PhD students + postdocs.
Spend 1–3 months collaborating, exploring ideas, and building connections.
📅 Apply by 4 Dec
📍 Sydney, Australia
Curious or keen? DM or email me
@marcsinstitute.bsky.social is offering International Visiting Scholarships for PhD students + postdocs.
Spend 1–3 months collaborating, exploring ideas, and building connections.
📅 Apply by 4 Dec
📍 Sydney, Australia
Curious or keen? DM or email me
Our new research led by @violetchae.bsky.social has been featured on the ABC Lab Notes podcast! Listen to learn how much work your brain is doing when you wander down the grocery store aisles.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Lab Notes: How your brain chooses your next snack - ABC listen
It's mid-afternoon and time for a treat! Do you choose a healthy piece of fruit, or do you head straight for the chocolate?
It turns out that well before we consciously decide what we're going to ea...
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Our new research led by @violetchae.bsky.social has been featured on the ABC Lab Notes podcast! Listen to learn how much work your brain is doing when you wander down the grocery store aisles.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Interested in how we make preference-driven decisions, and how this is implemented in the brain?
We report that neural correlates of evidence accumulation (CPP, Mu/Beta) are also observed during value-based decisions.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Led by @laurencf.bsky.social (Lauren Fong)
1/n
We report that neural correlates of evidence accumulation (CPP, Mu/Beta) are also observed during value-based decisions.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Led by @laurencf.bsky.social (Lauren Fong)
1/n
Tracing the neural trajectories of evidence accumulation and motor preparation processes during voluntary decisions
Voluntary decisions have previously been described by where they arise in the brain and how actions corresponding to one's choice are prepared. However, the processes by which these internally guided ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Interested in how we make preference-driven decisions, and how this is implemented in the brain?
We report that neural correlates of evidence accumulation (CPP, Mu/Beta) are also observed during value-based decisions.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Led by @laurencf.bsky.social (Lauren Fong)
1/n
We report that neural correlates of evidence accumulation (CPP, Mu/Beta) are also observed during value-based decisions.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Led by @laurencf.bsky.social (Lauren Fong)
1/n
New article in @theconversation.com - featuring some exciting new findings on how our brains rapidly encode a wide range of food properties when we see a food item.
Your brain is doing a lot of work when you scroll through food delivery apps!
Led by @violetchae.bsky.social w/ @tgro.bsky.social
Your brain is doing a lot of work when you scroll through food delivery apps!
Led by @violetchae.bsky.social w/ @tgro.bsky.social
Using EEG 🧠⚡ and representational similarity analysis, we mapped how the neural representations of food attributes (e.g., taste & health) unfold over time when viewing foods🍎🍰🥗 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social
theconversation.com/our-brains-e...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
theconversation.com/our-brains-e...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
Redirecting
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
New article in @theconversation.com - featuring some exciting new findings on how our brains rapidly encode a wide range of food properties when we see a food item.
Your brain is doing a lot of work when you scroll through food delivery apps!
Led by @violetchae.bsky.social w/ @tgro.bsky.social
Your brain is doing a lot of work when you scroll through food delivery apps!
Led by @violetchae.bsky.social w/ @tgro.bsky.social
Reposted by Dan Feuerriegel
Using EEG 🧠⚡ and representational similarity analysis, we mapped how the neural representations of food attributes (e.g., taste & health) unfold over time when viewing foods🍎🍰🥗 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social
theconversation.com/our-brains-e...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
theconversation.com/our-brains-e...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
Redirecting
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Using EEG 🧠⚡ and representational similarity analysis, we mapped how the neural representations of food attributes (e.g., taste & health) unfold over time when viewing foods🍎🍰🥗 @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social
theconversation.com/our-brains-e...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
theconversation.com/our-brains-e...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
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This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.
Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇
Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇
October 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.
Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇
Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇
Reposted by Dan Feuerriegel
New BBS article w/ @lauragwilliams.bsky.social and Hinze Hogendoorn, just accepted! We respond to a thought-provoking article by @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, and argue that it's premature to conclude that conscious perception is delayed by 350-450ms: bit.ly/4nYNTlb
OSF
bit.ly
September 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
New BBS article w/ @lauragwilliams.bsky.social and Hinze Hogendoorn, just accepted! We respond to a thought-provoking article by @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, and argue that it's premature to conclude that conscious perception is delayed by 350-450ms: bit.ly/4nYNTlb
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Check out our reviewed preprint, now out in eLife!
With @spk3lly.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social and Anna Geuzebroek
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
While we work on improving the [solid] paper based on the reviews, here are the key take-home messages:
With @spk3lly.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social and Anna Geuzebroek
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
While we work on improving the [solid] paper based on the reviews, here are the key take-home messages:
Perceptual glimpses are locally accumulated and globally maintained at distinct processing levels
elifesciences.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Check out our reviewed preprint, now out in eLife!
With @spk3lly.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social and Anna Geuzebroek
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
While we work on improving the [solid] paper based on the reviews, here are the key take-home messages:
With @spk3lly.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social and Anna Geuzebroek
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
While we work on improving the [solid] paper based on the reviews, here are the key take-home messages:
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Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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Reposted by Dan Feuerriegel
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...
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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...
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
Reposted by Dan Feuerriegel
🚨Our preprint is online!🚨
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?
Read on to find out more! 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?
Read on to find out more! 🧵
September 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🚨Our preprint is online!🚨
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?
Read on to find out more! 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?
Read on to find out more! 🧵
Reposted by Dan Feuerriegel
Common neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o.
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
September 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Common neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o.
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
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Shout out to Australian researchers! 🇦🇺 (and folks in the southern hemisphere) 🌏
We're excited that our Ambassador Ben Lowe (@brainboyben.bsky.social) will be hosting a pre-conference workshop at #ACNS2025 (@acnsau.bsky.social) on getting started with PsychoPy!
Sign up here👇
shorturl.at/gvnUU
We're excited that our Ambassador Ben Lowe (@brainboyben.bsky.social) will be hosting a pre-conference workshop at #ACNS2025 (@acnsau.bsky.social) on getting started with PsychoPy!
Sign up here👇
shorturl.at/gvnUU
ACNS 2025 Pre-Conference Workshops - Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society
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www.acns.org.au
September 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Shout out to Australian researchers! 🇦🇺 (and folks in the southern hemisphere) 🌏
We're excited that our Ambassador Ben Lowe (@brainboyben.bsky.social) will be hosting a pre-conference workshop at #ACNS2025 (@acnsau.bsky.social) on getting started with PsychoPy!
Sign up here👇
shorturl.at/gvnUU
We're excited that our Ambassador Ben Lowe (@brainboyben.bsky.social) will be hosting a pre-conference workshop at #ACNS2025 (@acnsau.bsky.social) on getting started with PsychoPy!
Sign up here👇
shorturl.at/gvnUU
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⏰ Don’t forget – The OHBM Australia Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting is coming up!
📍 Melbourne
📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025
Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮
📢 Register to secure your place today!
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
📍 Melbourne
📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025
Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮
📢 Register to secure your place today!
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
OHBM Australia: 2025 Annual Meeting
OHBM Australia: Uniting the Australian human brain mapping community
ohbm-aus.github.io
September 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
⏰ Don’t forget – The OHBM Australia Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting is coming up!
📍 Melbourne
📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025
Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮
📢 Register to secure your place today!
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
📍 Melbourne
📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025
Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮
📢 Register to secure your place today!
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
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PSA that there is cheap (good!) lunch on campus at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre cafe. The woman today told me I was only the third person in for the day — it’s quiet and they need our support! Level 4 of the building with the student food court. UniMelb people please reshare 🙏🏼
September 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
PSA that there is cheap (good!) lunch on campus at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre cafe. The woman today told me I was only the third person in for the day — it’s quiet and they need our support! Level 4 of the building with the student food court. UniMelb people please reshare 🙏🏼
Reposted by Dan Feuerriegel
The first major output of the @templetonworld.bsky.social @arc-intrepid.bsky.social adversarial collaboration testing IIT & predictive processing theories of consciousness is out now
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
Integrated information and predictive processing theories of consciousness: An adversarial collaborative review
As neuroscientific theories of consciousness continue to proliferate, the need to assess their similarities and differences -- as well as their predictive and explanatory power -- becomes ever more pr...
arxiv.org
September 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The first major output of the @templetonworld.bsky.social @arc-intrepid.bsky.social adversarial collaboration testing IIT & predictive processing theories of consciousness is out now
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
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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
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...
Reposted by Dan Feuerriegel
Excited to share our new preprint...
...𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒! ⏳
We find temporal confounds in fMRI that emulate neural patterns of perceptual learning.
These can be hard to spot with conventional RSA, but may influence our understanding of how prior knowledge shapes perception.
tinyurl.com/4bwy6nre
...𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒! ⏳
We find temporal confounds in fMRI that emulate neural patterns of perceptual learning.
These can be hard to spot with conventional RSA, but may influence our understanding of how prior knowledge shapes perception.
tinyurl.com/4bwy6nre
August 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Excited to share our new preprint...
...𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒! ⏳
We find temporal confounds in fMRI that emulate neural patterns of perceptual learning.
These can be hard to spot with conventional RSA, but may influence our understanding of how prior knowledge shapes perception.
tinyurl.com/4bwy6nre
...𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒! ⏳
We find temporal confounds in fMRI that emulate neural patterns of perceptual learning.
These can be hard to spot with conventional RSA, but may influence our understanding of how prior knowledge shapes perception.
tinyurl.com/4bwy6nre
Reposted by Dan Feuerriegel
🚨Pre-print of some cool data from my PhD days!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
☝️Did you know that visual surprise is (probably) a domain-general signal and/or operates at the object-level?
✌️Did you also know that the timing of this response depends on the specific attribute that violates an expectation?
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
☝️Did you know that visual surprise is (probably) a domain-general signal and/or operates at the object-level?
✌️Did you also know that the timing of this response depends on the specific attribute that violates an expectation?
The Latency of a Domain-General Visual Surprise Signal is Attribute Dependent
Predictions concerning upcoming visual input play a key role in resolving percepts. Sometimes input is surprising, under which circumstances the brain must calibrate erroneous predictions so that perc...
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
🚨Pre-print of some cool data from my PhD days!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
☝️Did you know that visual surprise is (probably) a domain-general signal and/or operates at the object-level?
✌️Did you also know that the timing of this response depends on the specific attribute that violates an expectation?
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
☝️Did you know that visual surprise is (probably) a domain-general signal and/or operates at the object-level?
✌️Did you also know that the timing of this response depends on the specific attribute that violates an expectation?
Reposted by Dan Feuerriegel
If anyone fancies moving to NZ, the @universityofotago.bsky.social are advertising for up to SIX faculty positions in their School of Psychology 👀 www.seek.co.nz/psychology-j...
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August 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If anyone fancies moving to NZ, the @universityofotago.bsky.social are advertising for up to SIX faculty positions in their School of Psychology 👀 www.seek.co.nz/psychology-j...
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looking forward to seeing everyone at #CCN2025! here's a snapshot of the work from my lab that we'll be presenting on speech neuroscience 🧠 ✨
August 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
looking forward to seeing everyone at #CCN2025! here's a snapshot of the work from my lab that we'll be presenting on speech neuroscience 🧠 ✨
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We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...