Opposite responses to reward with dopamine (up) and serotonin (down) in nucleus accumbens boost reinforcement learning. Impressive work in Nature:

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

Starter pack for researchers studying the control of cognitive processes

e.g., attentional control, inhibition, task switching, working memory, error adaptation etc

go.bsky.app/12KTqED

📣 New paper alert! We looked at the contributions of LC-NA and VTA-DA to reward and valence processing (using fRMI)
and found sensitivity of both LC and SN/VTA to reward prospects and negative valence direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Job alert! Join our department of cognitive neuropsychology at Tilburg University as an assistant professor: tiu.nu/22508 Application deadline: November 5th

Last week our #FutureUni visionary team got together in at #Jagiellonian University in Krakow to think about the relevance of universities in the face of contemporary challenges! We came up with a toolbox for universities to think about this question. Stay tuned! #UnaEuropa #FutureUniLab

Post doc position available with us at Leeds on our ESRC-funded project on working memory and cognitive ageing, using behavioural measures, eye-tracking, and fNIRS!

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Get in touch if you'd like to know more.

I got to spend the last 4 months in Canada, at the University of Waterloo, where Prof Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens, her team and I set up a really exciting study on #anxiety in #Parkinson. We hope to better understand the different manifestations of anxiety and its associations with symptoms of PD.

If you're in #Berlin or around: come work with us, the Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social

We're looking for a student assistant at the Max Planck Dahlem Campus of Cognition (10h/week, 1-2 years contract, deadline: Sept 15, 2024).

Full job ad here: www.michaelgaebler.com/wp-content/u...

Hi all - we are hiring a new full time research technician for a summer '24 start in my lab. Please share with anyone you think would be interested! Details and application portal here - feel free to email me with any questions hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/360...

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

#neuroskyence folks! Just one week left to apply for this PhD position on Mood disorders in Parkinson's disease!
#neuropsychology #leidenuniversity

PhD and Post-Doc positions in my Lab!
We are currently recruiting (i) a Marie-Curie "CODE" PhD student to work on confidence and reinforcement learning, (ii) a Post-Doc to work on metacognitive insight into latent cognitive parameters. Deadline 31 March, pls RT!
Apply: desenderlab.com/job-openings/

Just a couple of weeks left to apply for this open postdoc position in my lab gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/ on the topic of cognitive fluctuations, with smartphone sensor data and fairly broad scope to make it your own!

PhD alert !! 📣

We have a PhD position at Leiden University focussed on Mood disorders in Parkinson, in which we want to figure out why they're so hard to treat. With some cool behavioural & neuroimaging network analysis!

More details & apply here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Locus Coeruleus Norepinephrine Neurons Facilitate Orbitofrontal Cortex Remapping and Behavioral Flexibility https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.15.571858v1

How do the LC and VTA systems respond to rewards and valence? Our study used high-res fMRI to explore their activation during a reward-emotion recognition task
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...