Manuel Varlet
@manuelvarlet.bsky.social
Neuroscience | Psychology. Perception & Action. Sydney, Australia
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New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature
A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...
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March 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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❗️Preprint alert ❗️
When I was a college student in my neuroscience classes, I was always told that neuroimaging research involves a trade-off between statistical power and available resources. But what if you could have both? 1/n
When I was a college student in my neuroscience classes, I was always told that neuroimaging research involves a trade-off between statistical power and available resources. But what if you could have both? 1/n
February 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
❗️Preprint alert ❗️
When I was a college student in my neuroscience classes, I was always told that neuroimaging research involves a trade-off between statistical power and available resources. But what if you could have both? 1/n
When I was a college student in my neuroscience classes, I was always told that neuroimaging research involves a trade-off between statistical power and available resources. But what if you could have both? 1/n
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Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents
Rhythmic neural activity is considered essential for adaptively modulating responses in the visual system. In this opinion article we posit that visua…
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January 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🚨 Come work with us, we’re hiring! 🚨
See below our 2 postdoc positions at @institutpasteur.bsky.social in Paris.
Funded by our ERC Synergy grant, this is a collaboration with the labs of Víctor Borrell in Spain ( @borrell-lab.bsky.social), Laurent Nguyen in Belgium and Kristian Franze in Germany
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See below our 2 postdoc positions at @institutpasteur.bsky.social in Paris.
Funded by our ERC Synergy grant, this is a collaboration with the labs of Víctor Borrell in Spain ( @borrell-lab.bsky.social), Laurent Nguyen in Belgium and Kristian Franze in Germany
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November 21, 2024 at 11:27 AM
🚨 Come work with us, we’re hiring! 🚨
See below our 2 postdoc positions at @institutpasteur.bsky.social in Paris.
Funded by our ERC Synergy grant, this is a collaboration with the labs of Víctor Borrell in Spain ( @borrell-lab.bsky.social), Laurent Nguyen in Belgium and Kristian Franze in Germany
🧵⬇️
See below our 2 postdoc positions at @institutpasteur.bsky.social in Paris.
Funded by our ERC Synergy grant, this is a collaboration with the labs of Víctor Borrell in Spain ( @borrell-lab.bsky.social), Laurent Nguyen in Belgium and Kristian Franze in Germany
🧵⬇️
Reposted by Manuel Varlet
How can sharing our uncertainty with others alter our confidence when we're alone?
Delighted to share the lab's new paper, with Einar Andreassen and @cdfrith.bsky.social. Particularly pleased as it's Einar's first!
Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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#PsychSciSky
#neuroskyence
Delighted to share the lab's new paper, with Einar Andreassen and @cdfrith.bsky.social. Particularly pleased as it's Einar's first!
Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧵👇
#PsychSciSky
#neuroskyence
January 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
How can sharing our uncertainty with others alter our confidence when we're alone?
Delighted to share the lab's new paper, with Einar Andreassen and @cdfrith.bsky.social. Particularly pleased as it's Einar's first!
Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧵👇
#PsychSciSky
#neuroskyence
Delighted to share the lab's new paper, with Einar Andreassen and @cdfrith.bsky.social. Particularly pleased as it's Einar's first!
Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧵👇
#PsychSciSky
#neuroskyence
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⏱️ Speed up your path to publication!
At Aperture Neuro:
📜 Submission ➡️ Final decision: 100 days (median)
📚 Submission ➡️ Publication: 144 days (median)
🌟We are open access, low cost, and welcome innovative research formats.
🔗 Submit today and make an impact faster: apertureneuro.org/about
At Aperture Neuro:
📜 Submission ➡️ Final decision: 100 days (median)
📚 Submission ➡️ Publication: 144 days (median)
🌟We are open access, low cost, and welcome innovative research formats.
🔗 Submit today and make an impact faster: apertureneuro.org/about
December 6, 2024 at 6:55 PM
⏱️ Speed up your path to publication!
At Aperture Neuro:
📜 Submission ➡️ Final decision: 100 days (median)
📚 Submission ➡️ Publication: 144 days (median)
🌟We are open access, low cost, and welcome innovative research formats.
🔗 Submit today and make an impact faster: apertureneuro.org/about
At Aperture Neuro:
📜 Submission ➡️ Final decision: 100 days (median)
📚 Submission ➡️ Publication: 144 days (median)
🌟We are open access, low cost, and welcome innovative research formats.
🔗 Submit today and make an impact faster: apertureneuro.org/about
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🚨 New paper out with @samnastase.bsky.social and @haxbylab.bsky.social! We use representational similarity analysis to test how well behavioral, semantic, and visual models capture cortical representational geometries when viewing naturalistic action videos: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
December 19, 2024 at 8:34 PM
🚨 New paper out with @samnastase.bsky.social and @haxbylab.bsky.social! We use representational similarity analysis to test how well behavioral, semantic, and visual models capture cortical representational geometries when viewing naturalistic action videos: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark. (Deadline January 6)
international.au.dk/about/profil...
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
December 24, 2024 at 9:37 PM
📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark. (Deadline January 6)
international.au.dk/about/profil...
international.au.dk/about/profil...
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A starter pack for people interested in inter-brain synchrony and simultaneous brain recording of all kind!
Check if you're on it and, if not, let me know!
#hyperscanning #dualeeg
go.bsky.app/T1LTrQS
Check if you're on it and, if not, let me know!
#hyperscanning #dualeeg
go.bsky.app/T1LTrQS
November 27, 2024 at 10:22 AM
A starter pack for people interested in inter-brain synchrony and simultaneous brain recording of all kind!
Check if you're on it and, if not, let me know!
#hyperscanning #dualeeg
go.bsky.app/T1LTrQS
Check if you're on it and, if not, let me know!
#hyperscanning #dualeeg
go.bsky.app/T1LTrQS
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link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Study of 45 mother-child dance pairs compared 2 synchrony measures: cross-wavelet transform (CWT) of head movements & generalized CWT for multiple body parts. Simple CWT correlated with interaction quality scores; complex GCWT didn't, despite capturing more detail
Dance with me? Analyzing interpersonal synchrony and quality of interaction during joint dance - Behavior Research Methods
This methodological paper examines the assessment of interpersonal synchrony during a joint dancing task between mothers and their children (aged 4 to 5 years) using OpenPose. This pose estimation too...
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December 16, 2024 at 9:35 AM
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Study of 45 mother-child dance pairs compared 2 synchrony measures: cross-wavelet transform (CWT) of head movements & generalized CWT for multiple body parts. Simple CWT correlated with interaction quality scores; complex GCWT didn't, despite capturing more detail
Reposted by Manuel Varlet
Nature Neuroscience is hiring a computational/systems/cognitive editor! Come join our team! Happy to answer any questions.
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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Neuroscience
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Neuroscience Location: New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Berlin or Shanghai Application Deadline: January 6, 2025 About Springer Natur...
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December 9, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Nature Neuroscience is hiring a computational/systems/cognitive editor! Come join our team! Happy to answer any questions.
springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
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Full paper:
van Rooij, I., Guest, O., Adolfi, F. et al. Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science. Comput Brain Behav (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s421...
van Rooij, I., Guest, O., Adolfi, F. et al. Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science. Comput Brain Behav (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s421...
Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science - Computational Brain & Behavior
The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of cognitive scien...
doi.org
December 6, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Full paper:
van Rooij, I., Guest, O., Adolfi, F. et al. Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science. Comput Brain Behav (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s421...
van Rooij, I., Guest, O., Adolfi, F. et al. Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science. Comput Brain Behav (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s421...
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New 716 hour EMG dataset just dropped ✨ ai.meta.com/blog/open-so...
Advancing Neuromotor Interfaces by Open Sourcing Surface Electromyography (sEMG) Datasets for Pose Estimation and Surface Typing
We’re releasing emg2qwerty and emg2pose—two large datasets and benchmarks for sEMG-based typing and pose estimation, as part of the NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks track.
ai.meta.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:34 PM
New 716 hour EMG dataset just dropped ✨ ai.meta.com/blog/open-so...
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New paper story time (now out in PNAS)! We developed a method that caused people to learn new categories of visual objects, not by teaching them what the categories were, but by changing how their brains worked when they looked at individual objects in those categories.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain | PNAS
Learning requires changing the brain. This typically occurs through experience, study,
or instruction. We report an alternate route for humans to a...
www.pnas.org
December 4, 2024 at 7:59 PM
New paper story time (now out in PNAS)! We developed a method that caused people to learn new categories of visual objects, not by teaching them what the categories were, but by changing how their brains worked when they looked at individual objects in those categories.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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🚨Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience with @drquekles.bsky.social
@manuelvarlet.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social & David White
to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan #postdoc #cogneuro #ACNS2024
tinyurl.com/SuperRecogni...
@manuelvarlet.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social & David White
to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan #postdoc #cogneuro #ACNS2024
tinyurl.com/SuperRecogni...
November 26, 2024 at 1:04 AM
🚨Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience with @drquekles.bsky.social
@manuelvarlet.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social & David White
to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan #postdoc #cogneuro #ACNS2024
tinyurl.com/SuperRecogni...
@manuelvarlet.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social & David White
to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan #postdoc #cogneuro #ACNS2024
tinyurl.com/SuperRecogni...
Get in touch if you want to visit in 2025 🧠🇦🇺
✈️ This week, we welcomed our final #International #VisitingFellow for 2024 and bid farewell to three others - just in time to announce that applications for 2025 scheme are now open! Apply to come and visit for 2-3 months. PhD Candidates & ECRs welcome. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3ztnrufd
November 22, 2024 at 5:06 AM
Get in touch if you want to visit in 2025 🧠🇦🇺
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**We are recruiting**
Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/
Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 11:24 AM
**We are recruiting**
Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/
Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/
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My lab has been working on comparing neural representations for the past few years - methods like RSA, CKA, CCA, Procrustes distance
We are often asked: What do these things tell us about the system's function? How do they relate to decoding?
Our new paper has some answers arxiv.org/abs/2411.08197
We are often asked: What do these things tell us about the system's function? How do they relate to decoding?
Our new paper has some answers arxiv.org/abs/2411.08197
November 18, 2024 at 6:18 PM
My lab has been working on comparing neural representations for the past few years - methods like RSA, CKA, CCA, Procrustes distance
We are often asked: What do these things tell us about the system's function? How do they relate to decoding?
Our new paper has some answers arxiv.org/abs/2411.08197
We are often asked: What do these things tell us about the system's function? How do they relate to decoding?
Our new paper has some answers arxiv.org/abs/2411.08197
Reposted by Manuel Varlet
Final call!
One week left to apply for this postdoc in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
We’re looking for a cognitive neuroscientist to join a four-year project, investigating how we learn from other people about the uncertainty in our own minds 🧠 💭
Any Qs feel free to email 📧
One week left to apply for this postdoc in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
We’re looking for a cognitive neuroscientist to join a four-year project, investigating how we learn from other people about the uncertainty in our own minds 🧠 💭
Any Qs feel free to email 📧
I’m still hiring! 🧠
Two weeks left to apply for this postdoc w/ me @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
You’ll use fMRI to study how metacognition, social cognition, prediction and learning connect. And you’ll join a collaborative team across Birkbeck, Oxford, Yale and the Institute of Philosophy.
Two weeks left to apply for this postdoc w/ me @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
You’ll use fMRI to study how metacognition, social cognition, prediction and learning connect. And you’ll join a collaborative team across Birkbeck, Oxford, Yale and the Institute of Philosophy.
📣🧠📣 I’m hiring !! 📣🧠📣
We’re looking for a postdoc to join The Uncertainty Lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social You’ll lead fMRI work on a new project studying how communication with others alters private metacognition of our own minds.
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
We’re looking for a postdoc to join The Uncertainty Lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social You’ll lead fMRI work on a new project studying how communication with others alters private metacognition of our own minds.
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
November 18, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Final call!
One week left to apply for this postdoc in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
We’re looking for a cognitive neuroscientist to join a four-year project, investigating how we learn from other people about the uncertainty in our own minds 🧠 💭
Any Qs feel free to email 📧
One week left to apply for this postdoc in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
We’re looking for a cognitive neuroscientist to join a four-year project, investigating how we learn from other people about the uncertainty in our own minds 🧠 💭
Any Qs feel free to email 📧
Reposted by Manuel Varlet
The brain expresses activity in complex patterns, reflecting the influence of cytoarchitectural, biochemical & genetic properties.
Eigenstrapping is our method for inferring the similarity between two such brain maps while excluding spurious (chance) relationships
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Eigenstrapping is our method for inferring the similarity between two such brain maps while excluding spurious (chance) relationships
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 17, 2024 at 4:04 AM
The brain expresses activity in complex patterns, reflecting the influence of cytoarchitectural, biochemical & genetic properties.
Eigenstrapping is our method for inferring the similarity between two such brain maps while excluding spurious (chance) relationships
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Eigenstrapping is our method for inferring the similarity between two such brain maps while excluding spurious (chance) relationships
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Manuel Varlet
If you're applying to #PhD programs and interested in Human + #AI Collaboration, @mattgroh.bsky.social is recruiting a student to join him at Kellogg 🧪
Lab site: human-ai-collaboration-lab.kellogg.northwestern.edu
PhD application: www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/admissions/p...
Lab site: human-ai-collaboration-lab.kellogg.northwestern.edu
PhD application: www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/admissions/p...
Human-AI Collaboration Lab (HAIC)
Investigating how to boost human problem solving capabilities with AI
human-ai-collaboration-lab.kellogg.northwestern.edu
November 16, 2024 at 8:54 PM
If you're applying to #PhD programs and interested in Human + #AI Collaboration, @mattgroh.bsky.social is recruiting a student to join him at Kellogg 🧪
Lab site: human-ai-collaboration-lab.kellogg.northwestern.edu
PhD application: www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/admissions/p...
Lab site: human-ai-collaboration-lab.kellogg.northwestern.edu
PhD application: www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/admissions/p...
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The Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC) and Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) are holding a joint meeting in 2025, to be held at UNSW in Sydney, from June 17-20. Abstract and symposium submissions are open!
epc.psy.unsw.edu.au/index.html
epc.psy.unsw.edu.au/index.html
November 8, 2024 at 1:14 PM
The Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC) and Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) are holding a joint meeting in 2025, to be held at UNSW in Sydney, from June 17-20. Abstract and symposium submissions are open!
epc.psy.unsw.edu.au/index.html
epc.psy.unsw.edu.au/index.html
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Planning to apply to PhD programs? Join our dynamic department at @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social 🧠🌲
Our lab has an opening this cycle for someone with an interest in understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms of human interaction
How to apply (deadline Dec 1): pbs.dartmouth.edu/menufeature/...
Our lab has an opening this cycle for someone with an interest in understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms of human interaction
How to apply (deadline Dec 1): pbs.dartmouth.edu/menufeature/...
November 15, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Planning to apply to PhD programs? Join our dynamic department at @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social 🧠🌲
Our lab has an opening this cycle for someone with an interest in understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms of human interaction
How to apply (deadline Dec 1): pbs.dartmouth.edu/menufeature/...
Our lab has an opening this cycle for someone with an interest in understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms of human interaction
How to apply (deadline Dec 1): pbs.dartmouth.edu/menufeature/...
Reposted by Manuel Varlet
Heard y'all like some science animations! 🧪🧠🟦
Sometimes interesting stuff might be hiding in the state-space of neurons, even if the individual neurons' activity does not seem particularly interesting! 💫
Sometimes interesting stuff might be hiding in the state-space of neurons, even if the individual neurons' activity does not seem particularly interesting! 💫
November 15, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Heard y'all like some science animations! 🧪🧠🟦
Sometimes interesting stuff might be hiding in the state-space of neurons, even if the individual neurons' activity does not seem particularly interesting! 💫
Sometimes interesting stuff might be hiding in the state-space of neurons, even if the individual neurons' activity does not seem particularly interesting! 💫
Reposted by Manuel Varlet
Following the trend, here's a starter pack of EEG researchers: go.bsky.app/H2URVjv. Let me know if you'd like to be added or removed. The list is very partial and still needs to be expanded, but I hope you find it helpful! 🧠 #EEG #neuroscience #neuroskyence
November 12, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Following the trend, here's a starter pack of EEG researchers: go.bsky.app/H2URVjv. Let me know if you'd like to be added or removed. The list is very partial and still needs to be expanded, but I hope you find it helpful! 🧠 #EEG #neuroscience #neuroskyence