Ronald Sladky
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Ronald Sladky
@sweetneuron.bsky.social
🧠, he/him
Cognitive Neuroscientist in Vienna, Austria
My 3C's: my children, cognition, and cooking.
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“A game-changer for cognitive science." — @evanthompson.bsky.social

In "A Drive to Survive," @kathrynnave.bsky.social‬ offers an extended critical analysis of the strengths and limitations of the free energy principle. Available #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255132...
June 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Are you passionate about neuroimaging methods and would like to work with us? 🚨

4-year PhD position on methods development in the new Cluster of Neuronal Circuits in Health and Disease (coe.univie.ac.at) and the role of GABA in the amygdala and other brain areas 🧠

Details: shorturl.at/EcI2W

Pls 🔁
Contact person: For further inquiries please contact Katalin Szigeti, PhD, the Training Unit Coordinator of the CoE (margit.katalin.szigeti@univie.ac.at).
coe.univie.ac.at
June 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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We are a bit late for this, but happy new year from the SCAN unit! 🎈
We are thankful for the productive and joyful times together and looking forward to another year of exciting research! 🤩
Here is our 2024 in review 👇
January 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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'Accelerating scientific progress through Bayesian adversarial collaboration' -- out now in the latest issue of Neuron. @hohwy.bsky.social, Karl Friston & I propose a formal framework for designing & evaluating adversarial tests of competing theories.
Accelerating scientific progress through Bayesian adversarial collaboration
Corcoran et al. present a Bayesian treatment of adversarial collaboration that operationalizes competing theoretical hypotheses as generative models. This approach enables the evaluation of alternati...
www.cell.com
November 16, 2023 at 1:10 AM
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New paper from the SCAN-Unit out in @eLife. Do violent video games decrease our empathy and numb us towards real violence? Let’s find out!
elifesciences.org/articles/84951 Lengersdorff et al. (2023)
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Neuroimaging and behavioral evidence that violent video games exert no negative effect on human empa...
After playing violent video games for 7 hr over the course of 2 weeks, human male participants show neither signs of decreased empathy for the pain of another person nor of decreased responsivity to v...
elifesciences.org
January 16, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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For those interested in the coolest present for @clauslamm.bsky.social anniversary - we wrote a “paper”named “How to be a good supervisor: a mixed-methods case study of Claus Lamm” 🤓 here the link ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...
January 3, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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Happy new year from us! 🥳😊
Following with our tradition we present to you our year in figures and wish you all the best for 2024!
January 3, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Maybe the amygdala is not angry or sad or afraid – it’s just misunderstood!

“An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex” is online www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @scanunit.bsky.social @haubensaklab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at [1/8]
December 18, 2023 at 12:02 PM
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🚨We have a new perspective out today in @natureclimate called “Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research” shorturl.at/dyN35 where we call on #Neuroskyence researchers to help combat #climatechange 🧠
November 13, 2023 at 4:34 PM