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Virginie van Wassenhove
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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscientist . Temporal cognition

Head of Cognition & Brain Dynamics https://brainthemind.com/
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Co-Dir https://dim-cbrains.fr/fr/home
Assoc. Ed. https://direct.mit.edu/jocn

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Virginie van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social · Jan 5
... and so it is, I will now quote @claude-ai.bsky.social

Neurons firing fast
Through labyrinths of time’s flow
Minds map their own minds
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📣New paper out! We successfully replicated our previous work (Azizi et al., 2023), demonstrating that alpha activity is a marker of contextual changes during resting-state.

w/ R. Bordas and @virginievanw.bsky.social
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Spontaneous Oscillatory Activity in Episodic Timing: An EEG Replication Study and Its Limitations
Episodic timing refers to the one-shot, automatic encoding of temporal information in the brain, in the absence of attention to time. A previous magnetoencephalography (MEG) study showed that the rela...
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February 3, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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Passage of time in the brain, in the mind, both?

Commentary on @lapate.bsky.social recent work
#drift #fmri #human #time
Please,👇 if we missed relevant observations in the field!

w/ @vigano.bsky.social @beneuroscience.bsky.social & R. Bordas
@sfnjournals.bsky.social
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January 31, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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New paper from the team and collaborators, showing that alpha power indexes working memory load for durations.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
#time #workingMemory #brainRhythms
January 29, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris!
The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the next academic year.

🗓 Deadline: February 24, 2026
💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
January 19, 2026 at 3:49 PM
virginievanw.bsky.social
A very warm (albeit wintery) welcome to @vigano.bsky.social in the Cognition & Brain Dynamics team 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 !

We're very excited and will follow w/ team science updates of @brainthemind.bsky.social!

@cea-joliot.bsky.social #NeuroSpin @unicog.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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matthewrlogie.bsky.social
Looking forward to talking about using VR and EEG to study the 'when' of memory with @grassocamille.bsky.social and @virginievanw.bsky.social. Thursday the 8th of January at 11.45am. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPUB...
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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with @johnsakon.bsky.social @virginievanw.bsky.social @lapate.bsky.social and others #sfn25
sfnjournals.bsky.social SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · Nov 19
#SfN25 Mini-symposium: Today at 9:30 am PST | Representation of Time in the Brain
Read the accompanying article by Kwok et al. in #JNeurosci
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1397-25.2025
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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elisabettaversace.bsky.social
1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Congrats @davidpoeppel.bsky.social it is very well deserved!
 David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · Nov 4
I'm incredibly honored to receive the Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring. This makes me very sentimental! I'm so proud of the wonderful, super sharp students and postdocs that I have had the privilege and pleasure to work with. ❤️ Thank you!!!
sfn.org Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · Nov 3
Congratulations to the 2025 SfN award & prize recipients!

Their dedication to advancing the understanding of the brain paves the way for future discoveries.

SfN looks forward to celebrating their achievements at #SfN25.

Learn about the recipients.

🔗 vist.ly/4cni8

#neurosky
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Time is relative and brains define simultaneity (TWS) and meaning (TWI) through temporal windows.
wendelvandersluis.bsky.social Wendel van der Sluis @wendelvandersluis.bsky.social · Oct 31
💥Your brain might be lying to you!💥
Feeling things happen together ≠ senses integrating.
TWS ≠ TWI. Confusing them has scrambled research from schizophrenia to VR. 🧠 brill.com/view/journal...
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November 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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edvardmoser.bsky.social
1/5 How does the brain turn the low-dimensional, universal grid cell metric into the rich, diverse codes needed for memory in hippocampal place cells? 🧵
Preprint link 👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Functional independence of entorhinal grid cell modules enables remapping in hippocampal place cells
A systems-level understanding of cortical computation requires insight into how neural codes are transformed across distinct brain circuits. In the mammalian cortex, one of the few systems where such ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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RIP remarkable Jane Goodall
www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...
October 2, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Evenement à diffuser pour la fête de la science en @iledefrance.bsky.social @poncerlab.bsky.social
@bathellierlab.bsky.social @clairewyart.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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A substantial number of female physicists in the first half of the 20th century contributed to quantum physics. For the history of physics to properly recognize their work, new approaches are needed, argues Andrea Reichenberger in Nature Reviews Physics. go.nature.com/41mjQuJ #WomeninSTEM ⚛️ 🧪
Hertha Sponer in the lab. Credit: Science History Images/Alamy Stock Photo.
August 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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aidanhorner.bsky.social
2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Jobs - The University of York
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July 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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science.org
Octopuses fall for the “rubber arm” illusion, just like us.

Learn more: scim.ag/40xyT4y
July 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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c-brains.bsky.social
La recherche en #neurosciences en @iledefrance.bsky.social

Une nouvelle série vidéo pour apprendre et comprendre:
youtu.be/RjXOhBqfOLM?...

#epilepsie

@ap-hp.bsky.social @pitiesalpetriere.bsky.social

@poncerlab.bsky.social @virginievanw.bsky.social
Épilepsie : une maladie du cerveau aux multiples facettes (Épisode 1/3)
YouTube video by C-BRAINS
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July 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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melaniemitchell.bsky.social
This essay by Nisheeth Vishnoi is a thoughtful meditation on the nature of science and a rebuttal to the notion that AI systems are going replace human scientists anytime soon. Worth reading.

nisheethvishnoi.substack.com/p/what-count...
What Counts as Discovery?
Rethinking AI’s Place in Science
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July 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Fab time in Italy for TEX Sissa hosted by @dbueti.bsky.social & co, then lovely sciencing w/ @bottinilab.bsky.social.

Grazie mille for your hospitality and inspiring discussions!
July 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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RIP Master Brendel
youtu.be/24DugWBRkYg?...
Alfred Brendel - Schubert - Four Impromptus, D 899
YouTube video by Classical Vault 1
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June 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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bathellierlab.bsky.social
Two postdoc positions in the lab within the ERC Synergy project "Chronology" in collaboration with S. Ostojic, M. Jazayeri and V. van Wassenhove @virginievanw.bsky.social . Two focuses: sound sequences representations across the brain & novel all-optical technology. Contact: brice.bathellier@cnrs.fr
June 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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herbstso.bsky.social
Episode II of how are durations stored in working memory:
Besides replicating our previous findings, we find that
alpha power reflects a universal signature of WM load and mediates recall precision, even for abstract information like duration
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🔽 co-authors below
Alpha power indexes working memory load for durations
Timing, that is estimating, comparing, or remembering how long events last, requires the temporary storage of durations. How durations are stored in working memory is unknown, despite the widely held ...
www.biorxiv.org
May 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Our study is out!

The number of durations in a sequence, not the duration of the sequence, affects its recall precision in working memory.

psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
APA PsycNet
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May 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Europe Makes a Pitch to Attract Scientists Shunned by the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...
Europe Makes a Pitch to Attract Scientists Shunned by the U.S.
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May 6, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/news/welc...
Welcome initiatives for American researchers
www.universite-paris-saclay.fr
April 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM