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Zurna Ahmed 🏳️‍🌈
@zurna.bsky.social
I am interested in understanding exploration and information seeking behaviors and their underlying neural correlates in non-human and human primates in ecologically more relevant contexts.

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Do you want to learn more about when, why, and how we are curious? Ask our PhDs at the Night of Science!
#ndwgoe
@uni-goettingen.de @ndw-goe.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Get to know our PhDs and research projects during #NightofScience at @uni-goettingen.de on June 21st.
You will find us at at Central Lecture Hall Building (ZHG), upper foyer.
We have a lot of knowledge for curious little explorers (more advanced ones are welcome too)!
June 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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🎓 Was bedeutet es, als Erste*r in der Familie den Weg in die Wissenschaft zu gehen?

Unsere Podiumsdiskussion „First Generation Academics“ vom 12.3.2025 zeigt, mit welchen Hürden viele im Uni-Alltag kämpfen und wie man zwischen zwei Welten lebt.

Jetzt online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOtp...
First Generation Academics. Wie das Elternhaus Karrierewege junger Wissenschaftler*innen beeinflusst
YouTube video by Göttingen Cognition & Behavior Research
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May 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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How Do We Learn Language?

Ever wonder how babies learn language? We've got answers! Join us for a fascinating chat with Prof. Nivedita Mani @nivimani.bsky.social from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, as we uncover the secrets of infant language acquisition.

🔗 youtu.be/M57a0VelgY8
March 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨

A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore:

🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques)
💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making
🤝 Spontaneous social behavior

⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️
March 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Had the honor to be invited as a discussant to the panel “First Generation Academics”. Extremely happy we are starting to talk about invisible hurdles and challenges, most of which don’t need to be one if there would be more transparency.
Excited to see things changing in the right direction.
In unserer letzten Podiumsdiskussion ging es am 12.3. um "First Generation Academics – Wie das Elternhaus die Karrierewege junger Wissenschaftlerinnen beeinflusst".
Unser Panel diskutierte mit viel Fachwissen und persönlichen Einblicken über finanzielle Hürden, Selbstzweifel ...

(1/3)
March 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Es diskutieren (1/2):
Zurna Ahmed (@zurna.bsky.social), Postdoc @unigoettingen.bsky.social & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social

Ann-Kristin Kolwes, Erste Generation Promotion Mentoring +“,Universität zu Köln

Britta Korkowsky, ehemalige Mitarbeiterin „Brückenschlag für Promovierende“, Uni Göttingen
March 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Am 12.3. schließen wir unsere Podiumsdiskussionsreihe "Interaktion neu Denken" mit einer Veranstaltung zum Thema First Generation Academics. Wir wollen darüber sprechen, wieso das Elternhaus wissenschaftliche Karrierewege beeinflusst.

Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen - Eintritt frei
March 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Hello BlueSky! Happy to share our latest work by Hao Guo, Shengbing Kuang, and Alexander Gail published today in @naturecomms.bsky.social:
"Sensorimotor environment but not task rule reconfigures population dynamics in rhesus monkey posterior parietal cortex" 1/3 s.gwdg.de/cn7VpU
Sensorimotor environment but not task rule reconfigures population dynamics in rhesus monkey posterior parietal cortex - Nature Communications
Context-dependent mapping of sensory input onto motor output is key for goal-directed behavior. Here, the authors show that the brain achieves this mapping with or without reconfiguring parietal senso...
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February 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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An exciting retreat at the historic observatory lies behind us. Three days of scientific discussions and talks. Special thanks to our friends Elad Schneidman and Noam Dotam, for making the journey from Israel to Göttingen even in these difficult times. It was good to have you with us!
August 28, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Es war ein spannendes Wochenende auf der Ideenexpo
in Hannover. Vielen Danke den vielen Kolleginnen und Kollegen von @primatecognition.bsky.social, DPZ und Uni Göttingen und vor allem den vielen Besucherinnen und Besuchern für die spannenden Gespräche und interessierten Fragen.
June 9, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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Und als Weltpremiere gibt es auch noch das neue Modell unseres Exploration Rooms
June 8, 2024 at 7:25 AM
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Wir präsentieren unsere Interaktion plattform, an der Ihr Euch auch selbst ausprobieren könnt.
June 8, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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Ready for the weekend but you don't know yet what to do? We have two recommendations today.
If you like to read, here is a new SFB study from the lab of Alexander Gail on the neural coding of positions in space, out now in #Nature_Communications:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Position- and scale-invariant object-centered spatial localization in monkey frontoparietal cortex dynamically adapts to cognitive demand - Nature Communications
The neural basis of spatial localization is poorly understood. Here the authors showed that when planning a reach towards an object, neural coding in the frontoparietal network dynamically changes bet...
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April 26, 2024 at 1:28 PM
This amazing panel will be kicking off the NCM meeting today organized by our very own @irenelacal.bsky.social (who happens to be one of the NCM award winners as well) 😍. Very excited!
April 16, 2024 at 4:39 AM
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Tomorrow, I'm presenting my poster at #S4SN2024 by @s4sn.bsky.social

If everything goes well, I'll be showing a video of freely moving monkeys foraging together.

Special thanks to @zurna.bsky.social and I. Lacal for this collaboration opportunity!
March 25, 2024 at 9:37 PM