Action Prediction Lab / Patric Bach
@actpredictlab.bsky.social
Patric Bach's Action Prediction Lab at the Uni of Aberdeen, investigating predictive processes in action and social perception.
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2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
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Jobs - The University of York
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July 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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I'm so excited to help bring this Computational Neuroscience workshop to life! Join a fantastic group of researchers in Denmark this August (11-14).
We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!
We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!
Register for Computational Neuroscience - NAD Workshop 🖥️
📅 WHEN: August 11-14
🧑🦰 WHO: Neuroscientists affiliated with a Danish research institution
🌍 WHERE: Gl. Avernæs Sinatur Hotel & Konference
⏰ DEADLINE: June 26
Read more and register 👉 bit.ly/3G7hIQ8
📅 WHEN: August 11-14
🧑🦰 WHO: Neuroscientists affiliated with a Danish research institution
🌍 WHERE: Gl. Avernæs Sinatur Hotel & Konference
⏰ DEADLINE: June 26
Read more and register 👉 bit.ly/3G7hIQ8
June 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I'm so excited to help bring this Computational Neuroscience workshop to life! Join a fantastic group of researchers in Denmark this August (11-14).
We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!
We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!
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PhD position alert!!!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Happy to answer any question you may have!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Happy to answer any question you may have!
PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
June 3, 2025 at 4:54 AM
PhD position alert!!!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Happy to answer any question you may have!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Happy to answer any question you may have!
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Interesting new lesion meta-analysis of aphantasia, in line with the importance of a specific region in the fusiform gyrus, previously identified by @alfredospagna.bsky.social et al, for visual mental imagery 🧠
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Visual Mental Imagery and Aphantasia Lesions Map onto a Convergent Brain Network
Background Visual mental imagery, the ability to volitionally form perceptual representations without corresponding external stimuli, allows reliving of past events, solving problems and imagining the...
www.medrxiv.org
May 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Interesting new lesion meta-analysis of aphantasia, in line with the importance of a specific region in the fusiform gyrus, previously identified by @alfredospagna.bsky.social et al, for visual mental imagery 🧠
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision
doi.org
April 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵
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There’s much more in the paper! Steve and I look forward to your thoughts in the peer commentary that will come with the article (the call for commentaries will come out soon). You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... and preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps....
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision
doi.org
April 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
There’s much more in the paper! Steve and I look forward to your thoughts in the peer commentary that will come with the article (the call for commentaries will come out soon). You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... and preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps....
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Happy to share our new paper exploring how the brain might represent decision confidence.
A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex
At the end of a decision based on evidence accumulation, the neural representation
of the accumulation is invariant across decisions. Zylberberg and Shadlen show, nonetheless,
that accuracy can be dec...
www.cell.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy to share our new paper exploring how the brain might represent decision confidence.
A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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A new study by 𝐃𝐫. 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐋. 𝐌𝐜𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 (UEA, School of Psychology), provides evidence that when we know someone’s goal, we subconsciously shift our perception of their actions toward the most relevant outcome. This supports predictive coding theories in social perception and Theory of Mind.
Observers translate information about other agents' higher-order goals into expectations about their forthcoming action kinematics
Social perception relies on the ability to understand the higher-order goals that drive other people's behaviour. Under predictive coding views, this …
www.sciencedirect.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A new study by 𝐃𝐫. 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐋. 𝐌𝐜𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 (UEA, School of Psychology), provides evidence that when we know someone’s goal, we subconsciously shift our perception of their actions toward the most relevant outcome. This supports predictive coding theories in social perception and Theory of Mind.
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New preprint “Monkey See, Model Knew: LLMs accurately predict visual responses in humans AND NHPs”
Led by Colin Conwell with @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social @jacob-prince.bsky.social George Alvarez @taliakonkle.bsky.social & Marge Livingstone 1/n
Led by Colin Conwell with @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social @jacob-prince.bsky.social George Alvarez @taliakonkle.bsky.social & Marge Livingstone 1/n
March 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
New preprint “Monkey See, Model Knew: LLMs accurately predict visual responses in humans AND NHPs”
Led by Colin Conwell with @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social @jacob-prince.bsky.social George Alvarez @taliakonkle.bsky.social & Marge Livingstone 1/n
Led by Colin Conwell with @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social @jacob-prince.bsky.social George Alvarez @taliakonkle.bsky.social & Marge Livingstone 1/n
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Always remember--this is not a case of Trump appeasing Putin--its actually him joining Putin. Its not Munich 1938, its the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.
March 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Always remember--this is not a case of Trump appeasing Putin--its actually him joining Putin. Its not Munich 1938, its the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.
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I mean you don’t need to do this.
Plenty of studies have been done before and conclusively shown there is no link.
Don’t waste your money.
www.theguardian.com/...
Plenty of studies have been done before and conclusively shown there is no link.
Don’t waste your money.
www.theguardian.com/...
CDC to study potential links between vaccines and autism despite research showing no connection
It’s unknown whether Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has promoted anti-vaccine views, is involved in study
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I mean you don’t need to do this.
Plenty of studies have been done before and conclusively shown there is no link.
Don’t waste your money.
www.theguardian.com/...
Plenty of studies have been done before and conclusively shown there is no link.
Don’t waste your money.
www.theguardian.com/...
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Exciting News!! 🌞🌊 Adriatica2025 Summer School on "Brain-Body Interactions and Wellbeing" is back with an impressive lineup of speakers in a stunning beachside setting! 🫀🫁🧠🧘
Save the dates: September 8-12, Pescara, Italy.
Stay tuned for more details coming soon!
#TEAMLab #MamboLab #Adriatica2025
Save the dates: September 8-12, Pescara, Italy.
Stay tuned for more details coming soon!
#TEAMLab #MamboLab #Adriatica2025
February 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Exciting News!! 🌞🌊 Adriatica2025 Summer School on "Brain-Body Interactions and Wellbeing" is back with an impressive lineup of speakers in a stunning beachside setting! 🫀🫁🧠🧘
Save the dates: September 8-12, Pescara, Italy.
Stay tuned for more details coming soon!
#TEAMLab #MamboLab #Adriatica2025
Save the dates: September 8-12, Pescara, Italy.
Stay tuned for more details coming soon!
#TEAMLab #MamboLab #Adriatica2025
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I don’t know how I missed this. A group in Beijing have developed an effective brain-inspired vision chip for autonomous machines, robotics, and AI that was inspired by our perception/action account of ventral-dorsal visual processing in primate cerebral cortex.🧪🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A vision chip with complementary pathways for open-world sensing - Nature
Inspired by the human visual system, a vision chip with primitive-based complementary pathways is developed to overcome the power and bandwidth wall of vision systems, achieving fast, precise, robust&...
www.nature.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I don’t know how I missed this. A group in Beijing have developed an effective brain-inspired vision chip for autonomous machines, robotics, and AI that was inspired by our perception/action account of ventral-dorsal visual processing in primate cerebral cortex.🧪🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging
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New paper!
In this study, we identify a previously unreported level of representation in the action recognition hierarchy that is right-lateralized, perceptually highly invariant but not conceptual, and encodes the coarse structure of the effect induced by an action.
elifesciences.org/articles/98521
In this study, we identify a previously unreported level of representation in the action recognition hierarchy that is right-lateralized, perceptually highly invariant but not conceptual, and encodes the coarse structure of the effect induced by an action.
elifesciences.org/articles/98521
Decoding the physics of observed actions in the human brain
Inferior parietal and lateral occipitotemporal cortex encode the effects of actions at an abstract level of representation, independently of the body movements that induce them.
elifesciences.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
New paper!
In this study, we identify a previously unreported level of representation in the action recognition hierarchy that is right-lateralized, perceptually highly invariant but not conceptual, and encodes the coarse structure of the effect induced by an action.
elifesciences.org/articles/98521
In this study, we identify a previously unreported level of representation in the action recognition hierarchy that is right-lateralized, perceptually highly invariant but not conceptual, and encodes the coarse structure of the effect induced by an action.
elifesciences.org/articles/98521
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BAMB! is happening again in 2025. Learn how to model your behavioural data, next to the beach in Barcelona! keynotes this year from @athenaakrami.bsky.social and Peter Dayan.
Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2025
BAMB!
Course philosophy
Our goal is to teach advanced techniques in model-based analysis of behavior (humans and other animals) to cognitive and computational neuroscientists at PhD and early career levels...
bambschool.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
BAMB! is happening again in 2025. Learn how to model your behavioural data, next to the beach in Barcelona! keynotes this year from @athenaakrami.bsky.social and Peter Dayan.
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Cool finding, and consistent with EcoPsy expectations. But can we please stop inserting the phrase “specialized for” where the data do not support it (which is most everywhere)?
« Our findings suggest that cortical activity during dynamic, natural vision is dominated by features for understanding the actions of others ». 👇🏼
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Action features dominate cortical representation during natural vision
Cortical resources are allocated into systems specialized for processing ecologically relevant features of the world. These features are typically studied in isolation using controlled experimental st...
www.biorxiv.org
February 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Cool finding, and consistent with EcoPsy expectations. But can we please stop inserting the phrase “specialized for” where the data do not support it (which is most everywhere)?
Who knew my first post here would be about stats?
Assume you have 3 conditions A B C, and you're mainly interested whether A and B have opposite effects, while C serves as baseline. The most powerful test is simply t-testing A-B. But how do I convince people (cough reviewers cough) that..
Assume you have 3 conditions A B C, and you're mainly interested whether A and B have opposite effects, while C serves as baseline. The most powerful test is simply t-testing A-B. But how do I convince people (cough reviewers cough) that..
January 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Who knew my first post here would be about stats?
Assume you have 3 conditions A B C, and you're mainly interested whether A and B have opposite effects, while C serves as baseline. The most powerful test is simply t-testing A-B. But how do I convince people (cough reviewers cough) that..
Assume you have 3 conditions A B C, and you're mainly interested whether A and B have opposite effects, while C serves as baseline. The most powerful test is simply t-testing A-B. But how do I convince people (cough reviewers cough) that..
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I am looking for a post-doc on neuroimaging analysis. Come & join my team at UEA (Norwich, UK). The post is for 32 months starting from April. Norwich is a wonderful & affordable city.
➡Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
⏰Deadline: 13 February 2025
Questions: s.rossit@uea.ac.uk
➡Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
⏰Deadline: 13 February 2025
Questions: s.rossit@uea.ac.uk
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ALT: a black and white image of a person 's brain with the letters p and s visible
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January 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I am looking for a post-doc on neuroimaging analysis. Come & join my team at UEA (Norwich, UK). The post is for 32 months starting from April. Norwich is a wonderful & affordable city.
➡Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
⏰Deadline: 13 February 2025
Questions: s.rossit@uea.ac.uk
➡Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
⏰Deadline: 13 February 2025
Questions: s.rossit@uea.ac.uk
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How do our brains generate predictive models of unfolding events? We're seeking for a *postdoc* to address this question in my lab:
sites.google.com/site/moritzf...
sites.google.com/site/moritzf...
January 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
How do our brains generate predictive models of unfolding events? We're seeking for a *postdoc* to address this question in my lab:
sites.google.com/site/moritzf...
sites.google.com/site/moritzf...
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Spread the word! Another postdoc job in St Andrews-Arché, in the @leverhulme.bsky.social-funded WIKI project! Apply from here:
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Looking for a specialist of logic and/or the psychology of reasoning, ideally with expertise in hypothetical thought.
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Looking for a specialist of logic and/or the psychology of reasoning, ideally with expertise in hypothetical thought.
January 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Spread the word! Another postdoc job in St Andrews-Arché, in the @leverhulme.bsky.social-funded WIKI project! Apply from here:
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Looking for a specialist of logic and/or the psychology of reasoning, ideally with expertise in hypothetical thought.
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Looking for a specialist of logic and/or the psychology of reasoning, ideally with expertise in hypothetical thought.
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The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...
Read about some of the projects: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/grants-in-fo...
Read about some of the projects: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/grants-in-fo...
January 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...
Read about some of the projects: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/grants-in-fo...
Read about some of the projects: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/grants-in-fo...