Bettina Bustos
bettinanb.bsky.social
Bettina Bustos
@bettinanb.bsky.social
bettinabustos.com

PhD student with Jiefeng Jiang @ uiowa. Memory, cognive control, costs of control, neuroimaging, computational modeling.
Prev @wustl and @utaustin
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I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods.

If you know anybody, please tell them to email me.

Formal ad to follow. Lab website: wessellab.org
Wessel Cognitive Neurology Lab | The University of Iowa
Thanks for visiting the Cognitive Neurology Lab at the University of Iowa. The lab is directed by Dr. Jan R. Wessel. We are affiliated with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, the Depa...
wessel.lab.uiowa.edu
June 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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The official link to apply for the postdoc position in my lab is live. Please pass it along! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
March 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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This is an elegant dispatch summarising our study on mFC schema from Sina Tafazoli Adel Ardalan and @timbuschman.bsky.social
Really beautifully explained!
"Cognitive neuroscience: How the brain navigates abstract task spaces"
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Cognitive neuroscience: How the brain navigates abstract task spaces
Humans and other animals learn the abstract structure of a task and then use this structure to rapidly generalize to new situations. A recent study reveals how the brain builds and uses abstract task ...
www.cell.com
January 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Happy to share our review on OFC/vmPFC representations in Trends in Neurosciences, written with @nirmoneta.bsky.social and Shany Grossman
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Very short thread below to summarize our review
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #compneurosky #PsychSciSky
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me
November 15, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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Excited to see this Special Focus at @jocn.bsky.social on Neural and Computational Mechanisms of Motivation and Decision-Making finally out!

Full collection here: direct.mit.edu/jocn/issue/3...
November 25, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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🎉New project 🎉

doi.org/10.1101/2024...

How do we navigate between brain states when we switch tasks? Are dynamics driven by control, or passive decay of the prev task?

We shed light on this classic debate by comparing high-d linear dynamical systems fit to EEGs and RNNs during task-switching 🌀
Humans actively reconfigure neural task states
The ability to switch between different tasks is a core component of adaptive cognition, but a mechanistic understanding of this capacity has remained elusive. Longstanding questions over whether task...
doi.org
October 18, 2024 at 7:14 AM
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Very excited that this paper led by @cybellesmith.bsky.social is now out in JoCN!! We show how humans and recurrent neural nets can learn statistics unfolding at multiple timescales rapidly and concurrently.

direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
Rapid Learning of Temporal Dependencies at Multiple Timescales
Abstract. Our environment contains temporal information unfolding simultaneously at multiple timescales. How do we learn and represent these dynamic and overlapping information streams? We investigate...
direct.mit.edu
November 25, 2024 at 4:13 PM