Carina Forster
@carinafo.bsky.social
neuroscientist, based in Brisbane, Australia, Research Officer @ QIMR Berghofer, former PhD candidate @ MPI CBS, Leipzig, Germany, open source contributor, mental health, EEG, biased decision making, Python & R
Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.
Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.
Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology
Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations acr...
www.nature.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.
Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.
Reposted by Carina Forster
📢 Huge thanks to everyone who visited our EDIA poster at #VSS2025
We had a packed 4.5 hours of great discussions on XR research tools & eye tracking.
✨ Stay tuned, open-source release coming soon!
🔗 edia-toolbox.github.io
#XR #Research #Academic #OpenSource
We had a packed 4.5 hours of great discussions on XR research tools & eye tracking.
✨ Stay tuned, open-source release coming soon!
🔗 edia-toolbox.github.io
#XR #Research #Academic #OpenSource
May 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
📢 Huge thanks to everyone who visited our EDIA poster at #VSS2025
We had a packed 4.5 hours of great discussions on XR research tools & eye tracking.
✨ Stay tuned, open-source release coming soon!
🔗 edia-toolbox.github.io
#XR #Research #Academic #OpenSource
We had a packed 4.5 hours of great discussions on XR research tools & eye tracking.
✨ Stay tuned, open-source release coming soon!
🔗 edia-toolbox.github.io
#XR #Research #Academic #OpenSource
Reposted by Carina Forster
Super spannendes Interview in der @lagedernation.org mit Anne Brorhilker @finanzwende.bsky.social
Habe einiges über Strafrechtsverfolgung in Steuerfragen gelernt und war entertained von der true crime story.
open.spotify.com/episode/4OFJ...
Habe einiges über Strafrechtsverfolgung in Steuerfragen gelernt und war entertained von der true crime story.
open.spotify.com/episode/4OFJ...
LdN428 CumEx & Co: Wie der Staat durch Steuerbetrug Milliarden verliert - und warum er sich das gefallen lässt (Interview Anne Brorhilker, Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende)
Lage der Nation - der Politik-Podcast aus Berlin · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Super spannendes Interview in der @lagedernation.org mit Anne Brorhilker @finanzwende.bsky.social
Habe einiges über Strafrechtsverfolgung in Steuerfragen gelernt und war entertained von der true crime story.
open.spotify.com/episode/4OFJ...
Habe einiges über Strafrechtsverfolgung in Steuerfragen gelernt und war entertained von der true crime story.
open.spotify.com/episode/4OFJ...
#OHBM2025Brisbane
#BrainConnectivity
If you visit the land down under for OHBM25, join us for the satellite Brain Connectivity Workshop on beautiful Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). Register now to secure the early bird discount.
qimrberghofer.eventsair.com/brain-connec...
#BrainConnectivity
If you visit the land down under for OHBM25, join us for the satellite Brain Connectivity Workshop on beautiful Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). Register now to secure the early bird discount.
qimrberghofer.eventsair.com/brain-connec...
March 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
#OHBM2025Brisbane
#BrainConnectivity
If you visit the land down under for OHBM25, join us for the satellite Brain Connectivity Workshop on beautiful Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). Register now to secure the early bird discount.
qimrberghofer.eventsair.com/brain-connec...
#BrainConnectivity
If you visit the land down under for OHBM25, join us for the satellite Brain Connectivity Workshop on beautiful Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). Register now to secure the early bird discount.
qimrberghofer.eventsair.com/brain-connec...
100 % recommend this summer school in beautiful Barcelona. Loved the hands-on approach. Amazing instructors and tutors. Go and apply.
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
January 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
100 % recommend this summer school in beautiful Barcelona. Loved the hands-on approach. Amazing instructors and tutors. Go and apply.
Reposted by Carina Forster
Prior knowledge changes sensory processing in the spinal cord?! 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroskyence
Prior knowledge changes initial sensory processing in the human spinal cord
High-frequency signals at a neuronal population level reveal a cognitive influence on sensory processing in the human spinal cord.
www.science.org
January 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Prior knowledge changes sensory processing in the spinal cord?! 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroskyence
Reposted by Carina Forster
*How* does the hippocampus encode the world around us? Leo Waschke and Fabian Kamp bring the 🔥, showing that single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans. Our latest in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans - Nature Communications
The hippocampus is thought to encode the content of stimuli, but how it does so is unknown. The authors show that when hippocampal spiking variability tracks the abstract building blocks of individual...
www.nature.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
*How* does the hippocampus encode the world around us? Leo Waschke and Fabian Kamp bring the 🔥, showing that single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans. Our latest in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Carina Forster
*** Two doctoral scholarships available by Max Planck School of Cognition @MPS_cog and Berlin School of Mind and Brain @MindaBrain funded by DAAD ***
👉 Two topics: (1) Heart and Brain & (2) Autoimmune #encephalitis
👉 International applicants only
All details: mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-pro...
👉 Two topics: (1) Heart and Brain & (2) Autoimmune #encephalitis
👉 International applicants only
All details: mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-pro...
January 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
*** Two doctoral scholarships available by Max Planck School of Cognition @MPS_cog and Berlin School of Mind and Brain @MindaBrain funded by DAAD ***
👉 Two topics: (1) Heart and Brain & (2) Autoimmune #encephalitis
👉 International applicants only
All details: mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-pro...
👉 Two topics: (1) Heart and Brain & (2) Autoimmune #encephalitis
👉 International applicants only
All details: mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-pro...
Reposted by Carina Forster
Out today: cross-species improvement of cognitive flexibility
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The TLDR: remember when we improved human cognition with deep brain stimulation? (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34725508/)
Well, now we did it in rats, and it works the same!
Specifically... 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The TLDR: remember when we improved human cognition with deep brain stimulation? (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34725508/)
Well, now we did it in rats, and it works the same!
Specifically... 1/
Striatal stimulation enhances cognitive control and evidence processing in rodents and humans
Developing an animal model of human brain stimulation therapy reveals that striatal DBS enhances the brain’s ability to process conflicting evidence.
www.science.org
December 18, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Out today: cross-species improvement of cognitive flexibility
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The TLDR: remember when we improved human cognition with deep brain stimulation? (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34725508/)
Well, now we did it in rats, and it works the same!
Specifically... 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The TLDR: remember when we improved human cognition with deep brain stimulation? (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34725508/)
Well, now we did it in rats, and it works the same!
Specifically... 1/
Reposted by Carina Forster
🚀 Preprint out! doi.org/10.31234/osf...
We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦
We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦
December 16, 2024 at 1:08 PM
🚀 Preprint out! doi.org/10.31234/osf...
We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦
We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦
I have a thing for probability theory and this article is just a pleasure to read:
Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.
www.nature.com
December 18, 2024 at 2:37 AM
I have a thing for probability theory and this article is just a pleasure to read:
Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Carina Forster
This is so so so so cool.
CCN comes to Amsterdam.
Which means you can get there from the UK without flying!
I cannot wait.
CCN comes to Amsterdam.
Which means you can get there from the UK without flying!
I cannot wait.
After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro
December 3, 2024 at 12:27 PM
This is so so so so cool.
CCN comes to Amsterdam.
Which means you can get there from the UK without flying!
I cannot wait.
CCN comes to Amsterdam.
Which means you can get there from the UK without flying!
I cannot wait.
Reposted by Carina Forster
📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025!
📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de
Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social
#interoception
📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de
Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social
#interoception
November 25, 2024 at 7:32 PM
📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025!
📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de
Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social
#interoception
📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de
Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social
#interoception
Updated preprint: check it out if you are interested in biases in perception, oscillations and GLMMs.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas
Perception is biased by expectations and previous actions. Pre-stimulus brain oscillations are a potential candidate for implementing biases in the brain. In two EEG studies on somatosensory near-thre...
www.biorxiv.org
November 20, 2024 at 4:17 AM
Updated preprint: check it out if you are interested in biases in perception, oscillations and GLMMs.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Feel free to check out my repo for coding resources: github.com/CarinaFo
I am also happy to teach online workshops while I am in Bali waiting for my visa.
I am also happy to teach online workshops while I am in Bali waiting for my visa.
CarinaFo - Overview
PhD candidate, neuroscience & cog. psych., studying neural (EEG) & behavioural correlates of expectations in somatosensory perception, Python :blue_heart: - CarinaFo
github.com
November 20, 2024 at 3:59 AM
Feel free to check out my repo for coding resources: github.com/CarinaFo
I am also happy to teach online workshops while I am in Bali waiting for my visa.
I am also happy to teach online workshops while I am in Bali waiting for my visa.
It's official. I am moving to Australia to start a position at QIMR Berghofer in the Clinical Brain Networks group led by Luca Cocchi. I will be waiting for my visa in Bali. 🏝️💻Reach out if you are interested in Python coding workshops for scientists (behaviour, EEG/MEG).
November 20, 2024 at 3:57 AM
It's official. I am moving to Australia to start a position at QIMR Berghofer in the Clinical Brain Networks group led by Luca Cocchi. I will be waiting for my visa in Bali. 🏝️💻Reach out if you are interested in Python coding workshops for scientists (behaviour, EEG/MEG).