Ecem Tavacioglu
ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social
Ecem Tavacioglu
@ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social
Ph.D. student at Gamer Lab, University of Würzburg working on #attention #learning #fearconditioning @rtg2660
It was a fantastic workshop with a great instructor! I highly recommend it to anyone who would like to use Git for their research!
Had a fantastic time giving a full-day workshop on Version Control with Git for Research @rtg2660.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de 💫 Big thanks to organizer @leahilde.bsky.social! 🙏 As always, open materials at lennartwittkuhn.com/version-cont... 🌷
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Already missing this office…Had a great time during my short-term research visit @visualattentionlab.bsky.social and in Boston.

@bwhpsychresidency.bsky.social
@harvardmed.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Come join our team!💼A new PhD position is available in our group, focusing on emotional biases and socioemotional competencies in depression. Feel free to share!😃
#PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening
September 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Meet our visiting Grad Student Ecem!

She is Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience at the University of Würzburg, studying attentional and learning processes in fear conditioning. At VAL, she focuses on visual foraging under threat, manipulating the spatial distribution of threat and value of targets.
August 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Sadly learned of the passing of Prof. Margaret Boden, an inspiring thinker.

Grateful I had the chance to listen to her talk 7 years ago at the "2018 Religion & Science Conference: AI & Consciousness", organized by Cambridge Muslim College.

I found the video, highly recommend it:
bit.ly/3IJHoUb
July 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Pain Expectations: the neural representations of predicted pain in self and others https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.666065v1
July 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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New paper out! Here we show that attentional biases induced by reward history depend on awareness of such reward history (w/ @jlupiane.bsky.social and @mavadillo.bsky.social).
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Value-modulated attentional capture depends on awareness - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Value-modulated attentional capture (VMAC) refers to a process by which a priori neutral stimuli gain attentional priority when associated with reward, independently of goal or stimulus-driven attenti...
link.springer.com
July 21, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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As somebody who studies self-control (but is bad at it), I read this 2025 open-access review on the self-control of eating (tinyurl.com/bdnebw79) by Mann & Ward w/ great personal interest. I highly recommend it, esp. if you study self-control and/or want to deal w/ your eating regulation challenges.
July 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1/ Exactly 9 years ago, I did my very first international lab internship as a curious, naive undergraduate student at Body Representation Lab @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. It was my very first hands-on research experience and one of the reasons I chose to pursue an academic path.
July 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yannik Stegmann and Matthias Gamer:

The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
July 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I read a really old article on broad and narrow attention by Wachtel (1967), and I found this sentence deeply relatable "...the extremely anxious individual becomes a slave to minor variations in the perceptual field, which demand most of his attention and leave him confused and disorganized."
July 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I often want to sketch something, but most sites want one to register, no time, just Draw Draw Draw!
June 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social !

Deadline Sun 6th July
July 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I had pleasure of co-organizing my very first symposium together with my supervisor @gamerlab.bsky.social.
A heartfelt thank you to all the amazing speakers @ondrejzika.bsky.social, @francescotortora.bsky.social, @ldeserno.bsky.social, @floriansch and participants for their contributions.

#PUG2025
June 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Our symposium continues with @ondrejzika.bsky.social talking about the role of trait anxiety in contextual inference.

@gamerlab.bsky.social

#PUG2025
June 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Attention attention! ⏰ Last 20 minutes to drop by Room 2.007 to discuss our recent 7T MRI study togwther with @jasbisch.gitlab.io #PUG2025
Hey #PuG2025! I am excited to present my research on the role of midbrain PAG in the resolution of human approach-avoidance conflict resolution. If that sounds interesting to you, drop by my poster #79 (Room 2.007)!
June 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Kicking off the PUG conference with a great talk by @danielamier.bsky.social – looking forward to an inspiring few days ahead!
June 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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The #PuG2025 final program is online! Browse it or download the PDF version 👇 www.pug2025.org
PuG2025 | Psychologie und Gehirn
Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the 50th Annual Conference on “Psychology and the Brain (PuG2025),” held from June 18–21, 2025, at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg!
www.pug2025.org
June 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Only a few days left until @pug2025.bsky.social – our symposium, organized together with @gamerlab.bsky.social 🧠⚡
🎤 Join us for exciting talks by: @ondrejzika.bsky.social @francescotortora.bsky.social @ldeserno.bsky.social @florianschlagenhauf

#PUG2025 #psychophysiology #reinforcementlearning
June 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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June 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Join us for a zoom talk by Renee Thompson on
"The everyday #emotional experiences of individuals with #depressive psychopathology"
5 June - 2:30pm CEST
@tudresden.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social @trr393.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social
tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...
May 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Absolutely well deserved!
Congratulations @kimsobania.bsky.social (1st prize) and @jannateigeler.bsky.social (runner up) and @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social (runner up) for winning the poster awards at the European Meeting on Human Fear Conditioning. Great science, awesome presentations! #emhfc2025
May 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Had a fantastic time with more than 100 colleagues from across the world at the European Meeting for Human Fear Conditioning we organized in Egmond aan Zee. #emhfc2025
May 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Congratulations @kimsobania.bsky.social (1st prize) and @jannateigeler.bsky.social (runner up) and @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social (runner up) for winning the poster awards at the European Meeting on Human Fear Conditioning. Great science, awesome presentations! #emhfc2025
May 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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🎺 #BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert!

This Friday, May 16th, the brain meeting speaker will be Ron Mangun with a talk entitled "Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will"

All are welcome to join us in person or online. Details here:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event/brain-...
May 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM