Lilian Weber
@lilweb.bsky.social
Professor for Cognitive Modeling at the Institute for Cognitive Science in Osnabrück, Germany. Previously at Oxford & ETH Zurich.
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Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]
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A brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing.
Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
Brain Injury During Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Substance Use Disorder
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing.
Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
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Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry?
Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital:
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...
Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital:
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...
Development of robust, single-subject markers of predictive inference for computational psychiatry
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry?
Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital:
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...
Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital:
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...
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What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health?
Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social
Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social
An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health
Interactions between metabolic interoception and regulation may drive comorbidity between mental and metabolic ill-health.
www.science.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
What drives the bidirectional relationship between metabolic and mental ill-health?
Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social
Read our new metabolic psychiatry paper, “An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... led by @saramehrhof.bsky.social @hugofleming.bsky.social
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🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
September 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
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These, and other, studies show that you can decode task-related signals from many brain areas.
But wouldn't we need causal manipulations to conclude that the brain "uses" them?
For example, maybe we can decode equally well from two areas. But, only one impacts behaviour when inactivated.
But wouldn't we need causal manipulations to conclude that the brain "uses" them?
For example, maybe we can decode equally well from two areas. But, only one impacts behaviour when inactivated.
September 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
These, and other, studies show that you can decode task-related signals from many brain areas.
But wouldn't we need causal manipulations to conclude that the brain "uses" them?
For example, maybe we can decode equally well from two areas. But, only one impacts behaviour when inactivated.
But wouldn't we need causal manipulations to conclude that the brain "uses" them?
For example, maybe we can decode equally well from two areas. But, only one impacts behaviour when inactivated.
Couldn't agree more with this
We must go beyond the "resting state". We have to do the difficutl work of manipulating emotion, arousal, and interoception directly, and understand how this dynamic process informs self-appraisal, to mapping how maladaptive narratives are formed and informed by interoception. No more rest!
August 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Couldn't agree more with this
In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany)
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...
I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...
I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀
New at the university: Prof. Weber!
Osnabrück University welcomes Prof. Dr. Lilian Weber! Since August 15, she has held the professorship "Cognitive Modeling" at the School of Human Sciences. A warm welcome!
www.uni-osnabrueck.de
August 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
In other news, I am now a ✨ COXI ✨ (cognitive scientist in Osnabrück, Germany)
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...
I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀
www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/campus-li...
I'll be looking for PhD students & postdocs later this year, so watch this space if combining cognitive modelling, EEG & tFUS to study flexible cognition sounds exciting to you 🚀
So proud of, and excited about, this project with the brilliant @johalgermissen.bsky.social, @mirunarascu.bsky.social, and @mkflugge.bsky.social + an amazing team of collaborators. Check out Johannes' summary thread 👇 #tFUS #amygdala
Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)
August 20, 2025 at 7:06 AM
So proud of, and excited about, this project with the brilliant @johalgermissen.bsky.social, @mirunarascu.bsky.social, and @mkflugge.bsky.social + an amazing team of collaborators. Check out Johannes' summary thread 👇 #tFUS #amygdala
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We are super excited about the first human transcranial ultrasound study from our lab which is now on BiorXiv, showing the amygdala‘s role in processing ambiguous emotions and showing TUS changed resting-state connectivity and metabolite concentrations (GABA) in the amygdala - a huge team effort! 🥳🙏🏼
Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)
August 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM
We are super excited about the first human transcranial ultrasound study from our lab which is now on BiorXiv, showing the amygdala‘s role in processing ambiguous emotions and showing TUS changed resting-state connectivity and metabolite concentrations (GABA) in the amygdala - a huge team effort! 🥳🙏🏼
Looking forward to this!
June 16th at 16:00 (4:00pm Berlin time) Lilian Weber from
Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity will present @CCBNBerlin Seminar Series @FU_Berlin @fupsych
Title of Talk: Neural Mechanisms of Control in Emotional Decision-Making
For abstract: www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...
Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity will present @CCBNBerlin Seminar Series @FU_Berlin @fupsych
Title of Talk: Neural Mechanisms of Control in Emotional Decision-Making
For abstract: www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...
June 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Looking forward to this!
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Are you coming to @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025?
Join our workshop on Gamification in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience with an amazing speaker lineup! 🎮👾🧠💫
w/ @ondrejzika.bsky.social @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social
Join our workshop on Gamification in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience with an amazing speaker lineup! 🎮👾🧠💫
w/ @ondrejzika.bsky.social @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Are you coming to @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social #RLDM2025?
Join our workshop on Gamification in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience with an amazing speaker lineup! 🎮👾🧠💫
w/ @ondrejzika.bsky.social @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social
Join our workshop on Gamification in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience with an amazing speaker lineup! 🎮👾🧠💫
w/ @ondrejzika.bsky.social @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social
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For the past couple of years I met weekly with 3 amazing younger scientists @lilweb.bsky.social @debyee.bsky.social @rikepetzschner.bsky.social to share ideas and teach each other. No agenda. It was often the favorite part of my week. Then we started writing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The interoceptive origin of reinforcement learning
Rewards play a crucial role in sculpting all motivated behavior. Traditionally, research on reinforcement learning has centered on how rewards guide l…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:06 AM
For the past couple of years I met weekly with 3 amazing younger scientists @lilweb.bsky.social @debyee.bsky.social @rikepetzschner.bsky.social to share ideas and teach each other. No agenda. It was often the favorite part of my week. Then we started writing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.
forms.gle
February 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.
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🚨💫🤖 RLDM Workshop announcement:
"Game on: Leveraging Gamification in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience"
Contributed talks submissions now OPEN: shorturl.at/0p0Jd
Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin!
w/ @luiantaverra.bsky.social & @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social
"Game on: Leveraging Gamification in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience"
Contributed talks submissions now OPEN: shorturl.at/0p0Jd
Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin!
w/ @luiantaverra.bsky.social & @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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so, so excited to share our new theory which endeavours to answer why depression and poor metabolic health go hand-in-hand: "An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health" 💪🧠🔋 @saramehrhof.bsky.social
@hugofleming.bsky.social
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@hugofleming.bsky.social
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April 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
so, so excited to share our new theory which endeavours to answer why depression and poor metabolic health go hand-in-hand: "An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health" 💪🧠🔋 @saramehrhof.bsky.social
@hugofleming.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
@hugofleming.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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📣 Exciting announcement for the summer term:
Starting in May, the @ccnberlin.bsky.social seminar series by Felix Blankenburg & Timo Schmidt (FU Berlin) is co-hosted by @david-s-stolz.bsky.social David Stolz (Universtiät Lübeck) and myself.
The topic of all talks is: "CONTROL"
Starting in May, the @ccnberlin.bsky.social seminar series by Felix Blankenburg & Timo Schmidt (FU Berlin) is co-hosted by @david-s-stolz.bsky.social David Stolz (Universtiät Lübeck) and myself.
The topic of all talks is: "CONTROL"
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
📣 Exciting announcement for the summer term:
Starting in May, the @ccnberlin.bsky.social seminar series by Felix Blankenburg & Timo Schmidt (FU Berlin) is co-hosted by @david-s-stolz.bsky.social David Stolz (Universtiät Lübeck) and myself.
The topic of all talks is: "CONTROL"
Starting in May, the @ccnberlin.bsky.social seminar series by Felix Blankenburg & Timo Schmidt (FU Berlin) is co-hosted by @david-s-stolz.bsky.social David Stolz (Universtiät Lübeck) and myself.
The topic of all talks is: "CONTROL"
Reposted by Lilian Weber
🚨💫🤖 RLDM Workshop announcement:
"Game on: Leveraging Gamification in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience"
Contributed talks submissions now OPEN: shorturl.at/0p0Jd
Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin!
w/ @luiantaverra.bsky.social & @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social
"Game on: Leveraging Gamification in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience"
Contributed talks submissions now OPEN: shorturl.at/0p0Jd
Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin!
w/ @luiantaverra.bsky.social & @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🚨💫🤖 RLDM Workshop announcement:
"Game on: Leveraging Gamification in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience"
Contributed talks submissions now OPEN: shorturl.at/0p0Jd
Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin!
w/ @luiantaverra.bsky.social & @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social
"Game on: Leveraging Gamification in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience"
Contributed talks submissions now OPEN: shorturl.at/0p0Jd
Looking forward to seeing you in Dublin!
w/ @luiantaverra.bsky.social & @ingrdmrtn.bsky.social
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Interesting paper from Millridge et al: Reward Bases: A simple mechanism for adaptive acquisition of multiple reward types
Do DA neurons encode gradient of reward dimensions, i.e some encode food predicting cues, others fluid etc.?
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#compneurosky #neuroskyence
Do DA neurons encode gradient of reward dimensions, i.e some encode food predicting cues, others fluid etc.?
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#compneurosky #neuroskyence
journals.plos.org
November 26, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Interesting paper from Millridge et al: Reward Bases: A simple mechanism for adaptive acquisition of multiple reward types
Do DA neurons encode gradient of reward dimensions, i.e some encode food predicting cues, others fluid etc.?
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#compneurosky #neuroskyence
Do DA neurons encode gradient of reward dimensions, i.e some encode food predicting cues, others fluid etc.?
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#compneurosky #neuroskyence
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My 15' talk "the modern EEG regression toolkit: rERPs, TRFs, mixed models, and more" is now on youtube youtu.be/vnlbVDarRUc?...
thanks @cuttingeeg.bsky.social for an awesome #EEG conference!
thanks @cuttingeeg.bsky.social for an awesome #EEG conference!
CuttingEEGX - Evolving Methods
YouTube video by cutting EEG
youtu.be
November 22, 2024 at 8:39 PM
My 15' talk "the modern EEG regression toolkit: rERPs, TRFs, mixed models, and more" is now on youtube youtu.be/vnlbVDarRUc?...
thanks @cuttingeeg.bsky.social for an awesome #EEG conference!
thanks @cuttingeeg.bsky.social for an awesome #EEG conference!
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Yes!!! The review I've been looking for! Rapid-acting antidepressants like ketamine, electroconvulsive therapy, and noninvasive stimulation (TMS) are thought to work by enhancing plasticity, but how, exactly? Grateful to @alexkwan.bsky.social and team for summarizing the evidence in this review.
There are many nuances regarding the structural neural plasticity associated with antidepressant drugs. 💊🧠
We share our thoughts here in a Nature Reviews Neuroscience article, led by Clara Liao with co-authors from Conor Liston’s lab at Weill Cornell.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We share our thoughts here in a Nature Reviews Neuroscience article, led by Clara Liao with co-authors from Conor Liston’s lab at Weill Cornell.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 19, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Yes!!! The review I've been looking for! Rapid-acting antidepressants like ketamine, electroconvulsive therapy, and noninvasive stimulation (TMS) are thought to work by enhancing plasticity, but how, exactly? Grateful to @alexkwan.bsky.social and team for summarizing the evidence in this review.
Check out this👇 amazing new python tool for Bayesian modelling, lead-developed by @nicolaslegrand.bsky.social - it includes (among many other things) all elements of the generalised HGF (arxiv.org/abs/2305.10937) for you to use and apply. Can't wait to see what the community will do with it! 🚀
October 21, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Check out this👇 amazing new python tool for Bayesian modelling, lead-developed by @nicolaslegrand.bsky.social - it includes (among many other things) all elements of the generalised HGF (arxiv.org/abs/2305.10937) for you to use and apply. Can't wait to see what the community will do with it! 🚀
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Eli Sennesh, Hao Wu, Tommaso Salvatori
Divide-and-Conquer Predictive Coding: a structured Bayesian inference algorithm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05834
Divide-and-Conquer Predictive Coding: a structured Bayesian inference algorithm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05834
August 13, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Eli Sennesh, Hao Wu, Tommaso Salvatori
Divide-and-Conquer Predictive Coding: a structured Bayesian inference algorithm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05834
Divide-and-Conquer Predictive Coding: a structured Bayesian inference algorithm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05834
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We have a new preprint out, with Teresa Schuhmann, Alex Sack and Catherine Tallon-Baudry.
I think our findings give some interesting leads on the various mechanisms underlying visceral influences on the motor system and how we conceptualize interoception as a whole.
#neuroskyence
I think our findings give some interesting leads on the various mechanisms underlying visceral influences on the motor system and how we conceptualize interoception as a whole.
#neuroskyence
The cardiac, respiratory and gastric rhythms independently modulate corticospinal excitability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.10.612221v1
The cardiac, respiratory and gastric rhythms independently modulate corticospinal excitability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.10.612221v1
Interoception refers to the sensing of the internal state of the body and encompasses various bodily
www.biorxiv.org
September 15, 2024 at 7:32 AM
We have a new preprint out, with Teresa Schuhmann, Alex Sack and Catherine Tallon-Baudry.
I think our findings give some interesting leads on the various mechanisms underlying visceral influences on the motor system and how we conceptualize interoception as a whole.
#neuroskyence
I think our findings give some interesting leads on the various mechanisms underlying visceral influences on the motor system and how we conceptualize interoception as a whole.
#neuroskyence
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Can we use macronutrients to understand altered food reward in depression? Our new preprint shows that patients with MDD report lower wanting & liking for foods rich in fat or protein (vs. carbs). #neuroscience 🩺
W/ @corcerebrum.bsky.social @neuromadlab.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
W/ @corcerebrum.bsky.social @neuromadlab.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 11, 2024 at 6:54 AM
Can we use macronutrients to understand altered food reward in depression? Our new preprint shows that patients with MDD report lower wanting & liking for foods rich in fat or protein (vs. carbs). #neuroscience 🩺
W/ @corcerebrum.bsky.social @neuromadlab.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
W/ @corcerebrum.bsky.social @neuromadlab.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...