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Marco Gandolfo
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Postdoc in visual cognitive neuroscience - Donders Institute, Radboud University -
https://sites.google.com/view/marcogandolfo/publications
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New Paper out in @Cognition with @peelen.bsky.social !🚨📣
In a large-scale (N = 13539!) inattentional blindness experiment ran on naive museum visitors we demonstrate visual sensitivity to the 🚶‍♀️ upright human form 🚶‍♂️
@dondersinst.bsky.social

Open access link
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A body detection inversion effect revealed by a large-scale inattentional blindness experiment
As a social species, humans preferentially attend to the faces and bodies of other people. Previous research revealed specialized cognitive mechanisms…
www.sciencedirect.com
Reposted by Marco Gandolfo
This month's #TMS MultiLab meeting will be given by @phivph.com Phivos Phylactou, on:

"The eyes are the window to t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ brain excitability"

Friday 28th, 14:00 GMT

👀🧠🧲⚡️

Get the meeting link from our GitHub pages or Slack channel - get in touch if you can't find it!

github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
Meetings
Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab
github.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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🧠 Regularization, Action, and Attractors in the Dynamical “Bayesian” Brain

direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

(still uncorrected proofs, but they should post the corrected one soon--also OA is forthcoming, for now PDF at brainandexperience.org/pdf/10.1162-...)
Regularization, Action, and Attractors in the Dynamical “Bayesian” Brain
Abstract. The idea that the brain is a probabilistic (Bayesian) inference machine, continuously trying to figure out the hidden causes of its inputs, has become very influential in cognitive (neuro)sc...
direct.mit.edu
October 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Reposted by Marco Gandolfo
👀 Interacting or non-interacting: that is the research question...

📢 New pre-print out on social interaction perception in preverbal infants: osf.io/preprints/ps.... In collaboration with @Emilie Serraille, @jrhochmann.bsky.social and @ljubapi.bsky.social.

🧵 An animated thread 👇

#neuroskyence
September 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Please RT - Open PhD position in my group at the Donders Center for Neuroscience, Radboud University.

We're looking for a PhD candidate interested in developing theories of learning in neural networks.

Applications are open until October 20th.

For more info: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
PhD Position: Theory of Learning in Artificial and Biologically Inspired Neural Networks | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD candidate Theory of Learning in Artificial and Biologically Inspired Neural Network? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
September 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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🚨WHOHOO!! I am happy to share that I received the #ERCStG for my project PRECHRON: The Prefrontal Chronometer for Organizing Working Memory.

I am going to study #neuraloscillations during #workingmemory at the @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social

#brainstimulation #TMS #EEG
September 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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🎉 #Donders #Cube Award for Sharon Unsworth 🎉 for her outstanding commitment to the #Kletskoppen #Festival.

🏆 Poster prizes went to:

• Danielle Houwing (MPI)
• Marco Gandolfo (DCC)
• Chinmaya Mishra (MPI)
• Zehra Kazmi (DCN)
• Umut Can ALTIN (DCC)

www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
Donders Cube Award for Sharon Unsworth during Donders Day | Radboud University
As part of the Donders Sessions, this year’s annual poster session was expanded into a full-day event featuring engaging talks and poster presentations. Sharon Unsworth was awarded the Donders Cube fo...
www.ru.nl
June 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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The TMS-RAT v1.0 is now being tested!

It's a checklist / guidance tool to help researchers report #TMS studies & to facilitate quantitative comparisons in #systematicreviews & #meta-analyses

All the data will be made freely available; an interactive website will be coming. Stay tuned!

tms-rat.org
tms-rat.org
June 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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PhD Call 📢📢📢
Are you interested in a PhD in Cognitive and Social Neuroscience? Join us! We are booking for highly motivated and inspired future researchers! Waiting for you in Rome!

🗓️ Deadline 19th June

Useful links👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
phd.uniroma1.it/web/concorso...

phd.uniroma1.it/web/pagina.a...
May 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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👁️💡 How much do we really see?

@marco-gandolfo.bsky.social reveals how our brains process the unexpected, with surprising differences across age and gender.

With over 14,000 participants at muZIEum, it’s the largest public #inattentional #blindness experiment to date.

🔗 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
Visitors muZIEum contribute to science | Radboud University
A study by Marco Gandolfo shows how our brain processes information and how this differs by gender and age. 14 thousand participants in this study were visitors to the muZIEum in Nijmegen who took par...
www.ru.nl
May 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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New preprint out!

“Separate Neural Representations for Physical and Communicative Social Interactions: Evidence from Data-driven Voxel Decomposition” w/ @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social @lisik.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
May 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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A collection of modules, datasets, and other resources for learning to program in R, geared toward students in psychology and neuroscience: ritcheym.github.io/ppn/
Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience – PPN
ritcheym.github.io
April 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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PhD position opening in Padova. It is a multidisciplinary project in Experimental Aesthetics and Psychology of Art.
www.bertamini.org/lab/MIRACLE....
www.bertamini.org
April 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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🚨New Publication🚨 Do you work with e-field modeling in NIBS? Do you not always want to use Ernie, but you have no access to MRIs?

We share 100 fully preprocessed head models for e-field simulations based on the HCP.

Thanks! @alekseichuk.bsky.social & Taylor Berger

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human head models and populational framework for simulating brain stimulations - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Human head models and populational framework for simulating brain stimulations
www.nature.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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This work in collaboration with @Paul E. Downing and @Cosimo Urgesi has now been published published in NeuroImage 🚨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
This work in collaboration with @Paul E. Downing and @Cosimo Urgesi has now been published published in NeuroImage 🚨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Reposted by Marco Gandolfo
New Paper out in @Cognition with @peelen.bsky.social !🚨📣
In a large-scale (N = 13539!) inattentional blindness experiment ran on naive museum visitors we demonstrate visual sensitivity to the 🚶‍♀️ upright human form 🚶‍♂️
@dondersinst.bsky.social

Open access link
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A body detection inversion effect revealed by a large-scale inattentional blindness experiment
As a social species, humans preferentially attend to the faces and bodies of other people. Previous research revealed specialized cognitive mechanisms…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
New Paper out in @Cognition with @peelen.bsky.social !🚨📣
In a large-scale (N = 13539!) inattentional blindness experiment ran on naive museum visitors we demonstrate visual sensitivity to the 🚶‍♀️ upright human form 🚶‍♂️
@dondersinst.bsky.social

Open access link
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A body detection inversion effect revealed by a large-scale inattentional blindness experiment
As a social species, humans preferentially attend to the faces and bodies of other people. Previous research revealed specialized cognitive mechanisms…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Reposted by Marco Gandolfo
🚨Job alert!🚨 Are you curious about curiosity, and looking for a post-doc position? Then please consider applying: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Feel free to e-mail/DM me if you have questions.

Thanks very much for sharing/re-posting!
March 19, 2024 at 12:46 PM
A PhD position is open in @peelen.bsky.social Lab at the Donders Institute - please spread the word and consider applying if you are interested about how imagery and perception relate to each other www.ru.nl/en/working-a... - plus we are fun people to work with ! :)
PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
January 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Reposted by Marco Gandolfo
Reposted by Marco Gandolfo
If you use brain (or nerve!) stimulation methods in human (or animal!) neuroscience, then maybe you need (to be on) this list...

#BrainStim

(please ask to be added)

go.bsky.app/395SGxh
January 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly.

www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com
Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…
www.online-tribute.com
January 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Made my first PyPi package "EnvisionHGdetector" (version 0.0.3), a simple skeleton-based hand gesture recognizer using a convolutional neural network trained on three fully open datasets (SAGA, TEDM3D, Zhubo).

Demo and info: envisionbox.org/embedded_Usi...
Package:
pypi.org/project/envi...
December 19, 2024 at 7:57 AM
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How does an #MRI make images of your brain? Here is a video from our YouTube channel giving a 5-minute (simplified) introduction (particularly useful for students!):

youtu.be/MFw9TjOctwA?...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) explained | Neuroscience Methods 101
YouTube video by Psyched!
youtu.be
December 8, 2024 at 9:14 AM