Michelle Hefner
@mhefner.bsky.social
data, cognition, neuroimaging, and AI enthusiast 🧠
PhD student, @cimcyc.bsky.social co-supervised by @mruz.bsky.social + @summerfieldlab.bsky.social
CSU Engineering alum 🐏
PhD student, @cimcyc.bsky.social co-supervised by @mruz.bsky.social + @summerfieldlab.bsky.social
CSU Engineering alum 🐏
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
High-level visual surprise is rapidly integrated during perceptual inference!
🚨 New paper 🚨 out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Summary 🧵 below 👇
🚨 New paper 🚨 out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Summary 🧵 below 👇
Rapid computation of high-level visual surprise
Health sciences
www.cell.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
High-level visual surprise is rapidly integrated during perceptual inference!
🚨 New paper 🚨 out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Summary 🧵 below 👇
🚨 New paper 🚨 out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Summary 🧵 below 👇
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
Postdoc job ad! Do you have a background in human learning in aseptic lab studies and wonder how to apply this to pressing societal issues? Or, have you worked in the formation of political attitudes from social psychology but always wanted to understand the cognitive mechanisms behind it? Read on!
December 9, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Postdoc job ad! Do you have a background in human learning in aseptic lab studies and wonder how to apply this to pressing societal issues? Or, have you worked in the formation of political attitudes from social psychology but always wanted to understand the cognitive mechanisms behind it? Read on!
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
It’s official! The postdoc positions announcement is here 🚀
If you know great candidates interested in attention, memory transformation and EEG, please help spread the word:
Project (ReDAS) -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
Job offer -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
If you know great candidates interested in attention, memory transformation and EEG, please help spread the word:
Project (ReDAS) -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
Job offer -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
Bridging Fields in Psychology and Neuroscience with Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Strengthening collaboration to encourage novel research connections between scientific areas is central to the CIMCYC - María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence strategy . To encourage this, the CIMCYC has ...
cimcyc.ugr.es
December 9, 2025 at 5:50 AM
It’s official! The postdoc positions announcement is here 🚀
If you know great candidates interested in attention, memory transformation and EEG, please help spread the word:
Project (ReDAS) -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
Job offer -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
If you know great candidates interested in attention, memory transformation and EEG, please help spread the word:
Project (ReDAS) -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
Job offer -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
Yesterday at #ICON2025 I got to present our poster with #EttoreAmbrosini, @palencianoap.bsky.social, and @mruz.bsky.social on flexible task representations. I loved the chance to share our preliminary results and hear such thoughtful feedback!
September 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Yesterday at #ICON2025 I got to present our poster with #EttoreAmbrosini, @palencianoap.bsky.social, and @mruz.bsky.social on flexible task representations. I loved the chance to share our preliminary results and hear such thoughtful feedback!
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
👩💻 New preprint out (FIRST one of my PhD journey) with the incredible @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social
"From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
"From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
September 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
👩💻 New preprint out (FIRST one of my PhD journey) with the incredible @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social
"From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
"From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
🧠New preprint!
We show that different priorities shape the neural coding of planned actions in working memory. Using EEG+RSA, we find that expected interference leads to anticipatory changes in representational geometry, beyond simple maintenance.
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🗂️ Data/code: osf.io/5fg7a
We show that different priorities shape the neural coding of planned actions in working memory. Using EEG+RSA, we find that expected interference leads to anticipatory changes in representational geometry, beyond simple maintenance.
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🗂️ Data/code: osf.io/5fg7a
July 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
🧠New preprint!
We show that different priorities shape the neural coding of planned actions in working memory. Using EEG+RSA, we find that expected interference leads to anticipatory changes in representational geometry, beyond simple maintenance.
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🗂️ Data/code: osf.io/5fg7a
We show that different priorities shape the neural coding of planned actions in working memory. Using EEG+RSA, we find that expected interference leads to anticipatory changes in representational geometry, beyond simple maintenance.
📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🗂️ Data/code: osf.io/5fg7a
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc!
Join the FLARE project @cimcyc.bsky.social to study sudden perceptual learning using fMRI, RSA, and DNNs.
🧠 2 years, fully funded, flexible start
More info 👉 gonzalezgarcia.github.io/postdoc/
DMs or emails welcome! Please share!
Join the FLARE project @cimcyc.bsky.social to study sudden perceptual learning using fMRI, RSA, and DNNs.
🧠 2 years, fully funded, flexible start
More info 👉 gonzalezgarcia.github.io/postdoc/
DMs or emails welcome! Please share!
Postdoc Position – FLARE Project
gonzalezgarcia.github.io
July 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc!
Join the FLARE project @cimcyc.bsky.social to study sudden perceptual learning using fMRI, RSA, and DNNs.
🧠 2 years, fully funded, flexible start
More info 👉 gonzalezgarcia.github.io/postdoc/
DMs or emails welcome! Please share!
Join the FLARE project @cimcyc.bsky.social to study sudden perceptual learning using fMRI, RSA, and DNNs.
🧠 2 years, fully funded, flexible start
More info 👉 gonzalezgarcia.github.io/postdoc/
DMs or emails welcome! Please share!
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
The what and when of visual surprise:
EEG shows that high-level visual surprise emerges rapidly and modulates neural responses ~200ms after stimulus onset.
New preprint with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social available here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Summary 🧵 below
EEG shows that high-level visual surprise emerges rapidly and modulates neural responses ~200ms after stimulus onset.
New preprint with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social available here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Summary 🧵 below
June 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The what and when of visual surprise:
EEG shows that high-level visual surprise emerges rapidly and modulates neural responses ~200ms after stimulus onset.
New preprint with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social available here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Summary 🧵 below
EEG shows that high-level visual surprise emerges rapidly and modulates neural responses ~200ms after stimulus onset.
New preprint with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social available here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Summary 🧵 below
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
Lil Fort Collins, Colorado really showed up today.
June 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Lil Fort Collins, Colorado really showed up today.
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
👉 La semana pasada, celebramos nuestras VII Jornadas de Investigación CIMCYC.
📍Más de 160 investigadores e investigadoras, estudiantes y personal de nuestro centro nos reunimos para abordar los retos y oportunidades de colaboración en la investigación psicológica.
📍Más de 160 investigadores e investigadoras, estudiantes y personal de nuestro centro nos reunimos para abordar los retos y oportunidades de colaboración en la investigación psicológica.
June 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
👉 La semana pasada, celebramos nuestras VII Jornadas de Investigación CIMCYC.
📍Más de 160 investigadores e investigadoras, estudiantes y personal de nuestro centro nos reunimos para abordar los retos y oportunidades de colaboración en la investigación psicológica.
📍Más de 160 investigadores e investigadoras, estudiantes y personal de nuestro centro nos reunimos para abordar los retos y oportunidades de colaboración en la investigación psicológica.
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
Very excited to share our new preprint on visual ambiguity resolution. Check it out 👇
New preprint! 🚨→ Determinants of Visual Ambiguity Resolution. A new work with @ortiztudela.bsky.social @jvoeller.bsky.social @martinhebart.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social
We created ~2k images and collected ~100k responses to study visual ambiguity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We created ~2k images and collected ~100k responses to study visual ambiguity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Very excited to share our new preprint on visual ambiguity resolution. Check it out 👇
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
🧠 Looking to advance your career in neuroscience?
👉 Train at the CIMCYC, one of Europe’s top brain research centers.
📢 Applications now open for the Master’s Degree in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the @universidadgranada.bsky.social
1-year official program - 60 ECTS
👉 Train at the CIMCYC, one of Europe’s top brain research centers.
📢 Applications now open for the Master’s Degree in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the @universidadgranada.bsky.social
1-year official program - 60 ECTS
May 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🧠 Looking to advance your career in neuroscience?
👉 Train at the CIMCYC, one of Europe’s top brain research centers.
📢 Applications now open for the Master’s Degree in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the @universidadgranada.bsky.social
1-year official program - 60 ECTS
👉 Train at the CIMCYC, one of Europe’s top brain research centers.
📢 Applications now open for the Master’s Degree in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the @universidadgranada.bsky.social
1-year official program - 60 ECTS
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
This is fucking insane
JUST IN: International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."
Trump administration revokes Harvard's ability to enroll international students
International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."
www.npr.org
May 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is fucking insane
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
🧠En el seminario hoy la investigadora Ana Paqui @cimcyc.bsky.social nos ha presentado una charla muy interesante sobre #neurosexismo a través de la revisión de trabajos científicos publicados a lo largo de los años, lo que ha dado pie a una enriquecedor debate.
¡Muchas gracias por venir! 👏
¡Muchas gracias por venir! 👏
May 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🧠En el seminario hoy la investigadora Ana Paqui @cimcyc.bsky.social nos ha presentado una charla muy interesante sobre #neurosexismo a través de la revisión de trabajos científicos publicados a lo largo de los años, lo que ha dado pie a una enriquecedor debate.
¡Muchas gracias por venir! 👏
¡Muchas gracias por venir! 👏
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
[🧵1/6] Would you like to know more about how the brain organizes complex, novel task information? Check out our last study in #JNeurosci @sfnjournals :
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
@palencianoap.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @mruz.bsky.social @cimcyc.bsky.social
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
@palencianoap.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @mruz.bsky.social @cimcyc.bsky.social
Novel Verbal Instructions Recruit Abstract Neural Patterns of Time-Variable Information Dimensionality
Human performance is endowed by neural representations of information that is relevant for behavior, some of which are also activated in a preparatory fashion to optimize later execution. Most studies...
www.jneurosci.org
April 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
[🧵1/6] Would you like to know more about how the brain organizes complex, novel task information? Check out our last study in #JNeurosci @sfnjournals :
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
@palencianoap.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @mruz.bsky.social @cimcyc.bsky.social
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
@palencianoap.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @mruz.bsky.social @cimcyc.bsky.social
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📣 ICON Symposium
Really excited to announce our symposium at @ICON this year on Sudden Learning Across Systems!
Together with lots of cool people: @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @anikaloewe.bsky.social @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social and Andrea Greve!
Really excited to announce our symposium at @ICON this year on Sudden Learning Across Systems!
Together with lots of cool people: @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @anikaloewe.bsky.social @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social and Andrea Greve!
April 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
📣 ICON Symposium
Really excited to announce our symposium at @ICON this year on Sudden Learning Across Systems!
Together with lots of cool people: @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @anikaloewe.bsky.social @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social and Andrea Greve!
Really excited to announce our symposium at @ICON this year on Sudden Learning Across Systems!
Together with lots of cool people: @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @anikaloewe.bsky.social @jazzmaniatico.bsky.social and Andrea Greve!
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
We are pleased to announce our next Time-resolved Neuroimaging (EEG+) #CIMCYCsession which will be held by Paula Pena. She will present the results of her work www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
No prior experience in EEG is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to discuss ideas. Save the date!
No prior experience in EEG is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to discuss ideas. Save the date!
April 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We are pleased to announce our next Time-resolved Neuroimaging (EEG+) #CIMCYCsession which will be held by Paula Pena. She will present the results of her work www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
No prior experience in EEG is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to discuss ideas. Save the date!
No prior experience in EEG is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to discuss ideas. Save the date!
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
Plot twist 😮, memory 🧠and AHA moments🤓: what do they have in common? Johannah Völler, our PhD student, explains!
If you don't want to lose her #3MT speech, let's watch this video 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkff...
If you don't want to lose her #3MT speech, let's watch this video 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkff...
Johannah Völler gana el concurso 3MT en la UGR
YouTube video by UGRmedia
www.youtube.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Plot twist 😮, memory 🧠and AHA moments🤓: what do they have in common? Johannah Völler, our PhD student, explains!
If you don't want to lose her #3MT speech, let's watch this video 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkff...
If you don't want to lose her #3MT speech, let's watch this video 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkff...
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
🎉 3 of our PhD students participated in the #3MT competition, and Johannah Völler (Human Neuroscience Research Lab) won! 🥇
📢 Her thesis “focuses on how we learn in a single trial and how the emotional experience (”Aha!“) associated with these learning moments facilitates memory consolidation"
📢 Her thesis “focuses on how we learn in a single trial and how the emotional experience (”Aha!“) associated with these learning moments facilitates memory consolidation"
March 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🎉 3 of our PhD students participated in the #3MT competition, and Johannah Völler (Human Neuroscience Research Lab) won! 🥇
📢 Her thesis “focuses on how we learn in a single trial and how the emotional experience (”Aha!“) associated with these learning moments facilitates memory consolidation"
📢 Her thesis “focuses on how we learn in a single trial and how the emotional experience (”Aha!“) associated with these learning moments facilitates memory consolidation"
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
El martes 25 de marzo nos vemos en la Sala Planta Baja #Granada con una nueva sesión de Psycho Beers 🧠🍻
La unión de Psicología e IA promete una noche de conocimientos con Javier Ortiz Tudela, investigador del CIMCYC, y Belén Prados, de la ETS de Ing. Informática y de Telecomunicación de la UGR.
La unión de Psicología e IA promete una noche de conocimientos con Javier Ortiz Tudela, investigador del CIMCYC, y Belén Prados, de la ETS de Ing. Informática y de Telecomunicación de la UGR.
March 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
El martes 25 de marzo nos vemos en la Sala Planta Baja #Granada con una nueva sesión de Psycho Beers 🧠🍻
La unión de Psicología e IA promete una noche de conocimientos con Javier Ortiz Tudela, investigador del CIMCYC, y Belén Prados, de la ETS de Ing. Informática y de Telecomunicación de la UGR.
La unión de Psicología e IA promete una noche de conocimientos con Javier Ortiz Tudela, investigador del CIMCYC, y Belén Prados, de la ETS de Ing. Informática y de Telecomunicación de la UGR.
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
Nice coverage of the Fort Collins #StandUpForScience2025 march at www.coloradoan.com/story/news/l...
1000 scientists standing up and fighting back against the Trump administration's politically motivated censorship of science and attempts to destroy health and economy of our communities.
1000 scientists standing up and fighting back against the Trump administration's politically motivated censorship of science and attempts to destroy health and economy of our communities.
March 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Nice coverage of the Fort Collins #StandUpForScience2025 march at www.coloradoan.com/story/news/l...
1000 scientists standing up and fighting back against the Trump administration's politically motivated censorship of science and attempts to destroy health and economy of our communities.
1000 scientists standing up and fighting back against the Trump administration's politically motivated censorship of science and attempts to destroy health and economy of our communities.
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
Olive oil and sugar, the Andalusian spirit is felt at CIMCYC! 🎉
Today, we celebrate #Andalusia and our luck of being located in #Granada with a breakfast of toast, coffee and fellowship.
Today, we celebrate #Andalusia and our luck of being located in #Granada with a breakfast of toast, coffee and fellowship.
February 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Olive oil and sugar, the Andalusian spirit is felt at CIMCYC! 🎉
Today, we celebrate #Andalusia and our luck of being located in #Granada with a breakfast of toast, coffee and fellowship.
Today, we celebrate #Andalusia and our luck of being located in #Granada with a breakfast of toast, coffee and fellowship.
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
February 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
📢The Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center CIMCYC will hire full-time predoctoral researchers to conduct a PhD co-supervised by a CIMCYC member and a researcher of an international university.
📍Research lines: Clinical Neuropsychology, Development, Individual Differences or Social Inequalities.
📍Research lines: Clinical Neuropsychology, Development, Individual Differences or Social Inequalities.
February 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
📢The Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center CIMCYC will hire full-time predoctoral researchers to conduct a PhD co-supervised by a CIMCYC member and a researcher of an international university.
📍Research lines: Clinical Neuropsychology, Development, Individual Differences or Social Inequalities.
📍Research lines: Clinical Neuropsychology, Development, Individual Differences or Social Inequalities.
Reposted by Michelle Hefner
En el #DíaInternacionaldelaMujerylaNiñaenlaCiencia #11f, queremos dar visibilidad a las mujeres investigadoras de nuestro centro y rendir homenaje a las científicas que nos han demostrado que merece la pena seguir trabajando por un mundo más igualitario.
February 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
En el #DíaInternacionaldelaMujerylaNiñaenlaCiencia #11f, queremos dar visibilidad a las mujeres investigadoras de nuestro centro y rendir homenaje a las científicas que nos han demostrado que merece la pena seguir trabajando por un mundo más igualitario.