Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.

tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬

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🚨PhD position alert!🚨
Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

ICYMI: decision to cut 5 international bachelor psychology programs in NL poses serious threat to psych science nationally & internationally, given how much research conducted here has historically punched above its weight in terms of per-capita output.

eiko-fried.com/nl-psycholog...

In @elife.bsky.social: Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding during natural listening doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

A postdoc in my lab contacted a fellow scientist to get some advice and was told that, because he's currently working on the topic, he "can't give away all his secrets." I find this extremely lame, and yet I keep encountering it. Science is not a zero-sum game!!

🚨Call for Papers🚨
The Re-Align Workshop is coming back to #ICLR2025

Our CfP is up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at
@iclr-conf.bsky.social

Deadline is 11:59 pm AOE on Feb 3rd

representational-alignment.github.io

Check out @thetransmitter.bsky.social's newly launched calendar of advanced neuroscience courses, featuring events all over the world. www.thetransmitter.org/courses/

The frustration at Dutch universities is tangible today. Being faced with huge, irrational, shortsighted cutbacks is frustrating. Being denied the opportunity to protest these cutbacks adds to the frustration. But while today’s huge demonstration may be cancel, the protest is not 🟥

I am *so* excited to announce that I received an ERC starting grant to set up my lab on mental imagery and reality monitoring: imaginerealitylab.org at UCL! Thanks to @ec.europa.eu and @smfleming.bsky.social, @peterkok.bsky.social and Marcel van Gerven for their invaluable mentorship and support!

NEW PAPER: How do we learn the statistical structure of the world? We tackled this big question by borrowing the blocking paradigm from reinforcement learning.
Led by Ilayda Nazli, w/ Christoph Huber-Huber and Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Highlights 👇

🚨Job alert!🚨 Are you looking for a PhD position, and interested in neuroAI, the predictive brain and visual perception/cognition? Then this job is for you: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Sharing/re-posting is very much appreciated!

🚨Job alert!🚨 Are you curious about curiosity, and looking for a post-doc position? Then please consider applying: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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Our review on scene perception is now freely available in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience!

doi.org/10.1093/acre...

We discuss object-, space- and affordance-based scene representations and behavioral, fMRI and M/EEG evidence for their presence in the human brain (plus DNNs)!

my first paper ever is out now in PNAS 🎉🔥!! (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠) (w/ Simon van Gaal, @juliaha.bsky.social, @smfleming.bsky.social and @fahrenfort.bsky.social) we introduced a novel method to distinguish between effects in subjective experience from effects in decision-making. let me know what you think!

Reconstructing computational system dynamics from neural data with recurrent neural networks

www.nature.com/articles/s41...