Ever wonder how people's brains differ from one another?
➡️ Individual differences in 🧠 organization commonly come in 2 forms: shifts in borders & 'ectopic intrusions' far from expected locations
Now out in Nature Neuroscience, led by Ally Dworetsky
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🧵soon!

Incredibly excited to announce that the next Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences Seminar will host Dr Moataz Assem, from University of Cambridge!
Don't miss it!
Wednesday, May 1st, 1-2pm, Room 612
Teams link available at [email protected]
Moataz Assem
Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences

It was perfect.

It is on!!!

We're organizing the 5th Workshop on Cyber-Physical Human Systems cphs_2024 in Antalya, Turkey on 12-13 December and looking forward to the full paper or extended abstract submissions! cphs2024.org

Thrilled to share a review on THE LANGUAGE NETWORK AS A NATURAL KIND—a culmination of ~20 yrs of thinking about+studying language from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and cog neuro perspectives. Nature Rev Neurosci rdcu.be/dEylV
With the amazing Anna Ivanova Tamar Regev 🥳
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do u know of someone who may be interested in starting a lab as a junior PI in Korea, to work on perceptual decision-making in mice? besides postdocs, we would consider someone fresh out of grad school too, or someone who wants to be a staff scientist for the longer term. 1/

Come work with the fabulous Jade Jackson and myself at the CBU! Please share.

Our review on the computational foundations of dynamic coding is out now in TICS: doi.org/10.1016/j.tics…
We review dynamic coding in neural recordings, classical working memory models, and task-optimized networks.

The neuroscience of lucid dreaming: past, present, future

authors.elsevier.com/a/1isnj3BtfH99…

All universities that care about equality should fund paid internship schemes. Unpaid research internships can only be done by wealthy or overworked. But please don't only pay at the end. That detail could preclude people without funds from taking part

Very happy that we are running this paid internship scheme - with an emphasis on widening participation - again this year! Please pass the word on far and wide.

Are you a UK or Republic Ireland student studying psychology, cognitive neurosciences or related, and in your penultimate year looking to gain research experience? The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit is offering a 6-week undergraduate summer placement scheme. Find out more: ow.ly/tY7M50R21QC

i plan to move to Korea later this year, & will soon hire at all levels (students, postdocs, staff scientists, junior PIs) -

docs.google.com/document/d/1Vw…

my lab in Japan will run till at least 2025. RIKEN has been nothing but the dream job. but hopefully the above explains it. 1/2

We're seeking three postdocs and two PhDs in infant neuroimaging and medical imaging methods. Join us at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Dublin, Ireland!
cusacklab.org/vacancies.html

Our paper on formal and functional competence in language models is now out in Trends in Cognitive Science! With co-lead Anna Ivanova along with
I.A.B, Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected], Josh Tenenbaum and Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦.

Paper: mahowak.github.io/assets/pdf/mah…

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Two research-focussed lectureships in Psychology available UEA Psychology - come and join our fabulous department at Uni of East Anglia in beautiful Norfolk vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/797/…