Moataz Assem

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢

🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.

Please RT

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

I can't wait!

State-of-the-art of using implanted electrodes to stimulate cortical networks

Evidence from Formal Logical Reasoning Reveals that the Language of Thought is not Natural Language Humans are endowed with a powerful capacity for both inductive and deductive logical thought: we easily form generalizations based on a few examples and draw conclusions from known premises. Humans al...

Is the Language of Thought == Language? A Thread 🧵
New Preprint (link: tinyurl.com/LangLOT) with @alexanderfung.bsky.social, Paris Jaggers, Jason Chen, Josh Rule, Yael Benn, @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social, ‪@spiantado.bsky.social‬, Rosemary Varley, @evfedorenko.bsky.social
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Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route | Royal Society The Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to £4m ov...

Fantastic opportunity for mid-career researchers who would like to relocate their lab to the UK

Faraday Discovery fellowships

royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

Wowza!

Join us for lots of cool science and fun!

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Can humans use artificial limbs for body augmentation as flexibly as their own hands?
🚨 Our new interdisciplinary study put this question to the test with the Third Thumb (@daniclode.bsky.social), a robotic extra digit you control with your toes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Big year for our lab at #OHBM2025!

Thrilled to present an exciting mix of posters, talks, and lots of brainy fun 🧠🤓

Come check us out! We’d love to connect!

@cognizelab.bsky.social
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
#OHBM #OHBM2025 #Neuroimaging

Very cool tips that any conference can easily implement

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

We found place-biases to also be visually biased. But face biases to be sandwiched between visual and auditory biased patches (data from individual subjs that did both category and sensory tasks). Adds to the complex interdigitations in the frontal lobe.

Now out with a really cool additional finding:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

A vector calculus for neural computation in the cerebellum Null space theory predicts that neurons generate spikes not only to produce behavior but also to prevent the undesirable effect of other neurons on behavior. In this work, we show that this competitiv...

Neuronal computation in the cerebellum via a vector calculus.

Work of Mohammad Amin Fakharian, Alden Shoup, Paul Hage, and Hisham Elseweifi

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It's that time of the year again... Applications are open for students and teaching assistants for Introduction to Computational Neuroscience 2025 summer school. Applications are open till May 15th. Apply now and Repost!
#ArabCompNeuro25 #neuroscience #education

Finally got around to incorporating all Github feedback on my open access textbook, making around 20 minor improvements, and updating some references. 17 chapters of state of the art stats and methods education, freely available for any course you teach. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

How do cognitive maps fail? And how can this help us understand/treat psychosis? My lab at @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc tinyurl.com/2p935hhz and RA tinyurl.com/3myfpb78 to answer these questions in mouse models.
Here's why you might want to join: 🧵

🎉 Congratulations to Manisha Biswas for winning the #SocialSciences category in this year's #DanceYourPhD competition.

Watch the entire video on the power of collective synchrony—and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl

An excellent opportunity

PhD Position: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience of Social Decision-Making at the Donders Centre for Cognition | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience of Social Decision-Making at the Donders Centre for Cognition at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

PhD position alert! Come work with Inti Brazil and us at @dondersinst.bsky.social: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

New paper!
Cognitive independence and interactions between cerebral hemispheres
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
#neuroscience

Welcome to this side of the pond!

New preprint ✨ w/ @olafhauk.bsky.social and Matt Lambon Ralph @mrccbu.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @gatescambridge.bsky.social

The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) seems crucial for both semantic memory and semantic composition. How to make sense of this neuroanatomical alignment? 🧠

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Connectivity Profile and Function of Uniquely Human Cortical Areas Determining the brain specializations unique to humans requires directly comparable anatomical information from other primates, especially our closest relatives. Human ( Homo sapiens ; m/f), chimpanze...

"Identification of human-specific connectivity patterns in temporal & parietal lobes, regions linked to language & social cognition, challenges traditional views that prioritize the prefrontal cortex in defining human cognitive uniqueness." @neuroecologylab.bsky.social in new issue of J. Neurosci.👇🧪

The extended language network: Language selective brain areas whose contributions to language remain to be discovered Although language neuroscience has largely focused on core left frontal and temporal brain areas and their right-hemisphere homotopes, numerous other areas - cortical, subcortical, and cerebellar - ha...

Excited to share new work on the language system!

Using a large fMRI dataset (n=772) we comprehensively search for language-selective regions across the brain. w/
Aaron Wright, @benlipkin.bsky.social, and @evfedorenko.bsky.social

Link to the preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thread below!👇🧵

ARIA Opportunity Space: Scalable Neural Interfaces

Looking for an exciting fellowship in AI & Neuro, with competitive salary (~£100k)? We got a new position in the lab at Oxford, working with @somnirons.bsky.social and me! 🧪

Our project: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh...

General info: encode.pillar.vc

#compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs

openRxiv has arrived!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...

#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

Claims of causality in health news: a randomised trial - BMC Medicine Background Misleading news claims can be detrimental to public health. We aimed to improve the alignment between causal claims and evidence, without losing news interest (counter to assumptions that n...

I have just learned about this interesting study which suggests that exaggeration (making causal claims from correlational data) originate from University press releases, not from Journalists. Good news is, toning down claims did not harm news uptake!

bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....