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Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner

Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Emotion research has a communication conundrum In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…

In this "Big picture" debate, @nicolecrust.bsky.social explores the controversy around the terminology used to characterize emotions—and invites 13 experts to chime in.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

🚀Excited to share our project: Canonical Representational Mapping for Cognitive Neuroscience. @schottdorflab.bsky.social and I propose a novel multivariate method to isolate neural representations aligned with specific cognitive hypotheses 🧵https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673485v1

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 (𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺?
Implications for reinforcement learning.
Very interesting paper.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence

Book cover: The Nature of Emotion (Ekman, Davidson)

What's the difference between emotions & moods?

While old (1994), this book dives into it.

Richard Davidson suggests a functional difference, whereby emotions bias action and moods bias cognition. (Hmmm... the action/cognition distinction is a tricky one).

psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-...

𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
by Earl K Miller, Scott L Brincat, Jefferson E Roy
This promises to be a must read
One day we should create an online journal club to just read these kinds of papers!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

I made this Computational Psychiatry Starter Pack a while ago and was wondering if I may be missing anyone who has joined bluesky since?

I will add anyone who uses computational models to adress questions in psychiatry research. :)
go.bsky.app/5PTy9Zj

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Emergence of Brains This review traces how ideas from statistical physics evolved into foundational models of neural computation, shaping modern AI and culminating in the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.

It was an honor to write this, but also great fun. A chance to look back at the classics, and think about the path forward. #Physics is a beautiful human endeavor. journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics Bukwich and Campbell et al. show that mice integrate elapsed time and reward intake, scaled by a latent patience variable, to decide when to leave virtual “patches.” Frontal cortex ramping activity ma...

Our paper on foraging is now published in Neuron! Read it here:

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

This project was co-led by Michael Bukwich (not on Bluesky) and me, with major contributions from all co-authors. Huge thanks to the whole team!

Individual differences in decision-making shape how mesolimbic dopamine regulates choice confidence and change-of-mind - Nature Neuroscience Differences in neuroeconomic decision-making influence nucleus accumbens dopamine dynamics and reflect choice confidence during evaluation, as well as past and future value during re-evaluation, which...

Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens core reflected decision confidence during evaluation of decisions in an economic foraging task in mice, as well as both past and future value during re-evaluation and change-of-mind

@perothwell.bsky.social

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

Our new paper is out! When navigating through an environment, how do we combine our general sense of direction with known landmark states? To explore this, @denislan.bsky.social used a task that allowed subjects (or neural networks) to choose either their next action or next state at each step.

Functional Connectivity Heterogeneity and Consequences for Clinical and Cognitive Prediction AbstractFunctional connectivity is frequently used to assess dynamic brain functioning and predict individual differences in behavioral outcomes, such as psychopathology. Inferences from functional co...

Neat registered report from @mattmattoni.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social diving into the tension between nomothetic (group-level) v. idiographic (individual specific) in functional connectivity models.

#Neuroskyence

direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

DeepPrep: an accelerated, scalable and robust pipeline for neuroimaging preprocessing empowered by deep learning - Nature Methods DeepPrep is a preprocessing pipeline for functional and structural MRI data from humans. Deep learning-based modules and an efficient workflow allow DeepPrep to handle large datasets.

Nature Methods

DeepPrep: an accelerated, scalable and robust pipeline for neuroimaging preprocessing empowered by deep learning

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

6/ therefore, this study replicates previous findings from the semantic domain (see doi.org/10.1037/amp0... and doi.org/10.1038/s420...), and generalized it to 2 additional domains of creative thinking ✨

5/ on top of that, we replicated previous findings, showing that individuals’ preference profiles are associated with engagement in creative activities and creative achievement!

4/ in other words: if you prefer original ideas in the semantic domain ✍️, it’s likely that you will also prefer original ideas in the figural domain 🎨.

3/ through behavioral experiments across three domains of creativity (semantic association, object use, drawing) and computational modelling, we showed that preference are stable across domains.

2/ creative thinking can be divided into a phase of ideas generation 💭 and a phase of evaluation of those ideas 🔍 . the latter comprises a monitoring of goal-relevant dimensions (is my idea original ⭐️? adequate 🎯?) and a valuation of idea (how i like this idea 💖?)

1/ my first post for my first paper ✨ in this work with @sarah-moreno.bsky.social, @emmavolle.bsky.social, and @lopezpersem.bsky.social, we showed that subjective valuation acts as a domain-general process during creative thinking 💡

Direct interactions between the human insula and hippocampus during memory encoding - Nature Neuroscience The hippocampus and insula communicate when processing emotional memories. Discrete sites in the human insular cortex showed changes that predicted later memory recall, while others responded to emoti...

Discrete sites in the human insular cortex showed changes of ac vity that predicted later memory recall, while others responded to emo onal content. Smula on of memoryrelated sites showed direct influence over the hippocampus

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

What is emergence, after all? The term emergence is increasingly used across scientific disciplines to describe phenomena that arise from interactions among a system's components but cannot be readily inferred by examining those c...

What is emergence, after all? arxiv.org/abs/2507.04951

Attractors are usually not mechanisms The mathematical objects can not be. And the "attractor models" have not been established as mechanisms in mammals

Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

Meta‐Analysis Reveals That Explore–Exploit Decisions Are Dissociable by Activation in the Dorsal Lateral Prefrontal Cortex, Anterior Insula, and Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex We conducted a coordinate-based meta-analysis (N = 23 studies) where we found activation in the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex, anterior insula, and anterior cingulate cortex during exploration ver...

🚨 New paper in European Journal of Neuroscience:
Meta-Analysis Reveals That Explore–Exploit Decisions Are Dissociable by Activation in the Dorsal Lateral Prefrontal Cortex, Anterior Insula, and Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... (1/2)

Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems - Nature Shared inter-brain neural dynamics, reflecting aspects of social interaction including self and other’s behaviours, arise in GABAergic neurons of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of socially interact...

This! 👉 Inter-Brain Neural Dynamics in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Wanwan Xu, Yize Zhao, et al:

Supervised brain node and network construction under voxel-level functional imaging

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Quelles sont les règles en France ? : épisode 1/5 du podcast Comment se passer de l'expérimentation animale ? AUDIO • Comment se passer de l'expérimentation animale ?, épisode 1/5 : Quelles sont les règles en France ?. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Avec sciences, et découvrez nos podc...

Toute la semaine, je fais une série spéciale sur l'expérimentation animale. Premier épisode ce matin, les règles. Qu'est-ce que la règle des 3R ? Comment sont autorisés les projets de recherche impliquant des animaux ? Quel est le rôle des comités d'éthique ?
Avec Pierre Mormede 🥼

Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain | doi.org/10.1038/s415...

What is the best measure of functional connectivity (FC)?

led by @zhenqi.bsky.social in @natmethods.nature.com ⤵️

Harmonizing network-based statistics across different atlases in brain connectome analysis - Communications Biology A neuroimaging tool, TACOS, was developed to transform network-based statistics across brain structural and functional networks from different atlases. Using TACOS, connectomic findings could be easil...

A neuroimaging tool, TACOS, was developed to transform network-based statistics across brain structural and functional networks from different atlases. Using TACOS, connectomic findings could be easily combined or compared without handling raw data

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

This was hard work, but ultimately there is support in the literature that engagement of different RL processes by serotonergic and dopaminergic/noradrenergic pharmacological interventions may be a promising route to follow. The @relmed.bsky.social study will do just that.