@peterkok.bsky.social
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the FIL, UCL, using human neuroimaging to study how our prior knowledge influences the way we perceive the world. https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/team/visual-perception-team/
Congratulations to Judith Ellen Fan @judithfan.bsky.social, recipient of the 2026 Lila R. Gleitman Prize.
Dr. Fan's research reflects the broad scope of modern #CogSci, bridging #psychology, #neuroscience, vision science, and #education.
Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-prize/
Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience.
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
📢 PhD position in Developmental Language Modelling
(PLZ RT)
What can human language acquisition teach us about training language models? Join us as a PhD!
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-developmental-language @carorowland.bsky.social
@mpi-nl.bsky.social
"When I think about the first year...it was really bad—maybe slightly better than what my Trump derangement syndrome baseline was. [But] this war is the first time I'm like...I didn't think that he was gonna be this stupid."
@timmiller.bsky.social on Trump's year and why the Iran war surprised him.
Congratulations @monicarosenb.bsky.social on your Young Investigator Award! Join us now for her #CNS2026 award talk, about neural signatures of sustained attention, with intro by @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social
Congratulations @actlab.bsky.social on your Young Investigator Award! Join us now for his #CNS2026 award talk, about generalized prediction errors in the human cerebellum a d the motor system, with an intro by @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social
Temporally-precise sensory encoding of predicted content, entraining motor oscillations to derive time. @akalt.bsky.social's first study out @currentbiology.bsky.social, testing parts of this idea (tinyurl.com/TiCSKaltenma...). Huge thanks @leverhulme.ac.uk ac.uk @erc.europa.eu, great work Aaron!
Amazing(ly cute) work!
What and how do babies see? Rhodri Cusack discusses early visual development.
Come to the session for the pics of babies (like the one below of baby watching "infant IMAX") and stay for the great science!
@rhodricusack.bsky.social
#CNS2026 2/
We're at Invited Symposium 1, Cognitive neuroscience in infants, being kicked off by Nick Turk-Browne
#CNS2026 1/
An unexpected benefit of London's cycle lanes...our would-be Dalek overlords are able to take an afternoon stroll with their human minders, unimpeded
What a wonderful keynote by Peter Hagoort! For more information on Hagoort's work, read this exclusive Q&A on the CNS blog:
www.cogneurosociety.org/making-the-b...
#CNS2026 10/ end 🧵
On now at #CNS2026: Our keynote talk by Peter Hagoort, about our language-ready brain. Intro from Sabine Kastner, who opens with welcome remarks, reminding us all about the global nature of science.
Join us now in the Ballroom.
@mpi-nl.bsky.social 1/
Poster Session A...check it out now!
#CNS2026
We show that synesthesia is sensory and automatic in nature: the pupil scales with the brightness of experienced synesthetic colors. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Now in its new dress @elife.bsky.social (convincing & valuable in round 1).
If anyone wants to pick up the method, happy to share & explain!
Whether it was jets from Israel or US is irrelevant. It was a coordinated action & it does not receive the attention it should, because all our minds have been numbed by the constant, relentless brutality exacted by these two agressors. "How do we sleep while our bed are burning?"
The United States slaughtered school children in Iran, aided by AI.
Brilliant paper by @akalt.bsky.social and @clarepress.bsky.social, happy to have been part of it. Rhythmic predictions of visual content, regardless of task relevance! #neuroskyence
Excited to share that our MEG project is now out in Current Biology! We show how visual content codes relate to motor oscillations in telling time.
Huge thanks to Quirin Gehmacher, Peter Kok, Matt Davis and Clare Press (bsky links below).🧵
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Every time you experience something new, your brain faces a decision: Should it update an existing memory or create a new one?
In our new paper in @sfnjournals.bsky.social #JNeurosci, we isolate that exact decision, moment-by-moment during learning 🧵
the human hippocampus receives convergent input from multiple sensory systems, yet we lack a basic understanding of how this structure integrates across senses.
we tackle this problem in our new preprint!
paper: doi.org/10.64898/202...
w/ Aryan Agarwal, @yannanzhu.bsky.social, & Nick Turk-Browne
New this year at @cogneuronews.bsky.social 2026: All abstracts will be published in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society jocnf.pubpub.org/cns2026. Functionality includes ability to append a visual abstract, like this: doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
Recurrent cortical networks encode natural sensory statistics via sequence filtering
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience
Very proud that this is finally out!
Come for the new auditory illusion, stay for the brain imaging and speech analysis…..
📢 Workshop announcement.
We are super excited to announce the workshop Perceptual Inferences, from philosophy to neuroscience, organized by Alexander Schütz and Daniel Kaiser.
📍 Rauischholzhausen Castle, near Marburg, Germany
🗓️ June 8 to 10, 2026.
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Very happy to see "Pretending not to know reveals a capacity for model-based self-simulation", a collaboration with @chazfirestone.bsky.social and @ianbphillips.bsky.social, out in Psych. Science!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177...
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It’s out!
Come join us in Dublin:
Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Neuroscience position available at UCD!
Let me know if you have any questions :)
full advert here: lnkd.in/dW_uFuab
🚨Preprint! “Bayesian surprise tracks the strength of perceptual insight” - Work with @lindedomingo.bsky.social & @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social
Ever wondered what factors influence the subjective experience of suddenly understanding a previously unclear input?
Click below:
doi.org/10.64898/202...
Or worse: Here's what I would do if I had this data. I refer to points #4 and #5 in Principles for Proper Peer Review:
4. Don’t write the paper for the authors
5. Respect the authors’ time and effort
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8...