Carina Forster

Cow astonishes scientists with rare tool use The discovery suggests cows may have far greater cognitive abilities than previously assumed.

Nature imitates Larson

Trinity's FutureNeuro centre
@futureneuro.bsky.social
is now taking applications for 2 year postdocs coming to Ireland from abroad. My lab is an eligible host; if you are interested, please reach out! futureneurocentre.ie/neuroadapt/

Antidepressant treatment shouldn't be a guessing game. RELMED is working towards using advanced research to predict which medication is most likely to help each person along their individual path to recovery.

Postdoctoral research position in #ComputationalPsychiatry and #EEG as part of relmed.ac.uk trial testing reinforcement learning as biomarker for antidepressant treatment response. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @mikebrowning.bsky.social @relmed.bsky.social

Exciting announcement!

Our Institute is calling for applications for a EMCR 2-year fellowship .

Come and join a great team @turnerinstitute!

Details here:
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/ci/en/jo...

Piloting a VR experiment in a funny looking motion capture suit

Farewell & christmas party with the lab

Today marks my last day @ MR theoretical neuro lab 👋🥲

Deeply grateful to Dominik & team for everything I learned here. Spent my last week pushing to finish things, VR piloting & farewell partying.

Exciting things ahead - super thrilled to join @drrickadams.bsky.social lab at UCL in January!

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas - Communications Psychology Two EEG studies in healthy human adults suggest that choice history and stimulus probability-induced biases in somatosensory perception are reflected in distinct prestimulus beta power modulations acr...

Check out my published PhD work including links to analysis code and EEG data (n=83): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Big thank you to my co-authors, the editor and the reviewers.

📢 Huge thanks to everyone who visited our EDIA poster at #VSS2025
We had a packed 4.5 hours of great discussions on XR research tools & eye tracking.

✨ Stay tuned, open-source release coming soon!
🔗 edia-toolbox.github.io

#XR #Research #Academic #OpenSource

#OHBM2025Brisbane
#BrainConnectivity
If you visit the land down under for OHBM25, join us for the satellite Brain Connectivity Workshop on beautiful Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). Register now to secure the early bird discount.
qimrberghofer.eventsair.com/brain-connec...

100 % recommend this summer school in beautiful Barcelona. Loved the hands-on approach. Amazing instructors and tutors. Go and apply.

Prior knowledge changes initial sensory processing in the human spinal cord High-frequency signals at a neuronal population level reveal a cognitive influence on sensory processing in the human spinal cord.

Prior knowledge changes sensory processing in the spinal cord?! 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #neuroskyence

Single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans - Nature Communications The hippocampus is thought to encode the content of stimuli, but how it does so is unknown. The authors show that when hippocampal spiking variability tracks the abstract building blocks of individual...

*How* does the hippocampus encode the world around us? Leo Waschke and Fabian Kamp bring the 🔥, showing that single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans. Our latest in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Foto of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain on a sunny day.

*** Two doctoral scholarships available by Max Planck School of Cognition @MPS_cog and Berlin School of Mind and Brain @MindaBrain funded by DAAD ***

👉 Two topics: (1) Heart and Brain & (2) Autoimmune #encephalitis
👉 International applicants only

All details: mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-pro...

Striatal stimulation enhances cognitive control and evidence processing in rodents and humans Developing an animal model of human brain stimulation therapy reveals that striatal DBS enhances the brain’s ability to process conflicting evidence.

Out today: cross-species improvement of cognitive flexibility
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The TLDR: remember when we improved human cognition with deep brain stimulation? (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34725508/)
Well, now we did it in rats, and it works the same!
Specifically... 1/

🚀 Preprint out! doi.org/10.31234/osf...
We developed, empirically evaluated and openly share **AffectTracker**, a new tool to collect continuous ratings of two-dimensional (valence and arousal) affective experience **during** dynamic emotional stimulation (e.g., 360° videos) in immersive VR! 🥽🧠🟦

Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does) All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.

I have a thing for probability theory and this article is just a pleasure to read:

Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is so so so so cool.

CCN comes to Amsterdam.

Which means you can get there from the UK without flying!

I cannot wait.

Just went through it and I really love it - I hope Cog Science will follow this pretty cool new format😀

Logo of the MindBrainBody Symposium

📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025!

📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de

Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social

#interoception

Pre-stimulus beta power mediates explicit and implicit perceptual biases in distinct cortical areas Perception is biased by expectations and previous actions. Pre-stimulus brain oscillations are a potential candidate for implementing biases in the brain. In two EEG studies on somatosensory near-thre...

Updated preprint: check it out if you are interested in biases in perception, oscillations and GLMMs.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

CarinaFo - Overview PhD candidate, neuroscience & cog. psych., studying neural (EEG) & behavioural correlates of expectations in somatosensory perception, Python :blue_heart: - CarinaFo

Feel free to check out my repo for coding resources: github.com/CarinaFo
I am also happy to teach online workshops while I am in Bali waiting for my visa.

It's official. I am moving to Australia to start a position at QIMR Berghofer in the Clinical Brain Networks group led by Luca Cocchi. I will be waiting for my visa in Bali. 🏝️💻Reach out if you are interested in Python coding workshops for scientists (behaviour, EEG/MEG).