Anna-Lena Eckert

Why is touch perceived as weaker during movement?

In our new preprint 📝, we examine tactile suppression during reaching.

Using optimal control theory, we show that tactile suppression reflects dynamic, uncertainty-dependent integration of forward model predictions and sensory feedback.

If you want to tackle the "biggest problem holding neuroscience back right now" - comparing mechanisms of cognition across species - join us in @ox.ac.uk and @tcddublin.bsky.social . Please share!

3x Job Details below:

(fantastic article @suthanalab.bsky.social ) #neuroskyence #neurojobs

We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨Finally published - I'm very excited to share this work where we investigated the role of coordinated oscillatory activity 🧠 during social and visual WM processes and how impairments in fine-tuning this mechanisms may explain deficits in individuals with high autistic personality traits.

ASPP will be in Prague this year! #aspp2026

Hands-on python fun + a lovely, supportive community by day, crisp cool staropramen and knedlíky by night - it is going to be peak life 👾💗

🚨Special issue in Schizophrenia Bulletin on Computational markers of psychosis - From latent states to neurobiological mechanisms! Led by @cognemo.bsky.social and me!! We are still accepting submissions until April 30 (despite the date in the website 😅)

academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal!
Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

All theory is wrong until verified by data. Greatly indebted to @mhyaghoubi.bsky.social, @markbrandonlab.bsky.social, @douglasresearch.bsky.social for finding the hippocampus encoding reward prediction! Grateful to my advisor @cpehlevan.bsky.social, @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social.
#RL #hippocampus

One week left to apply!

What is next? Predictable visual sequences are encoded with anticipatory biases and reduced neural responses Objects in motion follow predictable trajectories that the brain can easily anticipate. We investigated the underlying neural mechanisms, focusing on a form of representational momentum (RM), whereby ...

🚨 New paper! "What is next? Predictable visual sequences are encoded with anticipatory biases and reduced neural responses" with @baisongyun.bsky.social and @davidpascucci.bsky.social

#EEG #neuroimaging #neuroskyence

I'm looking to hire a postgraduate research associate in Computational Psychiatry for my new lab at Yale. Please see link below for details & help RT 🙏

postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...

Thank you to everyone at TAM for creating such a collaborative & supportive environment over the years.

The DFG excellence upgrade will be huge - if you are looking for PhD/ post-doc opportunities, def check here:

www.theadaptivemind.de

Happy to chat about my experience there as well

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!

🚀🎓We have exciting opportunities at the PhD and Postdoc level, including in the new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience, a 10-year initiative spanning a powerful international network of labs working across species and disciplines - please reach out if interested
bsky.app/profile/simo...

Postdoc opportunity @uni-konstanz.de, @uni-freiburg.de, @unituebingen.bsky.social for ECRs who can't continue their research in the US: www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026.
2026.ccneuro.org

Enjoyed reading this post. Funny enough we had a pretty lively debate on this in our last labmeeting. I was one of the folks defending theory w/out data, so it resonated a lot 😅

"But some of the most important papers don't explain data, they restructure the space of possible explanations"

A beautiful summary of our paper! Thank you @neurosock.bsky.social

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

Flugsteuer muss bleiben – jetzt Appell unterzeichnen Die Koalitionsspitzen wollen die Flugsteuer senken – auf Kosten des Klimas. Das müssen wir verhindern!

✈️ Die Koalitionsspitzen wollen die Flugsteuer senken – und gleichzeitig wird das Deutschlandticket teurer. Statt Billigflüge zu subventionieren, sollten sie lieber in die marode Bahn investieren und für günstige Zugtickets sorgen. Jetzt Appell unterzeichnen ➡️ aktion.campact.de/s/flugsteuer...

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

This work is now out in Nature Communications! 🎉

Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64702-6

Huge thanks to our amazing team! @beckyneuro.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social

Merz’ rassistische Ablenkung hat Tradition Die Stadtbild-Debatte ist nicht nur ein Schauspiel des Alltagsrassismus in Deutschland, sondern auch ein Ablenkungsmanöver: Unzufriedenheit soll sich an Ausländern entladen statt an der Politik, die d...

Merz Stadtbild-Aussage ist nicht nur rassistisch, sondern auch ein Ablenkungsmanöver: Unzufriedenheit soll sich an "Ausländern" entladen statt an der Politik, die versagt, lebenswerte Städte für alle zu schaffen. @keremschamberger.bsky.social @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social

Hippocampus supports multi-task reinforcement learning under partial observability - Nature Communications Neural mechanisms underlying reinforcement learning in naturalistic environments are not fully understood. Here authors show that reinforcement learning (RL) agents with hippocampal-like recurrence, u...

How does the brain find its way in realistic environments? 🧠 Using deep RL and neural data, we show that hippocampal-like networks support navigation, learning, and generalisation in partially observable environments—mirroring real animal behaviour. Now out:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroAI

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

no words

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).

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

Ayooo 👾 this is great, congratulations!! 😊🎉

[logging on every day] man what

My amazing husband Majed worked *so hard* on this project for >5 years - finally published today @natcomms.nature.com 😍

Absolutely insane array of methods, looking at microglia proliferation patterns & cell-cell interactions after stroke. Proud moment! 💫

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