Action Prediction Lab / Patric Bach

✨ Hybrid Event Alert!

The Smoky Mirrors Symposium: Self–Other Actions and Interactions in Real and Virtual Worlds at Aalto University is coming up on 12.12.25 👏

For more information, and to register, click the link below‼️

www.aalto.fi/en/events/sm...

Reminder about our project on fMRI/EEG on spatial/social cognition for the EastBio PhD studentship competition.

fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.

please share/get in touch

Deadline: 15/12/2025

so, not feedforward. Is this your way of saying the predictive processing people were right all along :p

EastBio: Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying visual stabilisation at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - EastBio: Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying visual stabilisation at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

Are you curious how the brain creates a stable visual world?
Check out our four year EastBio PhD competition project with @mauromanassi.bsky.social, Rama Chakravarthi and Brett Cochrane at @abdnpsych.bsky.social!
Info: tinyurl.com/2s9d4ucw
Deadline: 15 Dec

#PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence

EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

Interested in a PhD in EEG/fMRI of spatial/social cognition?

Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.

tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c

Deadline: 15/12/2025

EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

Interested in a PhD in EEG/fMRI of spatial/social cognition?

Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.

tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c

Deadline: 15/12/2025

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

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

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

I'm so excited to help bring this Computational Neuroscience workshop to life! Join a fantastic group of researchers in Denmark this August (11-14).
We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!

that's really interesting. Do you think this will be different in the next cohort, who grew up with computer games and many of who continue to play computer games? (I do).

PhD position alert!!!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Happy to answer any question you may have!

Visual Mental Imagery and Aphantasia Lesions Map onto a Convergent Brain Network Background Visual mental imagery, the ability to volitionally form perceptual representations without corresponding external stimuli, allows reliving of past events, solving problems and imagining the...

Interesting new lesion meta-analysis of aphantasia, in line with the importance of a specific region in the fusiform gyrus, previously identified by @alfredospagna.bsky.social et al, for visual mental imagery 🧠

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

That's my question, too -- especially after the "again" in the post. Are you long-term monitoring foot offers on Temu?

Isn't that the worst feeling? I know there's something I urgently need to do, but what could it be?

yeah -- and it feels frivolous to post something else right now. We'd love to share news about a recent paper for example but it feels really weird against the current backdrop.

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

There’s much more in the paper! Steve and I look forward to your thoughts in the peer commentary that will come with the article (the call for commentaries will come out soon). You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... and preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps....

A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex At the end of a decision based on evidence accumulation, the neural representation of the accumulation is invariant across decisions. Zylberberg and Shadlen show, nonetheless, that accuracy can be dec...

Happy to share our new paper exploring how the brain might represent decision confidence.

A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Mostly matches mine, with the exception of Last Rites at the top, and Process before Rabies. The post-Dwayne/reunion stuff didn't really do much for me. Felt too clean.

I assume you know their Download sideproject? The early stuff (Furnace, Eyes of Stanley Pain) might be up your alley.

Observers translate information about other agents' higher-order goals into expectations about their forthcoming action kinematics Social perception relies on the ability to understand the higher-order goals that drive other people's behaviour. Under predictive coding views, this …

A new study by 𝐃𝐫. 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐋. 𝐌𝐜𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 (UEA, School of Psychology), provides evidence that when we know someone’s goal, we subconsciously shift our perception of their actions toward the most relevant outcome. This supports predictive coding theories in social perception and Theory of Mind.

New preprint “Monkey See, Model Knew: LLMs accurately predict visual responses in humans AND NHPs”
Led by Colin Conwell with @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social @jacob-prince.bsky.social George Alvarez @taliakonkle.bsky.social & Marge Livingstone 1/n

Always remember--this is not a case of Trump appeasing Putin--its actually him joining Putin. Its not Munich 1938, its the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.

CDC to study potential links between vaccines and autism despite research showing no connection It’s unknown whether Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has promoted anti-vaccine views, is involved in study

I mean you don’t need to do this.

Plenty of studies have been done before and conclusively shown there is no link.

Don’t waste your money.

www.theguardian.com/...

Exciting News!! 🌞🌊 Adriatica2025 Summer School on "Brain-Body Interactions and Wellbeing" is back with an impressive lineup of speakers in a stunning beachside setting! 🫀🫁🧠🧘
Save the dates: September 8-12, Pescara, Italy.
Stay tuned for more details coming soon!
#TEAMLab #MamboLab #Adriatica2025

A vision chip with complementary pathways for open-world sensing - Nature Inspired by the human visual system, a vision chip with primitive-based complementary pathways is developed to overcome the power and bandwidth wall of vision systems, achieving fast, precise, robust&...

I don’t know how I missed this. A group in Beijing have developed an effective brain-inspired vision chip for autonomous machines, robotics, and AI that was inspired by our perception/action account of ventral-dorsal visual processing in primate cerebral cortex.🧪🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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).

We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

Decoding the physics of observed actions in the human brain Inferior parietal and lateral occipitotemporal cortex encode the effects of actions at an abstract level of representation, independently of the body movements that induce them.

New paper!
In this study, we identify a previously unreported level of representation in the action recognition hierarchy that is right-lateralized, perceptually highly invariant but not conceptual, and encodes the coarse structure of the effect induced by an action.
elifesciences.org/articles/98521

BAMB! is happening again in 2025. Learn how to model your behavioural data, next to the beach in Barcelona! keynotes this year from @athenaakrami.bsky.social and Peter Dayan.

Cool finding, and consistent with EcoPsy expectations. But can we please stop inserting the phrase “specialized for” where the data do not support it (which is most everywhere)?

Yes, for this it would be ideal.

I was wondering more in general, though, because this comes up over and over, and even students ask: Am I really allowed to run a (planned) t-test between two conditions even if the ANOVA is not significant. It would be good to have a resource to point them to.

... I don't have to run a full 3-level ANOVA first before being allowed to do this?

Conventional wisdom seems to be that paired tests, even if theoretically motivated, are only allowed after the ANOVA has shown there is some difference between conditions.

Any references etc would appreciated.