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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

📢Publishing alert: New theory paper out on experiment-based calibration: formal model, relation to criterion validity, role of confounds, and data-generation model.

#mathematicalpsychology #calibration #simulation

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#studentjob #studentprogrammer #unibonn

📢 Job alert: We are looking to hire a student research assistant for programming work in Java in Bonn. Prior experience with Spring Boot is desired. Deadline: October 5, 2025. Read the full job description and how to sumbit your application here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...

Take a peak at the #preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Just posted with @serenxia.bsky.social and @pharmacopsychology.bsky.social : a systematic review of pharmacological effects on human aversive memory. We searched data bases for 215 candidate drugs and summarise the evidence from 100 studies on 36 compounds following #PRISMA2020 protocol.

We searched data bases for 215 candidate drugs and summarise the evidence from 100 studies on 36 compounds following #PRISMA2020 protocol.

[2/2] Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

#FearConditioning #BrainResearch #MentalHealth #Neuroscience

Neural correlates of human fear conditioning and sources of variability in 2199 individuals - Nature Communications A large brain imaging study of over 2000 people worldwide shows that fear conditioning engages brain regions linked to emotion and attention, with differences in individuals with anxiety or depression...

[1/2] Ever wondered how your brain learns to anticipate negative events? 🧠 We just helped to map the brain's 'fear network'! This #ENIGMA consortium study found that while fear responses are universal, task design and clinical status yield relevant differences in brain activity.

📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢

Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.

🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io

🚨closes September 12th!

Skeleton Motion Words for Unsupervised Skeleton-Based Temporal Action Segmentation Current state-of-the-art methods for skeleton-based temporal action segmentation are predominantly supervised and require annotated data, which is expensive to collect. In contrast, existing unsupervi...

📢 Our paper is out now!

We propose an unsupervised skeleton-based temporal action segmentation framework. If you are interested in exploring actions in skeleton sequences without human annotations, check it out:
Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.04513
Project page: uzaygokay.github.io/SMQ/

#bignews: @unibonn.bsky.social now has a Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience and it is already growing! Welcome to Bonn, Professor Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! New #caian website and more updates will follow within the next few weeks.

www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/news

👋 Our lab is hiring: we are currently recruiting for at least two more student research assistants for programming and VR studies!

🔎 Find out more about requirements and deadlines here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/jobs

Today our paper "Skeleton Motion Words for Unsupervised Skeleton-based Temporal Action Segmentation" was accepted for #ICCV2025. 🎉 Congrats all around to the collaborators, of whom only @uzaygokay.bsky.social seems to be active here 🦋.

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👨‍💻👩‍💻We are hiring! We are looking to recruit a student research assistant for some programming work in R. Deadline for applications is July 31, 2025. More info here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...

This Friday, our lab is going to host a visitor from Cologne. If you can, we would be delighted to have you join this guest talk.👇

🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓Brief reminder that the deadline to apply for our job opening as a PhD student is this Sunday. Don't hesitate - join our team in Bonn!

📢We are looking to hire a PhD student at @unibonn.bsky.social to investigate the cognitive mechanisms of human decision-making under threat in #VR.
Apply by June 15.

More information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...

#vrthreat #PhDposition #jobalert #researchjob #neuroscience #psychology

New from the lab with J. Brochard & P. Dayan: Theoretical review on #criticalintelligence: How to make rapid decisions with utmost precision when under threat. We identify computational challenges, candidate solutions & cognitive experiments to disambiguate them www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Critical intelligence: Computing defensive behaviour Characterising the mechanisms underlying naturalistic defensive behavior remains a significant challenge. While substantial progress has been made in …

How do animals and humans develop a survival plan in a fraction of a second, much faster than a computer? ⌛

Read the answer in our 🔥new article here👇
(of course #openaccess).

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Thanks to all collaborators, including @jackbrookes.bsky.social, who seems to be the only one active on this platform.

The CogLearn Toolkit for Unity: Validating a virtual reality paradigm for human avoidance learning - Behavior Research Methods Avoidance learning encompasses the acquisition of behaviours that enable individuals to evade or withdraw from potentially harmful stimuli, prior to their occurrence. Maladaptive avoidance is a crucia...

👉 Check out our new #CogLearn Toolkit for #Unity: we built and validated (across 5 samples) an immersive #VR paradigm for human avoidance learning. Basic version can be controlled by simple text files; more control via publicly available Unity toolkit. doi.org/10.3758/s134...
#humanavoidancelearning

This month, we welcomed Steven Lieu as a PhD student to our team @unibonn.bsky.social. Looking forward to working with you! 🙌

Hi, can we still join? We are researching human behavior.

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library Pavlovian appetitive conditioning is an important experimental model, but its quantification remains heterogeneous. In a study with visual CS and primary US (fruit juice), we show that heart period r....

👉 Link to article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New from the lab: comparing CR in human Pavlovian reward conditioning/retention over 7 days across 2 samples. Bradycardia is best index of learning & retention, pupil dilation only for retention.

Calibration experiments: An alternative to multi-method approaches for measurement validation in consumer research Measurement validation in consumer research is ideally performed within the context of a multi-trait multi-method matrix (MTMM). While statistically w…

👉New review from the lab on measurement validation in social sciences. #MTMM has long been the gold standard - but is often cumbersome. We contrast it with a fresh approach: experiment-based calibration. We offer clear guidance when to use which.

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The positions are going to be based at @unibonn.bsky.social, but will involve a close collaboration with @uclqsion.bsky.social , where part of the team is based.

#fMRIresearch #neurosciencejobs #threatlearning #computationalneuroimaging #computationalpsychiatry

📢 JOB ALERT: Postdoc & PhD position in computational neuroimaging/computational psychiatry, to work with existing fMRI & behavioural (big) data. Apply by March 31 and reach out any time for more information.

www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...

Image: K. Ojala, A. Tzovara 2022 (CC BY 4.0)

🎂PsPM is turning 15, and we are celebrating with a new release: Version 7.0.0. Streamlined user experience, improved robustness, and better maintainability. All teaching material on our website is updated too: bachlab.github.io/PsPM/
#PsPM #psychophysiologicalmodelling