Heidrun Schultz

Congratulations, Daniel! Fantastic news :)

New fMRI study shows the hippocampus signals mismatches only when our expectations are based on episodic memories — not general knowledge. Challenges theories of the hippocampus as a domain-general comparator. We also explore how brain networks respond to surprise: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Studying memory narratives with natural language processing Cognitive neuroscience research has begun to use natural language processing (NLP) to examine memory narratives with the hopes of gaining a nuanced understanding of the mechanisms underlying differenc...

Quantifying memory recall is hard! Luckily, natural language processing (incl. #LLMs) offers new, automated, and scalable ways to do that!

Great new review by Fenerci & @signysheldon.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social!
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events - Nature Communications When people recall a movie, their eye movements and brain activity resemble those observed during the viewing. These behavioral and neural reactivations are linked through a common process, likely ref...

Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory!

We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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@tnm-lab.bsky.social Kausalitätswahrnehmung, Erwartungen & fMRT begeistern dich?
Bewirb dich auf die Promotionsstelle (3 Jahre, 75%) in Marburg (www.theadaptivemind.de) bis zum 17.08.:
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#Job #Promotion #fMRI #Psychologie

Head of School of Psychology at University of Birmingham Apply for the Head of School of Psychology role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS973/h... We're recruiting for a new Head of School for Psychology @unibirmingham.bsky.social - please do get in touch if of interest.

Movie-watching evokes ripple-like activity within events and at event boundaries Nature Communications - The neural processes involved in memory formation for realistic experiences remain poorly understood. Here, the authors found that ripple-like activity in the human...

🧠 Paper out!

We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that:

🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries
🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall

Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories!

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MRI Physicist (m/f/x)

Are you a specialist in the physics behind MRI and want to work at THINK @ruhr-uni-bochum.de? Apply: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4... Thanks for sharing with potential candidates!🧠🙏

Interested in whether sleep and (a)periodic EEG activity increase the probability to have an insight? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Thanks to @anikaloewe.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social & Maria Tzegka for a great teamwork. I really enjoyed it!

A single illuminated light bulb among many unlit ones. Image credit: Pixabay user ColiN00B.

That "Aha!" moment... Can sleep facilitate memory reorganization? @nicoschuck.bsky.social @anikaloewe.bsky.social @maritpetzka.bsky.social &co reveal that N2 #sleep (but not N1) increases likelihood of having an 'aha' moment about a previous #DecisionMaking task @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k8F2v3

🎉 Excited to share our new paper in #ImagingNeuroscience! 👇 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
We found that older adults show reduced sensitivity to uncertainty reduction during #decision-making. Grateful to amazing co-authors I. Bundil, @sschulreich.bsky.social & S.-C. Li. 🙌

Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans - Nature Machine Intelligence An interpretability framework that compares how humans and deep neural networks process images has been presented. Their findings reveal that, unlike humans, deep neural networks focus more on visual ...

What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Join us for a talk by the fantastic @noramraschle.bsky.social
GROWING BRAINS - STUDYING THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF HUMAN BEHAVIORS ACROSS SPACE (BRAIN), TIME (DEVELOPMENT) AND GALAXIES (SOCIAL CONTEXTS)
1 July 2025, 1pm CEST
@tudresden.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

GitHub - spm/spm-python: The Python interface to SPM The Python interface to SPM. Contribute to spm/spm-python development by creating an account on GitHub.

Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]

At #PuG2025? Into memory? We've got just the symposium for you. "The emergence and transformation of memory representations in the human brain". Co-chaired with @rolandbenoit.bsky.social and featuring @denizkumral.bsky.social, Anne Bierbrauer, and @mgarvert.bsky.social. Today, 2:30pm in 0.004 Z6.

How does our brain learn that thunder follows lightning? We don't just remember two separate events; we build a predictive model to anticipate the world. My research dives into this very question: how we learn and predict the order of events. 🧵👇 1/9 #neuroscience #memory #sleep

I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Congratulations, Dr. Yoo :)

Picture of the PIs of TUD's Clusters of Excellence and Cluster of Excellence Initiatives beeing happy.

Picture of TUD's Rector Prof. Ursula Staudinger during the announcement of the funding decision of the DFG.

Picture of cheering guests in the ballroom of the Rectorate Building.

Picture of TUD's Rector Prof. Ursula Staudinger and cheering guests in the ballroom of the Rectorate Building.

Outstanding success: 🎉 #TUDresden shines with 5 Clusters of Excellence. @dfg.de & @wissenschaftsrat.de announced that decision today. TUD has impressively proven its claim to be a top university for the 21st century.
ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

So excited to share my *first* first-author paper, out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social!! In this review, we argue that even if you don’t remember being a baby, evidence that infants form episodic-like memories is actually all around us: authors.elsevier.com/c/1l82g4sIRv...

Communication of perceptual predictions from the hippocampus to the deep layers of the parahippocampal cortex High-resolution neuroimaging reveals stimulus-specific predictions sent from hippocampus to the neocortex during perception.

Our study using layer fMRI to study the direction of communication between the hippocampus and cortex during perceptual predictions is finally out in Science Advances! Predicted-but-omitted shapes are represented in CA2/3 and correlate specifically with deep layers of PHC, suggesting feedback. 🧠🟦

A scoping review of remote and unsupervised digital cognitive assessments in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease - npj Digital Medicine npj Digital Medicine - A scoping review of remote and unsupervised digital cognitive assessments in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

Paper alert! @davidberron.bsky.social and team tackled: What are the recent advances in remote and unsupervised digital cognitive assessment of preclinical AD?
The review covers 28 studies and 23 tools, offering a clear overview of recent advances and challenges.

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change | PNAS Mitigating climate change requires urgent action at individual, collective, and institutional levels. However, individuals may fail to act because ...

What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in @pnas.org w/ @falklab.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry Nature - A study shows that loss of memory precision associated with systems consolidation can be explained by neurogenesis-dependent reorganization of engram circuitry within the hippocampus over...

Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.

rdcu.be/el18q

A short thread follows for those interested.

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Laborleiter*in (m/w/d) Psychophysiologie und Verha... In der Fakultät für Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle der*des Laborleiter*in (TV-L E12 bzw. E13) im B...

⚠️Permanent position (E13) as lab manager (psychophysiology, experimental behavioral neuroscience) at University of Bielefeld. Earliest starting date is in July but later is absolutely possible. Please share widely uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/427...

Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com, we show how cognitive maps in the hippocampal system could solve the general problem of representing and relating multiple alternative action plans. 
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

With @doellerlab.bsky.social, Patrick Haggard, @vigano.bsky.social, Daniel Reznik

Delayed emergence of EEG-based task-relevant representations This paper examines the effect of a period of quiet wakefulness (an “offline wake” state) on the performance of a decision making task. An initial fee…

🧠 Can a short period of awake, quiet rest help you generalize better? In our new study, we tested this with a learning paradigm comparing offline vs online wake period.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our latest preprint! "It’s about time: Specific and unspecific effects of episodic future thinking on farsighted decisions" with @rolandbenoit.bsky.social - osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/9

🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences.

We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

It’s about time: Specific and unspecific effects of episodic future thinking on farsighted decisions - data, scripts, stimuli, figures Hosted on the Open Science Framework

Data and scripts available on OSF: osf.io/ukb6h/?view_...
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