Marco Gandolfo

Regularization, Action, and Attractors in the Dynamical “Bayesian” Brain Abstract. The idea that the brain is a probabilistic (Bayesian) inference machine, continuously trying to figure out the hidden causes of its inputs, has become very influential in cognitive (neuro)sc...

🧠 Regularization, Action, and Attractors in the Dynamical “Bayesian” Brain

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(still uncorrected proofs, but they should post the corrected one soon--also OA is forthcoming, for now PDF at brainandexperience.org/pdf/10.1162-...)

👀 Interacting or non-interacting: that is the research question...

📢 New pre-print out on social interaction perception in preverbal infants: osf.io/preprints/ps.... In collaboration with @Emilie Serraille, @jrhochmann.bsky.social and @ljubapi.bsky.social.

🧵 An animated thread 👇

#neuroskyence

PhD Position: Theory of Learning in Artificial and Biologically Inspired Neural Networks | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD candidate Theory of Learning in Artificial and Biologically Inspired Neural Network? Check our vacancy!

Please RT - Open PhD position in my group at the Donders Center for Neuroscience, Radboud University.

We're looking for a PhD candidate interested in developing theories of learning in neural networks.

Applications are open until October 20th.

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🚨WHOHOO!! I am happy to share that I received the #ERCStG for my project PRECHRON: The Prefrontal Chronometer for Organizing Working Memory.

I am going to study #neuraloscillations during #workingmemory at the @rug.nl @rug-gmw.bsky.social

#brainstimulation #TMS #EEG

Donders Cube Award for Sharon Unsworth during Donders Day | Radboud University As part of the Donders Sessions, this year’s annual poster session was expanded into a full-day event featuring engaging talks and poster presentations. Sharon Unsworth was awarded the Donders Cube fo...

🎉 #Donders #Cube Award for Sharon Unsworth 🎉 for her outstanding commitment to the #Kletskoppen #Festival.

🏆 Poster prizes went to:

• Danielle Houwing (MPI)
• Marco Gandolfo (DCC)
• Chinmaya Mishra (MPI)
• Zehra Kazmi (DCN)
• Umut Can ALTIN (DCC)

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The TMS-RAT v1.0 is now being tested!

It's a checklist / guidance tool to help researchers report #TMS studies & to facilitate quantitative comparisons in #systematicreviews & #meta-analyses

All the data will be made freely available; an interactive website will be coming. Stay tuned!

tms-rat.org

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Visitors muZIEum contribute to science | Radboud University A study by Marco Gandolfo shows how our brain processes information and how this differs by gender and age. 14 thousand participants in this study were visitors to the muZIEum in Nijmegen who took par...

👁️💡 How much do we really see?

@marco-gandolfo.bsky.social reveals how our brains process the unexpected, with surprising differences across age and gender.

With over 14,000 participants at muZIEum, it’s the largest public #inattentional #blindness experiment to date.

🔗 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

New preprint out!

“Separate Neural Representations for Physical and Communicative Social Interactions: Evidence from Data-driven Voxel Decomposition” w/ @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social @lisik.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/ps...

A collection of modules, datasets, and other resources for learning to program in R, geared toward students in psychology and neuroscience: ritcheym.github.io/ppn/

PhD position opening in Padova. It is a multidisciplinary project in Experimental Aesthetics and Psychology of Art.
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Human head models and populational framework for simulating brain stimulations - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Human head models and populational framework for simulating brain stimulations

🚨New Publication🚨 Do you work with e-field modeling in NIBS? Do you not always want to use Ernie, but you have no access to MRIs?

We share 100 fully preprocessed head models for e-field simulations based on the HCP.

Thanks! @alekseichuk.bsky.social & Taylor Berger

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

This work in collaboration with @Paul E. Downing and @Cosimo Urgesi has now been published published in NeuroImage 🚨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interactions revealed by Garner tasks likely emerge during the perceptual analysis of the stimuli, rather than via top-down links between the social categories. Further, our findings confirm that ccPAS is a promising protocol for investigating of bottom-up and top-down processes in visual cognition!

After boosting forward connectivity between V1 and the EBA the interference of sex on emotion judgments was eliminated, suggesting that attentional interferences for body judgments emerge at a forward stage of processing.

In a second experiment we use an offline TMS protocol (cortico-cortical paired associative stimulation) to strengthen forward or feedback connectivity between the primary visual and body-selective cortex.

Using the Garner selective attention paradigm we show that judgements of body fearful and happy emotion is slowed down by the task irrelevant variation of body sex.

This work in collaboration with @Paul E. Downing and @Cosimo Urgesi has now been published published in NeuroImage 🚨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A body detection inversion effect revealed by a large-scale inattentional blindness experiment As a social species, humans preferentially attend to the faces and bodies of other people. Previous research revealed specialized cognitive mechanisms…

New Paper out in @Cognition with @peelen.bsky.social !🚨📣
In a large-scale (N = 13539!) inattentional blindness experiment ran on naive museum visitors we demonstrate visual sensitivity to the 🚶‍♀️ upright human form 🚶‍♂️
@dondersinst.bsky.social

Open access link
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Donders Citylab | Radboud University Donders Citylab fosters curiosity for science and brings researchers and society together to learn, connect, educate, and make discoveries about our brains.

Thanks also to the Donders CityLab - www.ru.nl/en/donders-i... for making this collaboration with a local museum possible!

In addition, with the largest inattentional blindness sample to date, we show that large-scale experiments on unsupervised participants in public spaces can help studying cognitive and perceptual phenomena - particularly with studies with few critical trials that rely on participants' naivety!🏛️

What does a body detection inversion effect mean?
Detection of another person is likely to occur from a distance. Bottom-up sensitivity to upright body features may provide an advantage, in evolutionary terms, for readily detecting the presence of others at a “safe” distance.

With this large scale diverse and naive sample we also show that, in line with previous reports, age and gender differences exist in detection rates of inattentional blindness paradigms -
The older the less you detect unexpected critical stimuli!
And people identifying as men detect it more often

Is the detection inversion effect dependent on the presence of the head? No! In an additional experiment we replicate this effect with headless bodies.

We found a detection inversion effect specific to person stimuli: Even when a person was not expected to appear at all, this was detected more often than when inverted. No detection inversion effect was found for plants, showing that for other objects detection relies on basic visual features.

We asked to judge the length of the line of a cross. Unbeknownst to the participants a person or a plant silhouette appeared inside the cross. Either upright or inverted. In a public space on unsupervised visitors, when fully unexpected 48% people missed the stimulus, showing inattentional blindness

A body detection inversion effect revealed by a large-scale inattentional blindness experiment As a social species, humans preferentially attend to the faces and bodies of other people. Previous research revealed specialized cognitive mechanisms…

New Paper out in @Cognition with @peelen.bsky.social !🚨📣
In a large-scale (N = 13539!) inattentional blindness experiment ran on naive museum visitors we demonstrate visual sensitivity to the 🚶‍♀️ upright human form 🚶‍♂️
@dondersinst.bsky.social

Open access link
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

A PhD position is open in @peelen.bsky.social Lab at the Donders Institute - please spread the word and consider applying if you are interested about how imagery and perception relate to each other www.ru.nl/en/working-a... - plus we are fun people to work with ! :)

SPM 25: open source neuroimaging analysis software Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) is an integrated set of methods for testing hypotheses about the brain's structure and function, using data from imaging devices. These methods are implemented in ...

Article: "SPM 25: open source neuroimaging analysis software"

arxiv.org/abs/2501.12081