Aurelio Cortese

📣 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents.
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656
And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!

“Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”: Aid Access as Weapon in Israel’s War on Gaza, Researchers Find The starvation crisis in Gaza is deepening under Israel’s brutal blockade and amid regular massacres of civilians attempting to secure aid at the only officially sanctioned aid sites, run by Israeli…

“I’ve been working on this field of famine, food crisis and humanitarian action for more than 40 years, and there is no case … of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in #Gaza today”

How long is the world going to allow this horror to go on?

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

Don’t sleepwalk from computer-vision research into surveillance The output of computer-vision research is overwhelmingly aimed towards monitoring humans. The potential ethical implications need more scrutiny.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sounds very cool! Pity i am not at ohbm and missed these talks

Shun-ichi Amari | Kyoto Prize Shun-ichi Amari

This year's Kyoto Prize in Adavanced Technology goes to Dr. Shun-ichi Amari!

www.kyotoprize.org/en/laureates...

A city with a population of 15 million, and all roads leading out are blocked. This is simply a murder threat.

High-dimensional neuronal activity from low-dimensional latent dynamics: a solvable model Computation in recurrent networks of neurons has been hypothesized to occur at the level of low-dimensional latent dynamics, both in artificial systems and in the brain. This hypothesis seems at odds ...

The firing of neural populations is high-dim even if their subthreshold activity is low-dim! This work by @bio-emergent.bsky.social and @haydari.bsky.social shows how, with a solvable model, a data analysis technique, and data from mouse visual cortex: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Researchers reveal how our brains predict what we’re about to see Researchers in the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology find that the hippocampus sends signals to the visual cortex to predict what we are about to see.

New research from @uclqsion.bsky.social‬ reveals how our brains predict what we’re about to see—before it even happens.
Senior author Prof @peterkok.bsky.social‬ said: "This predictive function may be essential not only for perception but for decision-making and learning."

You forgot to say the ship was attacked in international waters.... which is illegal

Delighted to see this out- we hope these results will open up new ways of understanding the computational and functional basis for distinguishing internally and externally generated experiences (eg insight into hallucinations)

Spearheaded by the brilliant @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social 🤩

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...

Researchers reveal how our brains predict what we’re about to see Researchers in the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology find that the hippocampus sends signals to the visual cortex to predict what we are about to see.

News story on the UCL Brain Sciences website about our recent paper using 7T fMRI to study the communication between hippocampus and neocortex. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Link to the paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... #neuroskyence

We have a PhD position for an upcoming project in metacognition research in Potsdam / Berlin. A great opportunity for those interested in cognitive modeling of confidence and EEG.

More information at coconeuro.github.io/phd2025

Kindly share this opportunity with potential candidates - Thanks!

is there anyone fluent in both Korean and English looking for a job in Korea? we're hiring a lab administrator. no science experience needed, and foreigners can also apply if they have a master's degree (in any subject). pls email me at hakwan@skku.edu

We are hiring! Interested in computational models of social interaction and computational psychiatry?

🤔 Interested in models of social interaction and computational psychiatry?

🤗 If so, @shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social and I are seeking a highly motivated and talented postdoc to work on these topics!

Please share widely!

apply.interfolio.com/165809

I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊

Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s
RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc

This new Texas law copies anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany. That legislation consisted of a series of restrictive laws passed in 1933, then the Nuremberg Laws of 1935.

This is not an exaggeration.

there's still time to submit your abstract to the Metacognitive Science meeting in Amsterdam in August -- a satellite to @cogcompneuro.bsky.social !

sites.google.com/view/metacog...

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻'𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲?
We introduce the idea of "importance" in terms of the extent to which a region's signals steer/contribute to brain dynamics as a function of brain state.
Work by @codejoydo.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

The tilt illusion arises from an efficient reallocation of neural coding resources at the contextual boundary | PNAS The tilt illusion—a bias in the perceived orientation of a center stimulus induced by an oriented surround—illustrates how context shapes visual pe...

Very happy to see our work finally in print!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

TLDR: Tilt illusion is not a bug, but a feature of a well-designed visual system that maximizes information capacity adaptively based on spatial context. (1/6)

@qilin7.bsky.social has gotten her own funding (IBS-YSF) to start as a junior PI at our center (cnir.ibs.re.kr)

she'll use AI models & our 7T to study individual differences in perception, learning & memory, among other things

she's hiring - contact her if u'd like to join her group

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oh wow! no shame there. did you make it back to Montreal?