LOOPs_spp2411

⏰ Deadline extended!

Submit to @natureportfolio.nature.com’s Loops Collection on circuits, feedback & cortical-subcortical loops, guest-edited by @talking-bat.bsky.social, Markus Rothermel & @stefanieliebe.bsky.social

📅 New deadline: May 19, 2026
🔗 www.nature.com/collections/...

Submit now! 🧠🔁

👶 An artificial baby learns to speak

A simulated child and a domestic environment like in a computer game: these are the research foundations of the group led by Prof. Jochen Triesch at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) @goetheuni.bsky.social

Read the whole story 👉 bit.ly/4pgsfKO

🚨🔄 New LOOPs webinar alert!!

We’re excited to host our February webinar featuring Prof. Dr Jochen Triesch as he shares insights on Predictive Coding Light.
Join us for an engaging discussion on predictive coding 🧠✨

🗓️ February 11th, 2026
⏰ 15:30h CET
📍 Register: crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

Have you signed up for our January webinar yet?

Join the discussion as Shizuko Hiryu explores Active Sensing in Bats 🦇🧠

Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

🎉 New Year New LOOPs webinar

Join us for our January webinar with Shizuko Hiryu from @doshishauniversity.bsky.social and see how bats “see” with sound and how their biological sonar inspires both biology and engineering. 🦇🧠

🗓️ January 21st
⏰ 10:30 AM CET
📍 Register: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225026884?via%3Dihub

📣New Paper Out!

Our Loopie ➰ Josephine Ansorge shows that two distinct S1 layer 6 corticothalamic pathways differentially regulate POm and VPM activity in a context-dependant manner during whisker sensing in awake mice. 🧠🔁🐭 💡
#LOOPs #Neuroscience #SystemsNeuroscience #BrainCircuits #SPP2411

Have you registered yet? 👀
@agreco.bsky.social will unpack how predictive processing shapes vision in brains & machines this Wednesday at 4pm CET🧠🤖

Don’t miss it!!
Sign up 👉 www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

📣Join our last 2025 edition of the LOOPs Webinar 🧠➰ This month @agreco.bsky.social will explore how predictive processing shapes vision in both brains and AI - what models like PredNet reveal (and miss), and how new recurrent architectures combine feedback and variability for more robust perception.

Sending huge congratulations to Julio Hechavarría @talking-bat.bsky.social on delivering his very first inaugural lecture today at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! What an exciting start of a new a chapter filled with great ideas, strong science, and bat-driven brainloop insights! 👨🏻‍🏫🦇🧠

#SPP #Neuro

‼️LOOPs webinar today!

Have you registered yet?

Join us to hear Johannes Letzkus talk about “Top down control of neocortical threat memory” at 4pm CET on Crowdcast. 🧠🔁

🔗 www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

#LOOPs #Neuro #SPP

🧠✨ Big news!
Huge congratulations to Livia De Hoz @liviadehoz.bsky.social on becoming Associate Professor at PDN @universitypress.cambridge.org

Wishing Livia an exciting new chapter filled with inspiration, great collaborations, and many breakthroughs ahead ✨

#SPP #Loops #Neuro #Cambridge

Big milestone for the #LOOPs community!

Tong Zhang (Hafed Lab) just became the first LOOPs PhD graduate 🎉

Her thesis reveals how the brain links foveal + peripheral vision across saccades including prediction errors in the superior colliculus.

Congrats, Tong! 🙌
🔗 hafedlab.org/2025/08/14/t...

📣Join our next LOOPs Webinar 🧠➰ This month, Johannes Letzkus will discuss how layer 1 of the neocortex integrates experience and sensation during perception. #Neurosceince #brainloops #LOOPswebinars #SensingLoops

📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…

🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉

The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!

#WWNwebinar Alert!
This Oct, in collab with WiNRepo @winrepo.bsky.social, #WorldWomenNeuro will discuss the ongoing underrepresentation of women as invited conference speakers and panelists — and how we can change that.

👉 Oct 23, 6:00 PM CECT (Zoom)

Register: https://shorturl.at/1wExg

Thank you so much, @ycabral.bsky.social, for such an insightful session on auditory neural entrainment! 🧠🎶

It was a fantastic way to kick off LOOPs after the summer break. 🙌

Stay tuned for our next speaker coming up next month; more exciting neuroscience ahead! 🔄✨

#LOOPsWebinar #SPP #Neuro

Looking forward to discussing our results on neural and behavioral entrainment to auditory rhythms and tACS. See you today at 4 PM CEST.

🧠🎶 Reminder! It’s TODAY!!

The LOOPs webinar is today at 4 PM CEST! Join @ycabral.bsky.social for Competing Rhythms: Understanding and Modulating Auditory Neural Entrainment.

Join us: www.crowdcast.io/c/loops-semi...

#LOOPsWebinar #Neuroscience #AuditoryPerception #SPP

What an amazing few days at the SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat!!

Inspiring talks, discussions, and advice on science, careers, and life all shared in a supportive atmosphere. Huge thanks to @laurabusse.bsky.social, @stefanieliebe.bsky.social, and the organizing committee for this wonderful event!

Inspiring Career Session and Discussion at the SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat!

Kristine Krug and @katrinfranke.bsky.social shared motivating reflections on decision-making, research, and life in science followed by a great discussion on career paths and growth. 🧠💬✨

#SPP #FB1233 #WomenInSTEM

What a great start to the SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat!

Huge thanks to all the incredible speakers for their thought-provoking talks, and to everyone joining in with such lively discussions and great questions. 🧠💬

And there’s still much more in the second half! ✨

#WomenInSTEM #SPP #SFB1233

Fascinating talk by Harini Sudha at the SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat about Adaptive Retinal Models with Deep Reinforcement Learning and how deep reinforcement learning can model adaptive processes in the retina. #WomenInSTEM #SPP #SFB1233

Insightful presentation by Iris Schnepf at the SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat on Ultra-rapid Object Recognition and whether ultra-fast object recognition is “too fast to be true,” she applied classifiers to dissect the computational plausibility of such rapid decisions. #WomenInSTEM #SPP #SFB1233

Great talk by Hongyu Li at the SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat on Cortico-thalamic interactions in visual processing through thalamic reticular nuclei (TRN).” She explored cortical feedback via the TRN shapes visual processing in the thalamus. 🐭🧠 #WomenInSTEM #SPP #SFB1233

Engaging presentation by @nkraynyukova.bsky.social at the SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat on Tracking changes in mouse V1 visual responses over time.👁️🧠 A fascinating look into how visual cortical activity evolves and adapts across time in the mouse brain. #WomenInSTEM #SPP #SFB1233

Insightful talk by @muthujeyanthi.bsky.social at the SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat on Gamma-Theta-Spike Coupling Coordinates Sequential Memory in Human MTL. 🧠✨
A fascinating exploration of how rhythmic neural interactions support the organization of human memory. #WomenInSTEM #SPP #SFB1233

Fascinating presentation by @shivanihari.bsky.social at the SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat on how Bats use Multiple Strategies in Parallel to Prevent Jamming. 💬🦇 Exciting insights into the strategies bats use!

Special thanks to the chair of the session, Harini Sudha!

#WomenInSTEM #SPP #SFB1233

Great talk by @florentyna-d.bsky.social at the SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat exploring how suppressed-by-contrast cells shape visual responses in the mouse brain. 🐭💬 #WomenInSTEM #SPP #SFB1233

Fantastic insights from @meghaldani.bsky.social at the SPP x SFB1233 Women’s Retreat on SemioLLM: Evaluating LLMs for Diagnostic Reasoning in Epilepsy. AI meets neuroscience in this innovative approach to clinical data.

Special thanks to Hongyu Li for being a great chair to the session!✨
#SPP #SFB