Julia Sliwa

Sharing an amazing postdoc opportunity in Paris in the lab of Julia Sliwa (@juliasliwa.bsky.social) in NHP Neuroimaging and Neurophysiology on social vision and cognition!

CNRS: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Paris Brain Institute: offres.institutducerveau-icm.org//fr/jobs/196...

Non-overlapping social and food reward representations in the basolateral amygdala The ability to consider and appraise positively valenced stimuli in the environment, such as food and social interaction, to guide appropriate action is important for survival of most animals. Several...

Excited to share our latest preprint led by @jarildy.bsky.social looking at social and non social reward representations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... with help from @hyma2194.bsky.social and @jennisisaac.bsky.social.

What a lovely 'spotlight' of @talboger.bsky.social's work on style perception! Written by @aennebrielmann.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social.

See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out @bcdavidson.bsky.social's preprint (w/ @georgiaturner.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @livia-tomova.bsky.social and co.) about the (computational) consequences of social isolation in social media use during covid!

Intentional Communication in Animals The evolutionary origins of human language are deeply intertwined with the ability to communicate intentionally. Grounded in frameworks from developme…

Our new chapter is out! 📢 Co-first-authored with @mawadafreville.bsky.social with attentive supervision of @chacanteloup.bsky.social🤗

How has intentionality been theorised in developmental psychology and primatology, and how is it studied in animal signals?🐒🦜👶 Take a look 👇 doi.org/10.1016/B978...

HIRING! Are you looking for a PhD fellowship? Come join our group geco.iit.it
Opening position starting from November 2025, official call coming out soon. Write me if interested francesco.papaleo@iit.it

Mutual gaze and facial mimicry as drivers of shared engagement in macaque play fighting @lucapedruzzi.bsky.social et al. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Thrilled to share our lab's first preprint on the neural mechanisms underlying helping behavior in mice! 🧠🐭 We show that dorsal hippocampal networks play a key role in rescuing a distressed peer: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m happy to be at #VSS2025 and share what our lab has been up to this year!

I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday

Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates Humans, dolphins, and elephants are the only known species that vocally label their conspecifics. It remains unclear whether nonhuman primates share this ability. We recorded spontaneous “phee-call” d...

David Omer and lab, "Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates". Marmosets call each other by individually specific vocal labels, aka names, and they recognize and respond to their own name. 3/5 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Linking neural population formatting to function Animals capable of complex behaviors tend to have more distinct brain areas than simpler organisms, and artificial networks that perform many tasks tend to self-organize into modules ( [1][1]–[3][2] )...

I just heard a terrific talk by @marlenecohen.bsky.social about this preprint (MT/PFC comparison) - very relevant!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Chimpanzee drumming may give clues to the roots of rhythm Behavior is more complex than scientists realized, could reveal origins of musicality

Chimpanzee drumming may give clues to the roots of rhythm | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

To accommodate for the fact we started official registrations late and the early bird deadline was during school holidays for many, we have extended our early bird registration deadline to the 15th of May! The main website can guide you through registration : sbdm2025.github.io

Reminder to register for the Symposium on the Biology of Decision-Making (SBDM), 16-18 June 2025 in Lyon!

Please check out our exciting program and register until next week for early registration rates! (please retweet / share)

sbdm2025.github.io

Registration for the 12th Symposium on The Biology of Decision Making 2025 in Lyon, France with early tarif now extended to May 15th: sbdm2025.github.io.

The representation of mood in primate anterior insular cortex Understanding how the brain reflects and shapes mood requires resolving the disconnect between behavioral measures of mood that can only be made in humans (typically based on subjective reports of hap...

A putative neural correlate of mood!

One big (scandalous?) idea, simple analyses, and the STRONGEST brain/behavior correlation I've EVER seen (which is shocking, given that it's mood).

Work with: You-Ping Yang, @catrinahacker.bsky.social and Veit Stuphorn.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A group of researchers standing outside a building. At first glance they look like different people because they have distinctive hairstyles and are wearing different clothes. But their faces are in fact identical and were generated by averaging many faces. This image illustrates how some people with face blindness (prosopagnosia) find it very difficult to tell faces apart despite seeing them clearly.

New paper out. We asked 29 people with developmental #prosopagnosia (face blindness) what it was like living with the condition and also analysed their objective scores on lab tests of face recognition dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques Memory formation requires neural activity reorganization during experience that persists in sleep. How these processes promote learning while preserving established memories remains unclear. We record...

How does the brain integrate information from new experiences while preserving established memories? Have a look at our latest preprint,
"Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques" 🧵
🧪🧠🤖👩‍🔬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/7 Alternatives for a complex mind

Look at the image, it shows the proportion of neurons in the pallium (in blue) and in the cerebellum (red). Primates (including humans) have a rodent-like proportion

(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
by @gallinaciega.bsky.social
via @Raccoonologist

Registrations are now open for the Symposium on the Biology of Decision-Making (SBDM), 16-18 June 2025 in Lyon!

Please check out our exciting program and register until May 1st for early registration rates!

sbdm2025.github.io

Convergent vocal representations in parrot and human forebrain motor networks - Nature Using advanced brain-recording techniques, parrots were found to have a brain organization for vocal control similar to humans, making them an important model for studying speech and for developing potential treatments for communication disorders.

Nature research paper: Convergent vocal representations in parrot and human forebrain motor networks

https://go.nature.com/4iEIBsz

Like every year, our lab plans to attend the @sfn.org meeting in the US. But is it safe to go? This scientist was sent back (as confirmed by @lemonde.fr, no less). Other visitors were recently detained by ICE goons for days. It feels risky. See y'all at FENS in Barcelona? www.fens.org

Graphical abstract

A dynamic bifurcation mechanism explains cortex-wide neural correlates of conscious access www.cell.com/cell-reports... by @ulysse-klatzmann.bsky.social @standehaene.bsky.social et al.; "The connectome defines a unified, all-or-none network in association cortex"; #ignition #neuroscience

Map showing a highway section in red and social ties in space crossing the highway. Wherever a tie crosses the highway, there is a cross. There are 94 crosses.

🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122

Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.

📢 The Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab is hiring! 📢

We're seeking a full-time Research Specialist/Lab Manager to study naturalistic conversation, social cognition, and spontaneous thought.

More info here: psnlab.princeton.edu/join-us

Please apply and share!

Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence

Independent Continuous Tracking of Multiple Agents in the Human Hippocampus The pursuit of fleeing prey is a core element of many species behavioral repertoires. It poses the difficult problem of continuous tracking of multiple agents, including both self and others. To under...

Grateful and proud to share my first-author paper as a grad student with @benhayden.bsky.social
How does the human hippocampus keep track of multiple objects moving in space?

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Job alert!
Postdoc position in auditory neuroscience.
Funded by the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller.
Work in Paris (France) at @pasteur.fr / @cnrs.fr / Institut de l'Audition.
#neuroscience #hearing #optogenetics

Un lien plus facilement téléchargeable pour l'audio de la conférence de presse :
www.dropbox.com/t/hGLxLshj8y...

An innate drive to save a life In mice, two brain regions drive the impulse to revive an unconscious companion

Activation of neurons in the medial amygdala and oxytocin-expressing neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus drive the impulse to revive an unconscious companion...

An innate drive to save a life | Science
#neuroskyence

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...