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Ryszard Auksztulewicz

@auksz.bsky.social

Maastricht University. Predictive processing, learning/memory, cognitive computational neuroscience. He / him / all pronouns πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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Delighted to share this paper led by @hannahmcdermott.bsky.social . We examined dynamics of prediction effects (sharpening vs dampening) and found they’re completely different across time scales!

04.03.2026 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One week left to apply!

19.01.2026 06:53 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PhD Candidate: Cognitive Computational Neuroscience of Memory and Prediction Welcome to Maastricht University! Are you fascinated by how the brain remembers and predicts information, and how it can tell apart representations of past and future? At Maastricht University, you wi...

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in the relationship between memory and prediction, and have a track record of neuroimaging/decoding? Please apply! #NeuroJobs

www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3576...

07.01.2026 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Reduced belief updating impairs adaptive step initiation in older adults Ageing is associated with declines in mobility and balance that threaten independence and increase the risk of falls. Although these changes are often attributed to deterioration of muscular and senso...

✨ My first preprint from my PhD with @tjeerdwboonstra.bsky.social is live ! We reveal reduced precision weighting of prediction errors in older adults during step initiation using Go/No-Go stepping paradigm and Hierarchical Gaussian Filter πŸ‘‡
doi.org/10.64898/202...

23.12.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

09.12.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ™πŸΌπŸ™πŸΌπŸ™πŸΌ

09.12.2025 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thrilled to announce that I’ve been awarded an ERC grant #ERCCoG to work on disentangling memory and prediction. I’m super grateful to my lab members, collaborators, and mentors! If you’re looking for a PhD/postdoc position, stay tuned! @erc.europa.eu @maastrichtu.bsky.social

09.12.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1
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As part of the vibrant Consciousness Festival, this Saturday I’ll give a talk about brain and mindfulness, illustrated by selected artworks (11am CET / 6pm HKT, online). Proceeds from the festival go to migrant workers affected by the recent fire in HK: www.eatonworkshop.com/en-us/hong-k...

04.12.2025 07:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
PhD Candidate: cognitive computational neuroscience of individual differences PhD Candidate: cognitive computational neuroscience of individual differences

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in predictive processing, individual differences, and computational modelling of behavioural and neural data? Please apply! #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

28.08.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Nice blend of old and new - also scientifically - at IOP2025 in KrakΓ³w PL

11.07.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Call - Centre de Recerca MatemΓ tica

🚨 Two PhD positions open in Barcelona!
Work with Diego Vidaurre on machine learning at the intersection of methods, neuroscience, and clinical applications.

Details:
πŸ”— www.crm.cat/call/89/phd-...
πŸ”— www.crm.cat/call/88/phd-...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky

27.05.2025 09:34 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
PhD candidate in Auditory Computational Neuroscience PhD candidate in Auditory Computational Neuroscience

Job alert 🚨 another fully PhD position in Maastricht, this time with a more computational neuro focus, in the lab of Michelle Moerel @mmoerel.bsky.social and under my co-supervision. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

15.04.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Neural mechanisms of predictive processing: a collaborative community experiment through the OpenScope program This review synthesizes advances in predictive processing within the sensory cortex. Predictive processing theorizes that the brain continuously predicts sensory inputs, refining neuronal responses by...

A large-scale collaborative consensus piece on predictive processing is now online arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 impressively orchestrated by @jeromelecoq.bsky.social

15.04.2025 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Check out these new insights into predictive coding algorithms!

06.02.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
PhD candidate in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience PhD candidate in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience

Job alert 🚨 fully funded PhD position in auditory cognitive neuroscience available in Maastricht vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

04.02.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

ICN is hiring at Prof / reader level. Come and join the best and most fabulous cognitive neuroscience department anywhere www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/.... Please share

22.01.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Would love to be added, thanks!

10.11.2024 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm super grateful to the conference and symposium organisers for inviting me to give a talk. It was an exciting opportunity, and I truly enjoyed sharing our work on predictions being represented in pre-stimulus alpha oscillations with such an engaged audience at MMN 2024. Yaaay!

19.09.2024 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Really enjoying this #MMN2024 conference. Here’s a final β€œfamily” slide from the final keynote by Erich SchrΓΆger

19.09.2024 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dissociable dynamic effects of expectation during statistical learning. bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

My new preprint is out! Using EEG and decoding analyses, we find direct evidence for the Opposing Process Theory of perception, while showing dynamic effects across over time.
@auksz.bsky.social @fedemar.bsky.social Caspar Schwiedrzik

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

06.09.2024 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Two vacancies for assistant professors in cognitive neuroscience We are looking to attract two new tenure track assistant professors to the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience (CN), which is part of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) at Maastricht Un...

Two new assistant professor positions at the cognitive neuroscience department of Maastricht University - come join us! www.academictransfer.com/en/344342/tw...

14.08.2024 06:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On my way to #OHBM2024 to present new EEG/fMRI work on decoding visual predictions (following up on our auditory work in rodents: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... ). If you’re also attending, come say hi! πŸ‡°πŸ‡·

21.06.2024 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dankjewel! 😁

03.06.2024 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

First day joining the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University. Feeling super excited and a bit nostalgic - years ago I moved from Poland to the Netherlands to study this weird field called cognitive neuroscience 🧠

03.06.2024 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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In this review/primer written by the talented @gutlin.bsky.social and @hannahmcdermott.bsky.social we introduce a range of computational methods useful for studying neural activity in schizophrenia 🧠 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

23.05.2024 08:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œWhat” and β€œwhen” predictions jointly modulate speech processing bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Ever wondered how your brain predicts what’s coming next when you listen to someone talk? Our new MEG study reveals how predictions of syllables/words and their timing are integrated in cortical networks www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

16.05.2024 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

More evidence for beta as a top-down control mechanism
Rhythmic modulation of prediction errors: A top-down gating role for the beta-range in speech processing
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#neuroscience

06.12.2023 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today with a few members of the extended lab we visited the 🧠 Brain exhibition at the Berlin Museum of Medical History @hannahmcdermott.bsky.social @denisekittelmann.bsky.social @gutlin.bsky.social

07.11.2023 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to take part in this interdisciplinary arts/science festival organised by Eaton HK. More details tba

07.11.2023 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On my way to Dublin to attend #MEGUKI2023 and present our results on β€œwhat” and β€œwhen” predictions in speech processing, come say hi!

26.10.2023 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0