Helen Blank

Just came across this face image database that lists different databases from A-Z libguides.princeton.edu/facedatabases A very nice collection, thanks to
@mtesterman.bsky.social

In meinem Team an der Universität Göttingen ist eine PhD Stelle (3 Jahre, 75%) ausgeschrieben – bitte gerne teilen bzw. bei Fragen melden!

www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

For the laminauts. @layerfmri.bsky.social

Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc
as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption.

Details here:

PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7...

Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

Tenure-track job in audiology at Western's School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, in beautiful Ontario, Canada -- work with a great team, benefit from all the resources that a large research-intensive uni can supply -- and enjoy amazing quality of life!

Looking Ahead Cambridge Core - Cognition - Looking Ahead

Looking Ahead: The New Science of the Predictive Mind. New book by @falkhuettig.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/9781....

Layer-specific changes in sensory cortex across the lifespan in mice and humans - Big congratulations @estherkuehn.bsky.social‬ and team!!

How do speaker priors shape speech perception? Meet @fabianschneider.bsky.social @ #CCN2025! For a sneak peek at our new findings, see below👇

Fascinating sounding preprint by @fabianschneider.bsky.social and @helenblank.bsky.social on the role of predictions along the speech perception processing hierarchy. #neuroskyence

Thank you, Peter! :)
Big shout-out to @fabianschneider.bsky.social for his great work!

🚨Great work led by @esterner.bsky.social showing that individuals with higher schizotypal or autistic traits produce less stable semantic predictions over time, potentially showing the impact of exaggerated belief updating!

Was a fun project und a fantastic team 🤩

Concern About Predictive Performance of a Pain Sensitivity Biomarker To the Editor Chowdhury et al1 evaluated a biomarker for pain sensitivity, combining peak alpha frequency and corticomotor excitability. The authors report outstanding performance (validation set area...

Serious concerns about a new cortical biomarker for pain sensitivity

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We (with @tspisak.bsky.social, @christianbuchel.bsky.social) published a commentary on Chowdhury, Bi et al. (2025, JAMA Neurology) raising serious concerns about their reported results.

👇 1/13

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MRI Physicist (m/f/x)

Are you a specialist in the physics behind MRI and want to work at THINK @ruhr-uni-bochum.de? Apply: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4... Thanks for sharing with potential candidates!🧠🙏

The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025

The #PuG2025 final program is online! Browse it or download the PDF version 👇 www.pug2025.org

🧠♻️ IGOR Symposium
"Open Science Initiatives in Biopsychological Research"
🗓️ Fri, 20.06 | 🕥 10:30–12:00
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@ocklenburg.bsky.social C. Artemenko
@mariame.bsky.social @alinakoppold.bsky.social
@caggursoy.bsky.social @ufangyang.bsky.social
@mreutter.bsky.social @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social [3/6]

Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle Attractor dynamics are a hallmark of many complex systems, including the brain. Understanding how such self-organizing dynamics emerge from first principles is crucial for advancing our understanding ...

As many of you know, I’ve been fascinated by brain attractor dynamics lately.

Thrilled to share a new preprint on their link to orthogonal neural representations, co-authored with Karl Friston:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749
- with implications for both neuroscience & AI!

First in a series - stay tuned!

Patients' treatment expectations may crucially affect their treatment outcomes.☝️

Our new piece in "@jama.com Insights" explores how to help patients have a better experience and better outcomes with their treatments! 🤕

Read it here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Chancengleichheits-Monitoring Das "Chancengleichheits-Monitoring" berichtet jährlich über die Beteiligung von Wissenschaftlerinnen an DFG-Projekten.

Chancengleichheit von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern hat die DFG als Ziel in ihrer Satzung verankert. Mit dem Monitoring stellen wir jährlich Statistiken bereit, die den Frauenanteil bei Antragstellung und -erfolg, Begutachtungen und DFG-Gremien abbilden. 1/2
www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library Stimulus expectations are widely assumed to modulate the responsiveness of neurons in the visual system. However, there is currently a lack of clear evidence from electrophysiological studies to supp....

New paper from the lab!!

We add to the (lack of) evidence for expectation effects in carefully-controlled predictive cueing designs.

doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

Led by Carla den Ouden and Máire Kashyap, collaborating with Morgan Kikkawa

Poster of the Interact! lecture series

One of this week's talks announced by the Center for Mind & Cognition:
📅May 28, 2025, 6pm CET: Karola Marky (Computer Science, Digital Sovereignty Lab, RUB): An Introduction Into Information Privacy
#computerscience #privacy #RuhrUniBochum

#Evolution of #language revisited: Long arcuate fascicle was found in #chimpanzees using high-resolution diffusion MRI #tractography of animals that died naturally in the jungle.
Now in Nature Comm: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@ybecker.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social @taichimpproject.bsky.social

Facial clues to conversational intentions It has long been known that we use words to perform speech acts foundational to everyday conversation, such as requesting, informing, proposing, or co…

New review out on facial signalling in conversation, making the argument that the notion of ‘speech acts’ is outdated due to its unimodal focus, especially in the light of the fundamental contributions of the face towards social action communication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Impaired motor-to-sensory transformation mediates auditory hallucinations Can the absence of inhibition lead to auditory hallucinations? This study shows that the impairment of motor-based sensory predictions causes erroneous monitoring of imprecise internal auditory repres...

Super interesting work with a computational model of how auditory hallucinations may arise:
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#neuroscience #compneuro

95% still consider E life papers in funding and hiring decisions

Over 100 organisations still consider eLife papers when evaluating research contributions since losing our Impact Factor: buff.ly/wGQWNqs

Help us rally more community support for research reform and let us know your funder or institution’s stance on the #ImpactFactor 💬

still a couple of days left to apply!

An example of T1w image before and after defacing. Defacing is typically implemented by zeroing the voxels around the face (left-hand side, panel “T1-weighted”). The “Background noise” panel shows two visualizations extracted from the MRIQC visual report, in which a window is applied to select the lowest intensities and then they are inverted to enhance patterns in the background. The red arrows indicate aliases along the anterior–posterior axis—which had the lowest bandwidth in the example—produced by eye motion. These aliases are straightforward to notice in front of the ocular globes in the “Background noise” panel of the “nondefaced” image because of the absence of signal sources. This aliasing also spreads in the opposite direction, overlapping brain tissue. However, this overlap is often very hard to notice against the signal of interest within the brain. The corresponding “defaced” version of the “Background noise” panel shows how defacing eliminates valuable information for quality assessment.

To protect an individual's #privacy, facial features are removed before data-sharing of human #neuroimaging data. @oesteban.bsky.social &co show that this procedure affects the quality ratings given by human raters but not automated image quality metrics @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Gtr3lo

JOB ALERT💡We (franziskaknolle.com 🇩🇪 and www.derosierelab.com 🇫🇷) are looking for a PhD student to investigate apathy in schizophrenia using computational modelling, imaging and novel subcortical non-invasive stimulation (tTIS). The project is funded by
cofund-archifun.univ-lyon1.fr PM for more info🧠