Juan Linde-Domingo

Adaptive stretching of representations across brain regions and deep learning model layers - Nature Communications How the brain adapts its representations to prioritize task-relevant information remains unclear. Here, the authors show that both monkey brains and deep learning models stretch neural representations...

New paper! Brains stretch representations along task-relevant dimensions. Spike timing is important.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience

Morphology of Memory: The Anatomy of the Human Hippocampus The hippocampus is a part of the brain known to be critical for learning and memory. It is made up of many interconnected regions with distinct characteristics.…

It is amazing how much this video is helping me again. Now preparing an introduction regarding the hippocampal anatomy for a NeuroCog course ❤️.

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Do you recommend any particular platform / approach for tracking usage of open access materials? Not just download counts but also asking some simple information of the user before they can download (like EEGLAB, Fieldtrip, SPM, etc all do). Any pointers much appreciated!

This season is ❤️.

I just had a quick diagonal look but this seems like must-read for PhD candidates in their first year (but not only 😅, good advises and reminder also for me). Great!

How lower and higher level representational features influence memory vividness? Quite interesting question and a nice research ->

Morales-Torres, R., Davis, S. W., & Cabeza, R. (2025). What makes memories vivid? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

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Concurrent selection of internal goals and external sensations during visual search Internal and external selection processes can codevelop in time to yield efficient search behavior.

Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Noise ceilings are really useful: You can estimate the reliability of your data and get an index of how well your model can possibly perform given the noise in the data.

But, contrary to what you may think, noise ceilings do not provide an absolute index of data quality.

Let's dive into why. 🧵

My prediction is that LLM peer review will slow down science. It will do this for precisely the same reasons that contemporary peer review does and some extra ones. Start by reading @hansonmark.bsky.social thread below, then read on. 🧵

📢The #CIMCYCSessions are back!

The first session of the #AI, #Mind and #Brain season will take place next Thursday, November 13, 2025.

📍The session will be conducted entirely online.

More info: cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

Really enjoying teaching Cognitive Neuroscience to bachelor students. However, the biggest challenge is striking a balance between “we seem to know this” and “this is still uncharted territory” 😅.

I hope we are not driving them bananas

Really enjoyed reading this one 😀. A nice conceptual reframing regarding the state of episodic memories. Particularly useful to rethink how some of our ongoing cue-manipulation work in the lab might be pushing memories along different axes of this 3D space-state.

View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.

The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.

Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Exciting times! These days we are setting up our new EEG equipment. It feels like Christmas in November 😅.

Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation - Nature Communications Eye movements during scene viewing are tied to grid-like codes in the entorhinal cortex. Grid signals are specific to later remembered scenes, covary with activity in visuo-oculomotor regions, and are...

Preparing a journal club reading about such a nice paper -> Entorhinal grid-like codes for visual space during memory formation

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The influence of free choice on recognition memory in the face of distraction Recognition memory is typically better for items learned after a free choice (independent of study material) than after a forced choice. However, previous studies presented to-be-remembered items i...

New paper published: Having free choice over what to learn improves memory, even in the presence of distraction.
Across two experiments, free choice selectively enhanced recognition for relevant, but not irrelevant items. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does JavaScript….go hard?!??

🚨 New preprint 🚨

Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists.

Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273

Hippocampal transformations occur along dimensions of memory interference The role of the hippocampus in resolving memory interference has been greatly elucidated by considering the relationship between the similarity of visual stimuli (input) and corresponding similarity o...

🧠🚨 How does the hippocampus transform the visual similarity space to resolve memory interference?

In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵

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

Absolutely!

It may sound obvious, but I’m amazed by how much time and effort you can save just by simply sharing and discussing ideas with as many people as possible **before** stepping into the lab 🥲.

I am gonna take the option where I get more time to read, understand and write. maybe that AI can go to committee meetings for me?

Interesting!

If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me!

I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.

#psychscisky #neuroskyence

How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions The brain constantly generates predictions based on one’s knowledge of the world, as captured in memory. When these predictions are in error, our knowledge base must be revised to remain relevant. Her...

How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Very happy to finally see this out! A while ago I had the wonderful opportunity to meet an awesome group of scientists from very diverse fields, interested in exchanging thoughts, experiences and ideas. In this book, we collect some of these exchanges as a celebration the richness of science.

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

8x8 grid depicting the approach to stimulus creation. Feature pairs are on the axes and images are in the cells. The x-axis represents the high-level feature pairs: setting (green) and object (teal). For example, the first column of images all depict “truck” (object) in “field” (setting) rendered in various textures and patterns. The y-axis represents low-level feature pairs: texture (blue) and pattern (purple). For example, the first row of images all depict different objects and settings rendered as if drawn with crayon (texture) and containing large horizontal edges (pattern).

Excited to release the SPOT grid: a new image set that factorially crosses scene-object & texture-pattern pairings.

We hope these stimuli will be useful to researchers aiming to (partially) disentangle the contributions of lower- and higher-level visual features to behavior & brain activity.

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Goodbye #ICON2025 👏 and bye Porto. An amazing conference full of great talks, inspiring poster sessions, and osom moments with old and new friends. Feeling lucky to be part of such a nice community!