Stale, traditional concepts are holding us back in cognitive neuroscience. Matthias Nau and colleagues beautifully argue how we can break free from our conceptual straight jackets. Must read!

Nature Neuroscience Centering cognitive neuroscience on task demands and generalization nature.com/articles/s4159…

Started meeting and thinking about this piece in 2020 - now that it's out, hope it provokes lots of discussion. rdcu.be/dPjsl

More & more, I think subtle task differences (& similarities!) are critical for interpreting results across studies. It's so much more than explaining away discrepancies w 1-2 lines in the discussion! Multi-task studies will help, & hopefully funders/reviewers will suppport this

A Perspective on centering cognitive neuroscience on task demands and generalization from Matthias Nau Alexandra C Schmid Simon Kaplan Chris Baker and Dwight Kravitz nature.com/articles/s4159…

Should cog neuro untether itself from existing taxonomies? (open question) Nau and colleagues propose a focus on task demands that could identify generalisable concepts

Check out our latest work introducing the BOLD Moments Dataset (BMD), published a few days ago in Nature Communications! Great effort by Ben Lahner and the rest of the team! Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…; Starter code: github.com/blahner/BOLDMo…

Happy to see this work led by Zaid Zada now published in Neuron! We use LLM embeddings to capture word-by-word linguistic content transmitted from the speaker's brain to the listener's brain in real-time, face-to-face conversations: cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

We have numerous experiments and models in cognitive neuroscience research. How to integrate them? Here comes an idea: Centering task demands rather than mental processes. nature.com/articles/s4159…

So excited 🤩 … in 'stealth mode' > 6 yr We combine SWIR imaging & data analysis for touchless continuous tracking of human #gaze direction & #pupil size in CLOSED EYES Paper 👇validates technology; next: towards clinical use #ICU #anesthesia #sleep rdcu.be/dP6QA

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 "Centering cognitive neuroscience on task demands and generalization," by Matthias Nau, 𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑙. in 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 doi.org/10.1038/s41593…

Computational cognitive neuroscience #ccn2025, will be in Amsterdam from 12 until the 15th of August. Co-chairs me and Iris Groen @[email protected]. So looking forward to it already!

Amazing dataset right here! 👇

Congratulations Spinoza Centre on 10 years of 7T-MRI scanning in Amsterdam! It was a beautiful anniversary symposium today! spinozacentre.nl/nieuws/10-year…

Fantastic workshop on #EyeTracking coming up at NIMH this week (Sept 4-5)! All talks can be followed online. cmn.nimh.nih.gov/cmnworkshop2024

Getting high-quality #EyeTracking can be hard, especially when combined with other techniques like MEG or fMRI. Therefore, I started collecting a few tips for improving data quality that you won't find in a manual. If you know more, please reach out! matthiasnau.com/eye_tracking.h…

Impressive new work from Buszaki Lab: Hippocampal neuronal activity is aligned with action plans biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hugely excited that this work with Martin Hebart and Chris Baker is now out in Nature Human Behaviour !!! By moving from a category-focused to a behaviour-focused model, we identified behaviourally relevant object information throughout visual cortex. nature.com/articles/s4156…

How does our brain allow us to make sense of our visual world? Work led by Oliver Contier w/ Chris Baker now out in Nature Human Behaviour provides support for a theoretical framework of behaviorally-relevant selectivity beyond high-level categorization. 🧵 x.com/OliverContier/…