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1/ Associative thinking---connecting concepts to form ideas, inventions, and artworks---is at the heart of creativity. In our new Trends in Cognitive Sciences review, Yoed Kenett and I explore how associative thinking works in the creative mind 🧵

New review paper on the role of the thalamus in shaping whole-brain dynamics and how we can test these ideas with functional neuroimaging. Collaborative effort with Kai Hwang Laura Lewis and Douglas Garrett @garrettneuro.bsky.social. Out now in Nature Rev Neurosci. Hope you enjoy!

I am looking for a postdoc to join my Emotional Cognition lab Dept of Psychology to support a 3-year ESRC project on emotional memory- please share! Cambridge University jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41227/

🧵A lot of current AI is obsessed with recognizing emotions from facial expressions — but that’s not how humans do it. Humans make systematic, nuanced predictions of emotions people *will* experience, without ever seeing a face. Paper👇w Dae Houlihan 🦋 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Postdoc position available in our human intracranial EEG lab in New York for a newly funded multi-center grant to study slow brain network fluctuations! Please DM me if you’re interested and learn more about this super collaborative project. Thank you for RTs!!

My lab is looking to hire a post-doc with an interest in combining MRI and intracranial EEG measurements during visual tasks and electrical stimulation! See jobs.mayoclinic.org/job/rochester/…

Excited to announce that our paper “Intracranial electrophysiological and structural basis of BOLD functional connectivity in human brain white matter” is now out at Nature Communications Nature Communications: nature.com/articles/s4146….

Gradients of neurotransmitter receptor expression in the macaque cortex, out now in Nature Neuroscience. nature.com/articles/s4159… Our findings: 1/7

Now out Current Biology. Our work using calcium imaging to study visual processing in the octopus brain! cell.com/current-biolog…

We are looking for a new Research Coordinator to join the Braga Lab and assist with experiments using precision fMRI to study brain organization within individuals. Apply at link below or DM for more details! 🧠 careers.northwestern.edu/psp/hr857prd_e…

Excited to share this new work from the lab! Our first foray into human learning experiments. Read Aaron tweeprint to learn more about how humans learn without instructions in a simple task (it may surprise you!) Just a few words about the team that made this happen (1/5)

1/n Excited to share our work on Understanding Social Reasoning in LMs w/ LMs! We present a new framework for procedurally generating evals for LMs by populating abstract causal templates! We generate a scalable theory of mind eval, BigToM, w/ 25 conditions & 5k LM written evals!

** Job Advert **, please RT! Abundant Intelligences is an ambitious research program exploring how to integrate Indigenous Knowledges and AI. They are are looking to fill two full time positions: Senior Program Manager and Finance Manager. See here: indigenous-ai.net/abundant-jobs.

new pre-print: "Reverse engineering the self" (by L.A. Paul, me, Julian De Freitas Julian De Freitas, and Josh Tenenbaum) In which we combine philosophy, cog-sci & CS to propose a framework for reverse-engineering an agent that can “think for itself” psyarxiv.com/vzwrn/

JOB 🚨 Our behavioral biology undergrad program Johns Hopkins University is recruiting open-rank teaching faculty with expertise in Behavioral Evolution, Neuroethology, or Evolutionary Neuroscience. Sept 15 deadline, ideally for Jan start. Reach out w questions! apply.interfolio.com/127983

Apes remember past groupmates for decades! Check out our latest work, just published in PNASNews with Laura Simone Lewis, PhD, Erin Wessling, fumihiro kano, @Jeronobo1, and Josep Call Video Summary: youtu.be/DsGS4_t_HW4?si… Paper: pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

1/ A century ago, Tolman showed that meaningful learning can occur even without apparent performance improvements. What is the neural basis of this distinction between learning something vs learning to perform? We tackle this in a new manuscript 🔥 🐭🔬📰 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

We append to the body of work formalizing 'momentum' as an integrative signal that facilitates persistence in mental states. Special nods to 'Psychological momentum' by Christopher Honey, Abhijit Mahabal buddhika bellana, and 'Mood as momentum' by Eran Eldar, Robb Rutledge, Yael Niv @yaelniv.bsky.social

🚨 Johns Hopkins psych & brain sci is hiring! 🚨 TWO open-rank faculty positions: one in cognition, broadly construed, the other in cognitive neuroscience We're excited about lots of research areas & approaches, including development & animal cognition! apply.interfolio.com/155721

#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀 Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to? Try out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)! A few options below!🧵👇 1/9