Auto industry, are you trolling us? You do know that you have a world full of cognitive scientists to consult with, who can help you avoid the most basic pitfalls of cognitive interference, right? (source: bit.ly/31UxfyF) h/t AMB

Now published! We recorded EEG 🧠 (n=50) for 22,248 images - all 1,854 concepts in THINGS. We hope this open dataset is useful for understanding how our brains processes and represents objects. With Ivy Zhou, Amanda Robinson, Martin Hebart, Thomas A Carlson doi.org/10.1038/s41597…

So you think you have free will…

Interested in an exciting neuroscience research opportunity before graduate school? We are hiring! #SystemsNeuroscience #Optogenetics #MachineLearning

There’s something so special about the sheer chaos of Leonardo Da Vinci’s todo list (from his 1490 notebook:) [Calculate] the measurement of Milan and Suburbs [Find] a book that treats of Milan and its churches, which is to be had at the stationer’s on the way to Cordusio

Best title ever (to remind you to check the proofs carefully)

Student and TA applications are now open for NMA 2022! 🧠 💻 🌏🌍🌎 Submit your application through the portal on our website. You can register for either the Computational Neuroscience or Deep Learning course, and the deadline for submission is April 20. portal.neuromatchacademy.org

Introducing the 540 billion parameter Pathways Language Model. Trained on two Cloud #TPU v4 pods, it achieves state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks and shows exciting capabilities like mathematical reasoning, code writing, and even explaining jokes. goo.gle/3j6eMnK

A very useful and practical webinar coming up, brought to you by our ECRs ACNS Early Career Researchers

UNSW is hiring! Six academic positions (Lecturer / Senior Lecturer) in the School of Psychology. Exciting times! Come and work in a wonderful department with lots of friendly people (+ it’s the closest uni to the beach in Sydney) external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5073… external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5073…

Postdoc position in my group - deadline 24 April

ACNS Early Career Researchers Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society OHBM Australia Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology

A team of scientists at Northwestern University in the US have accidentally created overly-aggressive mutant hamsters following a gene-editing experiment. 🐹 They were trying to increase bonding between the lovable animals but failed. Let's Discuss 👇 trib.al/KQYbMqu

University of Sydney is hiring for Cognitive Neuroscience! tinyurl.com/2p8zp5rs

Great team effort with critical contributions from many: Martin Hebart Oliver Contier @lina_teichmann Adam Rockter Charles Zheng Alexis Kidder Anna Corriveau Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam Hope to have the data fully publicly available soon!

Why do mental images look different to real images, and to hallucinations? Our new #preprint answers these questions by considering a simple premise: mental imagery never occurs in a vacuum. Check it out: doi.org/10.1101/2022.0… With Amanda Robinson & Thomas A Carlson #mentalimagery

Are the roads really the best place to play around with optical illusions?

“Give me an original thought” — well, at least s/he is honest

📢New paper with Amanda Robinson and @cogcompneuroout out now in Annual Reviews! It's a round-up on how neural decoding has advanced our knowledge of visual representations in the🧠 annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/an…