Brad Postle

Our review of Bayesian efficient coding as a theory of perception is out now in TICS – with @ivntmc.bsky.social and Máté Lengyel. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

I’m looking for two PhD students with competitively awarded scholarships: 1) Cognitive maps for causal inference warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... 2) Brain mechanisms of working memory removal and repetitive negative thinking midlandsmhndtp.ac.uk/project/2027...

Will you be at the Memory Disorders meeting in Toronto? Or in Toronto? Come see Pavlov’s Dogz, the legendary brain punks you've heard so much about. Friday night at The Pilot. Get yr tix NOW! Pavlov's Dogz Date: Oct 23 • 19:00 www.eventbrite.ca/e/pavlovs-do...

We are hiring! The Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science at NYU are seeking applicants with an outstanding record of research in human neuroscience for an open tenure-track assistant professor position. Potential applicants can apply here by 11/15: apply.interfolio.com/195772

🚨 New publication! 🚨 WaveSpace, a python tool for analysis and simulation of cortical #traveling_waves is now published in the Journal of Open Source Software! This work was headed by former Dugué Lab postdoc, Kirsten Petras. joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

📣 Inclusive electroencephalography – a tutorial and media resource 📣 We're proud to announce publication of a tutorial to help make EEG research more inclusive, co-produced with Black and Hijabi students. doi.org/10.3758/s134... @thechbh.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Join Professor @bradpostle.bsky.social and colleagues for this free webinar, "Building Balanced Evidence: Citation Bias & How to Avoid It." One week from today!

🚨Job alert!🚨 My lab is looking for a full time research assistant to help with a set of behavioral and imaging experiments in humans focused on understanding the neural basis of foraging. Interested? Submit an application. cmu.wd115.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

Q. van Engen, J. Riddle & B. Voytek find that you can improve working memory performance by steepening the aperiodic slope using tES. Transcranial Random Aperiodic Stimulation Improves Working Memory Precision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

“This guy’s cursing me up. I better reconsider my decision”, said no editor ever…

The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab (ballardlab.org) at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1! tinyurl.com/yjubmvvb

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Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

Intrinsic rewards guide visual resource allocation via reinforcement learning

For my friends in Toronto, this is going to be fun, and a bargain with General Admission at CA$10 www.eventbrite.ca/e/pavlovs-do...

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"A single evidence accumulation process informs perceptual choices and subsequent confidence reports"! Reviewed Preprint at @elife.bsky.social led by @johnpgrogan1.bsky.social , @lucvermeylen.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social, and others PDF: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... Thread ↓↓↓

This years fellows include the wonderful @felipedebrigard.bsky.social ! Congrats, Felipe! This is also huge for philosophy, which rarely sees recipients of this fellowship #philsky

Awareness-dependent Attentional Templates: Neural Mechanism Differentiation Driven by Visual Working Memory Load

Patterns of Alpha-band Power Reflect Prioritization of the Most Recently Encoded Location in a Working Memory Sequence

Subjective Visibility Enhances Early Posterior EEG Decoding of Stimulus Location across Report and No-report Tasks

CNS members don't forget to vote!

Applied to M/EEG data, they allow us to cross scales of interpretation to understand how we can control dynamic “cognitive representations” at distributed and local levels. Hope to talk more about this with @kikumotoatsushi.bsky.social, @bradpostle.bsky.social, and @haegenslab.bsky.social at CNS27!

I’m so happy to share that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Fall 2027! I'm incredibly excited to head back to the Midwest, get to work with an incredible group of colleagues, and live in beautiful Madison, WI. 🦡🎊

2 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights:

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

FYI to everyone submitting this October NIH cycle You need to re-certify your ScienCV AFTER Sept 26 (tomorrow) for your application or it may not be accepted. Great timing!

XJ Wang left ?!? What a loss for the US (and NYU) Everyday I get some news that a prominent scientist is leaving. The chaos of the science budget and downfall of the American science are spiralling down very fast. This is disheartening. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Ontario peeps! www.eventbrite.ca/e/pavlovs-do...

1/3 🌵 Something exciting is taking shape at the University of Arizona: Ari Kahn and I are joining forces to build a new computational modeling hub across two complementary labs. We’re recruiting multiple PhD students for Fall 2027 + postdocs. Join us and grow with us! 🧠⚙️ @arikahn.bsky.social

📣 Check out our latest preprint with @kianobre.bsky.social, spearheaded by the incredible @dxywei.bsky.social! Across four experiments, we compare the behavioural and neural signatures of selecting real-world objects in perception and working memory. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint! We asked why neural representation of the original item that is encoded for mental rotation persists even after it becomes irrelevant. Given working memory's limited capacity and evidence for efficient storage, why keep irrelevant information around? 1/4 doi.org/10.64898/202...

What you see right now is not a livestream, but is delayed & edited by your brain 🧠. The brain uses a short time buffer to rewrite what you thought you saw using info that comes in later (postdiction). We study how (7T fMRI, retinotopy). Read our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 👀 (1/N)

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UCSD Psychology is hiring!! We’re seeking a new assistant professor colleague who studies high-level human cognition, broadly construed. Please share and/or apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04646

📣 My lab at NYU currently has two open post-doc positions. We are interested in understanding perception, thinking, and hallucinations. We employ a range of cutting-edge techniques in human neuroscience (e.g., 7T fMRI, MEG, iEEG/DES) and computational approaches (e.g., DNN modeling).

Now out in Learning and Memory! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42608289/ Fun collaboration with @alexatompary.bsky.social, led by then-undergrad Tiange (Summer) Lu, who just started grad school at Rice, working with @asinclair.bsky.social!

In honor of International Left-Handers Day, we have an updated preprint on scanning left-handed participants in fMRI studies. Although they're 11% of the population, we routinely screen LH people out of fMRI studies due to concerns about functional lateralization 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper from the BCM Neurosurgery research team! "Neural basis of compositional control" led by @assiachericoni.bsky.social and @justfineneuro.bsky.social ! 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exploring Neural Mechanisms Underlying Error-related Impairments in Active Working Memory Suggests an Adaptive Shielding of Contents during Cognitive Control

If you're at #CCN2026, analyse time-resolved data, and sometimes feel limited by cluster-based permutation tests, come and see our poster tomorrow afternoon! 🕐 1:45-3:30 pm 📍 Shorin Room, Poster F10

Aarabi, M.H. Neuroimaging runs on helium, helium runs through Hormuz. Nat Neurosci 29, 1777–1778 (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Thrilled to be on the board of this new OA journal that fills a critical niche! Kudos to the co-Editors-in-Chief (@lisik.bsky.social,KendrickKay,ElliePavlick) and a big TY to @mitpress.bsky.social for supporting this important effort! JIT for @cogcompneuro.bsky.social :) Send us your stuff (soon!)

New paper out w/ Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense! Why do some memories update when our expectations are violated, while others remain stable? What matters most is the strength of a memory at reactivation—not how old it is. And, I designed the cover! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

If an action results in error, each neuron requires an individualized teaching signal that guides change in its output. This is the credit assignment problem of learning. Are there neurons in the brain that can compute such a sophisticated teaching signal? Yes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Preprint alert! 🚀 Spontaneous eye blinks are often treated as EEG artefacts. We show they can serve as temporal markers of internal attention, aligning with moments of attentional focusing in working memory. Check it out: