Brett L. Foster

Looking for a postdoc in brain/mind research? This is a terrific program. Fellows are independent with modest research funds; they typically collaborate with existing faculty. For an impressive list of former fellows and where they landed after: mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/people/fello...

1/ How do we sustain mental continuity in the face of interruption? @xianl-explorer.bsky.social found that, while people listen to a story, posterior medial cortex expresses a slowly evolving "background" representation of the story's context, which survived through silence and interfering tasks.

📣 We're hiring! The Saez Lab at Mount Sinai is seeking a postdoctoral researcher with experience in intracranial recordings, electrophysiology, BCIs, mood disorders, and/or computational modeling, to explore the neural basis of human cognition. 🗓️ Apply by September 30, 2026. Please share widely!

New preprint! Posterior cingulate is often linked to memory in humans but decisions in monkeys yet there's little consensus about its functional neuroanatomy. We recorded LFPs+single units in humans during matched value and memory based decisions, finding convergence in dorsal, but not ventral, PCC.

Electrophysiological dissociation of human posterior cingulate cortex contributions to value- and memory-based decision-making https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.12.744505v1

(New results!) Human inference behavior varies widely across individuals and tasks. Using the information bottleneck framework, we show that two distinct axes capture a substantial amount of individual variability across two classic inference tasks. Thread below 1/

This is a great organization that is committed to supporting early-career clinician scientists. Not just for MD/PhDs! Straight MDs, DOs, and even veterinarians. Please share with anyone you know who might be eligible.

New preprint from my lab, showing that OFC CCEPs may be able to predict antidepressants effects in DBS for depression! With @srheilbronner.bsky.social, @sameershethmd.bsky.social, @nicoleprovenza.bsky.social

Exciting new preprint from the lab, led by @lizsiefert.bsky.social , together with @annaschapiro.bsky.social. Findings help to clarify when hippocampal ripples occur across wake and sleep, better aligning human data with animal models.

New preprint! We show low arousal states promote hippocampal ripple genesis in sleep and wake. This bridges rodent work, where ripples predominate during sleep, with human studies reporting ripples during active behavior, identifying low arousal as a common mechanism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Exciting new work by the brilliant @sophiawilhelm.bsky.social done at @oxexppsy.bsky.social with support from @erc.europa.eu!

Tremendous congratulations to newly minted Dr. @catrinahacker.bsky.social!!

After more than 5 decades of parallel development, #corticalstimulation for artificial #vision & artificial #touch is beginning to converge rdcu.be/flRzh Our new @natrevbioeng.nature.com review brings together shared principles and modality-specific strategies across both fields

My lab is hiring two full-time research assistants! One position is for a project on spatial navigation across the lifespan, with a focus on midlife aging and menopause. The other is for functional imaging and spatial reference frames. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10136 recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10137

🔔 Preprint: “Hippocampal ripples evoke a stereotyped cortical response followed by spindle-mediated network synchronization.” Combining iEEG+scalp EEG during sleep, we show that hippocampal ripples leave a decodable cortical fingerprint and are followed by brain-wide spindle synchronization!

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

We’ve got an exciting new thing to share! We have causal evidence (using TMR) that memory reactivation during sleep promotes abstract understanding of underlying structure, allowing transfer learning in a new domain with zero superficial feature overlap with the learned one.

We are hiring a postdoctoral fellow as part of a recently funded R01 on memory and dementia. Please circulate widely: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

In the first systematic, multi-node recordings of spiking activity across the human basal ganglia–thalamic circuit, @dennislondon.bsky.social explains how this pathway integrates cognitive variables with ongoing action. We’d love to hear your thoughts.

Last week to apply! Cognitive Neuroscience Research Laboratory Manager at @oxexppsy.bsky.social (with links to @oxcin.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ833/c...

Come join us. Western University invites applications from outstanding early career investigators for a full-time probationary faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of neural circuits in NHPs. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Our new paper in @sfnjournals.bsky.social shows different neural systems for integrating views into places--PPA integrates views *of* a location (e.g., views of a landmark), while RSC integrates views *from* a location (e.g., views of a panorama). Work by the bluesky-less Linfeng Tony Han.

Exciting new preprint from the Rust lab led by Catrina. Important and practical progress in understanding the translational utility of "high-gamma" LFP activity.