Peter Kok

The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social

Great to see Ellie Spens’ model out! Interplay btwn episodic (hippo) & semantic (neocort’l) systems, in encoding, consolidatn, recall & problem solving with sequential info, as compressive retrieval-augmented generation. Inc gist-based distortion in stories & inference www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nothing better than a 95th minute winner! Andre Odeku scores his fifth goal in six games to settle a very close game with Benfleet in the pouring rain. After a sticky spell, it means we've won three games out of four at home. Attendance: 317 very soggy people.

⚽️ Next Men's First Team match ⚽️ Saturday home game to try to move up that league table 🔥 📍 Old Spotted Dog Ground, E7 9NP 🚇 7 stations nearby 🎟️ £5 | pay what you can concessions | free U13s 🍻 Bar and Caribbean food www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/10/19/m...

🎥 Videos now available for: COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE A CCN satellite meeting, hosted and sponsored by the NYU Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness. Website: computationalconsciousness.github.io YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

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...

🔭JOB ALERT🔬 2 postdoc positions in my lab at the University of Trento, IT, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. TOPIC: Investigating predictive neural representations in naturalistic settings using MEG-based dynamic RSA. See thread and CALL below for details, or write me for more info!

Dublin is a walkable, English-speaking capital with a big tech/AI sector. Applicants of all backgrounds welcome. Unsure if you fit? Email admin@cusacklab.org for an informal chat. www.cusacklab.org/vacancies

Imagine two people standing in the same spot, looking at the same Goya. They inspect exactly the same parts of the painting, but in a different order. Later, they talk about what they saw. Ignoring all other differences: are the memories they formed identical?

🚨 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...

Looking for a PhD program where you can study vision from different perspectives (computer vision, visual neuroscience, visual perception, image processing)? Consider applying to NYU! visionscience.com/pipermail/vi...

🚨🚨 I am so utterly happy and bloody satisfied that #Ukraine has resumed their strikes on #Russian oil refineries. Apologies for language bu go f🤬🤬 yourself #trump and #putin and to hell with your energy deal. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Trump is reportedly trying to strip Ilhan Omar of her citizenship over alleged fraud by her father. @weissmann.substack.com tells @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social why the targeting reeks of political retaliation. “It would only be happening because she is who she is, meaning a target of Donald Trump.”

So much to love about this 🤗

A cautionary comment when applying frequency analyses to single-trial decoding outputs: doi.org/10.1111/ejn....

Sami Mollard @samimollard.bsky.social from Pieter Roelfsema's lab @pieterroelfsema.bsky.social visited us at Brown, and the project brought together their work on incremental grouping in visual cortex with our recurrent vision models. New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2610.05419

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

PREPRINT UPDATE🥳👇: 🧠learning under uncertainty & metacognitive processes are not as generalizable as previously thought! both evolve differently depending on structure & stimulus set osf.io/preprints/ps...

New assistant professorship in predictive brain processes 🔮🧠💻 at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University. It’s a fantastic place to work and we have a vibrant interdisciplinary community. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

I'm recruiting PhD students this cycle! We study how the brain perceives, remembers, and predicts naturalistic experiences like movies and games, using computational tools to analyze behavioral and neural data 🧠 App deadline is 12/2/26 - see our lab pubs on our website www.dpmlab.org/pubs.html

Ok, finally a REAL conundrum. #philosophy #science

Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0

Reposting, in case you missed it! 8-) Reskeet appreciated!

⭐️ Player of the match ⭐️ Marta Casanovas wins the POTM vote for the Women's First Team home game against Sport London e Benfica 👏 POTM votes are held on our WhatsApp channel - join: chat.whatsapp.com/Hh6OjxOWicQI...

When you focus on one item in working memory, beta rhythms may help “park” the other in a protected, set-aside state. Prioritization in Working Memory Reduces Interference via Beta Band-Linked Stimulus Transformations doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... #neuroscience

Matchday! 3.30pm kick off. * Entrance via Disraeli Road turnstile *

⚽️ Next Women's First Team match ⚽️ 3.30pm kick off home game on Sunday - come on down after the Cable Street 90 march🔥 📍 Old Spotted Dog Ground, E7 9NP 🚇 7 stations nearby 🎟️ £5 | pay what you can concessions | free U13s 🍻 Bar and food www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/09/29/m...

165 years ago TODAY, Charles Darwin had a normal one. "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything…" I think about this letter a lot.

We’re looking for a PhD researcher in high-resolution laminar fMRI! 🔬 Laminar fMRI of Hippocampus 🌍 International, interdisciplinary team 📍 Essen, Germany | 4-year PhD position | 75% part-time ℹ️ Subject to the approval of the funder 👉 Apply by 30 September 2026: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...

‼️The Deadline is today! If you haven't applied yet, do it now. We're a cool bunch, we promise 😁

✨New PhD Position!✨ Come and work with us on understanding cognition with a mix of cognitive modelling and ultrasound neuromodulation! More info on the lab & position: mic-lab.de/positions/ph... Official job ad: tinyurl.com/miclab-phd 🙏Please RT - deadline is Oct 14 ‼️

What can DNNs tell us about how the brain learns? Our new results show that predictive local learning better captures changes in brain representations during statistical learning than supervised or contrastive approaches. Excellent work by @denisekittelmann.bsky.social and @gutlin.bsky.social

'Thank you for your grant proposal. We took a moment to upload it to the internet and the answer was "no". We value the time you spent preparing this work and we encourage you to do it again.' 🤬

This #putin appeasing has been one of the most damaging traits of American foreign policy for decades. It is a direct assault on #ukrainian fight for survival and independence.

🚨🚨 #MAGA is making the world safe for #corruption. Strong piece by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on how far-right ideologies have transformed #American #foreignpolicy into a tool of private gain and anti-democratic reaction. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

While long-term funding is key to the National Cycle Network's success, £104m over four years is £26m a year... the equivalent of upgrading a single A-road junction. CWIS3, the government's four-year strategy mentioned '7,000 additional or improved [NCN] miles by 2030'...so £14,857 per mile?

So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?

EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba. Dicamba is drift prone and kills vegetation and crops for miles around fields where it is sprayed, and is linked to liver cancer and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma

More shit coming down:: "The White House has begun drafting a new executive order that could further cement President Trump’s ability to control billions of dollars in scientific grants and expand the administration’s pressure campaign against elite universities." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...

Me & John & Shiloh out protesting AGAIN. Maybe it does nothing. But maybe one person thinks: If these guys can be out here every Saturday I should take action as well, by checking my voter registration, asking my friends to do same, making a plan to vote early, supporting competitive candidates.....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Disturbances of conscious experience are central features of many psychiatric and mental health disorders. Experimental studies of conscious perception are therefore increasingly cited ....

we started out just wanting to point out that, despite its popularity, comparing hits vs misses in detection tasks is actually not a very good way to study subjective experience / consciousness. but we ended up expanding it to make it relevant for clinical stuff too led by @tomnakamura.bsky.social

my body is a machine that turns HDMI adapters into misplaced HDMI adapters

"Consciousness Needs a Subject" - commentary with @cdj.bsky.social on target article by @anilseth.bsky.social. Now published, along with all (50!) commentaries and Anil's responses! 😊 cup.org/4h0wRmg

📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa

Happy to see @genetang.bsky.social's review article on Charles Bonnet Syndrom now available as early-online in Brain! #VisionScience #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky doi.org/10.1093/brai...