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Thrilled to see the first @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social paper of the lab out 🤩 Wanna understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions using one of the most basic adaptive functions, perception? Paper: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S136466132600032X Thread: bsky.app/profile/neur...

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics and information integration during percept formation often distinguish clinical from nonclinical populations. Computational psychiatry can elucidate these variations through two primary approaches: (i) Bayesian modeling, which treats perception as an unconscious inference, and (ii) an active, information-seeking perspective (e.g., reinforcement learning), which frames perceptual switches as internal actions. Our synthesis aims to leverage multistability to bridge these computational psychiatry subfields, linking human and animal studies as well as connecting behavior to underlying neural mechanisms. Perceptual multistability emerges as a promising noninvasive tool for clinical applications, facilitating translational research and enhancing our mechanistic understanding of cognitive processes and their impairments.

My favorite approach is based on internal RL. What the hell is that!? Our brain not only chooses (external) actions to maximize its return, it also optimizes the 'mental' processes (= internal actions): what to relay to working memory, replay, attend, and perceive! See www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

If these research directions resonate with you and you're interested in joining our team, we now have 2 open PhD positions! More information about the positions: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... More information about our research: www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/906930/natur... #NeuroJobs

Of course, tackling these interdisciplinary questions requires a village! And we are incredibly lucky to have a fantastic network of collaborators to make this vision a reality, including Peter Dayan, @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social, @xindipoo.bsky.social, @lndriscoll.bsky.social, RoLi Lab & more!

Only one week left until our PhD application deadline @mpicybernetics.bsky.social. If you’re interested in the intersection of RL, RNNs, and analyses of neural & behavioral data from novel, cross-species foraging experiments, make sure to submit your application by June 15! #NeuroJobs More info👇

5/11 Perceptual multistability is a phenomenon conserved across evolution (observed from Drosophila to humans) and sensory modalities. It seems AI systems also elicit some form of it -- see the great work of @taherehtoosi.bsky.social).

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

We have 2 open PhD positions @mpicybernetics.bsky.social, if you’re interested in reinforcement learning, recurrent neural networks and analyses of neural & behavioral data from novel, cross-species foraging experiments, there’s still time to apply: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/...