Registration for escan2026.eu is now open!!👇
See you in magnificent Rome!
#escan #conference
Hey #PuG2025! I am excited to present my research on the role of midbrain PAG in the resolution of human approach-avoidance conflict resolution. If that sounds interesting to you, drop by my poster #79 (Room 2.007)!
Congrats to Jasper!
Very happy that this is out now!
🚨 Come work with us! A 3-year postdoc position is available in my group, focusing on gaze interactions in real and virtual environments. The job ad is only in German, since a certain level of German proficiency is required. Please share widely! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
#bluesky and summer vibes🌞🍒👒 in Würzburg for the start of #PuG2025. We are so excited to welcome you all here. Have a good trip and we hope to see you at the welcome reception tonight!
HeinLab
Matthias Wieser
Gamer Lab Wuerzburg
Jasper Bischofberger
escan2026.eu
ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Andreas B. Eder, Matthias Gamer, et al:
Motivational control of habits: A preregistered fMRI study
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
The ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu
Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience.
Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place.
More news soon.
#ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026
Humans’ approach behaviour and impressions are biased towards individuals from their own group (in-group) compared with different groups (out-group). There is evidence that learning from specific interactions with in-group and out-group members can reduce ...
This looks interesting, social science studies with LLMs are more replicable and robust, but different from results from human studies. I still need to properly read it though...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Researchers replicated 156 psychological experiments using three large language models (LLMs) instead of human participants. LLMs achieved 73–81% replication rates but showed amplified effect sizes an...
#PUG2025 Drop by 116 in the first poster session this afternoon! I will present my first PhD project investigating how empathy is competed when there are multiple individuals suffering from pain.
Welcome back!!! Thank you all for this great symposium!
Yang Xu (许扬)
🎉 Exciting news! Our Stage 1 Registered Report on the Coherence of Gamma-Band EEG Activity as a Basis for Associative Threat Learning has been accepted at Nature Human Behaviour! You can read the uploaded protocol here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Stay tuned for Stage 2! 🧠
