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The Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging is a joint core facility and research hub of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam University Medical Center | 7T MRI | neuroscience | clinical science | spinozacentre.nl

Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging

15 fully funded PhD positions in EU-funded Doctoral Network (IndiBrain). We lead Project 7 (@spinozacentre.bsky.social, @nin-knaw.bsky.social): biologically inspired models of individual observers combining 7T MRI + MEG, focusing on vision and recurrent processing. 4-year PhD. Apply: indibrain.eu

In sports, we celebrate 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Everyone else gets lumped together. Why? Using 7T MRI, pRF modelling, and artificial neural networks, we show that tuning underlies ordinality perception, with most neural populations preferring early ordinalities. doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... 🧪🧠

🧠 PhD position: computational brain origami. Fully funded 4-year PhD on a new NWO-funded project combining 7T MRI, population receptive field mapping, and computational neuroscience to understand why human brains fold the way they do. 📢 vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda... #PhD #Neuroscience #Hiring

Happy New Year! Rare images of snowy Spinoza in MRI chill mode. ❄️

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Characterizing individual brain differences to advance personalized diagnosis, treatment, and sustainable healthcare

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Neural tuning for ordinal processing: convergent patterns in human brains and artificial networks

Processing ordinality, i.e., the rank of an item in a series such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc., is a fundamental skill shared by humans and animals. While humans often use symbolic sequences like numbers or...

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PhD Student in Biologically Inspired Computational Visual Neuroscience

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PhD Student in Biologically Inspired Computational Visual Neuroscience

Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging

🎓 15 fully funded #PhD positions in EU-funded Doctoral Network. 🧪🧠 We lead Project 7 (@spinozacentre.bsky.social & @nin-knaw.bsky.social): 4-year PhD combining 7T MRI + MEG with computational modelling of vision & individual differences. Apply: indibrain.eu #AcademicJobs

Publication alert: Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain. 🧠 Read the full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulation @tknapen.bsky.social and all researchers involved!

Honored to receive the Early Career Award by @brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social (NVP) and to give a prize lecture on the general principles of active vision, memory, and imagination. Huge thanks to the NVP community, my mentors, collaborators, and students that shaped this work over the years! 1/2

I’ve been leading a few discussions on #AgenticAI in research lately. Honestly, every department should organize a colloquium on this ASAP. It's evolving so fast, students are using it, and many don't understand risks like prompt injections. Many opportunities too. Put this on your agenda! 1/2

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Serge Dumoulin

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Characterizing individual brain differences to advance personalized diagnosis, treatment, and sustainable healthcare

indibrain.eu

Serge Dumoulin

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN)

Matthias Nau

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

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Tomas Knapen