In beautiful Heidelberg today and tomorrow at #PUG2026! 🌞 If you are interested in Habits in Psychopathology, come to our symposium tomorrow at 4pm, lecture hall 15! I‘ll be talking about successor representation use in high-risk drinking and alcohol-related contexts.
Thanks to everybody who participated! It was fun discussing habits from so many different perspectives!
Milena Musial
What does it take to show the brain represents something? We offer a framework that brings conceptual clarity to representation, systematizing how decoding, encoding, RSA, etc. bear on that question. This makes explicit what findings establish and where interpretations go too far.
Inspired by the program today at www.neuromonster.org conference in Rome and already looking forward to tomorrow's CogSci-focused talks!
On that note, also happy to announce that I have recently joined Thinking about Thinking as an Ambassador @thoughtchannel.bsky.social!
#JNeurosci: Results from Hall-McMaster, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, @gershbrain.bsky.social et al suggest the entorhinal cortex might highlight aspects of past experiences that can be generalized, allowing us to make effective decisions in new environments https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1492-25.2025
Milena Musial
Terrific work led by @emmaroscow.bsky.social showing that hippocampal replay reflects events with large prediction errors, all the better to bootstrap learning as we slumber
Congratulations to Matt Jones & Nathan Lepora for seeing this through to the end!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excited to share our study on the Efficacy and Safety of Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Depression (EPISODE) - now published in @jamapsychiatry.com
A negative effect on primary outcome, but evidence for a relevant antidepressant effect of 25 mg psilocybin with psychotherapy in TRD.
Computational models are a key part of science but discovering new ones is hard!
DataDIVER discovers concise models from data, which surface new mechanistic ideas and clear predictions for future experiments
From Google Deepmind Neuroscience Lab + collaborators
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
