What matters most for childhood brain organization?
We analyzed 649 variables.
The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers.
Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES.
In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Natural behavior unfolds as a continuous stream of actions. Because these actions often occur in rapid succession, the brain must prepare multiple future actions while the current action is being executed. Our TICS piece explores how this works.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to [email protected]
Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural basis of working memory, attention, control, and consciousness.News Madison Symposium on Memory & Control. On 30 May 202...
Happy to share my @heinekenprizes.bsky.social
Young Scientist Award in the Social Sciences! Thanks to @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenpsychology.bsky.social for the nomination.
More on my research and dreams for the future of academia 👇
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...
How do people make choices, and what happens in our brains when we do? Anne Urai investigates how our brains process information and use it to make decisions. In applying the resulting insights to cur...
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We have a fantastic team, highly interdisciplinary, witty, creative and fun 😎🌟
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Anne Urai
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...
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We're hiring a PhD Student!
Under supervision of @sergedumoulin.net, you will investigate whether individual brain folding patterns reflect computational principles that optimize neural communication and brain organization.
Learn more and apply on our website: nin.nl/vacancies/ph...
Will AI be conscious in the future? Nice piece in @abcnewsbot.bsky.social by Wren Gillet, featuring @davidchallen.bsky.social & me www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
Now published in open access! Your one-stop shop for the philosophy of language models. It's the spiritual descendant of our two-part preprint from 2024, fully updated. This should be particularly useful for anyone looking for an entry point into this rapidly growing field.
Feeling really proud of this one: a review of Bayesian efficient coding with Máté Lengyel and Paul Bays (@bayslab.org) is now available online in TICS!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1nF3i4sIRv...
Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers
valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance,
differences in temporal dynamics a...
The question "can computers think" is something many people are taking very seriously. A philosophy professor believes we could be heading towards a future with conscious machines, while a neuroscient...
The success of large language models (LLMs) across many domains of AI research has generated intense debate. Some attribute their impressive performance on complex tasks to human-like linguistic and ...
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Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN)
Anna Ciaunica PhD
Shervin Safavi
Hello! Welcome to the Co-embodied lab, or the CeLAB:) we are a collective research group from all over the world, tackling issues from affective depersonalization to human-robot interactions. We are happy to share our research achievements and group accomplishments with you on this page!
