Neuroscience Academy Denmark (NAD) offers 16 fully funded 4-year PhD fellowships to national and international candidates pursuing a career in neuroscience research 🧠

Application deadline: August 12, 4:00 PM (CEST) ⏰

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🔥 Ever wondered why you feel warm when you touch something cold ❄️? A fascinating new study by Body Pain Perception Lab, out now in Communications Psychology, reveals that thermal contrast sensitivity may unlock the century-old mystery of paradoxical heat sensation.

nature.com/articles/s4427…

Applying contrast enhancement principles, established within the visual and auditory domain, to thermosensation, reveals that larger temporal contrasts increase the probability of experiencing thermal nociceptive illusions Francesca Fardo Jesper Fischer Ehmsen nature.com/articles/s4427…

!! We are hiring !! 3 #PhD and possibly 1 #postdoc positions in a UCLouvain consortium project entitled 'Integration of somatosensory submodalities for grip and touch'.

More details:
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Article in Nature about mass editorial resignations at journals:
nature.com/articles/d4158…
If you are a disgruntled cognitive science editor, reach out to me and Ted Gibson (Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT). We run Open Mind (direct.mit.edu/opmi). Free to publish, free to read.

🎉 Excited to share our latest preprint! 🫁 Using interoceptive psychophysics and quantitative MRI in 200+ people, we find that individual differences in respiroceptive sensitivity & precision correlate with distinct patterns of cortical microstructure. t.ly/m98O1

Neuroscientists will be like: How do we learn to play chess? To find out we trained mice to discriminate moving gratings

Interested to hear about CNAP excellent research facilities & upcoming PhD fellowships? 👉Register for CNAP Open Lab, April 24th cnap.hst.aau.dk/cnap-open-lab-…
Watch the video trailer for at glimpse of the exiting CNAP research environment and community📷
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“AI” as shorthand for turning off our brains. (This is not an anti-AI post; it’s a discussion of how we think about AI.)
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/04/05/ai-…

The rebranding of linear algebra as 'artificial intelligence' may be the most successful marketing campaign of all time.

Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain! Our new study reveals how perceptions of pain can emerge from the interplay between thermal sensations, expectations, and uncertainty. Check out our thread for all the details! 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am blown away by this new work from Francesca Fardo and her lab biorxiv.org/content/10.110… - they developed & validated a 2D adaptive model to estimate the thermal grill illusion - it reliably finds combinations of non-painful cold & warm stimuli that together elicit heat pain!

I'm hiring for a position UCLouvain : uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-r…
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Does unpredictability affect pain perception? We address the question in our newly published meta-analysis now online 👇🏼 KUL Health Psych PAIN Journal

Attention FMRI Methods folks & those looking for a long-term non-PI position in affective neuroscience and pain: Our lab has a new Staff Scientist 1 position! Applications accepted through March. See job posting below - please spread the word!
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📄 New Body Pain Perception Lab preprint 👀! In more than 250 individuals, we investigated the link between mental health and sensitivity to acute thermal pain 🌡️😣. Check out our thread 🧵👇 for surprising findings, as well as links to all study materials and code! osf.io/preprints/psya…

And a second one ! 😊🥳
➡️ Dissociable effects of urgency and evidence accumulation during reaching revealed by dynamic multisensory integration biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

By Anne Hoffmann SensMoTion Lab

Preregistering a one-sided test when you test a directional prediction increases statistical power with on average ~11% at no cost whatsoever compared to doing a (logically incoherent) two-sided test. You are welcome.