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Salman Qasim

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Assistant Professor | Department of Neurosurgery | Rutgers RWJMS Untangling human choice, emotions, and memories with direct-brain recordings. Lab: https://sites.rutgers.edu/qasim-lab/

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New with @tobiasegner.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social! The relationship between external and internal attention is not fixed but varies between competition, concurrence, and cooperation. We shed light on the conditions that allow for each of these relationships to occurπŸ”

psyarxiv.com/ry94x_v1

25.02.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.

Applications for BAMB! 2026 are officially open!

Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty:

@meganakpeters.bsky.social
@marcelomattar.bsky.social
@khamascience.bsky.social
@thecharleywu.bsky.social

Apply now here: www.bambschool.org

12.02.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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Ever wondered how the Dalmatian Dog effect works?

The human brain can quickly learn from a single experience and generalize it to related experiences β€” an impressive feat so far not matched by AI.

Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com reveals how this works.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

04.02.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4
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We’re hiring! The Suthana Lab @ Duke is looking for a Research Assistant to join our team studying human memory & real-world 🧠 dynamics using wearable tech & intracranial recordings.

Apply: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-C...

You can also email suthanalab@duke.edu with CV/questions. Please share!

05.02.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

From @patrickmineault.bsky.social, on how scientists can use Claude Code to help with all the heavy data analysis coding that is a big part of our lives.

use a make system, set up folder structures, write tests, use git, use package managers. Notes on notebooks and visualizations too. πŸ§ͺ

30.01.2026 04:15 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Computational Psychiatry Postdoctoral Associate Opening at Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry

Looking for a postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry? Apply here to join an interdisciplinary team and work with a large longitudinal transdiagnostic dataset

postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...

@RobbRutledge @xiaosigu @DrChrisPitt @PearlsonGodfrey @ACNPorg @YaleMed

26.01.2026 18:21 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in humans - Nature Communications How aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in human brain and impacts on ripple detections is not fully understood. Here authors show that ripple detections should be driven by the 1/f noise, whic...

Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep.

But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroskyence

21.01.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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Tolman's Sunburst Maze 80 Years on: A Meta‐Analysis Reveals Poor Replicability and Little Evidence for Shortcutting In 1946, Tolman etΒ al. reported that rats could take a novel shortcut to a goal after training on an indirect route, supporting the Cognitive Map theory. However, a review of subsequent Sunburst maze...

Can humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts?

Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze.

Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think.
πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡ doi.org/10.1111/ejn....

@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social

05.01.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 57 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 11
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Neural representations of visual memory in inferotemporal cortex reveal a generalizable framework for translating between spikes and field potentials Translating neurophysiological findings requires understanding the relationship between common measures of brain activity in animals (spiking activity) and humans (local field potentials, LFP). Prior ...

🚨 New preprint!

Why do some insights from spikes translate to field potentials while others don't? In this paper we compare visual memory representations in spikes and LFPs to propose a general framework that answers this question.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧡 (1/10)

🧠🟦 πŸ§ πŸ’»

05.01.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6

Our new paper out in NHB! We started this back in @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social's lab when I was a postdoc and Rolando was a grad student, showing that stable fMRI representations of places (learned in Rolando's custom-made VR world) provide the best anchors for later item learning

05.01.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Assistant Professor, Psychology (T/TE) Duties & Responsibilities:Publishing peer-reviewed scholarly works.Maintaining an active research program.Obtaining extramural funding.Teaching un...

We are hiring an assistant professor in cognitive neural systems in the department of psychology at the university of arizona. please use this link to check out the requirements and apply!

arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

04.12.2025 19:24 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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At what scale should spatial information be encoded toward future foundation models of intracranial brain activity?

In our second paper at #NeurIPS2025, we present BaRISTA β˜• β€” a self-supervised multi-subject model that enables flexible spatial encoding & boosts downstream decoding.

🧡 Paper Code ⬇️

02.12.2025 20:20 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jobs | Psychological & Brain Sciences Tenured/Tenure-track position in Cognitive Psychology Open Date Dec 01, 2025 Salary Range or Pay Grade The expected academic base salary range for this position is $110,000- $144,500 (Assistant Profes...

Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology.

pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/

02.12.2025 00:00 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions The brain constantly generates predictions based on one’s knowledge of the world, as captured in memory. When these predictions are in error, our know…

How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions

Looks interesting, from Groves et al

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

14.11.2025 09:22 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Acetylcholine reflects uncertainty during hidden state inference To act adaptively, animals must infer features of the environment that cannot be observed directly, such as which option is currently rewarding, or which context they are in. These internal estimates,...

Congrats to Ella for her new paper! She asked a really interesting question about how the brain represents uncertainty during hidden state inference, and in a lovely crossover with theoretical work, she shows that in mice, acetylcholine dynamics play a crucial role. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

14.11.2025 09:57 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
SIPLab

Please share! Going to #SfN and looking for a postdoc in human neuroscience? We're hiring! If you have a background in Psychology, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, or related areas, come talk to us about joining our lab at Georgia Tech (siplab.gatech.edu). #neuroscience #PsychSciSky

11.11.2025 21:28 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Brain-wide single-neuron bases of working memory for sounds in humans In order to understand the constantly changing acoustic world our brains must maintain elements of auditory scenes in memory. The neural mechanisms for this fundamental process remain unclear. Here, w...

I rarely come on here or any social media, but wanted to share our latest preprint of large-scale human single neuron recordings during an auditory working memory task: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) πŸ§ πŸ“ˆπŸ§΅πŸ‘‡(1/5)

11.11.2025 14:51 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Computational Mechanisms of Psychopathology Lab (COMPLab; PI: Vanessa Brown, PhD) is recruiting for a postdoctoral fellow to join the lab. Research in the lab uses behavioral tasks (administered in-lab and remotely), functional and structural imaging, computational modeling, and mechanistic interventions (brief psychotherapy, neuromodulation) to investigate learning alterations in
anxiety and related disorders. In particular, this position will support research funded by a new NIH R01 using predictive and generative modeling of threat imminence to understand and manipulate avoidance in anxiety.

 

This position is ideal for someone with a background in some combination of behavior/learning theory approaches to anxiety, computational modeling of behavior, and fMRI analysis; and who wishes to gain or deepen expertise in these areas. The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to design experiments, analyze data, present and publish findings, apply for external funding, and assist with
training other lab members and with lab management. Dr. Brown and the COMP Lab are strongly committed to mentorship, and support will be provided to assist the postdoctoral fellow to prepare for an independent research career.

Screenshot with text: The Computational Mechanisms of Psychopathology Lab (COMPLab; PI: Vanessa Brown, PhD) is recruiting for a postdoctoral fellow to join the lab. Research in the lab uses behavioral tasks (administered in-lab and remotely), functional and structural imaging, computational modeling, and mechanistic interventions (brief psychotherapy, neuromodulation) to investigate learning alterations in anxiety and related disorders. In particular, this position will support research funded by a new NIH R01 using predictive and generative modeling of threat imminence to understand and manipulate avoidance in anxiety. This position is ideal for someone with a background in some combination of behavior/learning theory approaches to anxiety, computational modeling of behavior, and fMRI analysis; and who wishes to gain or deepen expertise in these areas. The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to design experiments, analyze data, present and publish findings, apply for external funding, and assist with training other lab members and with lab management. Dr. Brown and the COMP Lab are strongly committed to mentorship, and support will be provided to assist the postdoctoral fellow to prepare for an independent research career.

I am recruiting a postdoc for a new NIMH-funded R01 using neural and behavioral models to understand anxious avoidance. Please share with anyone who may be interested!

Link: faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/155929/...

30.10.2025 14:12 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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PRESS RELEASE! @mountsinainyc.bsky.social receives $4.5 million @bipolardiscoveries.org grant! Led by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social, team will investigate neural mechanisms underlying #BipolarDisorder & pioneer novel neuromodulation-based treatment strategies πŸ‘‰ www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...

28.10.2025 14:11 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

πŸš€ We’re hiring - Join our lab πŸš€

πŸ” Hiring: PhD (75% TV-L) & Postdoc (100% TV-L)
🧠 fMRI, VR, EEG, modelling

We combine a range of cognitive neuroscience methods to study flexible behaviour.

πŸ“… Start: Feb 2026 or later | ⏳ Apply by Nov 3!

More details:
tinyurl.com/ms3a9ajt

#CognitiveNeuroscience

27.10.2025 11:57 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428

23.10.2025 18:28 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

thrilled to share our preprint on false memories in naturalistic recollection!

Distinct paths to false memory revealed in hundreds of narrative recalls

paper: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

w/ phoebehc.bsky.social (co-first) Vy A. Vo @davidpoeppel.bsky.social @toddgureckis.bsky.social

thread below πŸ‘‡

16.10.2025 19:29 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

I’m hiring! We have an opening in my lab at UC Berkeley for a Staff Research Associate 2. This person will collect and analyze data, work with patients and families, act as point of contact btwn collaborators, maintain lab organization, + more. careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPL...

15.10.2025 18:06 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw

13.10.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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Foraging in conceptual spaces: hippocampal oscillatory dynamics underlying searching for concepts in memory How does the brain access stored knowledge? It has been proposed that conceptual search engages neurocognitive processes similar to foraging in physical space. We tested this idea using intracranial E...

Foraging in conceptual spaces: hippocampal oscillatory dynamics underlying searching for concepts in memory

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

13.10.2025 19:56 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: a narrative review of human intracranial research Despite many years of research, the quest to identify neural correlates of perceptual consciousness (NCC) remains unresolved. One major obstacle lies in methodological limitations: most studies rely o...

Everything you always wanted to know about intracranial correlates of #consciousness (but were afraid to ask):
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736

With @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social and many great clinicians too busy for bsky!

#iEEG

13.10.2025 06:07 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

A compressed code for memory discrimination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.12.681901v1

13.10.2025 10:15 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Motivation as Neural Context for Adaptive Learning and Memory Formation Our memories shape our perception of the world and guide adaptive behavior. Rather than a veridical record of experiences, memory is selective. An accumulating body of work suggests that motivational ...

Motivations are like emotions about (what we know about) possible outcomes. Sometimes incentives spur urgency to act, other times to comprehend. Neuromodulatory systems reflect these motivational moods and shape memories. Out now w @jiahou-poh.bsky.social!
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

13.10.2025 04:39 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
codec lab

I'm recruiting grad students!! πŸŽ“

The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠

Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! πŸ™

06.10.2025 14:26 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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πŸš€ New Preprint from our team: comparing place cells across species!
Disentangling methods from biology provides a roadmap for cross-species insights into spatial coding 🌍
πŸ‘‰ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

07.10.2025 16:52 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1