Raymundo Báez-Mendoza

Excited to share our latest work in @nature.com showing shared neural substrates for parenting and prosocial helping behavior. Full text available here: rdcu.be/e6PnY

Together with the European Social Club, the Society for Social Neuroscience is organizing a "Social brain networking event" during FENS forum fensforum.org, in Barcelona, Spain. It will be held at La Fuga, Consell de Cent 350, on the 7th of July from 7 pm.
@s4sn.bsky.social

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✨ Exciting News! Join us for the S4SN Annual Meeting in Montreal this August 23-26, 2026! 🇨🇦

🗓️ Registration Deadline: August 21, 2026
🔗 Register here: event.fourwaves.com/s4sn2026/reg...

Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity! #S4SN2026 #Montreal #Conference

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🗣️ Call for Abstracts (Individual and Symposium):

Deadline: March 13, 2026
Submit your abstract here: event.fourwaves.com/s4sn2026/sub...

If you have any questions, please contact debora.rashcovsky@gmail.com! ✨

Neural representation structure for reaching and grasping. Fig. 7 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301008226000158

How do we plan to reach for different objects? My colleagues at @primatenzentrum.bsky.social show that parietal (AIP) and premotor cortices (F5) show mixed selectivity with stable temporal and functional organization. AIP emphasizes the target, while F5 grip type doi.org/10.1016/j.pn...

Confirmed faculty: @stefan-everling.bsky.social @smgdpz.bsky.social @benhamedlab.bsky.social @karihoffman.bsky.social @stefantreue.bsky.social and many more not on Bluesky
More info here: www.dpz.eu/pcn2026

Join us at the Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School in picturesque Bad Bevensen for two weeks of intense exchange about Systems Neuroscience!
When: 26 July - 7 August
Where: Bad Bevensen, Germany
Application deadline: 28 February
More details here: www.dpz.eu/pcn2026

Doctoral Researcher (m/f/div) in Microbial Genetic Engineering - Leibniz-HKI

📣 Job opportunity: I’m still looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to join my lab @leibniz-hki.de who is interested in fungal natural product research and genetic engineering. We’ll work on an interdisciplinary project with the team of @luziagyr.bsky.social 👇🏻

www.leibniz-hki.de/en/job-offer...

Kleiner Sneak Peek in unser neues Video: Wir schauen Tierpfleger Justin bei seinem Arbeitsalltag am Deutschen Primatenzentrum über die Schulter.
🎥 Hier den ganzen Film ansehen: youtu.be/x8FI2xuklds

How does research funding reward quantity over quality, and what impact does that have on science? YouTube video by Neuroscience and Beyond

🎧 Join us in the upcoming episode of our Challenges in Academia series, where Dr. Baez Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social unpacks how funding pressures shape lab dynamics, career paths, and scientific risk-taking. 🔗Stay tuned for the new episode!

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How do researchers study social interactions? YouTube video by Neuroscience and Beyond

In our upcoming episode, Dr. Raymundo Baez Mendoza @raymundobaez.bsky.social, neuroscientist at the German Primate Center @primatenzentrum.bsky.social, explains how game theory is used to understand cooperation, competition, and social risk in controlled lab settings. 🐒

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🌍✨ Still time to apply! The MBCP is looking for a Field Site Manager to join us in one of the most beautiful parks on the planet—work with an amazing team, semi-habituated chimps, and boost your project management chops for a career in #conservation or #research.

Info ➡️ bit.ly/MBCPmanager2025

Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential.
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

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In memory of Professor Larry J. Young’s profound contributions to the field of social neuroscience & his commitment to supporting early-career researchers, the Society for Social Neuroscience is pleased to announce the Larry J. Young Memorial Travel Fellowship!

#S4SN2025 #AcademicSky #NeuroSkyence

San Francisco convent in Coimbra Portugal

Excited to take part in the European social club meeting in Coimbra and talk about synergies with the @s4sn.bsky.social #escCoimbra25

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✨ Deadline Extension Alert! ✨

We’ve extended the deadline for abstract submissions! ⭐ Don’t miss your chance to showcase your work. Plus, early career researchers can apply for our prestigious #EarlyCareer Award.

#society-for-social-neuroscience #Conference #AbstractSubmission #S4SN2025

This is how all exams should be! Encouraging fun and creative teamwork

Visual target and task-critical feedback uncertainty impair different stages of reach planning in motor cortex - Nature Communications Visual uncertainty impairs reach accuracy. The authors show that uncertainty about the target always impairs cortical motor goal encoding in rhesus monkeys, while feedback uncertainty does so only whe...

🚨Paper alert! Check out our latest publication in @naturecomms.bsky.social by @lukasamn.bsky.social, Virginia Casasnovas, and Alexander Gail: "Visual target and task-critical feedback uncertainty impair different stages of reach planning in motor cortex".
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Excited to share that the final chapter of my PhD has just been published! Huge thanks to Virginia for the fantastic collaboration and to Alexander Gail for his invaluable supervision.

Förderinitiative „Künstliche Intelligenz“

The DFG is funding independent research groups in AI (tinyurl.com/36f5m6kd). If you're interested in coming to Göttingen (Germany) by applying for one of these groups, we have an online event to inform you what the process is and how we could support you (tinyurl.com/yfpeambm). Check it out!

Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild - Nature Methods In this Perspective, Vogg et al. discuss the progress and challenges of using computer vision approaches in the behavioral analysis of primates in their natural environment.

SFB Paper Alert!

That’s teamwork: 14 SFB members across nine projects put together a perspective paper on “Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild”, which was published in @naturemethods.bsky.social

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3️⃣ Early Career Award details are coming soon, stay tuned 👀

2️⃣ By June 1st, 2025:
Poster Abstract Submissions and Early Bird Registration are open NOW until June 1, 2025.
Details refer to:
www.s4sn2025.org/abstracts
www.s4sn2025.org/registration

1️⃣ We are excited to announce that the call for symposium proposals is extended until April 20 for our upcoming S4SN meeting in beautiful Lisbon! This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase your research and engage with a diverse community of neuroscientists. Please refer to www.s4sn2025.org/symposia

Scientific diagram showing the percentage of correct classification after training an algorithm using the neuronal responses to probability or magnitude and reading out the classification when facing either type of images.

Finally, we also found that the population code was flexible (didn't care about the order of presentation) and transferable (cross-decoding for magnitude and prob.) across value components. Suggesting that these are signals about integrating multiple attributed of reward value. 5/5

Scientific diagram showing the amount of explained variance in neuronal responses, measured in partial R^2, as a function of different parameters related to reward.

Amygdala neurons also signaled reward magnitude. More interestingly, the population transitioned from signaling probability, to signaling risk when information about magnitude was shown. Here, riskier outcomes are those with higher magnitudes and highest uncertainty. 4/5

Scientific diagram showing the graded response of neurons in the amygdala to different images conveying the probability of receiving a reward.

We then recorded the activity of amygdala neurons, a brain structure heavily involved in emotions and reward processing, while the animals observed these images. These neurons signaled reward probability in an abstract way because they largely did not care about the exact image used. 3/5

Diagram of images used to convey probability and reward.

For this, we first confirmed that monkeys behaved as if they cared about reward probability and magnitude. For this, they chose between gambles of different reward values. The reward value was a combination of the reward probability and the reward magnitude. 2/5

Dynamic coding and sequential integration of multiple reward attributes by primate amygdala neurons - Nature Communications The amygdala assigns value to stimuli, yet how its neurons process different value components is unclear. Here the authors show that monkey amygdala neurons respond to different reward attributes and ...

Rewards motivate us, but they have many dimensions. How does our brain combine different reward dimensions? In this study, now out in @naturecomms.bsky.social, we discovered that amygdala neurons flexibly encode reward probability and magnitude, and its risk. s.gwdg.de/qsx23R 1/5

Computer-generated illustration of a rhesus monkey brain showing the shape and location of the amygdala (colored green). Creator: Igor Kagan

🧠 How does our brain evaluate rewards?
Every day, we weigh chances & risks: Play it safe or risk it for more? A study by @raymundobaez.bsky.social shows that amygdala neurons make these calculations!dpz.eu/en/public-engagement/news/article/wie-das-gehirn-belohnungen-bewertet