Moritz Wurm

New Preprint alert ❗

Holistic and kinematics priors enable predictive neural representations during biological motion perception

With: @predictivebrain.bsky.social and
@moritzwurm.bsky.social

At: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

How does the brain generate predictive models of own actions?

We will soon open a **Postdoc position** to address this question in my lab. If you are interested, please write to moritz.wurm@unitn.it.

Reminder about our project on fMRI/EEG on spatial/social cognition for the EastBio PhD studentship competition.

fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.

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Deadline: 15/12/2025

🧠🧠🧠 @cimecunitrento.bsky.social will soon open an MEG lab manager position!
The ideal candidate is a previous postdoc/phd student with MEG experience and a title in physics, engineering, neuroscience, or psychology.
Please spread the word and reach out to me if you are interested!

EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

Apply now for a 4-year PhD position with very generous research funding in the Action Prediction Lab (Patric Bach, Aberdeen, Scotland). The position includes a collaboration with my Lab at CIMeC (Trento, IT). Deadline is December 15!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.

The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.

Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

I’ll soon(ish) post an ad for a postdoc position in my lab to study individual differences in brain plasticity following blindness or deafness, with a start date of spring/summer 2026. Feel free to email me if you’re interested.

🦉🧠 #NotteDellaRicerca: Stand 48 “Il Cervello Predittivo”, con @moritzwurm.bsky.social.

📍 MUSE Trento, piano +3
📅 26/9, dalle 17 alle 24
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MAPS2025 - Metacognition, Aging and Perception Symposium MAPS2025 Metacognition, Aging and Perception Symposium will be held in Rovereto from 23 to 24 September 2025

🧠🧪 Interested in perception, metacognition, aging or all three? Don't miss the MAPS conference at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social this September!
📅 Abstract submission open until May 23 event.unitn.it/maps2025/

Explore vision, motor control & predictive processing with a funded PhD @cimecunitrento.bsky.social

Project: Predictive neural representations of dynamic events, supervisor Moritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social

🧠 Apply by June 5, 2025
🔗 Info: phd.unitn.it/drcimec

#neuroscience #cognitivescience

PhD opportunity in our team! Join us to investigate how our brains generate predictive models of unfolding events.
Application open until June 5.
🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec/105/...

Applications are now OPEN for 15 PhD fellowships in the Doctoral Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences at CIMeC, University of Trento, Italy!

📅 Deadline: June 5, 2025
🧠 Research mind, brain & behavior

ℹ More info
🔗 phd.unitn.it/drcimec
🔗 www.unitn.it/en/phd/cognitive-and-brain-sciences

CogEvo 2025 🧠 July 17–18 | Rovereto 🇮🇹

A focused workshop on cognition, neuroscience, development & evolution - no parallel talks, just great science.

📝 Register + submit poster by May 30!

ℹ️ event.unitn.it/cogevo

#CogEvo2025 #cognition #neuroscience

I agree!

down in Italy..

good question! My guess is that handedness has similar effects on the lateralization effects we observe as for tool knowledge (usually left-lateralized) and perhaps language per se. Note that left-handers show generally less strong lateralization effects. Right-left writers..what 's your prediction?

Decoding the physics of observed actions in the human brain Inferior parietal and lateral occipitotemporal cortex encode the effects of actions at an abstract level of representation, independently of the body movements that induce them.

New paper!
In this study, we identify a previously unreported level of representation in the action recognition hierarchy that is right-lateralized, perceptually highly invariant but not conceptual, and encodes the coarse structure of the effect induced by an action.
elifesciences.org/articles/98521

Registration to the CAOs workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (Rovereto, Italy, May 7-9 2025) now open! event.unitn.it/cimec-caos/

How do our brains generate predictive models of unfolding events? We're seeking for a *postdoc* to address this question in my lab:
sites.google.com/site/moritzf...

EASTBIO: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - EASTBIO: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

4-year PhD position with very generous research fund endowment at the Action Prediction Lab (Patric Bach, Aberdeen, Scotland). The position includes a collaboration with the Action Recognition and Concepts Lab at CIMeC (Trento, IT). Deadline is January 17!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...