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We are hosting a symposium on naturalistic neuroscience this spring. Follow this page for updates. 👇

📡🧠New preprint: check out our purpose-built OPMEG-compatible VR goggles and their validation with several cognitive tasks. Towards naturalistic human neuroscience. Read more here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#naturalisticneuroscience #neuroimaging #opm #opmeg

[3/3] Correlation matrix between behavioural indices and questionnaires scores - YES

[2/3] We show that approach–avoidance conflict behaviour relates to transdiagnostic psychiatric symptom dimensions, not specifically to anxiety. These findings challenge a core assumption in preclinical anxiety research and highlight the role of broader psychopathology factors.

[1/3] New paper on approach-avoidance conflict behaviour and psychiatric symptoms out in #TranslationalPsychiatry - with Juliana Sporrer & Filip Melinscak. OA article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#anxiety #preclinicalresearch #learning #memory #mentalhealth

How to conduct behavioral experiments ethically in VR? Learn more in our next #InVirtuo talk this Friday at 2 p.m., when Dr. Konstantinos Armaos (@bachlab.bsky.social) and Clemens Uhing (@iwe-bonn.bsky.social) from our consortium talk about this challenge and how they approach it in their research.

caian talks

Correction: the talk is of course next Wednesday, not next Thursday. Please find a corrected flyer on our new #caiantalks overview page: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/news-even...

Next week: Hybrid talk by @martandreatta.bsky.social (University Hospital Tübingen) on “When context matters in shaping defensive responses.”
📅 Thu, Jan 28, 2026 | 13:00
📍 Computer Science @unibonn.bsky.social + online
#aversivelearning #psychophysiology #VRresearch #context
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Dominik Bach is presenting at #CNS2026 in Vancouver! 🧠Looking forward to share the latest data and connect with the global neuro community! Who else is going to be in Vancouver March 7-10? Let's grab a coffee! ☕️

www.cogneurosociety.org/schedule-of-...

#Neuroscience #AcademicChatter

#aversivememory #fearmemory #pharmacologicalintervention #systematicreview

New paper published! 🎉“A systematic review of pharmacological effects on human aversive memory” is now available in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, providing the first broad synthesis across 36 compounds, different memory stages, and 13 biological systems. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Thank you!

OPMEG Research Is Coming to Bonn! 🎉
We are excited to announce that over the course of the next three years, Dominik Bach will install and establish an infrastructure for #OPMEG research at University of Bonn's medical campus.

Special thanks to our research assistants who made an extra effort on this day.

Photo credits: K. Armaos & M. v. Weschpfennig/Uni Bonn

Yesterday, we opened the doors to our labs and participated in @unibonn.bsky.social's #diesacademicus. We had a full house with over 30 visitors, as many interested people came to take a look around and try out one of our VR games.

Next guest in our lecture series #caiantalks is Charley Wu (@thecharleywu.bsky.social (@tuda.bsky.social ), who will speak on "Generalization Guides Exploration Across Development, Social Contexts, and Memory" on Thursday, Dec 11.

👉Visit our website for more information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en

Reminder: this event is taking place today. Join us at 1 p.m. for Manos Konstantinidis #caiantalk.

#cognitivepsychology #decisionmaking #behaviouralscience #behaviouraleconomics

Next guest in our lecture series #caiantalks is Emmanouil (Manos) Konstantinidis ( @warwickuni.bsky.social ), who will speak on "Sources of information and confidence in experiential risky choice" next Wednesday (19/11/2025).

👉Visit our website for more information: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en

🗓️ Mark your calendars: the next #BernsteinConference will take place September 28 to October 1, 2026, in Frankfurt am Main!

Follow the link below to meet the first confirmed speakers. More to come!

👉 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro

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[4/4] The talk will take place on Wednesday 29/10/2025, at 1pm (CET) at the Institute of Computer Science (Informatik), Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 8, 53115, @unibonn.bsky.social , Seminar Room 0.016 (ground floor). The talk will also be streamed online: shorturl.at/A8aZJ.

[3/4] Our first invited speaker is Dr. @ondrejzika.bsky.social , assistant professor at the University College Dublin. His talk is titled: “Computational markers of uncertainty sensitivity as predictors of longitudinal changes in anxiety.”

[2/4] The invited speakers of the #CAIANtalks will be presenting their research which lies at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Decision Making, and Psychiatry.

📆Save the date: new lecture series

[1/4] This Wednesday, October 29 at 1 p.m., we are launching a new, hybrid series of guest talks organized the Center of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CAIAN) in Bonn.

👆Surprisingly, some findings diverge markedly from "textbook knowledge".

Read the preprint here: osf.io/qsgz8

#benchmarks #learning #reproducibility #cognitivepsychology #behavioralscience

📢📄New preprint: 94 empirical benchmarks for associative learning models.

A consortium of 21 learning experts surveyed the literature and expert community for robust empirical phenomena, which we graded by reproducibility and generality.

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

📢Publishing alert: New theory paper out on experiment-based calibration: formal model, relation to criterion validity, role of confounds, and data-generation model.

#mathematicalpsychology #calibration #simulation

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Image: Deep A.I. image generator.

#studentjob #studentprogrammer #unibonn

📢 Job alert: We are looking to hire a student research assistant for programming work in Java in Bonn. Prior experience with Spring Boot is desired. Deadline: October 5, 2025. Read the full job description and how to sumbit your application here: www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...