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My favourite (science) podcasts

I highly recommend having some podcasts at hand for those moments when your life involves commuting, grocery shopping, cleaning, running or any other activity that doesn’t require much thinking. Inspired by PsychBrief (and encouraged by Max), here is a list of the podcasts I currently listen to. I use the Pocketcast app. Please let me know if IContinue reading “My favourite (science) podcasts”

New paper: conscious vision proceeds from global to local

Campana F, Rebello I, Urai AE, Wyart V & Tallon-Baudry C. (2016) Visual consciousness proceeds from global to local content in goal-directed tasks and spontaneous vision. Journal of Neuroscience 36(19). During my MSc at the ENS in Paris, I did my internship in the laboratory of Dr. Catherine Tallon-Baudry, where I worked on a project about the hierarchicalContinue reading “New paper: conscious vision proceeds from global to local”

NVP best poster prize

At the Dutch Society for Psychonomics conference (NVP), which takes place every other year in beautiful beach-side Egmond aan Zee, I won the best poster prize for my work Pupil dilation signals decision uncertainty and predicts response alternation.

DonnerLab now on Twitter

I’ve been on Twitter for a couple of years now, and I find it to be a great addition to my usual diet of journal-specific rss feeds and PubMed keyword alerts for keeping up with the literature. I’ve also connected with many people in my field, joined the #PLOS #SfN15 twitter team and even got invited toContinue reading “DonnerLab now on Twitter”

Matlab-based IPython notebooks

21 February 2018, update: the new JupyterLab was just released, and according to this tweet is really easy to integrate with Matlab. Probably worth checking out instead of the reasonably outdated instructions below! I really like Python’s philosophy, but over the last years I haven’t been able to switch the code for my research fromContinue reading “Matlab-based IPython notebooks”

Decision-making in ten minutes

During the Montenegrin Open Science Days in 2014, I gave a short talk on models and neural bases of decision-making. A video of the talk is now online, so check it out if you’re interested in a crash course on how psychologists and neuroscientists think about the process of decision-making. If you’re interested in theContinue reading “Decision-making in ten minutes”

Metacognition workshop at ICM, Aarhus

On the 22nd of September, I’ll be talking at the Metacognition workshop at the Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University. I’m very excited to be on the program together with Chris Frith, Dan Bang, Steve Fleming and Armin Lak. Update: video recordings of all the talks are available here.

Talking to Torsten Wiesel: lessons in science

Perhaps the highlight of the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting for me was meeting Torsten Wiesel who, together with David Hubel won the Nobel Prize in 1981 for their discoveries on the response properties of neurons in early visual cortex. Wiesel gave a talk in which he gave an overview of his work with Hubel. There wasn’t much time leftContinue reading “Talking to Torsten Wiesel: lessons in science”

Peeking over the shoulders of giants

I spent last week in Lindau, at the beautiful Bodensee in the south of Germany. I had the honour to be one of 600 young scientists invited to the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in Physiology or Medicine, a fantastic chance to meet 37 Nobel Laureates in the field and get a huge boost ofContinue reading “Peeking over the shoulders of giants”

Perceptual decision-making for dummies

This week, Journal of Neuroscience published the Journal Club commentary I’ve written with Tom Pfeffer, in which we discuss this paper by Simon Kelly and Redmond O’Connell. In short, we weigh the pros and cons about an electrophysiological signature of evidence accumulation in humans they claim to have found, and discuss what such a signatureContinue reading “Perceptual decision-making for dummies”