Category Archives: Research

We have been awarded a grant from the Dutch Research Organisation NWO, to. See the announcement and other projects here.

By Sonja Förster What are ephys alignments – and why would you do them? Ephys alignments, or histology – electrophysiology alignments in full, intend to align electrophysiology features of a neural recording to an anatomical histology reference (here, the Allen adult mouse brain atlas) to allow for reasonable alignment of the recording channels along the probeContinue reading “Of mice and (wo)men – or: how I learned to read spikes”

By Camilla Ucheoma Enwereuzor As part of my MSc internship in the lab, I have spent the last couple of months diving into a paper by Ashwood et al. (2022), who investigated how observers switch between different strategies for perceptual decision-making over the course of long testing sessions. According to previous accounts (e.g., Wichmann &Continue reading “A GLM-HMM deep dive”

Another review of the year (here is 2022 and 2021), this time a bit late. In 2023, I… Here’s to a 2024 with more mental calm, enough time to spend with the people most important to me, several exciting papers to write, insight and wisdom.

The lab attended the NVP winter conference on Brain and Cognition in beautiful Egmond aan Zee. Philippa, Fenying, Sonja, Adrian and Anne presented posters on their work. Anne also gave a workshop on climate action in academia (more info and slides here).

Today, I was inaugurated as a member of the Young Academy Leiden, a group of early-career academics who think and work together on questions of research policy, outreach and interdisciplinary collaboration. The theme of the inauguration was ‘Engagement’, and each incoming member made a short video on the topic. See below for my contribution.

By Eleanor Holton and Anne Urai Do neuroscientists want to talk about climate change? Turns out they do, if we are to take anything from the CCN climate workshop which took place in Oxford a couple weeks ago. While a two-hour workshop after a days worth of packed neuroscience talks may not seem like aContinue reading “Climate action workshop @ CCN”

We visited the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting in Oxford! We presented our science, met new and old colleagues and friends, and Anne hosted a workshop on climate action.

By Kasia Kruk A radical social transition needs to take place to prevent the climate change from progressing as rapidly as it is now. In order to achieve that, we need good communication tools, which could spread the environmental awareness and improve the understanding of the current climate action urgency. Over the past few monthsContinue reading “Comprehension of Data Visualisation”