Brad Postle
Depts. of Psychology & Psychiatry, U. Wisconsin–Madison
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Director, Psychology Research Experience Program (summer program for URM/low-income/1st-gen undergrads)
- Neuroscience is moving away from a modular view of the brain because the brain is not modular. It is network of murmuring neurons. Great metaphor by @pessoabrain.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o... #neuroscience
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View full threadI agree that the how is more interesting than the where. But in clinical phenomenology, there is no going around anatomy.
- Here’s a recent discussion: Pessoa, L. (2024). Is the Brain Mostly a Modular System or Do We Need Distributed Processing Frameworks? JoCN Forum. doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
- It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:
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- U r just saying that bc your work is featured in Chapt 12 ;-)
- neural bases of emotion: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... dynamics of auditory memory: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... value-based decision making: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... emotion, social, CON/AMN: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
- Dynamical System Theory-based analysis of psychedelics: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... covert vs. overt attention: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
- place cell coding: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... RSFC: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... neural dynamics of sleep and anesthesia: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... orientation maps in SC: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... E:I ratio and neural communication:
- pulvinar integration of signals: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... face processing: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... eye movement-related eardrum oscillations: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... aging and the core language network: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
- Is the the neuroimaging community (broadly conceived) submitting to 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 again????? Not to be publication police but the shift had seemed major 1-2 years ago. Looking at the editorial board it seems to have serious scientists once more. Curious about thoughts of the community.
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- yes, I admit that it's complicated, and I try not to judge colleagues based on their individual choices. (but I may or may not have private opinions ;-) )
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- but it's not your fault if 'good colleagues' have made a bad choice, right? if they're truly 'good' then at some point they'll see their choice to sign onto the old NeuroImage is problematic and will distance themselves from it.
- "Due to financial uncertainty, the Psychology Research Experience Program has suspended operations, and the PREP summer research opportunity program will not be active during the Summer of 2026. Consequently, we are not accepting applications at this time."😠
- 📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce… 🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉 The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
- congrats! You'll be joining my colleague Tim Rogers, who is (sadly for us) also leaving for UCL
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- tee hee hee, there's two people with too much free time ;-)
- New work led by Jackie Fulvio that adds to growing evidence that dynamics in parietooccipital low-beta oscillations play an important role in the encoding of priority in visual working memory. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- This is an incredible development for all types of conditions. Including neuromodulation for depression (like TMS) which is currently largely limited to the brain's surface whereas some of the most relevant bits of the mood network lie deep in the brain (subcallosal cingulate, insula ...).
- Might focused ultrasound one day replace DBS? UK Scientists built a 256-panel focused ultrasound helmet that can precisely target deep brain regions. Using theta-burst TUS, they stimulated the LGN and found visual cortex activity with effects lasting up to 40 minutes. #neuroskyence #ultrasound
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- yes, although today I have been moving around my environment with my eyes open for at least a good 6 hrs. or more 😆
- The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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- it'll be a bigger emphasis in 3rd ed of www.wiley.com/en-us/Essent...
- Attending #ECVP next week? Please seek me out if you're potentially interested in a postdoc: Thursday – 08-28-2025 - 08:30 am Out of sight, but not out of mind: How the human brain represents images that are not directly seen Chair, Rosanne Rademaker
- 08:40 am Maria V. Servetnik 09:00 am Thomas Christophel 09:20 am Representational formats to encode context and priority in visual working memory Brad Postle | University of Wisconsin–Madison | United States 09:40 am Clayton Curtis | New York University | United States
- 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 by Earl K Miller, Scott L Brincat, Jefferson E Roy This promises to be a must read One day we should create an online journal club to just read these kinds of papers! #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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- not so much Tononi, right?
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- methinks he overstates 😅
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- @levelsof.bsky.social I'm gonna steal this for my teaching, too :-)
- I started a list about films about neurology and the brain: letterboxd.com/ericleonardi... Let me know if any others come to mind and I can add them too!
- Kafka, Memento
- Deadline approaching for Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Travel Fellowship
- 2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship @jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
- 2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship @jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
- Oceania and Southeast Asia; South Asia; Africa; West Asia; and southern Western Hemisphere (excludes Canada and USA). Deadline 20 August 2025 details: www.cogneurosociety.org/jocn-travel-...
- Psychology Research Experience Program (PREP) Symposium 2025, done & dusted
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- Evidence for dlPFC contribution to #memory suppression using #TMS! Now accepted @jocn.bsky.social. Great team effort and collaboration with Gesa Hartwigsen’s lab @mpicbs.bsky.social. We also had an exemplary experience at the journal with editors @barense.bsky.social & @bradpostle.bsky.social.
- 1/3 Excited to share my first paper w/ co-first-author Davide Stramaccia in @rolandbenoit.bsky.social's lab! Causal evidence for right dlPFC involvement in #memory control: #TMS made it harder to stop intrusive memories & suppression didn't cause forgetting @jocn.bsky.social -> tinyurl.com/prfra87k
- "We also had an exemplary experience at the journal with editors @barense.bsky.social & @bradpostle.bsky.social." 😎 @jocn.bsky.social
- As has been clear since April*, Vought intends a pocket rescission. This blanket hold is another tactic to maximize the size of that rescission. Rescission is THEFT from the public. We have until Aug 15 to spend out the budget. CAL CONGRESS AND DEMAND THE HOLD BE LIFTED. Lives are on the line 🧪 *
- Mebbe a reversal of Vought's footnote decree, at least for as long as it takes me to type this? "A Trump administration effort to block all funding that flows to outside health researchers was scrapped Tuesday evening after senior White House officials intervened, people familiar with the matter..."
- EEG Correlates of Active Removal from Working Memory Jiangang Shan and Bradley R. Postle Journal of Neuroscience 9 July 2025, 45 (28) e2414242025; doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
- belated brag-post because I've been mysteriously locked out of bsky for several weeks, but now I'm evidently back in?
- Temporal Dynamics and Representational Consequences of the Control of Processing Conflict between Visual Working Memory and Visual Perception Available Teng, Fulvio, Pietrelli, Jiang, Postle (2025) 37 (8): 1328–1348. doi.org/10.1162/jocn... super-chuffed about this sci'ly and emotion-ly
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- oh. darn. that could have been fun 😅
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- wow. that's remarkably wrong. but the fact that you presumably believe this means that there's a productive debate to be had. but not here. here: doi.org/10.21428/8e6... I await your reply :-)
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- you're lucky to be out of reach of a slap, Sonnyritz ;-)
- Emotionally: This was exasperating difficult to get through, both at a prev journal and at @jocn.bsky.social, due to bizarre resistance by reviewers to the idea that the flexible control of cognition could involve trial-by-trial adjustment of proactive control. We've vented here:
- Scientifically: This, together with doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... provides neural evidence corroborating previous behavioral evidence for our 'hijacked adaptation' model of the active removal of info from WM. Additionally, provides elegant EEG correlates of the control PE and f from Flex. Control Model.
- #Bradfest Symposium in honor of @bradpostle.bsky.social 60th Birthday.
- it was awesome!
- Hivemind: Soliciting recommendations for a cognitive psychology textbook, thx!
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- I used to really like it too, then it seemed like the Nth edition fell into the trap of I-need-to-name-drop-every-recent-result-by-a-friend/colleague-who-would-be-offended-if-I-didn't-do-so ... But I should probably give the N+jth edition a fresh look, so thanks much
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- This is what someone recommended on the Other Place; I'm intrigued. oecs.mit.edu
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- we aspire to provide that "one place" at jocnf.pubpub.org, which is explicitly set up to host threaded discussions. It's taking rather longer than we had hoped to really catch on, but it's ready when you are!
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- paywalled--what's the tldr?
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- @jocnforum.bsky.social was made for this! discussions are threaded and, because posts (including responses) get dois, all the relevant arguments are in one place; would minimize the "yeah, but you're missing the counter-argument that I made on platform X [that may or may not still be accessible...]
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- @jocnforum.bsky.social was made for this! discussions are threaded and, because posts (including responses) get dois, all the relevant arguments are in one place; would minimize the "yeah, but you're missing the counter-argument that I made on platform X [that may or may not still be accessible...]
- 1/2 present to you: Temporality and the Brain: The Long and Winding Emergence of Time in Cognitive Neuroscience". Link to the pub below If you saw me introduce my work to a broad audience you might have heard me talking about a ruling spatial perspective in cog neuro.
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- and only because you mention it, I just uploaded the full text of the 3rd edition of said textbook AN HOUR AGO!!! (I thought it was supposed to get easier after the inaugural version was published [kind of like re-teaching a class after initial prep?...])
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- your long and winding road would have segue'ed nicely with the second talk cued up for the postlab.psych.wisc.edu/msmc/!
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- unfortunately, every link leads to a generic McClintok letters page that requires registration, etc. If goal was to inform colleagues about what's happening at Cornell, u have failed
