Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging
The Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging is a joint core facility and research hub of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam University Medical Center | 7T MRI | neuroscience | clinical science | spinozacentre.nl
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingPublication alert: Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain. 🧠 Read the full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulation @tknapen.bsky.social and all researchers involved!
- New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingHonored to receive the Early Career Award by @brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social (NVP) and to give a prize lecture on the general principles of active vision, memory, and imagination. Huge thanks to the NVP community, my mentors, collaborators, and students that shaped this work over the years! 1/2
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging🎓 15 fully funded #PhD positions in EU-funded Doctoral Network. 🧪🧠 We lead Project 7 (@spinozacentre.bsky.social & @nin-knaw.bsky.social): 4-year PhD combining 7T MRI + MEG with computational modelling of vision & individual differences. Apply: indibrain.eu #AcademicJobs
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging15 fully funded PhD positions in EU-funded Doctoral Network (IndiBrain). We lead Project 7 (@spinozacentre.bsky.social, @nin-knaw.bsky.social): biologically inspired models of individual observers combining 7T MRI + MEG, focusing on vision and recurrent processing. 4-year PhD. Apply: indibrain.eu
- Happy New Year! Rare images of snowy Spinoza in MRI chill mode. ❄️
- Our team's new publications cover the Nature portfolio! 🧪🧠 - Vision & touch (Nature, rdcu.be/eSsZR) - Psychedelics (Nat Commun, rdcu.be/eSsZ2) - Binocular rivalry (Nat Hum Behav, rdcu.be/eSsYW) - CSF mobility (Nat Neurosci, rdcu.be/eSs0c) - Numerical cognition (Commun Biol, rdcu.be/eSs0p)
- And outside Nature portfolio: - Cerebellar connectivity (J Neurosci, doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1370-23.2025)
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingResearch paper of neuroscientists and radiologists, Nicholas Hedger ( @uniofreading.bsky.social ) Thomas Naselaris & Kendric Kay (University of Minnesota) @tknapen ( @vuamsterdam.bsky.social, @spinozacentre.bsky.social ), is gepubliceerd in @nature.com 2/2
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingNew today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingOur new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41... We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingExcited to share that my first article is now published in Communications Biology! Humans and many animals have an innate ability to rapidly perceive numerosity—the number of objects in a visual scene. But how does our brain process this fundamental capability? Read the full paper: rdcu.be/eRxMi
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Congrats, Matthias! @matthiasnau.bsky.social ! www.thetransmitter.org/early-career... - Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingThe paper demonstrating that #psilocybin alters contextual computations is out in @natcomms.nature.com : doi.org/10.1038/s414... Thanks to the reviewers and coauthors : @marcoaqil.bsky.social , @tknapen.bsky.social , @gillesdehollander.bsky.social , and Nina Vreugdenhil
- Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, alters perception and induces hallucinations. In this preprint, we show through visual illusions, fMRI and modeling that psilocybin affects contextual computations, a potentially general mechanism of psychedelics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingNice demo by Mark Lescroart @neuromdl.bsky.social on EPI imaging of a single #fMRI slice. Great for teaching! :) vimeo.com/143701608?fl...
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingDatasets like NSD & THINGS offer rich stimuli but often test a single task. After great conversations at #CCN2025 on multi-task studies & generalization in brains & models, I thought I would repost our perspective for those interested in this topic. We need multiple tasks!👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingDon’t miss our upcoming CCN satellite event, Applying Computational Models to Clinical Disorders (August 11th). This session will showcase how computational methods are transforming our understanding and treatment of sensory disorders dlwiki.nin.nl/ccn_2025 #CCN2025 #CompNeuro #VisionScience
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingVoor onze fMRI studie zijn wij nog steeds op zoek naar volwassenen met amblyopie (‘lui oog’) of glaucoom! Meer informatie en aanmelden: dlwiki.nin.nl/Participate
- Gezocht: volwassenen met amblyopie (‘lui oog’) of glaucoom Heb je amblyopie of glaucoom? En ben je benieuwd hoe jouw visuele aandoening invloed heeft op de hersenen? Doe dan mee aan ons fMRI onderzoek in Amsterdam en help de wetenschap vooruit! Meer info en aanmelden: dlwiki.nin.nl/Participate
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging#Newpaper showing that contextual responses drive a unique laminar signature in human V1. Using line-scanning #fMRI at #7T, we show how stimulus-driven and contextual inputs target distinct layers. Contextual input targeted superficial and deep cortical depths. 🧪 🧠 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingNew paper from the amazing Emma Brouwer: humble, group-optimized B1+ shims at 7T can boost or destroy signal where it matters—no subject-specific calibration needed. in MRM doi.org/10.1002/mrm.... @spinozacentre.bsky.social🎓🧠 #MRI #fMRI #Neuroimaging #7T
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging#OSCAwards2025 | open access, data, materials & software: OpenMReye: camera-free magnetic resonance-based eye tracking for research and clinical applications 👀🩻 by @matthiasnau.bsky.social Find out more: github.com/DeepMReye/
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingHonored to receive the #OSCAward2025. Thank you to the #OpenScience community @oscamsterdam.bsky.social for this recognition and for the inspiring work you do! And congrats to the other prize winners! 🎉 1/2
- #OSCAwards2025 | open access, data, materials & software: OpenMReye: camera-free magnetic resonance-based eye tracking for research and clinical applications 👀🩻 by @matthiasnau.bsky.social Find out more: github.com/DeepMReye/
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingGreat symposium on #neuroscience of mathematical cognition with talks by Yuxuan Cai, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social , Ben Harvey and @jacobmpaul.bsky.social
- We hope you are enjoying all these amazing talks! Lots of photos being taken today at #MCLS2025
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingI'm really glad to have this chance to share our numerosity adaptation work at #MCLS2025. Thanks for our organizers.
- We hope you are enjoying all these amazing talks! Lots of photos being taken today at #MCLS2025
- New pod available at Spinoza Centre: a private space in our open office for phone calls, meetings, or videoconferencing!
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingWriting a scientific paper or thesis? Over the years, I’ve gathered my favorite practical writing tips. I hope you find them helpful! Check them out: dlwiki.nin.nl/Writing_and_... #AcademicWriting #SciComm #WritingTips 🖊️🧪 🧠
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingGezocht: volwassenen met amblyopie (‘lui oog’) of glaucoom Heb je amblyopie of glaucoom? En ben je benieuwd hoe jouw visuele aandoening invloed heeft op de hersenen? Doe dan mee aan ons fMRI onderzoek in Amsterdam en help de wetenschap vooruit! Meer info en aanmelden: dlwiki.nin.nl/Participate
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingCome to Coimbra, Portugal, this September for SAW (Seeing and Acting Workshop). A wonderful meeting in a beautiful place. Submit your poster abstracts by July 31. Registration deadline is Aug 31. Check out the great lineup of speakers. Website here: www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s... Please re-post.🧪🧠
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingFinished reading "Co-intelligence" by @emollick.bsky.social Refreshingly practical on human-AI collaboration with concrete examples. Cuts through the doomsaying and hype. Worth your time if you want to learn about AI or how to integrate AI tools in your workflow. #bookreviews #AI
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingTo celebrate the defence of my PhD, and thanks to @ibbamsterdam.bsky.social, I will host a symposium titled "Vision as prediction: learning, action, and biases" on June 6. Program, registration and more information here: bit.ly/43reOgR
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingHey everyone at @vssmtg.bsky.social! If you’re interested in pRF fitting, go visit Garikoitz Lerma-Usabiaga’s poster on pRF fitting methods! For our development of these tools, we’re very interested to hear you want in these tools. Please fill out our questionnaire: forms.gle/fx5UMs1362jv...
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingAcademische vrijheid staat onder druk en moet beter worden beschermd. Die conclusie lees je vandaag in dit KNAW-rapport: www.knaw.nl/nieuws/knaw-... Aanbevelingen o.m.: meer vrijheid van onderzoek, bescherming tegen intimidatie en minder inhoudelijke overheidsbemoeienis.
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingDeadline for the #BiozentrumPhDFellowships Summer Call: May 18, 2025 Don’t miss your chance — submit your application now and start your scientific journey @biozentrum.unibas.ch! 👉 Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/4caiqqX
- Apply now for the prestigious and independent #BiozentrumPhDFellowships. Great science. Unique rotation-based selection of research group and other incentives. The summer call is open until May 18, 2025. bit.ly/4caiqqX @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibasel.ch #fellowship #PhD #Switzerland #lifesciences
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingGreat news for postdocs! The EU launches 404M€ call (±1650 fellowships). Open to ALL nationalities willing to do research in Europe. 🧪 #MSCA #PostdocFunding
- Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingRegistration Open! FSL Course 2025 will be held fully online, 15th – 26th September. Details & registration info here: open.win.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou... The course covers lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingA great position opening at NeuroSpin— with access to the world’s strongest human MRI, the Iseult 11.7 Tesla magnet!
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingAn open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology openletter.earth/against-lang...
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingWith a heavy heart, postponing my USA travels due to the current political situation. Still deeply value and support USA science, the brilliant researchers and their important work. I will miss my colleagues and hope to reunite when times change. Science transcends borders, even when we cannot. 🧪 🌎
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingStatistical power depends on number of participants AND number of datapoints per participant. This simple point is so often forgotten, especially in #neuroimaging. 🧪🧠 See also: doi.org/10.1037/met0...
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingExcellent tutorial on fitting voxel-wise encoding models to #fMRI data by Dupré La Tour & @gallantlab.org! Check out their step by step walk through! Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... Code: github.com/gallantlab/v...
- Can understanding the brain bring meaningful changes to society? Exciting collaboration between artists and scientists, including Maartje de Jong from @spinozacentre.bsky.social and @nin-knaw.bsky.social neuro-narratives.com
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingHow can art and neuroscience help us reflect on our own perception and experience of the world? To explore that question, NeuroNarratives has paired eight neuroscientists and artists together so they can create thought-provoking artworks that will be presented in the centre of Amsterdam in 2026.
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingNew #preprint! Proud to be part of this great study led by @jadynpark.bsky.social & @ycleong.bsky.social linking emotional arousal to enhanced memory encoding—using graph-based measures of large-scale brain dynamics.👇
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- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging!!!Psychedelic study participants wanted!!! For our neuroimaging study with psilocybin, we are looking for healthy participants between 21 and 55 years living near Amsterdam that have experience with psychedelics! For more info and signing up: tinyurl.com/4puse22z
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingNew layer-fMRI paper investigating whether the depth-dependent HRF is different across age groups. They find that its not different. By Luisa Raimondo et al. doi.org/10.1162/0898...
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingCall for new research group leaders… literally 50 meters from NeuroSpin and its 6 MRI magnets and MEG! Come work with us !
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingPsilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, alters perception and induces hallucinations. In this preprint, we show through visual illusions, fMRI and modeling that psilocybin affects contextual computations, a potentially general mechanism of psychedelics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging🚨 PhD opportunity alert! 🚨 Passionate about neuroscience? Want to work with cutting-edge tech like ultra-high field MRI and intracranial EEG to study the human brain? Join us and push the boundaries of neuroscience 🧠✨ 📍 @macsbio.bsky.social 📆 2 March 🔗 tinyurl.com/bfjwpmt9 #neurojobs #PhD
- Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, alters perception and induces hallucinations. In this preprint, we show through visual illusions, fMRI and modeling that psilocybin affects contextual computations, a potentially general mechanism of psychedelics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, alters perception and induces hallucinations. In this preprint, we show through visual illusions, fMRI and modeling that psilocybin affects contextual computations, a potentially general mechanism of psychedelics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- The Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting is coming to Amsterdam August 12-15, 2025! 2025.ccneuro.org
- Registration for CCN2025 is open! 2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi...
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingA real pleasure to work with the guidance of @dumoulin.bsky.social , Maartje and Jelle! Excited to see how we can apply this in patient populations going forward
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingThe contrast sensitivity function (CSF) is used to characterize visual perception in research and ophthalmology. Here, we introduce a method to estimate its neural equivalent (nCSF). Our nCSF model captures systematic differences in the visual cortex. #neuroskyence 🧠🧪
- Extremely proud to see our (@carlienroelofzen.bsky.social & myself) work published! Here we explore how the contrast sensitivity function can be measured, using fMRI! We are able to see effects of eccentricity and polar angle on CS doi.org/10.1162/imag... #VisionScience
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingExtremely proud to see our (@carlienroelofzen.bsky.social & myself) work published! Here we explore how the contrast sensitivity function can be measured, using fMRI! We are able to see effects of eccentricity and polar angle on CS doi.org/10.1162/imag... #VisionScience
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging🧠 🤝 DI and @nin-knaw.bsky.social have awarded €500,000 to five research projects. The goal of this DI-NIN Fund is to support new and innovative research and to strengthen collaboration: 👉 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
- Amsterdam UMC has certified the Spinoza 7T MRI for clinical use, the first in the Netherlands. Used for years to guide deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease, 7T MRI is now standard care and available for applications like MS, epilepsy, and other brain disorders. 🧠 🧪 nin.nl/news/first-c...
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingYay! Our dear SpaceChrono project is officially out! Check out our paper on how temporal and spatial processing are intertwined in the brain: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Credits to @gianfrancof.bsky.social and Domenica Bueti!
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingInternship Alert 🧠 We're looking for two motivated students to join Inge Huitinga's group, a friendly and supportive research group with an expertise in MS pathology. Check both internships here 👇 herseninstituut.nl/stages/
- Reposted by Spinoza Centre for NeuroimagingAs scientists move to Bluesky, it's important that we encourage our academic institutions to do the same! Welcome Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging and Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience!
