I will be recruiting 💫two PhD students💫 for my new lab! (computational learning & memory applied to individual & interactive behavior: rouhanilab.com). Feel free to e-mail if interested and catch me at SfN! (poster 06 at 1 PM on Wed 10/09)

My lab at UCRiverside is once again recruiting grad students - come join us if you're interested in studying memory using EEG and/or fMRI in younger and older adults! You can check out more info on my grad app FAQ: bit.ly/dzmacbit.ly/ccngrad

Wow! Our Wellcome-funded Public Engagement Science Enrichment project the "Curious Brain" together with Science Made Simple and five primary schools across Cardiff has concluded with an inspiring showcase event at Techniquest - the science museum in Cardiff. www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/28...

What can children teach us about the neuroscience of curiosity?

Neuroscientists work with primary schools to understand how curiosity impacts learning and memory

Here is our preprint on this work that has been led and initiated by Danlu Cen: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thank you to @katejj.bsky.social@hugospiers.bsky.social to invite Ellen O’Donoghue and me to speak at the UCL “Getting Lost in Buildings” conference about our current research and future research plans on how curiosity affects exploration of spatial environments.

Boston College is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track) in Computational Cognitive Science: apply.interfolio.com/153274 Please share!

Thank you to @nivimani.bsky.social and all the members of the new Graduate School on Curiosity at Göttingen for the inspiring talks and discussions during the Curiosity Theory kick-off meeting! Can’t wait to come back for a sabbatical in 2025 and see their first findings and lots more discussions!

After an excellent #CNS2024#OpenAccessdoi.org/10.1162/jocn...

Curiosity Satisfaction Increases Event-related Potentials Sensitive to Reward

Abstract. Successful learning depends on various factors such as depth of processing, motivation, or curiosity about information. A strong drive to learn something or the expectation of receiving a re...

Are you at #CNS2024@sinandrei.bsky.social#CUBRICcardiff@cjhodgetts.bsky.social

Mariam, this is fantastic!!! I'm so happy for you that you found an awesome department and that you are going back home to California! :-)