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Lab's new theory paper unifying biological & artificial neural nets via activity flow. Network coding (encoding/decoding) models simulate how cognition emerges via connectivity. "Brain network organization as the computational architecture of cognition” arxiv.org/abs/1907.03612

Hello everybody! We would like to gladly inform you, that the next ESCBC will be at Budapest, Hungary! The organizing team consists of students from the Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University. We are currently working on the details, stay tuned! 😉

A "Skinnerbox" system for the automated study of jumping spiders behaviour and cognition. Finally came out! I am so proud of this :) authors.elsevier.com/a/1bmKubXTOx6n…

Our pre-print about biological motion in jumping spiders is out! Come and check it! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Whether jumping spiders redirect their moveable, high acuity principal eye retinas to stimuli detected by the secondary eyes is flexible and depends on characteristics of the stimuli. Please check out our new paper in Journal of Experimental Biology led by Margaret Bruce! doi.org/10.1242/jeb.23…

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Our latest paper! Odour priming of a mosquito-specialist predator's vision-based detouring decisions. This has been published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc… #LoveSpiders

Our special issue Lucia Regolin on RETHINKING COGNITION: FROM ANIMAL TO MINIMAL is out on Biochem and Biophys Res Com sciencedirect.com/journal/bioche… Among contributors Dr Alex Schnell Nicola Clayton Michael Levin Maria Bortot @brembs @Docteur_Drey David Glanzman

Dear ESCBC folks! We are very happy to announce that the ESCBC conference is finally back! However, as the pandemic situation is still unclear, this year the conference goes virtual. Save the date 6-7 November and stay tuned for more news related to ESCBC! Cheers!

Dear Arachnologists and friends of the European Society of Arachnology, The deadline for contributions to the 32nd European Congress of Arachnology 2021 is approaching. Please submit your contribution (abstracts for talks and poster) until the 11th of July.

How spiders distinguish living from non-living using motion-based visual cues @plos PLOSBiology phys.org/news/2021-07-s…

Super excited for this work led by Massimo De Agrò to be published in PLOS Biology today! This study is the first demonstration of biological motion recognition in an invertebrate... jumping spiders never fail to amaze! doi.org/10.1371/journa…

A new study explores how jumping spiders see—and, more specifically, what they care about seeing. Understanding how their eyes work together may inform future technologies, and offer a glimpse into a very different being’s perception. (By Maddie Bender) scientificamerican.com/article/spider…

Jumping spiders can distinguish animate from inanimate objects based solely on visual motion characteristics ("biological motion" of a body comprising jointed segments) — previously known only in vertebrates Massimo De Agrò Dr. Daniela Rößler #PLOSBiology plos.io/2VFsJk8

Dear Future Participants! We are happy to announce, that the registration deadline is extended until 30th September! escbc.org/conference-reg… We are waiting for your abstracts! The ESCBC 2021 team

📣The 8th European Student Conference on Behaviour & Cognition will be in Rovereto, 1-3 September 2022 It will be organized by PhD students of CIMeC, University of Trento CIMeC UniTrento News coming soon, stay tuned!

📣 Registration is now open for the 8th edition of the European Student Conference on Behaviour and Cognition ‼️Deadline for abstract submission: 6 June 2022 For more info ➡️ escbc.org

The best things come in small packages: ants value segregated rewards over bundled rewards By Lucy Nevard on a preprint by Massimo De Agrò, Chiara Matschunas and @tomerczaczkes prelights.biologists.com/?p=32309

Amidst terrible fomo seeing all the cool conferences, I’ve been dying to share the news of our latest discovery 🥳 You thought jumping spiders peaked in their coolness? Buckle up!!! We need to talk about #jumpingspiders potentially #dreaming. PNASNews A thread with #videos 1/7

Ever wondered what neuroactive chemicals do to ant learning? 🐜 🧠 💊 Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2022.1… or 🧵