Ecem Tavacioglu

🧠 Our new preprint is out! In our shared work with @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social, we report the first translation of an intensity-based gradual extinction procedure from rodents to humans. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

Hey folks! Check out our new preprint!📍 Bridging animal and human research, we dynamically manipulated contextual properties in VR to investigate how elemental and configural representations interact to shape the human defensive system across multiple response domains. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

PostDoc job for MRI expert in our Neuroimaging Center in beautiful Dresden. Interested in imaging studies & integration of different neuroscience methods? Get in touch! - Thanks for sharing - @tudresden.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12956

Last conference of the year with the most beautiful view in the world #istanbul #USK26

📢 Come join our team! 💼 We're looking for a Head of the Outpatient Center for Psychotherapy Section Children and Adolescents (f/m/d) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. 🔹 Full-time or part-time 🔹 TV-L E14 🔹 4-year appointment, prospect of a permanent position tinyurl.com/yu7k62a4

Had a great time at #PuG2026 in Heidelberg. Honored to receive the Poster Prize from @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social , recognizing the work developed during my PhD within @rtg2660.bsky.social Thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @martandreatta.bsky.social for the continous support.

@ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social reports a recent experiment on how human foraging behavior is shaped by the spatial distribution of reward and threat gradients (Poster Session 1, #436)

@em1ly-zoe-burlon.bsky.social shows the results of a recent study on how perceived trustworthiness affects choice and gaze behavior in a social decision task (Poster Session 1, #352)

What better way to start #PuG2026 than with a hands-on Neuroanatomy Workshop by Prof. Joachim Kirsch and Prof. Beate Ditzen 🧠

Here is to another great year at VSS from the Visual Attention Lab!

Hey #VSS2026 folks 👋 I’ll be presenting our recent work together with @gamerlab.bsky.social and @visualattentionlab.bsky.social today: “Spatial Gradients of Reward and Threat Interact to Guide Human Foraging Patterns.” Come by poster #56.460 ✨ 📍 Where: Pavilion ⏰ When: 2:45–6:45

Check out our #VSS2026 schedule! @vssmtg.bsky.social

Thanks to this beautiful group I have my very first marathon medal 🏅 #relaymarathon #UniWue

On my way to #VSS2026 ✈️ See you in St. Pete Beach after a 10.5-hour flight, from rainy 9°C Frankfurt to sunny 30°C Tampa 😅 @vssmtg.bsky.social

I led a roundtable discussion today at #EMHFC2026 on “power abuse in academia” and keep coming back to this: How much of what we accept as “normal” is actually misuse of power?

Huge applause to @francescotortora.bsky.social for presenting our study “Gradual Extinction via US Intensity Reduction: a Translational Test of Fear Memory Updating in Humans” at #EMHFC2026 👏 Great teamwork, exciting study and results!

Kicking off this year’s conference season at #EMHFC2026 with the best conference gift ever! #thessaloniki

Want to make peer review more inclusive & equitable? @mattgoldrick.bsky.social and @mariamaly.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar on how to write better, fairer reviews! 📅 June 15th | 12–1:30pm EST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/59ez5azt #PeerReview #AcademicTwitter

Today we are celebrating the achievements and endeavours of women and girls in science. Recognised or not, their work has been essential to scientific progress. Often ground breaking, sometimes overlooked, but always impactful. #WomenInSTEM #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience

It was a fantastic workshop with a great instructor! I highly recommend it to anyone who would like to use Git for their research!

Already missing this office…Had a great time during my short-term research visit @visualattentionlab.bsky.social and in Boston. @bwhpsychresidency.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social

Come join our team!💼A new PhD position is available in our group, focusing on emotional biases and socioemotional competencies in depression. Feel free to share!😃 #PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

Meet our visiting Grad Student Ecem! She is Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience at the University of Würzburg, studying attentional and learning processes in fear conditioning. At VAL, she focuses on visual foraging under threat, manipulating the spatial distribution of threat and value of targets.

Sadly learned of the passing of Prof. Margaret Boden, an inspiring thinker. Grateful I had the chance to listen to her talk 7 years ago at the "2018 Religion & Science Conference: AI & Consciousness", organized by Cambridge Muslim College. I found the video, highly recommend it: bit.ly/3IJHoUb

Pain Expectations: the neural representations of predicted pain in self and others https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.666065v1

New paper out! Here we show that attentional biases induced by reward history depend on awareness of such reward history (w/ @jlupiane.bsky.social and @mavadillo.bsky.social). link.springer.com/article/10.3... 👇🧵

As somebody who studies self-control (but is bad at it), I read this 2025 open-access review on the self-control of eating (tinyurl.com/bdnebw79) by Mann & Ward w/ great personal interest. I highly recommend it, esp. if you study self-control and/or want to deal w/ your eating regulation challenges.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yannik Stegmann and Matthias Gamer: The impact of inherently aversive contexts on visuocortical processing of generalized threat doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

I read a really old article on broad and narrow attention by Wachtel (1967), and I found this sentence deeply relatable "...the extremely anxious individual becomes a slave to minor variations in the perceptual field, which demand most of his attention and leave him confused and disorganized."

Need an ultra-fast online tool to sketch something in the middle of your meeting or an idea that you have? Try Draw Draw Draw!: ozika.github.io/drawdrawdraw/ I often want to sketch something, but most sites want one to register, no time, just Draw Draw Draw!

Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social ! Deadline Sun 6th July

I had pleasure of co-organizing my very first symposium together with my supervisor @gamerlab.bsky.social. A heartfelt thank you to all the amazing speakers @ondrejzika.bsky.social, @francescotortora.bsky.social, @ldeserno.bsky.social, @floriansch and participants for their contributions. #PUG2025

Our symposium continues with @ondrejzika.bsky.social talking about the role of trait anxiety in contextual inference. @gamerlab.bsky.social #PUG2025

Attention attention! ⏰ Last 20 minutes to drop by Room 2.007 to discuss our recent 7T MRI study togwther with @jasbisch.gitlab.io #PUG2025

Kicking off the PUG conference with a great talk by @danielamier.bsky.social – looking forward to an inspiring few days ahead!

The #PuG2025 final program is online! Browse it or download the PDF version 👇 www.pug2025.org

Only a few days left until @pug2025.bsky.social – our symposium, organized together with @gamerlab.bsky.social 🧠⚡ 🎤 Join us for exciting talks by: @ondrejzika.bsky.social @francescotortora.bsky.social @ldeserno.bsky.social @florianschlagenhauf #PUG2025 #psychophysiology #reinforcementlearning

Join us for a zoom talk by Renee Thompson on "The everyday #emotional experiences of individuals with #depressive psychopathology" 5 June - 2:30pm CEST @tudresden.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social @trr393.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

Absolutely well deserved!

Had a fantastic time with more than 100 colleagues from across the world at the European Meeting for Human Fear Conditioning we organized in Egmond aan Zee. #emhfc2025

Congratulations @kimsobania.bsky.social (1st prize) and @jannateigeler.bsky.social (runner up) and @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social (runner up) for winning the poster awards at the European Meeting on Human Fear Conditioning. Great science, awesome presentations! #emhfc2025

🎺 #BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! This Friday, May 16th, the brain meeting speaker will be Ron Mangun with a talk entitled "Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will" All are welcome to join us in person or online. Details here: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event/brain-...

After serving 130 million meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. WCK trucks loaded with food and cooking fuel have been ready at the Gaza border since early March. wck.org/news/gaza-up...

Congratulations to my former supervisor @mattlongo.bsky.social on the publication of "The Invisible Hand". Grateful to have learned from him during my academic journey!

Our article with @gamerlab.bsky.social and @jannateigeler.bsky.social has now been published Open Access 🔓 in Behaviour Research and Therapy🥳 doi.org/10.1016/j.br...