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I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods. If you know anybody, please tell them to email me. Formal ad to follow. Lab website: wessellab.org

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I've started to create a Google doc to compile & share cog psych teaching resources, organized by topics (e.g., attention, memory, language) & resource types. This week, I ask you to share any in-class demos you'd like to give. Please reply to this post or tag me in a separate post. Thanks!

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To make it easier to share teaching resources, I'd like to start by asking what your favorite cog psych videos are. Let me start: I love showing this visual agnosia video in class. Kevin is articulate about his recognition problems. What's your favorite? I'll compile your responses & share them.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

New modeling paper, spearheaded by Raphael Geddert and Seth Madlon-Kay, now out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: "Modeling of control over task switching and cross-task interference supports a two-dimensional model of cognitive stability and flexibility". Free read link: rdcu.be/epatc

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

In this article, @jetrach.bsky.social and McDougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations. @actlab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

In this article, @yuedu.bsky.social and @adrianhaith.bsky.social show that behavior can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation, respectively www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

So your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

These are important points. Univ. of Michigan is the 3rd largest employer in Michigan. Due to stable jobs and good benefits, people with all educ. backgrounds have jobs. So do places UM buys from.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

New paper! @rewaniw.bsky.social, Clay Curtis, and I show that the way visual representations are routed through cortex when seeing vs. remembering affects their precision. We link this to behavior & show how task demand matters (👀 cool animation in 🧵) #neuroscience #visionscience #PhDSky 1/15

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Join us tomorrow for our very first OPAM online workshop! In it @rebeccahirst.bsky.social will show us how Psychopy can be a useful tool for designing experiments both in person (with eyetracking!!) and online. The workshop will be completely free and a video will be posted online afterwards!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Academic friends, if your NSF grants have been terminated by the administration, FABBS is hosting a webinar Friday about appealing the decisions. It's important that as many people appeal as possible to show we're not accepting this targeting of science. Link to the webinar registration is below.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

New preprint + toolbox! BrainTRACE is a MATLAB tool for localizing intraOp ECoG electrodes. It was designed for brain tumor patients, but appropriate for all ECoG implants. github.com/dbrang/Brain... www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Vim is the original escape room

submitted 36 days ago • 86 comments

We've reached the time of year where I receive various iterations of the following email: "I almost got the grade that I wanted, but I didn't quite get there. Can you go ahead and just change it for me? OK thx, bye!"

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

We hope to see you at #BINSeminarSeries today at 9AM PT|12PM ET! 🧠 It's not too late to register. Just click the link below! 🔗: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

On the cover! Let's go @brissend.bsky.social! Errors of attention adaptively warp spatial cognition www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

this Aaron Gordon ball in hand, ball in basket at the buzzer is breaking my brain I have never thought about this scenario until right now

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

Thanks to all of you for sharing your writing advice, my students (and maybe yours) can benefit from the wisdom in this thread!

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

submitted 50 days ago • 18 comments

The Spark Society appreciates your support. Thank you all for your donations. In addition to donations, I encourage those who study animal or human cognition to become a member of the Spark Society. If you support diverse voices and building inclusive spaces in Cognitive Psy/Sci, you belong!

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Join the Spark Society!

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

That last point I've been on a soapbox about for a long time. Just because it's peer-reviewed doesn't mean you should believe it now. Most published papers (including my own) have flaws, shortcomings, outright errors, etc. Show me a few replications first and the needle moves a bit

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

submitted 55 days ago • 146 comments

It’s here! It’s here! Our Black In Neuro Annual Report for FY23-24 (July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024) 🎉 We would like to thank our BIN team, Daniela Franco for preparing this report, and Ni-ka Ford for the beautiful cover art 😍 static1.squarespace.com/static/5f022... 🧵 1/8

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Apply for a FREE virtual workshop on "R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience." Sponsored by NSF and will take place this summer. Enrollment is open to all students. Direct training on using R to analyze data from psychological tasks. Applications due 4/30. 🤓🧑‍💻 sites.google.com/view/r-progr...

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Tell Congress to protect crucial medical research funding #saveNIHresearch ucal.us/saveNIHresearch @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning #CNS2025! Come by our poster this morning. Awesome work by @brissend.bsky.social B30 Causal role of the cerebellum in spatial working memory (TMS-fMRI)

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Starting later this afternoon!

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Are you at CNS: hot* symposia alert featuring myself, @aaronbornstein.bsky.social, @chelseahelion.bsky.social, and @iancballard.bsky.social talking about uncertainty resolution across learning, memory, social cognition, and decision-making. See you Monday at 10:00 AM. *I sweat a lot giving talks

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Hey everybody! #CNS2025 bleepstorm incoming! 9 POSTERS! I work with an amazing group of scientists, celebrating them this weekend in Boston is makes me so excited and hopeful (and I usually abhor the use exclamation points!) (All posters available on the lab website): mnemology.org/conferences/...

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

At #CNS2025? Come by our posters from the Cognition, Control, and Action Lab! SAT 3-5pm A126 Modeling the temporal dynamics of cognitive control A149 Cognition-Action links in Parkinson disease (TMS-fMRI) SUN 8-10am B30 Causal role of the cerebellum in spatial working memory (TMS-fMRI)

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula... The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵

submitted 140 days ago • 6 comments

If you have a federal grant, I highly recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

submitted 86 days ago • 6 comments

I’m planning to hire an RA for my new lab at the University of Miami (www.jam-lab.org) to start August 1st! Please feel free to get in touch or share with anyone who may be interested! umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCareerStaff/job/Coral-Gables-FL/Research-Associate---Psychology_R100085344-1

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

This summer, I will be hosting a virtual workshop for computer programming in cognitive neuroscience, funded by NSF. It is designed to teach early-career students the basics of R to analyze data from cognitive tasks. More info, including a syllabus and how to apply: sites.google.com/view/r-progr...

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 Announcing PupEyes, a Python library for pupil size and eye movement data analysis! github.com/HanZhang-psy... Highlights: Pupil preprocessing pipeline based on best practices Interactive data viz tools *Integration with pandas ecosystem. 🧵 (1/8)

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

I’m very excited to finally see this one in print! Led by the incomparable @brissend.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... We find that cognitive processes (e.g. attention, working memory) undergo error-based adaptation in a manner reminiscent of sensorimotor adaptation. Read on! (1/n)

submitted 107 days ago • 5 comments

Doing science is hard these days, but here’s our new review on attentional capture by abrupt onsets, published in @jephpp.bsky.social ! We hope to offer some food for thought for both newcomers and experienced researchers alike. Hope you enjoy it! psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

submitted 107 days ago • 6 comments