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🚀 New paper out in Psychological Review! How does learning change across the lifespan? We propose that resource rationality—adapting belief updating to cognitive limitations—can explain age-related differences in learning. 📖 doi.org/10.1037/rev0... 👇 A short thread:

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So excited to announce Curiosity, Information Seeking & Exploration conference: 30th Sept-1st Oct @Brown University. Amazing speakers sites.google.com/view/informa... and free! Abstract submissions open until 7th July w/ Romy Frömer, Ohad Dan, @hayleydorfman.bsky.social, Matt Nassar. Please share!

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Out today in Nature Machine Intelligence! From childhood on, people can create novel, playful, and creative goals. Models have yet to capture this ability. We propose a new way to represent goals and report a model that can generate human-like goals in a playful setting... 1/N

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Here is a new, shorter version of our mental imagery survey. Please if you can spare a few minutes we would appreciate if you could take this & pass it along to others who might be interested. Thanks! tstbl.co/763-452 #neuroskyence #visionscience #psychscisky #aphantasia #mentalimagery

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🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL! Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025. Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social . 👇 Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!

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Bigger groups = more cooperation? New research from RIKEN flips the script on social dynamics, showing that fluid connections and prosocial instincts help large groups thrive. #Neuroscience Original article www.nature.com/articles/s44... Press release www.riken.jp/en/news_pubs...

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First post with my first publication of 2025! 🎉 "Does item-specific cognitive control operate at the item level?" is now out in JEP:LMC! As a group of item-specific control enthusiasts, we put this idea to the test—does it really work at the item level? Check it out here! doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...

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🚨 Finally out! My new @annualreviews.bsky.social in Psychology paper: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... We unpack why psych theories of generalization keep cycling from rigid rule-based models to flexible similarity-based ones, then culminating in Bayesian hybrids. Let's break it down 👉 🧵

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announcing this year's neuroeconomics summer school, this time outside paris. too many great lecturers to list, even too many great organizers (plassmann,glimcher,tymula,kable,me). & you wouldnt believe all the past students and where they are now. sign up: www.insead.edu/events/neuro...

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Tell me you’re insecure without telling me you’re insecure. You. Can’t. Erase. Us. Dude. Take pictures down. Burn books. Ban knowledge. We’ll continue doing meticulous science. You can’t erase curiosity, our integrity, our drive for knowledge & excellence. It’s our nature -not yours, we know.

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"Trump knows the power of marketing. If you make people believe something is true, you make it likelier that it becomes true...He has always wanted to be king...If we believe he is already king, we will be likelier to let him govern as a king. Don’t believe him."

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An image-computable model of speeded decision-making - our latest in @elife.bsky.social combining a CNN with a response time model. TL/DR: Training to reproduce human RTs results in different kinds of representations versus purely task-optimized training.

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Hey, we are organizing a cool workshop in April. We have a great lineup of speakers (in alphabetical order): @introspection.bsky.social , @manolomartinez.net Lucia Melloni, @stepalminteri.bsky.social , @shenhavlab.bsky.social, Frédérique de Vignemont, and Piotr Winkielman. Check it out!

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JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Plus PhD positions for April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky We had to re-start the process after our preferred candidate withdrew. Info 👇.

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

informal announcement: we'll be doing a cluster hire of faculty in theoretical/computational neuroscience in the coming year(s). a senior/mid-career person could be selected to bring in 2-3 more ppl of their choosing (subject to committee approval), or we could otherwise hire together a group 1/

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Episodic memory and the temporal dynamics of cognitive control: http://osf.io/9jr52/

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Reinstatement of temporal context retrieves cognitive control demands: http://osf.io/qgfz6/

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Hello, BlueSky! 🌟 ESCAN is thrilled to join this growing platform. Follow us for updates, insights, and discussions on cognitive and affective neuroscience! 🚀 #ESCAN #BlueSky #Academia

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Why does it feel good to be sure? In new work @voalan.bsky.social @andero.bsky.social and I bridge confidence and affect. In perceptual DM, we found a remarkably consistent association between both measures! ↓↓↓ link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

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📢 I will be joining @tuda.bsky.social & @hessianai.bsky.social as a W3 Professor of Comp.Cog.Sci. I'll bring my #ERC project "C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” & will receive funding from a LOEWE professorship. Hiring soon at all levels! 👀 www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet...

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we've seen goal gradient like effects emerge in cognitive effort tasks but how does attention to goal progress ? a new study from our lab, by Sean Devine and others, uses eyetracking to answer this question link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Very excited that our (@ingrdmrtn.bsky.social, Luianta Verra & myself) RLDM 2025 Workshop "Game on: Leveraging Gamification to Understand Cognitive and Computational Mechanisms" has been accepted! We will soon be opening a call for contributed talks - stay tuned if you are interested!

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🎉Happy New Year! 🎉 We are excited to inaugurate Shenhav Lab's BlueSky account with a UC Berkeley News article featuring the newest paper from our lab by @jasonleng.bsky.social! 📰 News Article: ls.berkeley.edu/news/new-app... 🔗 Paper: t.co/l5C3g6IjCP

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WE ARE HIRING! Are you interested in LLMs, metascience, and their intersection? We’re hiring a full time postdoc on a three-year contract to help us develop, evaluate, and extend RegCheck (regcheck.app), our app for automatically comparing research papers with their preregistrations.

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We are organizing a meeting on Relational Reasoning on April 11 and 12 in Ghent. All info, submissions and registration here: event.ugent.be/registration....

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Three new CDML publications to start off 2025! First up: research on multidimensional control from @davideghez.bsky.social in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social! Across three behavioral experiments and with computational modeling, Davide shows that people adapt control in a distractor-specific fashion.

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It was such a pleasure writing this opinion paper with @stepalminteri.bsky.social We explore how foundational theories of consciousness (eg. Searle and Block) can be re-examined under the framework of empirical cognitive science. Some of the ideas might be quite controversial, so feedback is welcome

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New preprint! We love effort when it brings meaning and mastery, yet we loathe it for its costs and aversiveness. Why does effort play this dual role in our lives? The Effort Paradox Redux, unpacks this tension, exploring how effort shapes motivation, well-being, and growth. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Some great work by @mengya-zhang.bsky.social!

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Thanks @sebraem.bsky.social, for inviting me as part of the 'Growing up in Science' series. Sharing the often untold aspects of becoming and being a scientist (doubts, difficulties, rejections and imposter experiences) felt very meaningful.

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Interested in curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence? Come work with us at the University of Trier - we have an open PhD position together with @mjgruber.bsky.social (Cardiff, UK) and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Bordeaux, France). Please repost! #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

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We have a new opening for a three-year postdoc position in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Ghent University: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Do...

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Fresh out: a short review article where I give an overview of different ways that across-trial temporal structure is helpful in understanding cognitive models of decision-making osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Scientists have already investigated this. The result? The doctor pushing this junk science had his license revoked for spreading deadly lies about vaccines.

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Once an idea (literally) written on the back of an envelope a few years ago to today being accepted in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Leaning, Memory, & Cognition: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐄𝐆-𝐆𝐀𝐍 𝐯𝟐.𝟎! EEG-GAN is a Python package that uses AI (GANs) to generate EEG samples. These samples can be used as extra data to better train classifiers - and we have shown 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝟏𝟔%! autoresearch.github.io/EEG-GAN/

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Excited to have our Automated Research Assistant (AutoRA) published. While initially developed for the behavioral sciences, AutoRA is designed as a general framework for closed-loop scientific discovery. Visit the doc to construct your own closed-loop studies: autoresearch.github.io/autora/

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Check out my article on Reinforcement Learning for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science! oecs.mit.edu/pub/k2ek981x... @oecs-bot.bsky.social

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Thrilled to share our NeurIPS Spotlight paper with Jan Bauer, @aproca.bsky.social, @saxelab.bsky.social, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, Ali Hummos*! openreview.net/pdf?id=AbTpJ... We study how task abstractions emerge in gated linear networks and how they support cognitive flexibility.

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ok, this just posted. It's a sincere question, and I'm hoping that responses to it/discussions of it will clarify questions that many of us have about claims being made about putatively disruptive effects of AI on how we think about the brain. doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

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“Cognitive flexibility as the shifting of brain network flows by flexible neural representations”, a solo paper by yours truly, making the case that brain activity flow shifts are essential to mental flexibility (and quite interesting too!) Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉 tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...

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Hey 👋 the deadline for submitting workshop proposals to #RLDM is fast approaching! We would especially love creative structures for workshops, like hackathons, debates or other traditional formats. Follow @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social for more updates!

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I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)! The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration. More details here: cldlab.org/join/ 🧠💻 #psychscisky

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Internal states emerge early during learning of a perceptual decision-making task https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.30.626182v1

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Nice of Globe & Mail to ask me how Bluesky might be changing our brains. My (non-expert) answer is ‘probably not much’. I’m always hesitant to evoke differences in ability, when there could be differences in preferences & availability of options. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Dynamic tuning of neural stability for cognitive control www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #neuroscience

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

Starter pack for researchers studying the control of cognitive processes e.g., attentional control, inhibition, task switching, working memory, error adaptation etc go.bsky.app/12KTqED

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Funded PhD (UK students only). Interested in a PhD working in the MSN lab, co-supervised by Dr. Romy Froemer? Topic is flexible around themes of motivation and decision-making, using techniques such as computational modelling, brain imaging, or brain stimulation. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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