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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 06/08/2026

They used computational phenotyping to assess long-term memory and activity wristbands to track sleep, and found that, even in healthy undergrads, both changes in sleep regularity and duration affect long-term memory. Full paper here : 2/2 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Plot showing that more sleep is associated with better memory, but the effect is moderated by the regularity of sleep hours

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 26/06/2026

I think I scored the golden ticket and I'm gonna pin this

A political opinion test shows that my closest match is Zohran Mamdani

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 03/05/2026

I'm serious: The characters literally spend 90 minutes talking about being aware of one's own prejudice and privilege. They engage in heated but thoughtful discussions. They sometimes feel shame but change their minds

juror #8 explains to the other jurors that prejudice always obscures the truth

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 16/03/2026

Proud fanboy moment here: I am at #SXSW and I just saw a screening of Hokum (it's fantastic!) from Damian McCarthy (Oddity, Caveat). I choked on asking questions but I got a chance to take a selfie with him!

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 09/02/2026

This is such a cool tool! Here is my side of the galaxy

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 09/02/2026

Glad to know we are gravitating in the same local cluster :-)

A visualization of Bsky users are points in a map that looks like stars in the night sky

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 03/10/2025

For Interdisciplinary Research!

Screenshot of wikipedia listing the IgNobel prize winners of 2003, with the winner of the "Interdisciplary Research" category (titled "Chickens prefer beautiful humans") highlighted

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 13/09/2025

Our sample was a bit small, so we ran MANY tests to ensure that our findings were solid (validations, cross-validation, permutations, step-wise regressor removals…). Our results survived all of these tests! Most importantly, ALL the networks identified by our analysis were STORAGE networks.

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 13/09/2025

With the model results in hand, we went back to the brain data, and examined which patterns of brain connectivity at rest best account for individual differences in the speed of forgetting. A machine-learning technique identified only 8 connectivity patterns between 9 networks.

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 13/09/2025

I’ll spare you the details but suffice to say that the model explains the behavioral data surprisingly well: it predicts almost every response and response time of every participant. And it does so by fitting ONE parameter only, the speed at which information is lost from memory

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 13/09/2025

Memory involves brain activity at rest (especially in the DMN), while “storage” and “retrieval” involve different brain networks. So, we can test our hypotheses using individual differences: Does more forgetting show different resting-state brain activity in the storage or in the retrieval regions?

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 16/08/2025

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to share my greatest scientific contribution at the 32nd ACT-R workshop, captured for posterity by Zoom's voice-to-speech feature:

Log of a zoom meeting where the host, to verify the audience can hear the online speakers, asks Andrea to say something. Andrea responds "something"

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 04/08/2025

Ha ha ha of course! This is what I was watching last time Chantel was away!

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 29/05/2025

Holy cow I thought "this can't be true" but instead

A screenshot of Google's Gemini responding "No it's not 2025" when asked if the year is 2025

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 28/03/2025

May I suggest this Canadian horror classic?

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 01/03/2025

Rubio is exactly Tom Hagen in this scene of Succession

Tom Hagen from Succession, commenting that their dinner hosts were a "weird family" after his own family has embarrassed themselves at the dinner

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 26/02/2025

Strong Chernobyl vibes from RFK

Pic from TV series Chernobyl, showing a government official dismissing the accident as "the equivalent of a chest X-ray"

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 15/01/2024

Together with Christian Lebiere , Robert Thomson, Patrick Rice, Briana Smith , and Don Morrison , we have done a deep dive and outlined how the different ACT-R equations and assumptions match to know brain processes and circuits. 2/4

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 09/10/2023

That is so cool 😃 I asked because we do have horses at home --- here they are!

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