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Loïc Labache @loiclabache.cpesr.fr · 12/10/2026

🚨 Language is usually left-lateralized, while attention tends to favor the right hemisphere. But are these functions always on opposite sides of the brain?🧠 In our new @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social preprint, we explored hemispheric complementarity in 987 people. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Hemispheric Complementarity is Associated with Distinct Functional and Structural Brain Profiles

Hemispheric specialization is thought to follow a principle of complementarity, with homotopic functions such as language and attention lateralizing to opposite hemispheres, yet its consistency across...

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is strange how much LLMs turned out to be able to solve such a wide range of hard problems that would not, instinctively, seem to be problems that a model of human language would be able to solve This is from a Stanford project that let Astra drive a robot in a kitchen tml.stanford.edu/homebody/

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Nico Dosenbach @ndosenbach.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

It's about what your brain considers drudgery ... tedium ... boring; not your attention. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Stimulant drugs (Ritalin) wake you up & boost reward anticipation, they don't make you pay attention better. Since they help with ADHD, it begs the question ... is that a misnomer?

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

🚨 Preprint altert 🚨 **Opposite Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Mind-wandering With Eyes Open and Closed** www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by Esther Thielking and Luca Iemi!

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory! We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵1/9

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Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events - Nature Communications

When people recall a movie, their eye movements and brain activity resemble those observed during the viewing. These behavioral and neural reactivations are linked through a common process, likely ref...

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Nick Blauch @nblauch.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

What shapes the topography of high-level visual cortex? Excited to share a new pre-print addressing this question with connectivity-constrained interactive topographic networks, titled "Retinotopic scaffolding of high-level vision", w/ Marlene Behrmann & David Plaut. 🧵 ↓ 1/n

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Nick Blauch @nblauch.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

However, when we trained on less broad distributions of viewing size, the topographic responses became less invariant to retinotopic variation. At small sizes, scenes responded more like objects, and at large sizes, objects responded more like scenes. 9/n

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Ok here’s a very general template people can build on. Some will use this as a meme template. Others will use it as a template to build careers out of extruding fields from cognitive science. There’s something for everyone!

A schematic of the process of extrusion where a block of material is passed through a sheet with a hole of a certain shape which cuts the block. The block is labeled “cognitive science”, the sheet “some arbitrary cogsci methodology”, and the shaped block on the other side “a fundamentally novel research field, the likes of which we’ve never seen before”.

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Nico Dosenbach @ndosenbach.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

The brain’s action-mode is created by a dedicated action-mode network (AMN) rdcu.be/d5odm. In the brain’s mode continuum, AMN sits opposite DMN’s default-mode, as yin-yang. AMN might be key in pain, apathy, Parkinson’s. New @natrevneurosci.bsky.social w/ Marc Raichle & @gordonneuro.bsky.social 🧵 ⬇️

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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 30/11/2024

"The reproducibility buddy", what an interesting concept!

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Anjoom AV @anjoomav.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Non-visual spatial and sensorimotor strategies are as effective as visuospatial ones in visual working memory tasks. This challenges the “visual” vs. “verbal” dichotomy and highlights the role of non-visual representations in working memory.

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Giacomo Bignardi @giacomobignardi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The project by Gökberk et al. is now out 🥁🧬📖🧠 We found partly shared genetic contributions to individual differences in language and musicality-related traits. In line with other human traits, Neanderthal alleles displayed reduced contribution to overall genetic associations. More in the link.

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