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Brent Pitchford

@bpitchford.bsky.social
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Interested in Brains and Cognition. Postdoc in both the Hoplab and the Mathlab (Leuven, Belgium). Passion for Music, History, and Nature. he/him

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Ziyao Zhang @bulezz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a fun collaboration with yanni and the self-regulation lab. We tested neural distinctions between anticipating social and monetary reward in a large sample study
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Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨Paper alert🚨 Here we try to tackle the tricky problem of measuring the inherently private experiences of visual imagery. Now out and open access in Cortex: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... @heidasigurdar.bsky.social @arnig.bsky.social #imagery #visualimagery #visionscience #psychology #cogsci #aphantasia
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Rhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We're hiring! 2 postdocs + 3 PhD students to join InfantNeuroAI at Trinity College Dublin: awake infant fMRI & OPM-MEG, plus computational models of how infants learn. Aims: understand infant visual cognition, infant neuroimaging methods, more energy-efficient learning 🧵 www.cusacklab.org/vacancies
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 29/08/2026
Live at MapQuest Headquarters:
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is a decent representation of the past five minutes but I don't know why they totally skipped past the threats to our sovereignty that set the national mood.
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Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hello #ecvp! We are so happy to be with you yet again. Here is our #ecvp2026 schedule, please come see us. 🚨We are looking for a doctoral student🚨 -- let's chat! #visionscience #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cogsci
IVL ECVP scheduleWe are looking for a doctoral student
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
David Frum nails it here. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Against Canada, Trump is fighting a trade war that very few Americans support, under leadership that most Americans reject, to achieve results that virtually all Americans would dismiss as pointless if not crazy.

Against Trump, Canadians are fighting a trade war that the great majority support, under leadership that commands broad assent, to defend their independence and self-respect. That’s a war that even the weaker side can win, especially if it needs to hold on only a few months longer to survive.
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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Lots of open positions in Jyväskylä! Come for the great science, stay for the Summers that don’t reach 40 degrees 😜
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Brent Pitchford @bpitchford.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Everything is just satire at this point in the timeline.
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Michael J. Kane @michaeljkane.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Please share with colleagues: The new Psychonomics journal, Individual Differences in Cognition, is accepting submissions! Please send us your empirical, measurement, & stats-methods research in all areas of cognition, including lab, daily-life, & applied work. www.psychonomic.org/general/cust...
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Individual Differences in Cognition - Psychonomic Society
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Z-Lab OSU @zlab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Recent work by Kelly Hiersche in collaboration with @osherlab.bsky.social demonstrates that language and theory of mind are functionally and spatially distinct in the brain of 3-9 year old children! @zeynepsaygin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Functional dissociation of language and theory of mind in the developing superior temporal lobe - Communications Biology
Functional MRI in young children demonstrates that brain regions supporting language and theory of mind are functionally and spatially distinct within the superior temporal lobe, and these functions a...
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yi-joan-lin.bsky.social @yi-joan-lin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🚨 Very happy to share our *Neuron* paper: Rethinking neuroaesthetics authors.elsevier.com/a/1miuj3BtfH... With @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social & Johan Wagemans, we argue that neuroaesthetics should move beyond a focus on beauty alone and embrace the multidimensional nature of aesthetic experience.
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European Society for Cognitive Psychology @escop.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
PhD position in Brain & Cognition, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium A PhD candidate would conduct research in the field of cognitive control, multitasking and aging, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Eva Van den Bussche and Dr. Gethin Hughes.
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PhD researcher for the project: Cognitive Control and Multitasking in the Digital Age
We are looking for a motivated PhD researcher to study the behavioral and neural dynamics between cognitive control and multitasking in young and aging populations.
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Nate's Myth @natesmith.dev · 03/04/2026
we should put whoever makes broccoli rubber bands in charge of more stuff
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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is so, so well-articulated.
People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.
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Brent Pitchford @bpitchford.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I want someone to explain why wearing new york yankees hats has become fashionable in Belgium of all places. As a Jays fan... this is torture.
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Steve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In my >25 years as a researcher, this is one of my favorite and most personally meaningful studies to come out of my lab: 𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚: 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/4 #AcademicSky #EduSky #AI #HigherEd #SciComm
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 20/03/2026
Clarifying the conceptual dimensions of representation in neuroscience — a Perspective by Stephan Pohl, Edgar Y. Walker, David L. Barack, Jennifer Lee, Rachel N. Denison, Ned Block, Florent Meyniel & Wei Ji Ma www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Clarifying the conceptual dimensions of representation in neuroscience - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Appeals to representation are widespread, despite neuroscientists’ uncertainty about what kind of findings count as evidence for such claims. In this Perspective, Pohl and colleagues develop a unified...
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Yong Hoon Chung @yonghoonchung.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
New preprint with @SamJung @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Here we uncover what might be driving the “meaningfulness benefit” in visual working memory. Studies show that real objects are remembered better in VWM tasks than abstract stimuli. But why? 1/
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 08/02/2026
free video for intro lectures on auditory perception
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out! #neuroskyence #VisionScience #CogSci barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience
If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience The Barnard Visua...
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Cliona O'Doherty @clionaod.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
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Colton Casto @coltoncasto.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The cerebellum supports high-level language?? Now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, we systematically examined language-responsive areas of the cerebellum using precision fMRI and identified a *cerebellar satellite* of the neocortical language network! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUU83BtfH... 1/n 🧵👇
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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
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Communications Medicine @commsmed.nature.com · 15/01/2026
🚨 NEW RESEARCH! ⚕️ 🩺 De Pue et al. find differences in cognitive control with healthy aging. dlvr.it/TQMjtf #HealthyAging @sarahdepue.bsky.social @evdbussc.bsky.social @neuropsylab.bsky.social
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A comprehensive study of cognitive control in healthy aging - Communications Medicine
De Pue et al. administer a cognitive control test battery measuring inhibition, updating, shifting, and proactive and reactive control in young and older adults. While some cognitive control functions decline with age, others are spared or even improve, highlighting the importance of distinguishing multiple cognitive control functions.
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Sarah De Pue @sarahdepue.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
📢 New Publication Alert! Our study on cognitive control in healthy aging is finally out (for early access) in Communications Medicine bit.ly/48tkF9g We administered a comprehensive cognitive control test battery in 231 older adults (different cohorts) and 75 young adults 🧠 Key insights in 🧵(1/4)
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A comprehensive study of cognitive control in healthy aging - Communications Medicine
De Pue et al. administer a cognitive control test battery measuring inhibition, updating, shifting, and proactive and reactive control in young and older adults. While some cognitive control functions...
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Brian Farrell 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @hisbpf.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
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Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Full professorship in general psychology open @tudresden.bsky.social We are a lively department with a fantastically equipped neuroimaing center. DM me with questions. @dgps.bsky.social @dgps-fgal.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12517
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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!
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NeuroSPACE @neurospacekuleuven.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Just landed here 👋 We’re NeuroSPACE, a KU Leuven Methusalem project bringing together 4 labs to explore how the brain combines domain-specific knowledge with domain-general cognitive abilities to shape human behavior. Excited to share our science and to connect with other curious minds here!
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Brent Pitchford @bpitchford.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
My heart cannot handle this ballgame
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Brent Pitchford @bpitchford.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Pretty much no one in Canada thought there would actually be a trade deal, and the general vibe is to just tune out whatever false hope is coming from the other side. But it's still crazy that a conservative message from a conservative US president is now too much for the US.
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Edward Vessel @edwardvessel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
📣 New Paper Alert! My PhD student Hannah Ovadia and I wrote a concise update on “The Role of the Default Mode Network (DMN) in Aesthetic Appeal” to synthesize evidence, highlight issues, and most importantly, consider theoretical alternatives. Free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lz-h8MqMi...
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Katharina Duecker @katduecker.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
At long last, the pre-print to our MEG study + RIFT study and the final paper from my Ph.D with @olejensen.bsky.social We show that strong pre-search alpha oscillations are associated with faster responses in visual search www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @thechbh.bsky.social #neuroskyence
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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Manitoba is expanding its degree programs in Ojibwe and Cree. This is an example of the good that can happen when you elect a progressive, indigenous leader to run things.
Wab Kinew is with the University of Winnipeg and University College of the North. He says:

“Every day, all of us speak indigenous languages - even if we don’t realize it.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Now we’re taking action to keep those languages alive.

Starting in 2026, new indigenous languages degree programs at UWinnipeg and UCN will train the next generation of Ojibwe and Cree teachers.

Let’s lift up our shared heritage and build One Manitoba for all of us.”
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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
A new paper from the lab, using 7T fMRI and MEG to shed light on how we read, specifically how the visual system encodes strings of letters and moves from retinotopic to ordinal neural codes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖
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Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies
Predictions of future events have a major impact on how we process sensory signals. However, it remains unclear how the brain keeps predictions online in anticipation of future inputs. Here, we combin...
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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
My paper with @stellalourenco.bsky.social ‬is now out in Science Advances! We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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Fast and robust visual object recognition in young children
The visual recognition abilities of preschool children rival those of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models.
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UofG School of Psychology & Neuroscience @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
UofG crows showing our incoming new students the values of hard work, focus and perseverance
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European Society for Cognitive Psychology @escop.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Call for papers on conflict adaptation across single- and multi-tasking paradigms in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition The deadline for initial submissions is 1 October 2026.
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ANT Neuro @ant-neuro.com · 22/09/2025
Calling all PhD students & early career researchers! Boost your EEG skills in Nottingham, Dec 16–17. Hands-on training with ANT Neuro, Open Science Tools & @psychopy.org. Register: eventbrite.com/e/1692116779839 #Neurotechnology #BrainResearch #ScienceTraining
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Brent Pitchford @bpitchford.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Excited to share a new article from @icevislab.bsky.social! In a sample of over 60 people, we found distinct neural differences underlying object and face recognition in dyslexia. These findings highlight crucial domain-general visual processes that may contribute to word reading challenges.
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Distinct neural processing underlying visual face and object perception in dyslexia
Developmental dyslexia is a disorder marked by difficulties in reading, spelling, and connecting sounds to written language. The high-level visual dys…
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Ed Tubb @edtubb.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It shouldn’t need saying, but these institutions are not going to stop capitulating to Trump until they have reason to fear the cost of doing so. And that burden is on the public to impose. Protest, boycott, strikes, mockery, whatever. Make them feel it, or they won’t stop.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
there is still beauty in the world
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Common neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o. Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
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European Society for Cognitive Psychology @escop.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Postdoctoral Position at McGill University, Montreal, Canada The Attention & Social Cognition Lab at McGill University invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher to join our dynamic team under the direction of Professor Jelena Ristic. Application deadline: Fall 2025 (or until filled)
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ESCOP - Postdoctoral Position at McGill University, Montreal, Canada
ESCOP is a dynamic scientific society that provides a venue within which current research in cognitive psychology and neighboring disciplines can be presented, discussed and encouraged.
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Meike Ramon @meikeramon.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Interested in #EEG #FPVS #FaceLearning? *An Ecological and Objective Neural Marker of Implicit Learning of Unfamiliar Identities* Preprint 👉 osf.io/preprints/ps... @bfh-ch.bsky.social University of Malta @snsf.ch
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Let that number sink in. This is how to do it when you’re fighting for the future of your democracy.
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J. Brendan Ritchie @jbrendanritchie.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Our target discussion article out in Cognitive Neuroscience! It will be followed by peer commentary and our responses. If you would like to write a commentary, please reach out to the journal! 1/18 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @cibaker.bsky.social @susanwardle.bsky.social
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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168
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