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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New Preprint! "Facilitation and Attenuation of Learning to Novel and Familiar Stimuli Through Contextual Mismatch: Experimental Evidence and a Computational Model" By @jialinshi.bsky.social and me. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Many strong Elman Prize candidates are never nominated simply because no one thought to do it. Please repost! Your share might reach the colleague who writes the letter. Deadline: Nov 18 👇
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gave a talk in my dept. on the OSF transition. I wrote up a rough script of the session, which could be of interest to others. I synthesize existing resources and provide my own perspectives. Comments and corrections welcome! zenodo.org/records/2306...
the header for a paper describing "Life after OSF" #metascience
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ari ☀️ @khoudary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
how does memory support perceptual decisions made under uncertainty? this question has scaffolded my entire PhD, and I'm so excited to share part of it in this ✨new preprint ✨ w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social! link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Memory retrieval explains dynamic effects of expectations on perceptual decisions
Expectations—prior knowledge of environmental statistics—support adaptive behavior by reducing uncertainty during inference. However, the questions of where expectations come from and how that ought t...
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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My department is looking to hire 3 new faculty members! Please share widely. Assistant Professor - Cognitive: apply.interfolio.com/193975 Assistant Professor - Social Psychology: apply.interfolio.com/193979 Associate/Full Professor - Mental Health: apply.interfolio.com/193984
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Adam Steel @neurosteel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Out today with @pangeli95.bsky.social (co-lead) & @carolinerobertson.bsky.social ! The brain integrates internal thoughts with sensory information. Yet the networks serving functions are viewed as independent. How does the brain integrate across these systems? elifesciences.org/articles/110...
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Retinotopic coding organizes the interaction between internally and externally oriented brain networks
Internally and externally oriented brain networks are functionally coupled at a voxel scale through a common visuospatial code.
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New tenure track position call for cognitive science at UCSD: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04633
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Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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Rochelle Kaper @rochellekaper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
PREPRINT UPDATE🥳👇: 🧠learning under uncertainty & metacognitive processes are not as generalizable as previously thought! both evolve differently depending on structure & stimulus set osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have a question about the future of metrics for hiring and promoting faculty in science. Academic journal articles have been our currency for a long time, but are under extreme & mounting pressure. Is any dept or field already using a better metric *for hiring and promoting faculty*?
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Zihan Bai @zihanbai.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Excited to share the first first-author preprint of my PhD at NYU with @s-michelmann.bsky.social andDaryl Fougnie. Using eye-tracking in a novel behavioral paradigm, we reveal the mechanisms by which episodic memory (EM) and working memory (WM) interact. 🧠 doi: doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Berna Güler @bernaguler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What is the role of working memory in segmenting continuous experience into events? Does information gradually accumulate in working memory, or is the preceding event reactivated when we encounter a boundary? Check our new paper in JoCN🧵: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
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Working Memory Facilitates Event Segmentation Via Boundary-triggered Reactivation and Partial Accumulation during Events
Abstract. Event segmentation is the cognitive process of dividing continuous experiences into meaningful units. Although working memory (WM) is believed to play an instrumental role in event segmentat...
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Kara McGaughey @kara-mcgaughey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New paper from my PhD out in @elife.bsky.social! 🎉 We asked: when the state of the world is changing, how does the brain adjust how much incoming evidence is accumulated? Turns out there isn't one answer—there are (at least) two. 🧵
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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Have an idea for communicating cognitive science? There’s still time to submit it to the CogSci Mind Challenge 2026. 🗓️ Deadline: August 26
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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Applications are open for WTI Postdoctoral Fellowships! Calling experimental, computational + theoretical researchers working across disciplines to explore human cognition. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/189775 Learn more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/postdoctoral #KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale
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Adi Upadhyayula @adibuoy23.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
(1/9) Preprint Alert! 🚨 New work on how the brain comprehends narratives. 🧠🎥 Are "Key Moments" - our recent line of research - truly distinct from "Event Boundaries"? We put them to the test to see if these two constructs differ from each other. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Isabel Folger (she/her) @isabelfolger.com · 24/05/2026
My undergrad lab work was published in M&C! We examine how gameplay duration and film modality (VR vs 2D) affect the efficacy of a visuospatial task (Tetris) at decreasing intrusive memories following an analog-trauma film by disrupting memory consolidation. link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...
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The impact of virtual reality analog-trauma films and Tetris gameplay duration on intrusive memories
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Ryan Panela @ryanapanela.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Excited to share the publication of our work which explores the application of LLMs in event segmentation and memory research. For researchers interested in applying these validated methods, an open-source module is available on GitHub (github.com/ryanapanela/EventRecall).
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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Our new preprint is out! Using a continuous-report paradigm, we show that divided attention reliably disrupts long-term memory retrieval by reducing accessibility—not precision. Two experiments + mixture modeling + TCC. Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Elliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
New paper just published with @evelinaleivada.bsky.social @garymarcus.bsky.social, Vittoria Dentella, Raquel Montero and Fritz Günther Fundamental Principles of Linguistic Structure Are Not Represented by ChatGPT bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bi...
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Just finished my last class of the semester🎉Reminded of how much I love teaching this academic writing class for grad students. We focus on improving our writing but also reducing anxiety and becoming a more consistent & productive writer Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:
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Piotr Litwin @piolitwin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Beyond Likert scales: We introduce a novel self-report method for measuring RHI strength using inverse multidimensional scaling. Ownership scores emerge from arrangements of bodily experiences in psychological bodily space as distances between RHI and baseline cases of no and full body ownership.
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Novel method for rubber hand illusion strength measurement based on inverse multidimensional scaling - Behavior Research Methods
In the present study, we developed a novel self-report measurement method for the rubber hand illusion (RHI) strength based on inverse multidimensional scaling (MDS). In the preregistered study consis...
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New preprint alert! Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
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Isabel Folger (she/her) @isabelfolger.com · 24/11/2025
First Psychonomics in the books! Heading home full of inspiration and excitement after 4 days of fascinating talks, poster sessions, and conversations. Thanks to everyone who shared their research, insights, and questions, and especially to the organizers who made it all happen! #psynom25
A woman (me) standing next to a research poster titled, “Do Individual Differences in Inhibitory Control and Working Memory Updating Predict Effect of Errors During Learning on Recall?”
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Catalina Yang @catalinayang.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Super excited to share my first preprint with Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense (@barense.bsky.social) -- "Memory strength at reactivation, not memory age, governs prediction error driven updating of naturalistic event memory"! 🧠🎉https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/q9rkn_v1
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com
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Oded Bein @odedbein.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Andrew Reid @reid-lab.org · 06/11/2025
This is 🤯 All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool. #neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
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A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I wrote a thing on episodic memory and systems consolidation. I hope you all enjoy it and/or find it interesting. A neural state space for episodic memories www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
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A neural state space for episodic memories
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories …
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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Our experience of time is powerfully shaped by boundaries between events (i.e., going from one meeting to the next). But what about time *within an event*? In new work, we find reliable distortions of time based on internal event structure (e.g., beginnings, middles, and ends)! tinyurl.com/n8mn2sn7
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Unfolding event structure distorts subjective time
Our experience of time is often distorted in striking ways. Although prior work has shown that boundaries between events can shape temporal perception…
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
How to develop good research questions "This Comment describes the iterative creative process for designing good research questions, and includes practical suggestions and ways to avoid common traps." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Chris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428
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Moufan Li @moufanli.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I’m excited to share my recent preprint on a neural network model of free recall that learns multiple memory strategies including the memory palace! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review? Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments. 9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Soroush Mirjalili @soroushmirjalili.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🧠🚨 How does the hippocampus transform the visual similarity space to resolve memory interference? In this new preprint, we found that the hippocampus sequentially inverts the behaviorally relevant dimensions of similarity 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Hippocampal transformations occur along dimensions of memory interference
The role of the hippocampus in resolving memory interference has been greatly elucidated by considering the relationship between the similarity of visual stimuli (input) and corresponding similarity o...
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Jadyn Park @jadynpark.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw
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Jacinda Taggett @jacindataggett.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
You learn better when you test yourself on an answer before you study it? Even more counterintuitive, our findings showcase that there is not one direct mechanism to this effect. Thank you @charan-neuro.bsky.social , @xiaonanl.bsky.social , and @jameswardantony.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Our new paper explores an analogy between representations of objects and representations of events, finding that similar illusions arise for both! Check it out 👇
Screenshot from a figure of the paper, depicting object segmentation, event segmentation, and illusions created by each
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Zach Reagh @zreagh.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Next up, from @atabk.bsky.social and @wouterkool.bsky.social: Free recall is shaped by inference and scaffolded by event structure. In sum, Ata stuck hidden (and shifting) rules into a word list learning task, creating "events" that influenced the structure of recall. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Zach Reagh @zreagh.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I'm a behind on shouting out new papers! From Angelique Delarazan: Narrative Coherence Warps the Timeline of Recalled Naturalistic Events. In sum, when recalling stories, people systematically deviate from temporal organization to follow the narrative threads. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience? Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as event familiarity increases. Fine-tuning predicts memory recall. Excited to share this work with Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!
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Repeated Viewing of a Narrative Movie Changes Event Timescales in The Brain
Many experiences occur repeatedly throughout our lives: we might watch the same movie more than once and listen to the same song on repeat. How does the brain modify its representations of events when...
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Zach Reagh @zreagh.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Check out a new preprint from Adi, postdoc working with me and Jeff Zacks. I’m *extremely* excited to finally, officially get this out into the world 🙂
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Carli Fine @carlifine.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
the rare paper in which authors can describe their own work as "strange," "trippy," "crazy," or "bonkers" 😂
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Isabel Folger (she/her) @isabelfolger.com · 02/07/2025
If you're interested in multisensory integration, illusory embodiment, or body representations, check out our new paper exploring the cognitive mechanisms underlying the Anne Boleyn illusion! Thank you @jaredmedina.bsky.social for your guidance & collaboration on this project.
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Anchoring to the hand, but not spatially distinct mappings, facilitates illusory supernumerary finger embodiment
To induce the Anne Boleyn illusion, an individual’s hands are placed on either side of a mirror and stroked synchronously from the thumb to the empty …
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I gave in! After students asking for it, I now made a simple figure design checklist. To help all scientists w/o graphic skills create clear, accessible, and truthful charts! -> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4 #DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm Thx for review @bethcimini.bsky.social + 2
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A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data
Nature Cell Biology - Creating clear and engaging scientific figures is crucial to communicate complex data. In this Comment, I condense principles from design, visual perception and data...
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Isabel Folger (she/her) @isabelfolger.com · 13/06/2025
Had a blast at #SARMAC2025 presenting error correction research I’ve been working on with Dr. Hannah Hausman @ the UCSC Memory & Metacognition Lab. Thanks to everyone who stopped by for your insightful questions, and to my fellow presenters for a fascinating 3 days! Excited for the finale tomorrow!
A woman standing next to a research poster titled, “Delaying Feedback Impairs Error Correction Due to Late Presentation of Correct Answers, Not Late Notification of an Error”
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Nature @nature.com · 19/05/2025
There are ways to keep crucial research going go.nature.com/3GWY3m3
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When the government cancels your research grant, here’s what you can do
The mass cancellation of US federal grants marks yet another escalation in political interference in science, but there are ways to keep crucial research going.
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Charan Ranganath @charan-neuro.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I'm looking for a new full-time research assistant ("junior specialist"). It's not quite "lab manager" because I have someone who takes care of the administrative tasks, and here I'm looking for someone to help us get research done! Info is below, please pass on to any talented candidates, thanks!
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Dynamic Memory Lab_Jr Specialist_Ranganath
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Yining Ding @liliand.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Excited to share our new preprint! Using a narrative reading paradigm, we showed that temporal order memory reconstruction can depend on multiple sources of information - factors like knowledge about typical event order and hierarchical event structure can both play important roles! 📖🧠
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Listen to every word.
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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Our memories are not encoded with timestamps. How do we reconstruct the passage of time from our memories? In a new paper (accepted at Psych Science) @samiyousif.bsky.social and I demonstrate a powerful illusion of time that results from repeated experience osf.io/preprints/ps...
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