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Lisa S. Scott 🧠

@lisascottbcd.bsky.social
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Developmental cognitive neuroscience, vision, perception, attention, learning, EEG/ERP/ssVEP, eye tracking, infants. Professor and PI of UF🐊 BCD Lab: bcdlab.psych.ufl.edu My opinions ≠UF/FL.

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Your brain resolves competing visual inputs in two stages. First, it selects and stabilizes the relevant signal through alpha waves. Then theta waves actively suppress the distraction. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #neuroscience
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Sequential alpha and theta dynamics resolve competition between rival visual stimuli
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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My phone is trolling me. Autocorrected pedicure with Medicare. 😬
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This paper shows how measures and constructs in psychology get introduced but rarely reused. Would love to see a similar analysis done on methods of analyzing neural data. A Fragmented Field: Construct and Measure Proliferation in Psychology" Anvari et al., 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Treemap plots for (top) personality and social psychology and (bottom) clinical and health psychology. Each tile shows one measure, labeled with its acronym if it fits on the tile. Larger tiles indicate that the measure has been used a higher number of times; the many smaller tiles show fragmentation.
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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New ep! 🚨 We’re kicking off our new series, “A Conversation with a Future Luminary,” hosted by @jennadistefano.bsky.social, spotlighting grad student life and research. First up: Rachel Foster on grad school, sociocultural influences on delay of gratification, and more! itsinnate.fireside.fm/43
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The ultimate delay of gratification test? Graduate school.
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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
fu academia, do better
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Updates to NIH K awards starting with October 2027 deadlines. The individual K awards are being consolidated into 4 awards. 🧪 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-098: Notice of NIH Updates to Career Development (K) Award Programs
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of NIH Updates to Career Development (K) Award Programs NOT-OD-26-098. OD
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Freddy Kamps @fkamps.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New paper! We found basic scene selectivity arises across the scene network early in infancy (i.e., by ~3.5 months old), prior to independent navigation experience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The cortical scene processing network emerges in infancy, prior to independent navigation experience | PNAS
Sighted people rely on vision to recognize and navigate the local environment. By adulthood, human cortex contains at least three regions that resp...
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 29/07/2026
It's often said that play is the work of the child, and research continues to back that up. Kids aren't just having fun when they play—they're building creativity, empathy, emotional regulation and other skills that can last a lifetime. theconversation.com/play-is-esse...
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BOLD @boldinsights.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
📖How do children learn to read? "Even when children within a classroom receive the same reading instruction... they learn at different paces." Iliana Karipidis, Simon Rammerstorfer & Silvia Brem explain that reading develops at different paces for different children. boldscience.org/how-do-child...
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How do children learn to read?
Reading develops at different paces for different children
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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I think “Compliance Fridays”should be a thing. My day: completed the common form c & p doc, wrote & uploaded RPPR docs, a 3 hour research security training featuring Mork & Mindy, IRB edits, and finally textbook adoption & “simple” syllabus creation. This is all stuff I do just so I can do my job.
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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Great story and interview with former @bcdlab.bsky.social member @charissepickron.bsky.social about her work at the U of M’s Institute of Child Development! www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Inside the U’s baby science research lab, a look at how the world learns
The University of Minnesota Child Brain and Perception Lab explores how infants and toddlers make sense of the people around them. MPR News spent a day recently at the lab watching one of the “pilot b...
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WIRED @wired.com · 15/05/2026
Workers are getting worse health care, parental leave, and retirement benefits, showing once and for all that your job doesn’t love you back. www.wired.com/story/compan...
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Companies Keep Slashing Employees’ Benefits for the Worst Reasons
Workers are getting worse health care, parental leave, and retirement benefits, showing once and for all that your job doesn’t love you back.
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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New ep! 🚨 In Part I of this 2-part episode, Jenny & Deon discuss connectionist modeling, developmental change, developmental tasks, one-hot vs. distributed representations, the give-N task, Bayesian models, Marr’s levels, & more. Stay tuned for Part II! itsinnate.fireside.fm/38
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Give-N you Bayes and Backpropagation (Pt. I)
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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
When under anesthesia, the hippocampus is listening to, categorizing, and predicting the meaning of words and sounds. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus - Nature
In the hippocampus, complex processing of sensory stimuli occurs even in the unconscious state.
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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
So excited to see this fabulous work by stellar MD-PhD student Briana Macedo now out as a preprint. Briana reports some of the strongest results I've ever seen -- very strong (25% variance, out-of-sample) associations between the childhood environment and white matter. Thread below!
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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A pigeon displays auto-shaping in the wild. BF Skinner would be proud. (This is a post for old academic psychology sorts who remember their behaviorism.)
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Johannes Algermissen @johalgermissen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Finally, this double dissociation is quite cool because aIns and dACC often co-activate and are thought of as being part of the same network (salience network). Here, we show that they bias learning from feedback in two different ways: ... 7/9
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BOLD @boldinsights.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“Everyday experiences – playing with friends, eating a meal, reading a book, spending time alone – have an impact on development.” @elmanubohn.bsky.social explains how different experiences foster learning in different cultural contexts. #ChildDevelopment boldscience.org/how-do-child...
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How do children learn through everyday experiences?
Different experiences foster learning in different cultural contexts
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Nicholas Van Dam @ntvandam.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
My close friend/colleague (Dr Pengfei Xu) has published an impressive 7-yr prospective study with nearly 400 young people, showing that functional brain dynamics in early childhood relate to adolescent anxiety and depression. www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... #PsychSciSky
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Childhood electroencephalographic signatures predict distinct developmental trajectories to adolescent anxiety and depression
Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the onset of anxiety and depression, yet their neurodevelopmental origins remain unclear.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The #MatildaEffect (systematic denial of recognition to women scientists) was named after suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage (d. #OTD in 1898). "The woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time" was a writer, activist, abolitionist & Native American rights advocate. #WomensHistoryMonth
A classic black-and-white studio portrait of Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898), the pioneering American suffragist, abolitionist, freethinker, and advocate for Native American rights. Captured in her later years (likely 1880s or early 1890s), she is shown in a three-quarter profile view, gazing slightly to the left with a calm, resolute, and intellectual expression—lips gently closed, eyes sharp and thoughtful beneath a high forehead. Her white hair is neatly styled into an elegant braided crown or bun, adorned with a small dark ribbon or comb at the top. She wears a dark Victorian-era dress with a high lace collar, fitted bodice, and intricate lace trim at the neckline and cuffs, accented by a dark jacket or shawl with textured fabric and a single visible button or brooch. The soft lighting highlights the fine lines of age on her face while emphasizing her dignified posture and the quiet strength that defined her lifelong activism. This dignified image captures Gage as a radical leader in the women's suffrage movement—co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association, co-author of the first three volumes of History of Woman Suffrage, and author of Woman, Church and State—whose bold critiques of patriarchy, organized religion, and government oppression made her one of the most uncompromising voices of first-wave feminism.
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Dr Suzy J Styles @suzyjstyles.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Once a year I ask my students to imagine a red star. It’s cognitive psychology and we are about to talk about whether “imagery” is the same or different from “perception”, but first, I like to check in on what our class experience when we imagine something. Friends, the results NEVER disappoint!
A digital pinboard showing six options. Ranging from 1. Nothing. 2. A vague outline with no/barely any colour. To 5. A vivid red star and 6. Something more elaborate. 35 people respond as “imagers” (Options 4-6). 6 people show aphantasia (Options 1-2), with one person selecting ‘nothing’.

In the comments section for “nothing”, someone has asked “hello one friend. How do you imagine things?” The reply says “I think of concepts (weepy-face) can’t see things in my mind”
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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Lego brain! Very relaxing spring break activity!
Colorful brain made out of legos on a flat surface.
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 12/03/2026
Bringing Vision Science Closer to the Real World Jody C. Culham and Eva Deligiannis 👀🧠 #neuroskyence www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Bringing Vision Science Closer to the Real World
Vision science has demonstrated considerable success in characterizing early- and mid-level visual processes through reductionism and tightly controlled experiments. However, an understanding of high-...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success.

Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
For more such works and threads, also check out this blogpost (will be expanding with new threads over time) irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/15/%...
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📚 Reading Women in Cognitive Science 📚
Occasionally, I make threads on social media about papers and books that I read. It helps me focus and process deeper when I share highlights and thoughts with others. In this blogpost, I compile a…
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Audrey Luo @audreycluo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We think of white matter as the highways of the brain. But when we followed development along those highways, we were surprised. The journey is more complex than we thought. My final PhD paper, “Two Axes of White Matter Development”, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🛣️🧠✨ 🔗 bit.ly/wm2axes
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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Bye clinical trials for experimental research? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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NIH rolls back red tape on some experiments — spurring excitement and concern
Some human research will no longer be classified as a clinical trial, easing the paperwork burden, but not everyone agrees with the approach.
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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This paper was an awesome collaborative effort of a @fitngin.bsky.social working group. It provides a detailed review of how DNNs can be used to support dev neuro research @lauriebayet.bsky.social and I wrote the network modeling section about how DNNs can be used to test developmental theories 🧵
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Deep learning in fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging research
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into everyday tasks and work environments. However, its adoption in medical image analys…
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Stephan Krohn @skrohn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Thrilled to share our paper on the formation of brain shape in human newborns, just out @natneuro.nature.com: tinyurl.com/2ty4ef43 Using #fractal analysis of #MRI data from the developing Human Connectome Project (lnkd.in/dxeHbJX6), we show that brain shape closely captures infant age and genetics ⬇️
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Victoria Southgate @vhsouthgate.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy - Nature Communications
A classic feature of human memory is that we remember information better when it refers to ourselves. Here, the authors show that before the emergence of self-concept, infants instead remember informa...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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BehavEcolPapers @behavecolpapers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Income insufficiency impacts early #brain development in infants facing increased psychosocial adversity: A network-based approach @PNAS.org
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Income insufficiency impacts early #brain development in infants facing increased psychosocial adversity: A network-based approach
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 2, January 2026. SignificanceThis paper demonstrates the key role of adversity on the earliest stages of postnatal brain development. Data from the Baby Steps study, an ongoing longitudinal study collecting electroencephalography (EEG) and socioeconomic status related ...
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Dressed in a spotted owl sweater handmade by his wife, ecologist Rocky Gutierrez explains why he thinks so many people share his love for owls. 🦉
"They conjure up these really emotive conditions in our soul... We know that something is out there in the dark doing something that we can't do. I think that's one of the real fun things about owls." —Dr. Rocky Gutierrez
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
#FLORIDA AUTHOR E-BOOK DEAL ALERT: Bookseller & author @legroff.bsky.social brilliant novel MATRIX is only $1.99 for Kindle today. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
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Matrix: A Novel
Matrix: A Novel - Kindle edition by Groff, Lauren. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Matrix: A Novel.
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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We have longitudinal multimodal (EEG, MRI) datasets to richly characterize developmental plasticity and an interest in public health relevant prenatal factors (e.g. iron deficiency, prenatal stress) and postnatal factors: caregiving, music, and language experiences!
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Cameron Ellis @camerontellis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team! More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join... Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
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People – Scaffolding of Cognition Team
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.
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Liz Simpson @simpson.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
First human newborn paper from my NSF CAREER Award! Automated detection of mouth opening in newborn infants - with our amazing @umiamipsych.bsky.social team: Guangyu Zung, Yeojin Amy Ahn, @tiffany6390.bsky.social, @semaylott.bsky.social, Arushi Malik, @dmessinger.bsky.social doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Automated detection of mouth opening in newborn infants - Behavior Research Methods
Automated behavioral measurement using machine learning is gaining ground in psychological research. Automated approaches have the potential to reduce the labor and time associated with manual behavio...
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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Im very excited about this work out from our recent infant ssVEP study! Led by postdoc Maeve Boylan! After infants learn about objects while reading a book with a parent, their brains prioritize the processing of familiarity. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
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Competitive Cortical Prioritization Emerges for Trained Objects across the First Year of Life
Learning to detect and recognize a broad range of visual objects is a crucial developmental task during the first year of life. However, many of the neurophysiological changes underlying the emergence...
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brain rhythms lab @haegenslab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Check out our latest work led by @joeyzhou.bsky.social on alpha oscillatory networks in PLOS Biology! ➡️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Do ongoing alpha activity fluctuations influence perceptual sensitivity or criterion?
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Distinct alpha networks modulate different aspects of perceptual decision-making
Fluctuations in alpha-band neural oscillations influence whether we perceive faint stimuli, but how these oscillations relate to different perceptual processes is not clear. This study shows that alph...
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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Expecting experience, not getting it, the brain adapts www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Developmental alterations in brain network asymmetry in 3- to 9-month infants with congenital sensorineural hearing loss
Early sensorineural hearing loss disrupts lateralization development of the brain network.
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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
“faculty & staff will become a more critical component of the college experience, providing increased individualized & group human interactions. Instead of spending 3 hours a week in a lecture hall, students have more direct engagement w/ a professor...” www.forbes.com/sites/nichol...
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It’s The End Of College As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
The radical changes that AI is bringing to higher education includes a paradigm shift that is unprecedented. Only institutions with agility will survive.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Our new paper explains the #polarization of public health Identifying with a social group can shape people’s beliefs and values, leading them to act in ways that have consequences for their health From vaccine hesitancy to smoking cessation, identity plays a critical role: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Ok @uf forcing everyone back to work is making traffic horrible & parking impossible. Also everyone is angry because- traffic for an hour & 30 mins trying to park. Not a good plan: paying people to drive around angry on campus, when they could be peacefully & productively working at home.
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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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Deleting data or stopping its collection will erase years of valuable brain research
An explosion in open-neuroscience datasets has created a new generation of researchers with expertise in data science. But new federal restrictions in the United States put their research programs in…
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Lisa S. Scott 🧠 @lisascottbcd.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Me: coach posted a powerpoint presentation about volleyball rotations for you to look at. 12year old: what’s a powerpoint presentation? 😬is this good or bad parenting?
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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