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Matthew O’Donohue

@matthewod.bsky.social
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Postdoc at MQ Uni, Sydney. Multisensory processing and Arsenal nerd. He/him

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Alexander Sulfaro (Alex) @sulfaro.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
📣New in PBR: Mental image vividness and aphantasia judgements are fundamentally compromised by overlooked definition problems. doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Arsenal FC @arsenalfc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.
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Daily Cannon @dailycannon.com · 31/03/2026
As it's Trans Day of Visibility I guess it's a good a time as any to mention to new followers that DailyCannon was founded and is owned/run by a trans man. I think it's the only football site that can say that. Anyway, no surprise we say - support trans people. Every day, not just today.
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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Such a great experience for ECRs. @isabelgauthier.bsky.social is a great mentor!
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Benjamin Lowe @brainboyben.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Road trippin’ to ACNS 2025, Melbourne! @matthewod.bsky.social @tvcottier.bsky.social (Plus Ella and Seri) @acnsau.bsky.social
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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Speech-in-noise perception gets better as listeners adapt to environment/room reverberation statistics! Another W for statistical learning. 😁 New paper from folks in our lab (led by Heivet Hernandez-Perez): elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Listening to the room: disrupting activity of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex impairs learning of room acoustics in human listeners
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@AAllenSport @aallensport.arseblog.com · 23/08/2025
Eze. Next.
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Matthias Guggenmos @mguggenmos.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We have a PhD position for an upcoming project in metacognition research in Potsdam / Berlin. A great opportunity for those interested in cognitive modeling of confidence and EEG. More information at coconeuro.github.io/phd2025 Kindly share this opportunity with potential candidates - Thanks!
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Computation and Cognition @ HMU Potsdam
Computation and Cognition @ HMU Potsdam
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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It’s all about attention in June's 50th anniversary articles tinyurl.com/3ywt8zec! ‪@chris-olivers.bsky.social‬ ‪@sauter.bsky.social‬
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Manikya Alister @manikyaalister.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Happy to share some new theoretical work with @andyperfors.bsky.social that will appear at CogSci this year! We argue (and demonstrate through simulations) that people can determine how much to trust other agents by thinking about how those agents have acquired their knowledge. 1/3
Figure showing an overview of the framework argued in the paper. People decide how much they can trust other agents by taking into account 1) features that indicate how the agents acquired their knowledge (their search process); 2) how many other agents agree, and what the features of those agents are; and 3) indications that reflect how knowable the topic is or how easy the space is to search.
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 03/05/2025
Australian election called against Dutton and the Coalition. I almost want to cry a little - didn't realise how badly I needed this to happen. There was a lot at stake in this election but I know a lot of marginalised people are breathing a sigh of relief. #auspol
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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
In May, our 50th Anniversary series features an invited review from Valenza et al, who trace the legacy of their seminal 1996 article, "Face preference at birth” and a readers’ perspective on perception of relations. tinyurl.com/k2jmtbhw
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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
⚠️New paper! If you like multisensory temporal perception, this one has HEAPS for you. We looked at simultaneity perception, simple RTs, race model inequality, serial dependence (recalibration), modality shift costs, musicians, and more! Findings summarised below 1/10 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Meta-analysis results "suggest no significant group differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals in auditory or visual oddball perception, recognition, or neural signatures" link.springer.com/article/10.1... "we found no study-level evidence to support any prediction-related hypothesis"
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Minimal Differences in Auditory and Visual Oddball Tasks in Autism: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition that presents with significant changes in sensory processing, and which has recently been associated with differences in sensory expectations. One method for m...
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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
First time in the US, for ARO. Border officer gave me a hard time. Probably because it’s hard to say Otolaryngology without sounding like a nervous dweeb
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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Officiating of Arsenal games is enough to make me want to forget everything I've learned about human biases from a PhD in psychology and conclude that league refs actually are corrupt. Because at this point I basically think so. Makes 3 pts even more satisfying tho!
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JEP: Human Perception and Performance @jephpp.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We've joined #bluesky on our 50th anniversary! Follow us for research, commentary, and helpful tips for authors. To kick things off, we're excited to share these short editorials by Michael Posner, Isabel Gauthier (our editor), and David Rosenbaum: psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...
Portrait of Michael PosnerPortrait of Isabel GauthierPortrait of David Rosenbaum
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 20/01/2025
In a normal world making a Nazi salute in public should be the end of a person. We no longer live in a normal world.
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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
No effects
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simine vazire @simine.com · 12/01/2025
Want to get editing experience? If you have a PhD & are a member of a group that’s historically underrepresented in editorial roles, apply for a 1 yr editorial fellowship at one of APS’s journals (including Psych Science)! Deadline 7 Feb. Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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APS Editorial Fellowship Program: Call for Applications
Deadline: February 7, 2025APS is pleased to announce the application process for the next cohort of the Editorial Fellowship Program (EFP) is now open. This program aims to increase opportunities for ...
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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025
NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/12/2024
“The human prefrontal cortex alone contains enough neuronal hardware to run 5000 [fruit]flies.” Meanwhile mine can’t even keep me from shitposting on Bluesky after a couple of beers. Cool paper from @mameister4.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHVa3BtfH...
The unbearable slowness of being: Why do at live at 10 bits/s?
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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Spotify Wrapped top artist was Molly Nilsson 😍 I guess I flogged her new album harder than I thought. Special mention to Keanu Nelson, an Indigenous Australian artist I discovered this year who made my top 5. Check out the song Kutjupa Tjuta!
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@AAllenSport @aallensport.arseblog.com · 04/12/2024
Easy. Next.
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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Are any of my new followers United fans? I would like to gloat.
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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I have recently started using Pack & Go, and it's as easy as they make it sound. Upload your PTB code, and hey presto you have your experiment in a browser.
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Samuel Recht @sam.re · 25/11/2024
"We found that, when informed about task difficulty, humans barely shift their confidence criteria." Awesome new work by Xue, Shekhar and @dobyrahnev.bsky.social questioning the Bayesian confidence hypothesis in perception: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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PNAS
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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Jan Drugowitsch @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Alex Pouget and I wrote a perspective a few years ago on Major Sources of Computational Complexity in Complex Decision-Making 🧠. We never got around to publishing it, and so now uploaded it to OSF Preprints: doi.org/10.31219/osf.... I hope some of you might find it useful.
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Brent Crude @my2bits4u.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Blue Sky is lacking the meanness That we have all grown so tired of
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Interesting study on the computational role of prior probability in perceptual choices, finding that priors change the accumulation rate of evidence rather than the baseline. Nicely in line with work by @clarepress.bsky.social & @danieljamesyon.bsky.social: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 🧠🤖 🧠🟦
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Action Biases Perceptual Decisions Toward Expected Outcomes
We predict how our actions will influence the world around us. Prevailing models in the action control literature propose that we use these predictions to suppress or “cancel” perception of expected a...
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Andrew MacAskill @macaskillaf.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7
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Hidden state inference requires abstract contextual representations in the ventral hippocampus
The ability to use subjective, latent contextual representations to influence decision-making is crucial for everyday life. The hippocampus is hypothesized to bind together otherwise abstract combinat...
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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Bayesball! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The Bayesian nature of baseball. From Brantley & @kordinglab.bsky.social
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I am a bit afraid the whole Starter Pack business leaves behind trainees — make sure to follow / repost them if their work interests you so their voices are heard #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #compneurosky
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This is a very reluctant part II in a series of blog posts on the Protzko retraction. The first was motivated by the authors misleading in a .pdf, and this one around false statements in the WSJ, Die Zeit, Nature, and on @spencrgreenberg.bsky.social's podcast. joebakcoleman.com/blog/2024/no...
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I did not want to write another blog post. | Joe B. Bak-Coleman
The Preregistration Revelation Part II
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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Yeah, this is a fantastic intro to Bayesian models. If I’m being hyper critical it’s a bit math-y / unintuitive for a novice in some key sections (although I’m not the sharpest at times…) but an invaluable resource for sure
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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
After a summary of auditory processing in autism? Here ya go! doi.org/10.1002/aur....
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How auditory processing influences the autistic profile: A review
Autistic people often have increased sensitivity to certain noises or trouble ignoring background noise, which can affect people's wellbeing and how they go about their daily lives. This review looks...
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
🚨Out in Science!🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%! -Lasts over 2mo -Works on entrenched beliefs -Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The Extinction Illusion: The left side and the right side have the same number of black dots journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Face cells encode object parts more than facial configuration of illusory faces Saloni Sharma, Kasper Vinken, Akshay V. Jagadeesh & Margaret S. Livingstone www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Face cells encode object parts more than facial configuration of illusory faces - Nature Communications
Macaque face cells respond to objects humans perceive as illusory faces, yet the specific features that drive these responses remain unclear. Here, the authors show face cells respond mostly to object...
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Joe Melling @joemelling.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Excited to share my first paper: a novel visual illusion discovered by my co-authors Will Turner and Hinze Hogendoorn which we call the "Split-Stimulus Effect", in which a single flashed stimulus is perceived to be in two different locations simultaneously jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... [1/5]
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Concurrent perception of competing predictions: A “split-stimulus effect” | JOV | ARVO Journals
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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I turned 30 this morning, but at least I will be lurid on my special day via this Ian Wright “bruised banana” Arsenal kit (thanks Felicia!)
Ian Wright’s classic bruised banana Arsenal away kit.
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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
“prediction errors may signal a local mismatch between input and expectation at each level of the cortical hierarchy, or prediction errors may be computed at higher levels and the resulting surprise signal is broadcast to earlier areas in the cortical hierarchy. Our results align with the latter”
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Poorly Drawn Arsenal @poorlydrawnarsenal.com · 12/11/2024
Hi, not here often and want to catch up on the Arsenal talk you might have missed? This feed shows the most popular Arsenal related posts in the last 24 hours.
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Well, the saga continues! Out in eLife, a paper arguing that responses in auditory cortex to sequence violations are *not* purely compatible with an adaptation phenomenon: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... With some interneuron circuit explorations as well! 🧠📈 🧪
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Parallel mechanisms signal a hierarchy of sequence structure violations in the auditory cortex
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 11/11/2024
Also, please, please, please turn on alt text as a default in accessibility settings to demonstrate inclusive posting. We have had a terrible time getting people to make their images accessible to low visibility and disabled users.
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Matthew O’Donohue @matthewod.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Academics are flocking to Bluesky. Now I just need the 15 yo football fan troll / fake tactical expert accounts to join and trigger me on a daily basis. Then, I will be fully on board. Looking at you, invertthewing
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 09/11/2024
This place still feels a bit small, not football focused, but maybe we could try and connect Arsenal fans at least. If you are an Arsenal fan, leave a reply, people can follow, also please repost or whatever it's called her and hopefully it can spread. #arsenal
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