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S PARK 박소희 🌏

@parkbmb.bsky.social
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Professor of Psychology @ Vanderbilt. Interested in cognitive & social neuroscience of bodily self experiences & disturbances (schizophrenia, depersonalization, autoscopy). Also, working on working memory & imagery

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tor @torwager.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
42 new #fmri tutorials to accompany our new book Elements of fMRI, with @fMRIstats. Run code in both #python and #matlab in your browser to explore. 7 sections, from conceptual foundations to machine learning and AI. torwager.github.io/elements-of-...
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Elements of fMRI Analysis — Interactive Tutorials
Hands-on tutorials for the book Elements of fMRI Analysis: runnable MATLAB and Python code, thought questions, and self-quizzes for all 42 chapters.
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Natalie Matosin @nataliematosin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Stress can trigger symptoms in #schizophrenia. We've known that for decades, but not why. We found the chemical tags that keep the key stress gene #FKBP5 in check have worn away, leaving the #stress system switched on. Our latest in The American Journal of Psychiatry @apajournals.bsky.social 🧠
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Psychiatry Online
PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.
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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's possible to decode which movie someone was watching just from the *post-movie* resting state fMRI. This is because the voxels active during the movie are persistently deactivated afterwards! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... What goes up must come down...
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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
And when he put the heads of the powerful and the not-so-powerful under a transcranial-magnetic-stimulation machine, he found that power, in fact, impairs a specific neural process, “mirroring,” that may be a cornerstone of empathy. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Power Causes Brain Damage
How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Our new paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com. Psychedelics don’t simply disorder the brain. We found hidden, context-sensitive organisation beneath the apparent chaos -- strongest in people reporting more positive, profound experiences and a reduced sense of separation from the world. 🧵👇
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Very interesting, findings show when different people hear unfamiliar music and are asked to envision a story to go with it, there is a lot of overlap in what parts of the brain activate, and narrative details, showing music conveys clear cues about narrative content. No specific story examples alas
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Hearing Voices at Mind in Camden @hearingvoicesmic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If a young person told you they are hearing voices, would you know what to say? New course dates for Level 1 and 2 Understanding and supporting young people who hear voices training: Level 1 Tue 25 Aug, 1-4pm Level 2 Fri 4 Sep 1-4pm OR Tue 15 Sep 10am-1pm www.tickettailor.com/events/mindi...
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Rutgers Brain Health Institute @rutgersbhi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A second pregnancy changes women's brains in the same way as a first pregnancy, but in a different way than the first time, according to a study published in Nature Communications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The effects of a second pregnancy on women’s brain structure and function - Nature Communications
Extending their previous findings of brain changes in a first pregnancy, the authors show that a second pregnancy uniquely alters women’s brains, involving both a further fine-tuning of first-pregnanc...
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Tatiana Baxter @tatianabaxter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Our brief report 'Phenomenology of felt presence across degrees of psychosis-risk and spirituality' is available open-access on 'Psychosis'! Spirituality may intensify distress/reduce positivity of FPs among those at high-risk for psychosis: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @parkbmb.bsky.social
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Phenomenology of felt presence across degrees of psychosis-risk and spirituality
Felt presence (FP) involves sensing another social entity nearby without clear, corresponding evidence. Characteristics of FP depend on context. Previous work suggests FP is meaningful and welcomed...
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Fun bird news: Scans of the internal contours of dodos's skulls hint at the sensory abilities of these famous extinct birds. (Via Nautilus.) nautil.us/inside-the-n...
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Inside the Not-So-Dumb Head of the Dodo Bird
Inside the Not-So-Dumb Head of the Dodo Bird: Cranial scans reveal a brain with clever sensory adaptations
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Prof Nichola Raihani @nicholaraihani.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Sneak peek at the US cover for THE THINKING ANIMAL, coming Jan '27. Looking forward to sharing more - soon! @stmartinspress.bsky.social @zcosini.bsky.social
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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 05/08/2026
If you’re at CCN go check out Seps work investigating the role of valence, identity and sophistication on social agent attributions!
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
What makes a good life – revelatory learnings from Harvard's 75-year study of human flourishing www.themarginalian.org/2016/08/23/h...
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What Makes a Good Life: Revelatory Learnings from Harvard’s 75-Year Study of Human Happiness
“The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.”
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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We want to explore this progressively: combining VR art therapy with physical tokens participants can keep, be it a high-quality print or a 3D object. We’d love to collaborate with artists, therapists, technologists and, funders 😉interested in helping us take the next step. #getInvolved 🥽🎨
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I don't want to spam your timeline and apologize that there is no free single-vote option, but if you want to support an *excellent* dog rescue organization and have $5 (or more) to spare, you can help spread Teddy's wonderfulness far and wide. gogo.photo/668409
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Vote for Teddy in National Pyr Rescue's 2027 Happy Endings Calendar Cover Contest.
Show your support for National Great Pyrenees Rescue, Inc. by voting for Teddy in National Pyr Rescue's 2027 Happy Endings Calendar Cover Contest
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CURESZ Foundation @curesz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Join our friends at the National Shattering Silence Coalition on Sept. 10 at 7 PM for a webinar with Dr. David Kimhy: CBT for Psychosis: What Families and Advocates Need to Know. We hope to see you there! www.nationalshatteringsilencecoalition.org/pro-and-peer...
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Pro & Peer Talks | National Shattering Silence Coalition
Join NSSC’s Quarterly Peer & Pro Talks to learn from mental health leaders and lived-experience speakers, with Q&A sessions for deeper insight.
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult
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67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.
The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.
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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Vanessa Teckentrup @glassybrain.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Call for papers /w @nbkroemer.bsky.social 📢 Cutting-edge work on neuromodulation of vagal afferents in humans or animals using neurostimulation or pharmacological approaches. Robust null results very welcome! Submit by 31.10.2026 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... #neuroskyence #interoception
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CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics Call for Papers Neuromodulation of Body-Brain Interactions Via Vagal Afferent Projections
CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics focuses on the central nervous system, clinical pharmacology, drug development and novel methodologies for drug evaluation.
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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My university's coverage of the collaboration I did to shed light "on how political emotions (anger, anxiety, hope) create distinct bodily maps" 🧠🗳️ With @andreavik.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social @mtsakiris.bsky.social (thanks team!)
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This paper is absolutely wild and amazing. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Homing pigeon navigation relies on superparamagnetic macrophages under overcast conditions
Birds use a variety of navigational strategies, including the geomagnetic field, especially when other cues are not available, such as under overcast or nocturnal conditions. Magnetite particles in th...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026
NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️
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It's the End of American Science As We Know It
We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.
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Susan Wardle @susanwardle.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Now out in #JNeurosci -- we found changes in medial parietal cortex after manual exploration of everyday real-world objects doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... with Beth Rispoli, Vinai Roopchansingh & @cibaker.bsky.social
photo of a human hand holding a tiny gold analog clock, two brain pictures showing fMRI results in medial parietal cortex on the inflated cortical surface (one brain map is thresholded, the other is not)
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...
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AI generated identical resumes for a man and a woman: Hers was more likely to be labeled 'weak,' while his got a 97% approval rating | Fortune
“If people believe they will be judged more harshly for using AI, they are less likely to adopt it—regardless of their capability."
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A short highlight of the beautiful recent work by @varunswadia.bsky.social, Doris Tsao et al., providing single-neuron evidence of the overlap between imagery and perception! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A neuronal basis for mental imagery - Cell Research
Cell Research - A neuronal basis for mental imagery
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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
You don’t just think about politics, you physically feel it in your body
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You don’t just think about politics, you physically feel it in your body
A new study reveals that people physically feel political emotions differently than everyday feelings. These unique bodily sensations, like a tense chest, reliably predict whether someone will actually vote, protest, or engage in democracy.
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Ben Alderson-Day @aldersonday.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This Saturday at Hay Festival - I'll be chatting to @claudiahammond.bsky.social about reading and the brain for #AllInTheMind. Come along at 5.30pm! www.hayfestival.com/p-25581-bbc-...
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BBC Radio 4: All in the Mind - Hay Festival
<p>Why do novels make us more human? Claudia Hammond hosts a live recording of Radio 4's <em>All in the Mind</em>.</p>
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 16/05/2026
One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.
White text on a black background reads “Hate is loud.” at the top and “Love is louder.” at the bottom, with the Mayor of London logo centred between the two lines.
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Dayu Lin @moccalin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Happy to share our new review on Neural Mechanisms of Social Hierarchy across Species. We discussed different routes to achieve high social status across species, from fish to humans, and the neural circuits that support each of those strategies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neural basis of social hierarchy across species
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Structured social hierarchies, in which individuals differ in their access to resources and influence over other group members, are a characteristic of many social...
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Andrea Vik @andreavik.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Not a sentence I expected to write: Our research has been picked up by the @dailymail.co.uk @mtsakiris.bsky.social @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...
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Charts reveal where your feelings about politics are felt in the body
Most Brits are probably feeling more than their usual share of political anxiety at the moment. Now, charts reveal exactly where your feelings about the current state of affairs are felt in the body.
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S PARK 박소희 🌏 @parkbmb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Andrea Vik @andreavik.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
you can read the paper open access here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2534895123
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Andrea Vik @andreavik.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🦋 I've got butterflies in my whole body today: our paper is out in @pnas.org! I'd say thats on theme.. Together with @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social, Sohee Park, and @mtsakiris.bsky.social we mapped how people feel political emotions in their bodies. Turns out politics doesn’t just play on our minds…
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Political emotions are not experienced as everyday emotions. They are felt differently in the body, are embodied differently according to our ideology and predict political participation. Our latest with @andreavik.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2nh9maka
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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Check below our fantastic collab. leading to the paper accepted now in PNAS: "Politics Embodied: How politics shapes and is shaped by the bodily experience of emotions" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 💫
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Politics embodied: How politics shapes and is shaped by the bodily experience of emotions | PNAS
Political emotions are widely acknowledged as key drivers of political participation and polarization. Yet while it is well established that politi...
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Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
THURSDAY MAY 14 16.15 - 17:30 in person / online TOO MAD TO BE TRUE IV - CONFERENCE "Reimagining Spiritual and Religious States in Madness, Meaning, and Multiple Realities" With Cherise Rosen, Pablo Lopez-Silva, Tanya Luhrmann, Tatiana Baxter, Sohee Park
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
National identity reconfigures brain responses from “them” to “us” Briefly priming national versus ethnic identity increases ventromedial prefrontal cortex activation for ethnic out-group faces, a pattern typically reserved for self and in-group processing. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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National identity reconfigures brain responses from “them” to “us” | PNAS
How the human brain flexibly adapts social perception by recategorizing out-group (them) to in-group (us) remains unclear. Using functional MRI in ...
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
MRI scans in 47 preschool children find two hours of daily screen time linked to lower white matter integrity in language brain regions - JAMA Pediatrics
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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.
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Marta Gerosa @martager.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Excited to share our new preprint 📣 with P. Haggard, A. Villringer & @michaelgaebler.com Do internal bodily rhythms (cardiac + respiratory) shape not only when we act, but also our sense of agency (the feeling of control over actions and outcomes)? 🫀🫁 A thread below 🧵 [1/5]
Schematic summary of cardio-respiratory effects on voluntary action initiation and SoA
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Brain, Body, and Self Lab @brainself.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
New study! SDT used to dissociate body ownership sensitivity from perceptual bias in the rubber hand illusion with partial visual occlusion. Disrupting visually-driven tactile predictions shifts perceptual bias but not visuotactile sensitivity. See below.
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JAMA @jama.com · 18/04/2026
💬 Perspective: Cuts to social welfare, health agencies, and data surveillance are projected to increase mortality rates and escalate the US health disadvantage relative to other nations. ja.ma/3OaPQin
JAMA article "When Disregard for Population Health Becomes US Policy" by Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH, published online March 16, 2026. Text discusses US population health, policy, and mortality rates.
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Nature @nature.com · 17/04/2026
The work could help to explain why the risk of developing some brain conditions — such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease — differs between males and females go.nature.com/48Flrzv
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Revealed: how male and female brain cells differ in gene activity
Variations in gene expression could help to explain why brain-disease risks differ according to sex.
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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
As the UK prepares to lower the voting age to 16, our report on UK adolescents aged 12 to 17-years-old asks a major democratic question: how are adolescents approaching political life before they formally enter it? Full report can be found here : www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/zhbnbo...
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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Really delighted to have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship by the @britishacademy.bsky.social , which I’ll be using to work on a new book about the human imagination 🧠
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Birkbeck academic awarded 2025 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
Dr Daniel Yon, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at Birkbeck, has been announced as a recipient of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The front page photo on today’s Joongang Ilbo, one of the main conservative newspapers in South Korea:
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Marc Wittmann @marcwittmann.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Why does time speed up as we age? Now in Springer Nature's Memory & Cognition journal: A fascinating case of falsification of our strong and convincing hypothesis with lead author Alice Teghil from Sapienza Università da Roma and my team at @igpp.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Memory encoding for new information, not autobiographical memory load, is linked with age-related differences in subjective time passage over the past decade - Memory & Cognition
The widely replicated finding that time passage over the past decade is perceived as faster by older adults was the focus of this study. We investigated potential factors associated with this effect, ...
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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
New from us: A special issue on secondary ("organic") psychosis just published in Schizophrenia Research - edited by Graham Blackman and me, but very much led by Graham: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Excellent articles on pressing clinical and scientific issues from a host of authors👇
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Ben Alderson-Day @aldersonday.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Tomorrow in Oxford I'm going to be taking about the somewhat surprising relations between inner speech and felt presence... Come along and be as surprised as me! The excellent @rritunnano.bsky.social will also be presenting something much more coherent than me. www.eventbrite.com/e/language-a...
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Language and Psychotherapy
This workshop explores the role of language in psychopathology and asks how reflecting on linguistic processes might inform psychotherapy.
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