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annecollins.bsky.social @annecollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Check out our new Trends In Cognitive Science paper on mechanisms of cognitive flexibility - a broad collaborative piece with Florian Bähner, Ali Hummos, Sarah Oh, Kai Sandbrink, and Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying cognitive flexibility: a translational perspective

Cognitive flexibility allows us to adjust behavior when environmental rules change and to recombine prior knowledge in novel situations. However, the …

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think you became the scapegoat because you created "the jason arday affair" out of whole cloth www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is a thoughtful piece by @ent3c.bsky.social, articulating a view of hereditarianism that I think is shared by many in anthropology, psychology & elsewhere. It's also one that I, as a geneticist working on human evolution, fundamentally disagree with. ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/the-cofnas...

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The Cofnas Manifesto

The social consequences of hereditarianism

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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excited about a new paper (w @russellepstein.bsky.social): "Cognitive maps as a medium for thought", in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! We discuss how maps are an important 'middle ground' rep. medium, and how they may interact with a 'language of thought'. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Cognitive maps as a medium for thought

Cognitive maps are essential for navigation, but to what extent are they involved in thinking more broadly? In this opinion article, we examine whethe…

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Defending Cofnas, who had written outrageously racist stuff for years (e.g., that in a meritocracy there would be next to no Black professors because they have lower IQs), is an odd hill to die on. Yet the 100-plus academics who signed this letter are clearly willing to die on it :/

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kenzakdr.bsky.social @kenzakdr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

1/6 New preprint! 🧵 How do we decide to decide? With @aleyamarzuki.bsky.social we showed that the interplay between urgency, evidence accumulation, and prediction errors converges in the dmPFC, into one signal: keep gathering information, or stop and commit to a choice. doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Liron Rozenkrantz @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:

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Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans - Nature Human Behaviour

Mizrachi et al. show that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways l...

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Leya @aleyamarzuki.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

📢 Our paper is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We know that symptoms of OCD fluctuate substantially. But what are the exact conditions that precede symptom escalations? We found evidence for metacognitive processes being a key antecedent. 1/

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Drops in confidence precede symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder - Nature Communications

To devise effective interventions for obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is crucial to understand antecedents to symptom emergence. Here, the authors show evidence for self- and decision making underco...

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Parnian Rafei @parnianrafei.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🚨 My new paper is out in CABN! 🚨@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Do human 'habit' tasks measure the same thing? In this study, we compared the most commonly used paradigms, "Outcome Devaluation" & "Response Remapping", under matched training + time pressure 🧠⌛ link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Does time pressure reveal habits? Divergent results from outcome devaluation and response remapping paradigms - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

Habits are central to daily life but remain difficult to study in the lab. Outcome Devaluation is often considered a “gold standard” paradigm for habit measurement; yet human studies have produced mix...

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Paveen Phon-Amnuaisuk @pavamn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🚨Our new reviewed preprint is out at eLife! 🎉 Using bi-daily gamified smartphone 📱 tracking, we ask: • Does depressive mood precede under-confidence, or vice versa? • How does depression affect the integration of local confidence into global confidence over time? elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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Dense repeated sampling reveals impaired hierarchical integration of metacognitive confidence that scales with depression

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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Here we show, in a large post-publication peer review database, that research assessment is driven more by differences between evaluators than by difference in the evaluated research. " arxiv.org/abs/2607.09783

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Judges matter more than papers in post-publication research assessment

Research assessment relies on expert evaluations, yet human judgement is noisy, and it is unclear whether differences in assessment arise primarily from differences in genuine research quality or from...

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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Finally, congratulations to all travel & poster award winners! The best part of #CPC2026 was seeing trainees & fellow early career scientists share their work with such creativity & rigor. Gives me so much hope for the future of this field 🧠📊 /fin (and now off to catch up on 5 days of sleep!)

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