Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengClara Sava-Segal @csavasegal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026So glad to *finally* have this out!! Major thanks to both Clare and Emily 1296 29
Qingzhi Ruby Zeng @qingzhirubyzeng.bsky.social · 25/08/2025/1 New preprint alert! 💫“Expertise Shapes the Multidimensional Perception of Stories”! 💫 We generated a novel corpus of improvised spoken stories using diverse prompts designed to elicit creative and complex narrative structure. doi.org/10.31234/osf...doi.orgOSF 142 4
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengElise Piazza @elisepiazza.bsky.social · 30/07/2025The SoNIC Lab is in San Francisco for #CogSci2025; come check out our latest research! 062 6
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengGasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 14/07/2025For the first time, metalinguistics and recursion are not exclusively human abilities. Large language models can do them too. This research is an example of “behavioral interpretability” of LLMs—using prompting to understand inner representations of AI. news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/14/a...news.berkeley.eduAs chatbots get smarter, humans' unique language abilities are becoming less special - Berkeley NewsUC Berkeley researchers say large language models have gained "metalinguistic ability," a hallmark of human language and cognition no other animal has displayed. 073 7
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengPsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Interpersonal Cardiac Synchrony During Emotional Sharing Between Strangers: osf.io/nmj5k 001 1
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengMIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 14/07/2025"Ideally, it will not only inspire neuroscientists to make their studies more 'natural' but also encourage behavioral ecologists to tackle the neural basis of fascinating behaviors." @science.org reviews "Natural Neuroscience" by Nachum Ulanovsky: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 14513 45
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengChicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 14/07/2025Scream Club Chicago offers a safe release of bottled-up energy in weekly sessions by the lake. The breath-work practitioner says the exercise helps externalize internal tensions. trib.al/ZWVNpjvtrib.alScream Club Chicago offers a safe release of bottled-up energyManny Hernandez has been leading a group in weekly screaming sessions by the lake. The breath-work practitioner says the exercise helps externalize internal tensions. 1279 27
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengMeow Factor @meow-factor.bsky.social · 16/04/2025New mewsletter out today: what using catspeak says about us 🧪 #linguistics open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...open.substack.comThe Social Aspect of CatspeakWhat cat-inspired language says about us 093 9
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengAaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 07/04/2025The PEER2025 schedule is up! 👇 033 3
Qingzhi Ruby Zeng @qingzhirubyzeng.bsky.social · 18/04/2025So grateful for the recognition and support! 010 1
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengYuan Chang Leong @ycleong.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Excited to be part of this work led by @hayoungsong.bsky.social! We used scrambled narratives, fMRI, and free-form verbal responses to study how the brain arrives at insights! 0113 11
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengYining Ding @liliand.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Excited 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! 📖🧠 1207 20
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengJin Ke @jinke.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Now out in Plos Computational Biology! We identified a generalizable neural signature of emotional arousal across contexts and individuals during movie watching. work with the best team: @hayoungsong.bsky.social @Zihan Bai @monicarosenb.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...dx.plos.orgDynamic brain connectivity predicts emotional arousal during naturalistic movie-watchingAuthor summary This study explores how the brain represents two key dimensions of emotional experience: valence (how positive or negative an experience feels) and arousal (the level of emotional activ... 15316 53
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengJadyn Park @jadynpark.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Calling all couples in the Chicago area! 💕 I'm launching a new study with @ycleong.bsky.social and @lydiaemery.bsky.social to explore brain responses during conversations between couples. If you're interested, please fill out our brief screener! ssd.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 0113 11
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengChris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 10/04/2025New preprint 🎉: How do episodic memory, emotions, and schemas for caregiver experiences come together in kids’ brains and verbal recall? Check out our new results showing how past and present childhood experiences shape perception and memory for movies: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgPast and present caregiving experiences impact prefrontal connectivity and recall for attachment-schema narrativesWe investigated how past and current caregiving experiences impacted emotional event processing by examining inter-subject functional correlation in 7- to 15-year-olds during narrative movies depictin... 1269 26
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengRob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Very proud to finally share our latest paper "Person Knowledge is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames within Separate Brain Systems," officially out at Psych Science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comPerson Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems - Robert S. Chavez, Taylor D. Guthrie, Jack M. Kapustka, 2025Knowing the similarities among others is critical for navigating our social environments and building relationships. However, people can evaluate the similarity... 15716 57
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengSociety for the Neuroscience of Creativity @tsfnc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Join us on May 21 for AI, Creativity & a Changing World, a special symposium on the latest in Creativity & AI research: 🔹 AI & Human Co-Creativity 🔹 Advances in Automated Creativity Scoring 🔹 Expert panel on future trends led by @roger-beaty.bsky.social Registration opens next week! #SfNC2025 087 8
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby Zengsimoneluchini.bsky.social @simoneluchini.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Enhancing creativity through neurofeedback: Check out our recent paper where we use covert neurofeedback to entrain default-executive coupling during creative thinking! Xinbing (Jack) Zhang, Jack White, Michael Luehrs, Michal Ramot, & @roger-beaty.bsky.social t.co/glnpPNmJ6R 194 9
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengCoraline Rinn Iordan @coralineiordan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024New paper story time (now out in PNAS)! We developed a method that caused people to learn new categories of visual objects, not by teaching them what the categories were, but by changing how their brains worked when they looked at individual objects in those categories. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgSculpting new visual categories into the human brain | PNASLearning requires changing the brain. This typically occurs through experience, study, or instruction. We report an alternate route for humans to a... 815663 156
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengMark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 15/09/2024List of psychology-related starter packs! #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪 🧵 Cross-Cultural Psychology and Quant Anthropology by @drboothroyd.bsky.social 41396164 396
Qingzhi Ruby Zeng @qingzhirubyzeng.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Excited to attend my first in-person conference since the pandemic! Stop by my poster (5097) to chat about speech, prosody, and social interactions. And don’t miss the other amazing posters from my lab too! #psynom24 040 4
Reposted by Qingzhi Ruby ZengElise Piazza @elisepiazza.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Our lab has a new #musiccognition preprint out! This is a comprehensive look at how listeners integrate musical context across multiple timescales to complete a diverse array of tasks: memory, prediction, and event segmentation. osf.io/preprints/ps... 2156 15