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Taraz Lee

@tarazlee.bsky.social
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Associate Professor UMich Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscientist, Basketball Junkie sites.lsa.umich.edu/tarazlee-lab/

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights:
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Adam Steel @neurosteel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Out today with @pangeli95.bsky.social (co-lead) & @carolinerobertson.bsky.social ! The brain integrates internal thoughts with sensory information. Yet the networks serving functions are viewed as independent. How does the brain integrate across these systems? elifesciences.org/articles/110...
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Retinotopic coding organizes the interaction between internally and externally oriented brain networks
Internally and externally oriented brain networks are functionally coupled at a voxel scale through a common visuospatial code.
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Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Excited to share a new discovery from @stanfordpntlab.bsky.social about the effects of neurostimulation on brain activity. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... With our colleagues at the University of Iowa, we explored how intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) changes neural excitability. A 🧵
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iTBS induces a suppression-rebound pattern in human cortical excitability
Intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) is a widely used form of brain stimulation, developed on the premise that it promotes long-term potentiation (LTP) and neural excitation. However, this is n...
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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I made a mistake. And because of that mistake, I no longer have confidence that results that I reported in several research papers are an accurate reflection of replication rates. 1/
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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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joshcashaback.bsky.social @joshcashaback.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My research group is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to study control principles between human-human and human-agent pairs. Ad below. Please retweet!
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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
On behalf of the Motor Learning & Motor Control Conference (MLMC): 🔔 Official announcement! 🔔 We are pleased to announce MLMC 2026 -> Friday November 13th (Satellite Meeting to SfN) Abstracts due September 25th. See you in DC! motor-conference.org/openconf.php
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OCC - OpenConf Peer Review & Conference Management System
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Debbie Yee @debyee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Are you on the #neurojob #psychjob market this fall? Come be my colleague! The Psych and Brain Sciences department @psychiowa.bsky.social is hiring TT faculty in clinical science and neuroscience, as well as clinical-track faculty. The initial review deadline is Sept 28. More info below!👇
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
#JNeurosci: Findings from Leach et al. provide evidence that the frontoparietal cortex influences behaviors, dynamically adjusting communication between brain networks as decisions progress. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0594-26.2…
Diagram of cognitive task with color cues, probe, and feedback. Buttons labeled Female, Male, City, Landscape.
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Aaron L Wong @aaronlwong.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Excited that this work is finally out! It raises some interesting questions about the basal ganglia and the impact of Parkinson's disease.
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Tarkesh Singh @tarkeshsingh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I am recruiting a PhD student in sensorimotor neuroscience to join my lab, with a start date of January 2027. This position is fully funded. If you are interested, please send your CV and a brief letter of interest by email. Reposts appreciated.
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Sara J Hussain @sarahussain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Interested in rehab, motor control, neurophysiology, and neuroengineering? Our group is recruiting a new PhD student for fall 2027. Funding is available via a research or teaching assistantship. See attached for info, and please share!
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
People should actually read this short article in the Economist if they can. Not included in this image is data showing if you control for how long students spend studying, then students using AI actually perform equal or better. So, it's the obvious: Skip the homework and you don't learn!
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We looking for a postdoc with NHP electrophysiology experience to do simultaneous Neuropixel recordings across the corticothalamic motor circuit to better understand the neural control of reaching and grasping. We start looking at applications on August 31st. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Pruszynski Postdoc 2026
Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New paper from the BCM Neurosurgery research team! "Neural basis of compositional control" led by @assiachericoni.bsky.social and @justfineneuro.bsky.social ! 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neural basis of compositional control - Nature
Behaviour of human participants in a prey-pursuit task reflects dynamic blending of goal-specific control policies, with hippocampus estimating latent states, anterior cingulate cortex orchestrating p...
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
I feel this in my soul
A screenshot of a tweet reading: The best email signature l've ever seen:
"It is normal for me to take 2 days to read my emails and 2 more days to reflect on the matter and respond calmly. The culture of immediacy and the constant fragmentation of time are not very compatible with the kind of life I lead."
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Applications are open for the 2026–27 Black In Neuro Mentorship Cohort! 🧠✨ Apply as a mentor or mentee for 1:1 matching, application support, professional development & a global neuro community. 📲 Scan the QR code to apply! #BlackInNeuro
Flyer for the Black In Neuro Mentorship Program announcing applications for the 2026–27 cohort. Participants can apply as mentors or mentees. Program benefits include 1:1 mentor matching, graduate/medical school application support, community, professional development workshops, and an honorarium. Two QR codes are provided: one for the mentor application and one for the mentee application. The flyer has a dark brown background with cream and gold accents and the Black In Neuro logo in the upper left. For questions, contact mentorship@blackinneuro.com
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joshcashaback.bsky.social @joshcashaback.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Our latest from the lab by the outstanding, John Buggeln. "Successful reinforcement history suppresses explicit and implicit error corrections". journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Successful reinforcement history suppresses explicit and implicit error corrections
Author summary Conflicting previous work has suggested that reinforcement feedback leads to either greater or smaller movement corrections. Here we elucidate that past successful actions lead to a sup...
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Jeremy Hogeveen @jeremyhogeveen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm thrilled to share I will be joining 🇨🇦Queen's University🇨🇦 as a Queen's National Scholar and Associate Prof of Psychology beginning July 2027! I'll remain at UNM this year to wrap projects. I am infinitely grateful to the colleagues, mentors, and students who have made my time here so fantastic!
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Jeremy Hogeveen | Department of Psychology
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Jan R. Wessel @janw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New preprint from the lab. We think we have a solution (two, actually) to a long-standing problem in the field of response inhibition. Using two different mathematical approaches, we think we can identify long-hypothesized inhibitory 'trigger failure' trials. More in🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Two types of response inhibition failures in humans
Response inhibition is a key control function that allows humans to perform safe, goal-directed behaviors. The dominant behavioral-computational model holds that response inhibition fails when the inh...
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Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My department is hiring 2 (TWO!) Tenure Track faculty in Developmental Psych and Biological Psych, to start Fall 2027. Deadlines 9/1 (Developmental) and 10/1 (Biological). More info here: www.carleton.edu/psychology/i.... Reach out with questions! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...
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Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology
The Carleton Psychology Department is seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Developmental Psychology (preferably with a focus on social, personality, and/or identity de...
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Ian Greenhouse @iangreenhouse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We have a few spots left in our upcoming workshop in Eugene, OR October 12-14, 2026. Please join us! greenhouselab.github.io/motorbrainst... #neuroskyence #sensorimotor #TranscranialMagneticStimulation
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Mapping the Motor System with Brain Stimulation Workshop
October 12-14, 2026
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Ruimin Gao 高睿敏 @ruimingao.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
How many subjects do you actually need for reliable task fMRI studies? Much larger samples are often recommended—but that depends on how you analyze the data. New preprint with @neuranna.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Scaling laws for group-constrained, subject-specific task fMRI analyses
Functional MRI provides a powerful way to characterize the architecture of the human brain. Yet individual brains often vary in the exact anatomic locations of functionally specific regions; as a resu...
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We're hiring! Postdoc position to study the neural control of reaching using high-density multi-area electrophysiology. 5 years of funding, great collaborative environment. Please share with anyone who may be interested. For details, see: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Pruszynski Postdoc 2026
Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...
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Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
If an action results in error, each neuron requires an individualized teaching signal that guides change in its output. This is the credit assignment problem of learning. Are there neurons in the brain that can compute such a sophisticated teaching signal? Yes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Climbing fibers encode the gradient of a loss function for the cerebellum
Neurons in the brain are often many synapses away from motoneurons, yet if a movement results in error, each distant neuron needs a teacher that considers its specific contribution to production of th...
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Nick Gaspelin @ngaspelin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We have recently published work in Psych Science and JEP:LMC showing a surprising relationship between initial capture and learned suppression of salient distractors. Ultimately, this has led us to believe that attentional control is much more flexible than often assumed. Read more on my blog!
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From Capture to Suppression: How Distraction Shapes Attentional Control
By Nick Gaspelin and Yue Zhang Zhang, Y. & Gaspelin, N. (2026a). From capture to control: Initial capture increases learned suppression. Psychological Science. 37(4), 2…
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Taylor Webb @taylorwwebb.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I'm recruiting two postdocs (or potentially PhD students) to work on projects at the intersection of cognition, neuroscience, and AI (with a particular emphasis on mechanistic interpretability). Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... and please share!
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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The cerebellum plays a role in motor learning and reinforcement learning. But does cerebellar learning generalize to all sorts of tasks? Here we test strong prediction: that cerebellar activity tracks passively learned sensory-sensory associations (statistical learning). See below for the answer!
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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 13/07/2026
1/ I am thrilled to begin sharing the latest release of pyEM, a Python package I built for fitting cognitive computational models to behavioral data using hierarchical expectation maximization (EM) with maximum a posteriori estimation (MAP). github.com/shawnrhoads/...
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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Our cerebellum+RL paper is now out in the Journal of Neuroscience! "The Human Cerebellum Encodes Temporally Sensitive Reinforcement Learning Signals" @sfnjournals.bsky.social @sfn.org www.jneurosci.org/content/46/2...
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The Human Cerebellum Encodes Temporally Sensitive Reinforcement Learning Signals
In addition to supervised motor learning, the cerebellum also supports nonmotor forms of learning, including reinforcement learning (RL). Recent studies in animal models have identified core RL signal...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/06/2026
A cartoon by Natalie Horberg.
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Natural behavior unfolds as a continuous stream of actions. Because these actions often occur in rapid succession, the brain must prepare multiple future actions while the current action is being executed. Our TICS piece explores how this works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ian Greenhouse @iangreenhouse.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Have you thought about how you type? A new preprint from graduate student Rubi Ruopp changes how we think about automaticity in everyday behaviors. Automatic ≠ skilled www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #sensorimotor #neuroskyence #neurosky #psychscisky
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Motor automaticity in natural keyboard typing
Certain features of everyday motor skills become automatic while others remain controlled. Here we use a novel keyboard typing task to investigate whether motor automaticity depends on the frequency o...
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Kimberly Chiew @kimberlychiew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
✨ VERY excited to share our new paper led by Holly Bowen (SMU) & former ugrad Kyle Thurmann "Effects of reward anticipation on memory encoding and cognitive control outcomes: A meta-analysis" finally in press @ Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 💵🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thread 1/n
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Effects of reward anticipation on memory encoding and cognitive control outcomes: A meta-analysis
Extensive evidence suggests that cognitive performance is typically enhanced under increased motivation, often in the form of reward anticipation. Whi…
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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I forgot to link the paper! 🤦‍♂️ I'm blaming my new four-month old. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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APA PsycNet
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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🚨Paper alert!🚨 Across 5 expts, @mileritayar.bsky.social's new JEPG paper shows that people explicitly avoid switching between attention control states. Using demand selection tasks, we find that people don't just avoid cognitive conflict, but also switching between congruent and incongruent trials.
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🎉Save the date! Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug 2. We're celebrating our 6th annual BIN Week with returning favorites like #NeuroRacism, #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora, and #BINRollCall plus a brand new theme: #BlackInTime. ✨ 🧠 #BINW26 #AReimaginedFuture
Promotional graphic for Black In Neuro Week 2026. The design features a retro-inspired sunburst background in shades of orange, gold, cream, blue, and green. At the center is an arch-shaped panel with the text “A Reimagined Future” curved across the top, followed by “Black In Neuro Week 2026.” The Black In Neuro logo, featuring a profile illustration with a brain motif, appears in the center. At the bottom, the dates July 27–August 2 and the hashtag #BINW26 are displayed. Decorative star accents frame the design.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"A coalition of ~40 organizations representing hard-science disciplines...recently told Congress...that losing the SBE division could lead to 'long-lasting, potentially permanent' damage to national research... The stickiest barriers to progress in... AI, biotechnology—are 'fundamentally human'"
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Angela Radulescu @angelaradulescu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
In 2011, my interests in cognitive neuroscience converged on one stubborn intuition: it made no sense that how the brain learns and how it pays attention should be two fundamentally different processes.
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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.
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Taraz Lee @tarazlee.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Super excited by this manuscript led by the amazing @brissend.bsky.social By combining fMRI, TMS, and modeling, we finally have causal evidence that the cerebellum is contributing to brain-wide working memory representations and recall performance! 1/n
Plot showing that the read-out of visual working memory information from cerebellum is degraded following stimulation to cerebellum, IPS, or FEF
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Taraz Lee @tarazlee.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Super excited by this manuscript led by the amazing @brissend.bsky.social By combining fMRI, TMS, and modeling, we finally have causal evidence that the cerebellum is contributing to brain-wide working memory representations and recall performance! 1/n
Plot showing that the read-out of visual working memory information from cerebellum is degraded following stimulation to cerebellum, IPS, or FEF
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WMSymposium.bsky.social @wmsymposium.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Working Memory Early-career Researchers all around the world! A reminder that it’s 3 more days until WMS abstract submission deadline (May 31st).  If you have cool WM research that you want to share to the vibrant community of WM researchers, please submit your abstract (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...)
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Minion Memory Alert Animation
ALT: Minion Memory Alert Animation
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Perceptual and conceptual influences on memory judgments New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com by the prolific @rmt93.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44... We tested predictions of the global matching model to quantify the interference associated with perceptual or conceptual lure similarity
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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Very excited about this project, led by @zachladwig.bsky.social We show that an individual’s lateral prefrontal cortex has reliable and highly detailed network organization missed in past group approaches. Full🧵 coming soon!
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Han Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Trying to read while people talk nearby? Our new eye-tracking study shows that irrelevant speech increases rereading for low-frequency and semantically unpredictable words, despite little evidence for disruption during initial lexical processing. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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I’m trying to read here! How does irrelevant speech affect how you read? - Cognitive Processing
Reading involves a remarkable coordination of perceptual and linguistic processes. This coordination is reflected by a close coupling between reading eye movements and lexical properties of words, suc...
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Taraz Lee @tarazlee.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I love this work
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
One year later - my reflections on what's happened to US science since the National Science Foundation grant terminations last year. The problem of misinformation isn't going away, but our ability to study and understand it is under attack. 1/ 🧪 www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
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I researched misinformation, until the government stopped me | Opinion
A researcher's NSF grant termination reveals a broader attack on science funding and misinformation research, despite rising AI-generated falsehoods.
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joshcashaback.bsky.social @joshcashaback.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Thrilled about our latest paper published in eLife where we found something cool: A representation of your partner's goals and actions modulates your own "intelligent reflexes", prior to voluntary movement. Led by the phenomenal, Seth Sullivan. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Gagan Wig @gaganwig.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We're hiring! FT research assistant @ UT Dallas Join our team to work on a longitudinal neuroimaging study of midlife brain aging. Strong opportunity for those interested in brain networks, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease risk. App. deadline now May 15. Details: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31680
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