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Vishnu Sreekumar

@vishnusreekumar.bsky.social
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Asst Prof (Cog Sci, IIIT Hyderabad). Memory and Neurodynamics Lab Associate Editor at Psychological Science and PCI:RR Past: NIH; OSU; IITK

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Roni Porat @roniporat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Excited to be co-editing a special issue of @psychscience.bsky.social with @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social: From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World. We’re looking for research that takes psych theories out of the lab and into the wild.
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Psychological Science invites submissions presenting innovative research that brings psychological science “into the wild.” #Psychology Submit full manuscripts by January 15, 2027. Questions? Ask the Editors: Roni Porat and @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social
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Special Issue Call for Submissions: “From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World”
Editors: Roni Porat and Vishnu SreekumarPsychological Science invites submissions presenting innovative research that brings psychological science “into the wild,” whether to strengthen its ecological...
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
📢 ***Call for papers at Psychological Science (APS)*** Dr Roni Porat and I are editing a special issue, "From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World.” Please see the detailed call here (www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...) and send us your best work!
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
📢 Now published in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social : “Functional role and semantic structure shape word memorability: Cue–target asymmetries in cued recall." Memorability is often treated as an intrinsic property of stimuli. But is the same word equally effective as a cue vs. a target? 1/8
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Seeking experts, preferably in the field of biological anthropology and primate behavior (or allied areas), to evaluate a set of human emotional displays using an evolutionary framework (a clear guide will be provided). ~20 min, $10 (PPP adjusted). Email: rethinkingemotions@research.iiit.ac.in.
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
youtu.be/sVV3aJF6BOE?... This talk is now online, if anyone is curious about our work on traveling waves and memory in the human lateral temporal cortex.
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The CogSci dept at IIITH is hiring. Please check out the ad below and share with your networks. You may contact the head with any queries. Details: tinyurl.com/374sknab
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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🚨AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 EHBEA is calling for SELF-nominations for their New Investigator Award. If you are doing, or know someone, some really cool research as an early-career researcher please don’t hesitate to apply! DEADLINE: December 19th, 2025 Here is the form👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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EHBEA-2026-New-Investigator-Award-nomination-form.docx
2026 NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD Self-nomination Form Please submit this application form by e-mail to the EHBEA Secretary ehbea.secretary@gmail.com. Next Deadline: 5pm (GMT), 19th DECEMBER 2026 ...
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WaveClub @waveclubseminar.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Thank you for your understanding as we reschedule. It'll certainly be worth the wait to hear from Dr. Vishnu Sreekumar next week. Join us on October 14th at 10:30am ET (8pm IST)! Please note the time @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Nothing like a scheduled talk to an expert audience to get you to check and recheck results. My laptop's running hot but see you all at the @waveclubseminar.bsky.social!
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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
1/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Shortlisting now, there is still time to apply! Check out LinkedIn for more details. www.linkedin.com/posts/vishnu...
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Happening today, folks! I'm hearing great things about this meeting from them. I wish I could be there but if you're already there, please attend and give us some feedback. This is a project that makes a big leap from another discipline that we really are not experts on. So we'd appreciate feedback!
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
If you're at #behaviour2025, please check out Pritha Ghosh's talk tomorrow (Fri) at 7 pm! Pritha and A. Biswas from my lab have been a dream team on this project, which has a special place in my heart. See: mandalabodyssey.blogspot.com/2025/06/reme...
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Felipe De Brigard @felipedebrigard.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This was a fun paper to write, and one that fits nicely with some recent work I've been doing on the role of counterfactual simulation in memory encoding. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Episodic details are better remembered in plausible relative to implausible counterfactual simulations - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
People often engage in episodic counterfactual thinking, or mentally simulating how the experienced past might have been different from how it was. A commonly held view is that mentally simulating alt...
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 04/08/2025
Teaching this fall? Here is a handy webpage that will help you generate a list of the days your course(s) meet: wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
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Generic Syllabus Maker
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Courtois Project on Neuronal Modelling @cneuromod.ca · 30/07/2025
New CNeuroMod-THINGS open-access fMRI dataset: 4 participants · ~4 000 images (720 categories) each shown 3× (12k trials per subject)· individual functional localizers & NSD-inspired QC . Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.09024 Congrats Marie St-Laurent and @martinhebart.bsky.social !!
four brain maps showing noise ceiling estimates in response to image presentation
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Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Beautiful and inspiring work from Gero Miesenböck and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep - Nature
Research on Drosophila neurons shows links between the need to sleep and aerobic metabolism, indicating that the pressure to sleep may have a mitochondrial origin.
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Please consider helping us out if you meet the criteria mentioned in the ad! We will pay $10 for ~20 minutes of your valuable time and expertise. Please share widely!
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Looks like my account was hacked recently. I was unable to access the account for a while until now. I don't use bsky that much. Apologies if anything inappropriate was broadcast from this account!
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Marcelo Mattar @marcelomattar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature
Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Our lab (www.mandalab.org) turned 4 yesterday. Some pics with all the awesome folks I get to do science with every day.
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
📢 New preprint: "Comparing Cue and Target Roles in Cued Recall Reveals Limits of Intrinsic Word Memorability". See lnkd.in/gXs48uyx for a tweet thread. Congrats, Anuska Maity, for your first preprint (and hopefully published paper soon)!
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A first-year PhD scholar in the lab, Ozoswita Deb, has been selected to attend Neurohackademy 2025. I'm super happy about this because she will get to learn from the best (@russpoldrack.org and others)! :) www.linkedin.com/posts/vishnu...
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Incredibly saddened by Prof. David Huron's passing. His legacy will live on through the many students he inspired. David was one of the most important mentors in my life. Here's more about the lessons he taught me and the impact he's had on me: mandalabodyssey.blogspot.com/.../remember....
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Is there a good way to post Twitter threads to bsky without having to redo the whole thing? Anyway, here's a thread about our recent paper demonstrating an issue with a narrative flow measure introduced by Sap et al. (2022, PNAS): x.com/vishnusreekr...
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Jörn Alexander Quent @jaquent.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This a formidable summary of what we know (and don't know) about the retrosplenial cortex including an amazing section on anatomy and the lack of common definitions. I honestly rarely read a piece like this that addresses all my questions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Rethinking retrosplenial cortex: Perspectives and predictions
The last decade has produced exciting new ideas about retrosplenial cortex (RSC) and its role in integrating diverse inputs. Here, we review the diver…
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
What are the best fMRI summer schools out there (preferably outside of the US)? Ideally something where a grad student who has taken a course on fMRI can bring their own research questions and dataset and get to a point where they are comfortable doing mvpa?
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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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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Ten simple rules for good model-sharing practices doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Ten simple rules for good model-sharing practices
Computational models are complex scientific constructs that have become essential for us to better understand the world. Many models are valuable for peers within and beyond disciplinary boundaries. H...
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Jonas Haslbeck @jmbh.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Emotions are reactions to situations we encounter in daily life. In our new paper in Psych Review (psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...; with @oisinryan.bsky.social and @fdabl.bsky.social), we take a first step towards building a generative model for emotion dynamics based on this simple principle 1/4
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Lauren Ross @laurennross.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Philosophy & Theory of Neuroscience Conference 🧠 next week @ Chapman & available via zoom.Talks by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social Newsome, Yassa, Roskies, Carolyn Parkinson, Frederick Eberhardt & many others! www.chapman.edu/scst/confere... #philsky #philsci #neuroskyence
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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Wow, non-invasive stimulation of the human hippocampus & entorhinal cortex during VR-navigation inside the MRI scanner! Impressive technical achievement and interesting result. By Beanato et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Noninvasive modulation of the hippocampal-entorhinal complex during spatial navigation in humans
Transcranial temporal interference stimulation allows noninvasive modulation of the hippocampus leading to better navigation.
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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Amazing talk by Bea Luna on E/I balance and critical period plasticity during adolescence. The optimal outcome obviously being @dylanggee.bsky.social
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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
You may think you’re a Bayesian. But do you live on…
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The XR Research Digest @xrdigest.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
New VR dataset: Researchers have shared over 10 hours of head- and eye-centred video and positional data from VR navigation tasks. doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.111187 #vr #xr #virtualreality #vrresearch
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Quantifying Differences in Neural Population Activity With Shape Metrics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
First lab meeting of the semester. Celebrated some 2024 lab wins: a few papers published/accepted, 1 grant sanctioned, all DD students placed, etc. Looking forward to what 2025 brings us!
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
www.instagram.com/reel/DD9BgAp... The reel shows my fitness journey in 2024, and the attached pic depicts the overall journey so far. This is probably the most important commitment I've made both for myself and my family.
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Vishnu Sreekumar @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
So glad to end 2024 on a positive note. More here: tinyurl.com/2f7cmu72 Thanks to all my students, collaborators, colleagues, and well-wishers! Merry Christmas and happy new year to everyone!
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2024: Taking stock; and looking forward to 2025!
Previous posts have reported on various failures to get grants. Several people on Twitter and elsewhere told me that they were all stepping ...
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Shari Wiseman @shariwiseman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Nature Neuroscience is hiring a computational/systems/cognitive editor! Come join our team! Happy to answer any questions. springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Neuroscience
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Neuroscience Location: New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Berlin or Shanghai Application Deadline: January 6, 2025 About Springer Natur...
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Hannah Overbye-Thompson @overbye.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A brief overview of Drift Diffusion Modeling (DDM) a 🧪 🧵 The DDM is a type of formal model that maps the underlying cognitive processes in decision making. One advantage of DDM is it allows you to not just know what decision someone makes but also HOW they came to that decision. 🧵1/8
An image showing one trial of a drift diffusion model. A yellow dot, representing a decision maker, is between two vertical lines, representing the threshold separation. There is a squiggly line from the dot going towards the left most vertical line, representing the drift rate.
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro
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