Road trippin’ to ACNS 2025, Melbourne! @matthewod.bsky.social @tvcottier.bsky.social (Plus Ella and Seri) @acnsau.bsky.social

Speech-in-noise perception gets better as listeners adapt to environment/room reverberation statistics! Another W for statistical learning. 😁 New paper from folks in our lab (led by Heivet Hernandez-Perez): elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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We have a PhD position for an upcoming project in metacognition research in Potsdam / Berlin. A great opportunity for those interested in cognitive modeling of confidence and EEG. More information at coconeuro.github.io/phd2025 Kindly share this opportunity with potential candidates - Thanks!

It’s all about attention in June's 50th anniversary articles tinyurl.com/3ywt8zec! ‪@chris-olivers.bsky.social‬ ‪@sauter.bsky.social‬

Happy to share some new theoretical work with @andyperfors.bsky.social that will appear at CogSci this year! We argue (and demonstrate through simulations) that people can determine how much to trust other agents by thinking about how those agents have acquired their knowledge. 1/3

Australian election called against Dutton and the Coalition. I almost want to cry a little - didn't realise how badly I needed this to happen. There was a lot at stake in this election but I know a lot of marginalised people are breathing a sigh of relief. #auspol

In May, our 50th Anniversary series features an invited review from Valenza et al, who trace the legacy of their seminal 1996 article, "Face preference at birth” and a readers’ perspective on perception of relations. tinyurl.com/k2jmtbhw

⚠️New paper! If you like multisensory temporal perception, this one has HEAPS for you. We looked at simultaneity perception, simple RTs, race model inequality, serial dependence (recalibration), modality shift costs, musicians, and more! Findings summarised below 1/10 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Meta-analysis results "suggest no significant group differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals in auditory or visual oddball perception, recognition, or neural signatures" link.springer.com/article/10.1... "we found no study-level evidence to support any prediction-related hypothesis"

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First time in the US, for ARO. Border officer gave me a hard time. Probably because it’s hard to say Otolaryngology without sounding like a nervous dweeb

Officiating of Arsenal games is enough to make me want to forget everything I've learned about human biases from a PhD in psychology and conclude that league refs actually are corrupt. Because at this point I basically think so. Makes 3 pts even more satisfying tho!

We've joined #bluesky on our 50th anniversary! Follow us for research, commentary, and helpful tips for authors. To kick things off, we're excited to share these short editorials by Michael Posner, Isabel Gauthier (our editor), and David Rosenbaum: psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

In a normal world making a Nazi salute in public should be the end of a person. We no longer live in a normal world.

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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...

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.22.629295v1

“The human prefrontal cortex alone contains enough neuronal hardware to run 5000 [fruit]flies.” Meanwhile mine can’t even keep me from shitposting on Bluesky after a couple of beers. Cool paper from @mameister4.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHVa3BtfH...

Spotify Wrapped top artist was Molly Nilsson 😍 I guess I flogged her new album harder than I thought. Special mention to Keanu Nelson, an Indigenous Australian artist I discovered this year who made my top 5. Check out the song Kutjupa Tjuta!

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Are any of my new followers United fans? I would like to gloat.

I have recently started using Pack & Go, and it's as easy as they make it sound. Upload your PTB code, and hey presto you have your experiment in a browser.

"We found that, when informed about task difficulty, humans barely shift their confidence criteria." Awesome new work by Xue, Shekhar and @dobyrahnev.bsky.social questioning the Bayesian confidence hypothesis in perception: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Alex Pouget and I wrote a perspective a few years ago on Major Sources of Computational Complexity in Complex Decision-Making 🧠. We never got around to publishing it, and so now uploaded it to OSF Preprints: doi.org/10.31219/osf.... I hope some of you might find it useful.

Blue Sky is lacking the meanness That we have all grown so tired of

Interesting study on the computational role of prior probability in perceptual choices, finding that priors change the accumulation rate of evidence rather than the baseline. Nicely in line with work by @clarepress.bsky.social & @danieljamesyon.bsky.social: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 🧠🤖 🧠🟦

Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7

Bayesball! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The Bayesian nature of baseball. From Brantley & @kordinglab.bsky.social

I am a bit afraid the whole Starter Pack business leaves behind trainees — make sure to follow / repost them if their work interests you so their voices are heard #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #compneurosky

This is a very reluctant part II in a series of blog posts on the Protzko retraction. The first was motivated by the authors misleading in a .pdf, and this one around false statements in the WSJ, Die Zeit, Nature, and on @spencrgreenberg.bsky.social's podcast. joebakcoleman.com/blog/2024/no...

Yeah, this is a fantastic intro to Bayesian models. If I’m being hyper critical it’s a bit math-y / unintuitive for a novice in some key sections (although I’m not the sharpest at times…) but an invaluable resource for sure

After a summary of auditory processing in autism? Here ya go! doi.org/10.1002/aur....

🚨Out in Science!🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%! -Lasts over 2mo -Works on entrenched beliefs -Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Extinction Illusion: The left side and the right side have the same number of black dots journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Face cells encode object parts more than facial configuration of illusory faces Saloni Sharma, Kasper Vinken, Akshay V. Jagadeesh & Margaret S. Livingstone www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share my first paper: a novel visual illusion discovered by my co-authors Will Turner and Hinze Hogendoorn which we call the "Split-Stimulus Effect", in which a single flashed stimulus is perceived to be in two different locations simultaneously jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... [1/5]

I turned 30 this morning, but at least I will be lurid on my special day via this Ian Wright “bruised banana” Arsenal kit (thanks Felicia!)

The UK's Guardian newspaper is ceasing all official activity on X. I really hope they join Bluesky. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

“prediction errors may signal a local mismatch between input and expectation at each level of the cortical hierarchy, or prediction errors may be computed at higher levels and the resulting surprise signal is broadcast to earlier areas in the cortical hierarchy. Our results align with the latter”

Hi, not here often and want to catch up on the Arsenal talk you might have missed? This feed shows the most popular Arsenal related posts in the last 24 hours.

Well, the saga continues! Out in eLife, a paper arguing that responses in auditory cortex to sequence violations are *not* purely compatible with an adaptation phenomenon: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... With some interneuron circuit explorations as well! 🧠📈 🧪

Also, please, please, please turn on alt text as a default in accessibility settings to demonstrate inclusive posting. We have had a terrible time getting people to make their images accessible to low visibility and disabled users.

Academics are flocking to Bluesky. Now I just need the 15 yo football fan troll / fake tactical expert accounts to join and trigger me on a daily basis. Then, I will be fully on board. Looking at you, invertthewing

This place still feels a bit small, not football focused, but maybe we could try and connect Arsenal fans at least. If you are an Arsenal fan, leave a reply, people can follow, also please repost or whatever it's called her and hopefully it can spread. #arsenal

At last, there's a searchable directory of Bluesky starter packs, courtesy of @mubashariqbal.com! Just one more way third-party developers are helping to make this place better. Search starter packs by keyword, and sort by "Uses" to see which ones people are finding the most helpful

Stock rising: Bluesky

Can you tell whether water is hot or cold just by the sound it makes when poured? The answer might surprise you… #PhilSenses www.npr.org/2014/07/05/3...

Testing if this works... Trying to make a starter pack for researchers in #perception science Please share ! Will be adding more folks as I learn how #academicsky works ! go.bsky.app/V99fSBK