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psychology prof @yale
http://actcompthink.org
Bob weir 😔 RIP Come wash the nighttime clean Come grow this scorched ground green
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Carl Zimmer
3 days ago
Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year
insideclimatenews.org/news/0901202...
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Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year - Inside Climate News
Every second of last year, the Earth’s oceans absorbed the equivalent in energy to 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs. Global ocean heat content (OHC) increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025, a...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09012026/ocean-warming-breaks-record-for-ninth-straight-year/
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Jonathan Tsay
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Happy New Year, everyone! Excited to share that our paper, “Goal uncertainty attenuates sensorimotor adaptation,” is now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology. Huge thanks to our collaborators—Sritej, Bobby, and Reza
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. Paper:
tinyurl.com/yyfast5m
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Sam Wang
6 days ago
Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.
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Alexander Huth
8 days ago
This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
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Yale Neuroscience
8 days ago
Founded in 2021,
@yale.edu
's Wu Tsai Institute 🏢 is advancing human neuroscience research by connecting cutting-edge neuroimaging, computation, and behavioral science to uncover how brain networks give rise to cognition 🧠 Read More 👇
news.yale.edu/2025/12/05/w...
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Wu Tsai Institute: Making the right connections
With state-of-the-art research facilities and collaborative spaces, Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute is on a mission to understand human cognition by bridging academic disciplines.
https://news.yale.edu/2025/12/05/wu-tsai-institute-making-right-connections
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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis
14 days ago
Interested in the latest advances in neuroscience (neural dynamics and internal models) and how they can be leveraged to build smarter, adaptive AI? ➡️ My first real solo piece 🖤🫶
@natneuro.nature.com
rdcu.be/eWVmA
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Leveraging insights from neuroscience to build adaptive artificial intelligence
Nature Neuroscience - Adaptive intelligence envisions AI that, like animals, learns online, generalizes and adapts quickly. This Perspective reviews biological foundations, progress in AI and...
https://rdcu.be/eWVmA
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Byronic Commando
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I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!
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Preprint updated --> Key new results: we found a brain-behavior correlation between performance on an RL task (under short feedback delays) and short-delay RPE signals in the 'cognitive' cerebellum!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Daniel Yon
28 days ago
I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at
@birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to
@leverhulme.ac.uk
More details here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p...
#cogsci
#neuroskyence
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PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness at Birkbeck, University of London
jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Social Learning of Metacognition and Awareness Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/phd-studentship-social-learning-of-metacognition-and-awareness
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Cognitive Neuroscience Society
28 days ago
From Sam McDougle's love of music has sprung a focus on how people learn and get better at motor skills – an area he sees as sometimes neglected in cognitive neuroscience. Read a new Q&A with him, a preview of his
#CNS2026
YIA talk:
www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-actio...
@actlab.bsky.social
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Taking Action Seriously in the Brain: Revealing the Role of Cognition in Motor Skills
Samuel McDougle, a CNS 2026 YIA recipient, studies both how people build motor skills through mental functions like “motor working memory."
https://www.cogneurosociety.org/taking-action-seriously-in-the-brain-revealing-the-role-of-cognition-in-motor-skills/
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Melanie Mitchell
about 1 month ago
Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/oliver-sacks-put-himself-into-his-case-studies-what-was-the-cost
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Stephanie M. Lee
about 1 month ago
NEW: An AI conference was bombarded with complaints about peer reviews sounding AI-generated. A startup jumped in with an outside analysis, estimating that as many 1 in 5 could have been ChatGPT-written. Chaos ensued. Now the reviews are being reviewed.
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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The Conference Where ChatGPT Wrote One in Five Reviews (Maybe)
An AI conference was bombarded with complaints about peer reviews sounding AI-generated. Now the reviews are being reviewed.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-conference-where-chatgpt-wrote-one-in-five-reviews-maybe
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Dr Nick
about 1 month ago
New paper out on
@openmindjournal.bsky.social
* I propose balance is a core biophysical self-regulatory function, organisationally akin to thermo-regulation. Might seem radical off the bat, but by the end of the paper I hope you'll agree it seems pretty obvious.
doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...
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What is Balance? A Vital Mechano-Regulation Paradigm
Abstract. Within minutes of birth a newborn gnu or giraffe works to stand and walk, asserting postural balance and organised animate behaviour in an apparently goal-directed manner. In contrast, robot...
https://doi.org/10.1162/OPMI.a.257
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SfN Journals
about 1 month ago
The Journal of Neuroscience has updated its policy on supplemental material.
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/information-authors#suppl
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Jörn Diedrichsen
about 2 months ago
The Sensorimotor Superlab with
@gribblelab.org
and
@andpru.bsky.social
is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see
diedrichsenlab.org
and
gribblelab.org/join.html
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https://diedrichsenlab.org
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Chaz Firestone
about 2 months ago
people are saying that Zekun Sun's research is awesome. (people are right.) learn more about Zekun and her work here!
zekun-sun.github.io
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New paper from the lab, "Perceiving Event Structure in Brief Actions," now out in Cognitive Psychology :) Led by the inimitable Zekun Sun This was my lab's first foray into event cognition gift link:
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University
about 2 months ago
11.17 | 1-5p | PSTR226 + PSTR226.05 Taylor McClure Reaching Control: Movement Psychophysics and Neurophysiology + Selective attention in motor working memory Chat with her at
#Booth3724
on Tuesday from 2-3p to learn more about her work.
#KnowTogether
#ScienceAtYale
#SfN25
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Andrew Pruszynski
2 months ago
Excited to share our latest Sensorimotor Superlab Journal Club. Juliana Trach joins us to discuss her latest paper with
@actlab.bsky.social
, now published in
@nathumbehav.nature.com
: Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations.
youtu.be/6LlDYxDV8wo
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Juliana Trach (Yale University)
YouTube video by Andrew Pruszynski
https://youtu.be/6LlDYxDV8wo
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MLMC2025 is tomorrow! For those joining remotely, here is the link for the meeting:
harvard.zoom.us/j/9544921964...
Reminder, the conference will start promptly at 9am PST. Please visit the website for additional information, schedule, registration, etc!
motor-conference.org/openconf.php
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Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95449219646?pwd=fXkfxcETHa0kj6DlNw3WJWcThljKSC.1
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heading to
@sfn.org
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Freek van Ede
2 months ago
Now out in
#ScienceAdvances
:
@baiweiliu.bsky.social
and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain:
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Concurrent selection of internal goals and external sensations during visual search
Internal and external selection processes can codevelop in time to yield efficient search behavior.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx8191
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Chris Hayes
2 months ago
The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
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There it is!!! 🥳
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🚨📡 Official MLMC program now posted! See you in San Diego (or hybrid if you can't make it!) Register NOW!!! --->
motor-conference.org/openconf.php
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OCC - OpenConf Peer Review & Conference Management System
http://motor-conference.org/openconf.php
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Society for the Neural Control of Movement
3 months ago
Don't forget to get your submission in for #NCMKobe26! Team/panel and individual orals close at 23:59 PDT Dec 1. Learn more -
ncm-society.org/subm...
#NCMKobe26!
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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University
3 months ago
📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers! WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more:
wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...
Apply by November 10:
apply.interfolio.com/174525
#KnowTogether
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Regina Lapate
3 months ago
I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
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CNS 2026 Annual Meeting
3 months ago
🏆
#CNS2026
Young Investigator Award Winners 🏆 Congratulations to Monica Rosenberg and Samuel D. McDougle, recipients of the 2026 Young Investigator Award! 🎉 We look forward to their award lectures at the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada! 🇨🇦✨
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Jonathan A. Michaels
3 months ago
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
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Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09690-9
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thrilled!! but speaking after
@monicarosenb.bsky.social
??? that's too tough to follow
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Adrian Haith
3 months ago
New Pre-Print:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We’re all familiar with having to practice a new skill to get better at it, but what really happens during practice? The answer, I propose, is reinforcement learning - specifically policy-gradient reinforcement learning. Overview 🧵 below...
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Policy-Gradient Reinforcement Learning as a General Theory of Practice-Based Motor Skill Learning
Mastering any new skill requires extensive practice, but the computational principles underlying this learning are not clearly understood. Existing theories of motor learning can explain short-term ad...
https://www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2025.10.17.682587v1
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Proud of my little guy :)
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Carl Zimmer
3 months ago
I never met Jane Goodall, but she loomed over much of my reporting over the years. With
@emilyanthes.bsky.social
I wrote a piece about her scientific legacy. Gift link:
nyti.ms/46PGBtd
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drewtoothpaste
3 months ago
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Trends in Cognitive Sciences
4 months ago
Online Now: Motor working memory
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Motor working memory
Working memory (WM) is crucial for planning, reasoning, and learning, and is one of the most extensively studied topics in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. However, the concept of a WM subsystem for motor content – or 'motor working memory' (MWM) – is generally neglected, even though MWM likely plays an important role in everyday action. Here, we synthesize evidence that the brain both prospectively and retrospectively maintains motor content in WM and propose that MWM carries out multiple key computational functions in motor control and skill learning. A focused research program on MWM is overdue and will deepen our understanding of the links between cognition and action.
http://dlvr.it/TN3LRG
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The New York Times Spelling Bee
How many words can you make with 7 letters?
https://www.nytimes.com/badges/games/v1/bee.html?d=2025-09-15
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Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS!
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social
By me + Hanna Hillman We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue Link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
4 months ago
Intrinsic interval timing, not temporal prediction, underlies ramping dynamics in visual and parietal cortex
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.673960v1
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Brad Postle
4 months ago
The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
https://jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant-professor-of-psychology-madison-wisconsin-united-states-7d9076ee-f28e-4bab-951f-7d3e5e4b2b35
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