Sally Berson
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psychology phd student @ johns hopkins | cognitive development & explanation
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Tomer Ullman
20 days ago
fun pre-print for your start of week reading: "People Make Graded Judgments About The Inconceivable" (by Hu, Sosa, and me)
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Daeyeol Lee
27 days ago
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology.
pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
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Jobs | Psychological & Brain Sciences
Tenured/Tenure-track position in Cognitive Psychology Open Date Dec 01, 2025 Salary Range or Pay Grade The expected academic base salary range for this position is $110,000- $144,500 (Assistant Profes...
https://pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
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Shari Liu
about 1 month ago
New perspective paper (w/
@sedaakbiyik.bsky.social
, Joseph Outa, &
@minjaek.bsky.social
) in
@natrevpsychol.nature.com
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www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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How physical information is used to make sense of the psychological world - Nature Reviews Psychology
Reasoning about minds and reasoning about physical objects are governed by two distinct systems. In this Perspective, Liu et al. review research from developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscienc...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-025-00514-1
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Dawei Bai
3 months ago
Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving With Alon Hafri,
@veroniqueizard.bsky.social
,
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
& Brent Strickland Read it here:
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
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Brynn Sherman
3 months ago
Last month, I launched my lab at Ohio State. Our lab website is now live, and we're recruiting graduate students this cycle! If you're interested in the cognitive (neuro)science of learning & memory, please reach out!
www.momentslab.org
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Moments Lab
https://www.momentslab.org/
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Sami Yousif
3 months ago
I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026 through both the cognitive and developmental areas at Ohio State. If you are interested in spatial cognition, visual perception, and/or mental representation -- please reach out! I'd love to hear from you.
www.cogdevlab.org
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PCDL @ OSU
https://www.cogdevlab.org/
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Rui Zhe Goh
4 months ago
Great to have another paper with
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
@ianbphillips.bsky.social
and the brilliant Hanbei Zhou out! In this paper we demonstrate that stimuli within events are perceived further apart in time — an event-based analog of “object-based warping”.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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Rui Zhe Goh
4 months ago
Really happy to have a new paper forthcoming at PPR! Ever wondered if there’s any point in feeling regret? In this paper, I argue that regret is valuable because it helps us overcome temptation. Check it out:
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Sami Yousif
4 months ago
Visual adaptation is viewed as a test of whether a feature is represented by the visual system. In a new paper, Sam Clarke and I push the limits of this test. We show spatially selective, putatively "visual" adaptation to a clearly non-visual dimension: Value!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Can we “see” value? Spatiotopic “visual” adaptation to an imperceptible dimension
In much recent philosophy of mind and cognitive science, repulsive adaptation effects are considered a litmus test — a crucial marker, that distinguis…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725002318?dgcid=coauthor
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Chris Krupenye
4 months ago
When an animals' groupmates go out of sight, do they also go out of mind? In a new paper in Proc B
@royalsocietypublishing.org
, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners
royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/4GI7G...
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Mental representation of the locations and identities of multiple hidden agents or objects by a bonobo | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Humans are adept at navigating the social world in part because we flexibly map the locations and identities of agents around us. While field studies suggest primates can track individual conspecifics...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/4GI7GYNFATVHTH9FPQIU/full
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Tomer Ullman
4 months ago
this is extremely cool; I also think it's important for people to know Tal made coasters of these
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tal boger
4 months ago
On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°! In
@currentbiology.bsky.social
,
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
& I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science.
bit.ly/45BVnCZ
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Gabe Waterhouse
6 months ago
I am excited to announce my first ever paper (w/
@samiyousif.bsky.social
) about a new illusion of *number*: the “Crowd Size Illusion”.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ktvyz_v1?view_only=
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Chaz Firestone
6 months ago
@sallyberson.bsky.social
in action at
@socphilpsych.bsky.social
!
#SPP2025
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Brynn Sherman
7 months ago
New preprint! How do we integrate new information into prior knowledge? We find that existing knowledge enables rapid new learning but that interleaved replay during sleep promotes integration of new and old information. Modeling suggests a sleep context suppression mechanism.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/bj29n
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tal boger
8 months ago
Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style? In
@nathumbehav.nature.com
,
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
& I take an experimental approach to style perception!
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Justine Griego
10 months ago
Science and DEI in the sciences and the arts is what makes America great
#standupforscience
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tal boger
10 months ago
Watch this video. Do you remember seeing a ball in the second half of the video? Up to 37% of our participants reported seeing a ball, even though it wasn’t there. Why? In a new paper in press @ Cognition, Brent Strickland and I ask what causes event completion.
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Chris Krupenye
11 months ago
Are humans the only species that communicates when a collaborator is missing information? In
@pnas.org
, Luke Townrow and I show that our closest relatives, bonobos, can track when a partner is knowledgeable or ignorant, and tailor communication accordingly
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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tal boger
11 months ago
Suppose you generated a sequence of 100 random numbers. Then one year later, you did it again. Do you think we could predict one sequence from the other? It turns out, we can! Now in press @ JEP:G with
@samiyousif.bsky.social
@actlab.bsky.social
@robbrutledge.bsky.social
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/mtfdc
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tal boger
11 months ago
Which is more complex: A bicycle or a car? Object complexity comes in many different kinds — such as visual, mechanistic, and more. How are these kinds related? Now out @ JEP:G, Frank Keil and I argue that mechanistic complexity is fundamental.
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APA PsycNet
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-47442-001
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