@cathyzhang.bsky.social's paper on inferring mind wandering from behavior alone is now out in Communications Psychology!

New preprint!🚨 How do people learn how to search the visual world? Across 3 experiments, @chrisahn.bsky.social and I show that abstract environmental statistics shape visual strategy selection, but asymmetrically. People readily lean into bottom-up salience, but only override it when they have to.

Want to learn R? 📊 Join our NSF-funded "R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience Workshop"! This virtual workshop is completely free and teaches junior scientists the basics of coding for data analysis. Apply by May 15th! rworkshop.missouri.edu #RStats #Psychology #Neuroscience

Thank you @ltreiman.bsky.social for sharing your work with us on how people act differently when they know that their behavior is used to train AI. In the ultimatum game, people are more likely to reject disadvantageous offers when an AI is watching and learning. 📃 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk link.springer.com/article/10.3... My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

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Great opportunity for PhD applicants this year!

Interested in mind wandering, aging, and individual differences? Check out our new preprint! A fun collab with @cathyzhang.bsky.social Maddie Valdez, @wouterkool.bsky.social and Julie Bugg

Are the correlates of mind wandering consistent across younger and older adults?: https://osf.io/jvyr6

Thrilled that my poster on our new preprint won 2nd place at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (@sjdm-tweets.bsky.social) conference! Read the full paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

So proud of my grad student @ltreiman.bsky.social on winning 2nd place in the Best Poster Award at SJDM @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social 🎉! In a preprint of this work, she demonstrates how sequential comparisons and choice-induced preferences reveal two distinct pathways to the decoy effect.

Check out @theazalabak.bsky.social's cool new paper on model-based planning during foraging. She's applying for grad school this season, so keep your eyes out!

🚀 We are hiring! 🚀 🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.

Two more posters from my group at Psychonomics and SJDM. This evening, @duyguyucel.bsky.social will present some brand new work on multidimensional reinforcement learning, and tomorrow morning @ltreiman.bsky.social will present her work on choice-induced preference in the decoy effect.

My lab members are presenting some awesome work at Psychonomics and SJDM in Denver! #psynom25 #sjdm25 We have posters and talks happening Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Come say hi!

Excited to welcome #psynom25 to Denver later this week! A couple travel tips ⛰️🌇 1) It's high altitude and dry here, DRINK WATER, take it easy your first day in! 2) From the airport, save $/emissions by taking the light rail 🚈 to Union Station, then rideshare/25min walk to the Sheraton hotel 1/

I'm excited to co-chair an #SfN2025 nanosymposium with the esteemed @neuronush.bsky.social on intracranial and behavioral readouts of neuromodulation for psychiatric symptoms! NANO048: "Human Intracranial Recordings: Cognitive and Clinical Science" Wed. Nov. 19 from 8-10am (🙃) Room 23A

If you are at #SfN25, be sure to check out @davideghez.bsky.social's latest work on using EEG to decode the regulation of multidimensional control tomorrow morning. We're dropping the preprint tomorrow as well!

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...

Beyond thrilled to share that I've been selected as the winner of the 2025 Dean's Award for Graduate Research Excellence! So grateful to my incredible mentors, Julie Bugg, Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social, and Todd Braver, who made this possible. More here! artsci.washu.edu/ampersand/gr...

We’re hiring! @sucholutsky.bsky.social and I are seeking a postdoc and RA for a project on trust in AI systems with folks at NYU, Princeton, BU, and Cornell Positions open until filled. Apply soon! Please share 🔁 postdoc: apply.interfolio.com/175495 RA: apply.interfolio.com/175497

Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU is recruiting postdoctoral fellows. The Center offers a unique opportunity to craft a transdisciplinary research program with an unusual degree of independence. ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...

Dear #VSS2025 attendees! Our lab will be presenting 5 posters over the next two days. We’re excited to share our work: Come visit us!

Come see our VSS presentations!

Despite the world being on fire, I can't help but be thrilled to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Dartmouth in Fall '26. I'll be recruiting grad students this upcoming cycle—get in touch if you're interested!

Check out our new study by @atabk.bsky.social! He tweaked a word list memory task to have hidden rules at encoding, which shifted and created “event boundaries.” People recalled pre-boundary words more, and post-boundary words less. Other fun bits in the paper include a reinforcement learning model!

Model-based planning in structured foraging environments: https://osf.io/8z3qv

This study examines how events structured recall, which was impaired for items after event boundaries. A reinforcement learning model showed that decision certainty predicts recall success. @atabk.bsky.social @wouterkool.bsky.social @zreagh.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Just reviewed a paper with an OSF preregistration that was mostly empty and uninformative (e.g., analysis plan just said “anova”, see image). I recommended rejection, but the editor asked for revision without addressing this issue in the decision letter. What would you do in this case?

Excited that we are recruiting for a new postdoctoral program in Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience at #WashU! Get in touch if you have questions! sites.wustl.edu/systemsneuro...

Apply for a FREE virtual workshop on "R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience." Sponsored by NSF and will take place this summer. Enrollment is open to all students. Direct training on using R to analyze data from psychological tasks. Applications due 4/30. 🤓🧑‍💻 sites.google.com/view/r-progr...

Two new preprints from my group at WashU! First, Merve @mileritayar.bsky.social tests whether people place an effort cost on switching between cognitive control settings. We find that people avoid switching between focused and relaxed attentional states. osf.io/preprints/os...

Gheza & Kool show that, in multidimensional environments, people allocate attention to individual distractors based on their interference with the current task. A neural model supports these findings and suggests revising cognitive control theories. https://go.nature.co...

Three new CDML publications to start off 2025! First up: research on multidimensional control from @davideghez.bsky.social in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social! Across three behavioral experiments and with computational modeling, Davide shows that people adapt control in a distractor-specific fashion.

New year, new DPN paper! "Impaired arbitration between reward-related decision-making strategies in Alcohol Users compared to Alcohol Non-Users: a computational modeling study" from Ramakrishnan, @wouterkool.bsky.social, et al www.nature.com/artic... 1/2

It's out! Our work on multi-dimensional control adaptation landed on @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Free access to the full text here: rdcu.be/d5pt1 Big shout-out to @wouterkool.bsky.social for sharing the venture and for setting the bar that high in mentorship! For a quick recap, linked thread

Happy undergrads-ask-for-a-small-increase-in-their-grade season to everyone who celebrates!

I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)! The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration. More details here: cldlab.org/join/ 🧠💻 #psychscisky

Starter pack for researchers studying the control of cognitive processes e.g., attentional control, inhibition, task switching, working memory, error adaptation etc go.bsky.app/12KTqED

Funded PhD (UK students only). Interested in a PhD working in the MSN lab, co-supervised by Dr. Romy Froemer? Topic is flexible around themes of motivation and decision-making, using techniques such as computational modelling, brain imaging, or brain stimulation. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Looking for a PhD in Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience or related in Germany? One week left to apply for the Max Planck School of Cognition: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application #PsychSciSky #compneurosky #neuroskyence #NeuroAI #Neuroimaging

My group, the Control and Decision Making Lab, is at Psychonomics _and_ SJDM this year! Members of our lab will present two talks and two posters on Friday at Psychonomics, and we have two more posters at SJDM on Sunday. Come say hi! #psynom24

Excited to announce that I'll be starting a lab at the University of Montreal (psychology) and Mila (Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms) starting summer 2025. More info to come soon, but I'll be recruiting at the Masters and PhD levels. Please share / get in touch if you're interested!

First go at a starter pack for everyone who is interested in Cognitive Control research. go.bsky.app/R28hGhN Let me know if I should add anyone. #neuroskyence

🎉New project 🎉 doi.org/10.1101/2024... How do we navigate between brain states when we switch tasks? Are dynamics driven by control, or passive decay of the prev task? We shed light on this classic debate by comparing high-d linear dynamical systems fit to EEGs and RNNs during task-switching 🌀

The Braver, Bugg, and Kool labs at WashU are looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher for an ONR-funded project on the cognitive neuroscience of attentional control. Please share! A detailed ad can be found here: cdmlab.wustl.edu/docs/MURI_po...