"Nobody needs convincing that a science of the Meaning of Life is the wrong project. I will argue that a science of phenomenal consciousness is wrong for exactly the same reason: neither is amenable to the third-person perspective science requires." by @profdata.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.00226

New preprint from our team! We tested whether early reaction time variability predicts later implicit learning. Across two datasets, moment-to-moment variability, especially ITRV and Sigma, was linked to better later learning. Noise may sometimes reflect exploration. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

You can still submit your presentation about data analysis and statistics in behavioral and related sciences to our local international symposium in Pécs, Hungary, in September 2026. www.cogstat.org/best_approac...

We built a gaze-based method that tracks how people form and revise predictions trial by trial. The key finding: people keep their model unchanged when an error just reflects random noise, but update it when the error signals their model is wrong. @orspesthy.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Mind wandering enhances the brain’s ability to learn hidden patterns, new study suggests

As already mentioned, I'm re-vampiong my youtube channel. Just dropped the first few R videos. I'll be doing SPSS and R throughout the rest of the year if all goes to plan. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Come to our posters on VSS! Poster numbers: 467, 469. #VSS2026

Today, Teodóra Vékony will give a talk about our research on local sleep, mind wandering and implicit statistical learning at 18.45 in ROOM 1 at VSS (Vision Science Society). #VSS2026

Our article got a media coverage

How video game habits act as a window into cognitive health

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Our new paper is out.

If childhood adversity is harmful, are its cognitive consequences always and only negative? Maybe we need to question deficit models. Greater childhood adversity was linked to faster implicit learning in our new study. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... #neuroskyence

XV Conference of the SEPEX and II Joint Meeting of the SEPEX and the BAPS: CALL FOR POSTERS AND ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the call for Oral Communications and Posters is now open. The submission deadline is April 22, 2026. For detailed information related…

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Our new paper is out: ADHD-like traits were linked to weaker inhibitory control, but that was only part of the story. We found that ADHD-like traits also changed the usual trade-off between inhibition and statistical learning. #neuroskyence #medsky #ADHD journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@statsepi.bsky.social has a nice way of explaining the need for randomization in experiments. Starts with giving a medicine to *one* person and how that would work if we could go back in time and also not give them the medicine www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSOj... (caveat: in a deterministic universe)

Another one bites the dust

This paper interests me in part because vmPFC is also a region associated with cessation of #dreaming during #sleep in Mark Solms' lesion work (e.g. sci-hub.st/10.1017/S014...). IDK if these lesions are in precisely the same locations as Solms' patients though.

These guys report memory enhancement after applying slow oscillation frequency tDCS during post-learning waking rest. This follows on other evidence that some mechanisms of memory consolidation studied in the context of #sleep might also be present in waking rest. #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Interested in implicit learning, implicit cognition, and non-conscious processes? Join us at the 12th Implicit Learning Seminar on May 7, 2026 at the University of Sussex, near Brighton. sites.google.com/view/implici...

When it comes to memory, not all forms of wakefulness are created equal. Our latest:

In a number comparison task, the size effect is, in fact, at least three distinct size effects with three corresponding generators. See more details about the anatomy of the number comparison size effect at doi.org/10.3758/s134...

In our new preprint, we tested whether mind wandering is a general marker of psychopathology or something more specific. Result: it correlates with many symptom dimensions; but only ADHD uniquely predicts it when shared variance is controlled. #neuroskyence #medsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Optimizing a design for correlation may be bad for a design for comparing groups or conditions. And the other way around. osf.io/mu896

New preprint: We introduce an eye-tracking framework to capture, trial by trial, how expectations are formed and updated during probabilistic learning. The results suggest conservative, repetition-based updating rather than strongly error-driven learning. doi.org/10.64898/202... #neuroskyence

What if the “contradictions” in statistical learning aren’t real—but artifacts of non–process-pure tasks (à la Jacoby)? A different lens changes the story. New preprint out: osf.io/preprints/ps... #neuroskyence

New paper just published in Cerebral Cortex 🧠 Frontal midline theta synchronization causally supports updating statistical regularities, improving adaptive prediction without boosting simple performance. doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf346 @orspesthy.bsky.social #neuroskyence

New article in Cognitive Science Statistical learning does not stay stable across childhood. Longitudinal data reveal a gradual developmental decline and growing individual differences. Methodology matters: No process-pure tasks. No shortcuts without longitudinal data. doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊 Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness? And if so, where do we start? I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on. 1/n

Our recent research on mind wandering is featured in Cerveau et Psycho, a French magazine on brain and cognition. Thanks, Thomas ;) Article (FR): stm.cairn.info/magazine-cer... #MindWandering #Neuroscience @thomasandrillon.bsky.social

"Research will be shared exclusively outside traditional journals" This is quite a statement!

This is a great piece by @cbo.bsky.social on the need to rethink tenure. undark.org/2025/09/11/o...

New preprint alert! Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪

Come join us at 15:30 for the Learning and Memory II symposium at the Psychonomic Conference in Ballroom D! I’ll be speaking about the developmental trajectory of statistical learning. See you there! #Psychonomics #PSynom25

Come by our posters today at 6:00 PM at the Psychonomic Conference! #psynom25 We’ll be presenting three posters on statistical learning — would love to see you there! @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social @orspesthy.bsky.social @florahann.bsky.social

Our new preprint is out! Across 473 participants, we found no sex differences in implicit statistical learning — a core mechanism of predictive processing. The predictive brain appears remarkably universal. doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroscience #learning #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

New study Our team shows that statistical learning & inhibitory control cooperate during behavior. A flexible brain optimizes both automatic & controlled processes together - not either/or. Preprint:Cooperative interaction between statistical learning and inhibitory control doi.org/10.31234/osf...

"Your Brain Isn't Hardware Running Software" | Clip of an interview with @anilseth.bsky.social and Michael Levin on Theories Of Everything www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzZl...

New preprint! ADHD-like traits don’t just affect inhibition or learning — they reshape their interaction. A key problem in neuroscience is studying functions in isolation, but cognition emerges from their interplay. doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroscience #learning #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

Our new preprint is online. People who experienced more childhood unpredictability show faster implicit statistical learning in adulthood. Supports the “hidden talents” view of adversity. Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... #neuroscience #learning #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

October 21-22: Conference on statistical learning in Spain gccognitive.es/conference-2...

Interesting to compare meta-analyses on sleep spindles & memory. Ujma (2024) found no correlation. The latest eLife meta also shows spindle amplitude not significantly tied to memory:CI [−0.04, 0.18]. But they also report hints about coupling. These processes are complex — it’s not just yes or no.

New podcast alert! Check out the Brain Architects new lest episode wherever you listen! #sleeppeeps

Curious about the human ability to extract regularities from sensory input (i.e., “statistical learning”) and individual differences therein? #CognitiveScience #Learning Our #Consensus paper presents the collective insights of 27 researchers worldwide 🌎 💬 🌍 💬 🌏 💬: 🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Excited to share our latest paper! We show that autistic traits are associated with a different speed-accuracy strategy when the environment changes. This highlights the power of a dimensional approach over rigid categorical views. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Autism #Learning #StatisticalLearning

Our new paper is out! How do executive functions shape our ability to rewire habits / update predictive models? ✔️ Better inhibition = easier habit change ❌ Strong semantic fluency = harder to update old patterns because of the long-term memory access. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Our new preprint is out! We go beyond studying goal-directed & habitual control in isolation — using an unsupervised learning approach to see how they interact. OC tendencies tip the balance toward rigid habits over flexible goals. doi.org/10.1101/2025... #OCD #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #neuroskyence

New preprint! Inhibiting the right or both dorsolateral prefrontal cortices with rTMS boosts unsupervised statistical learning. Likely by shifting toward a more exploratory processing style. #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #neuroskyence biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroscience #predictiveprocessing