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Assistant Professor at UMass Amherst www.auletlab.com she/her 🧠🏳️🌈
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first empirical paper from the Aulet lab! What does learning to count do to a brain? We trained neural networks on different tasks and only counting (i.e., predicting the number of dots in a dot array) reorganized representations around number. New preprint:
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Iris van Rooij 💭
about 6 hours ago
📚 Reading Women in Cognitive Science 📚 “Recommendations for readings are welcome, especially in the history of cognitive science (prior to 1950s, and the older the better).”
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/15/%...
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📚 Reading Women in Cognitive Science 📚
Occasionally, I make threads on social media about papers and books that I read. It helps me focus and process deeper when I share highlights and thoughts with others. In this blogpost, I compile a…
https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/15/%f0%9f%93%9a-reading-women-in-cognitive-science-%f0%9f%93%9a/
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Dan Hyde
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Again, I'm looking for a lab research coordinator to work on the developmental cognitive neuroscience of numeracy in preschoolers. Please pass on to those that might be interested
publish.illinois.edu/danielchyde/...
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Research Coordinator | Brain and Cognitive Development Lab | Illinois
https://publish.illinois.edu/danielchyde/research-coordinator/
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Sean Carroll
6 days ago
Mindscape 343 | Tom Griffiths
@cocoscilab.bsky.social
on The Laws of Thought. Everyone knows the laws of thermodynamics, but do you know the laws of thinking?
#MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
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Mara Breen
8 days ago
My dept - Psychology & Education at Mount Holyoke College - is searching for a 1-yr visitor in developmental psych. 3/2 teaching load with research support
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
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Visiting Assistant Professor in Psychology
Job no: R-0000003072 Position Title: Visiting Assistant Professor in Psychology Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2026 Job Description: The Department of Psychology and Educatio...
https://mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Mount-Holyoke-College---Main-Campus/Visiting-Assistant-Professor-in-Psychology_R-0000003072-1
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Michelle Greene
7 days ago
🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out!
#neuroskyence
#VisionScience
#CogSci
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience
If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience The Barnard Visua...
https://barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Faculty/details/Postdoctoral-Research-Fellow--Cognitive-Computational-Neuroscience_JR5425
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Chris Krupenye
9 days ago
Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in
@science.org
We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative
youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko
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Apes Share Human Ability to Imagine
YouTube video by Johns Hopkins University
https://youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko
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first empirical paper from the Aulet lab! What does learning to count do to a brain? We trained neural networks on different tasks and only counting (i.e., predicting the number of dots in a dot array) reorganized representations around number. New preprint:
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Cliona O'Doherty
13 days ago
1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
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I was curious about the fact that there were seemingly no women scientists mentioned, even of equivalent caliber, and came across what is, seemingly, beef between Epstein and Brockman debating whether "the women are all weak" or not
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Andrew Perfors
14 days ago
I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was. I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works" NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
15 days ago
It's disturbing to see many of the the major figures in moral cognition all over the Epstein files He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls
www.justice.gov/epstein
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Vlad Ayzenberg
18 days ago
This paper was an awesome collaborative effort of a
@fitngin.bsky.social
working group. It provides a detailed review of how DNNs can be used to support dev neuro research
@lauriebayet.bsky.social
and I wrote the network modeling section about how DNNs can be used to test developmental theories 🧵
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Deep learning in fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging research
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into everyday tasks and work environments. However, its adoption in medical image analys…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929326000125
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Mike Frank
about 1 month ago
We are pleased to announce that the first LEVANTE data release is now publicly available! To access and download the pilot data, follow instructions on
researcher.levante-network.org/data
. This data release accompanies the preprint linked in the thread.
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Sam Gershman
about 1 month ago
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
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Kat Tenbarge
about 1 month ago
Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.
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Grad school me spent way too many hrs fighting matlab to generate dot arrays and extract parameters from pre-existing stimuli. So I built the thing I wish existed: an open-source, browser-based toolbox for generating AND analyzing dot arrays. No MATLAB, no installation, no inherited spaghetti code
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Overriding my intuition that blogging is either too cringe or too ‘for more senior folks’ because I discovered this break that I have ~things to say about synthetic data. En route to talking about the perils of synthetic data, I take a detour through ‘Core Knowledge’, DNNs, and fast v slow science
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What Would It Mean for Synthetic Data to Work?
On AI surrogates, fast vs. slow science, and the gap between prediction and understanding
https://open.substack.com/pub/laurenaulet/p/what-would-it-mean-for-synthetic?r=1j4mk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Mike Frank
about 2 months ago
Very excited to share the first empirical paper from LEVANTE: we describe the LEVANTE core tasks, a set of nine open source tasks for measuring learning and development in kids ages 5-12 years.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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CantlonLab
2 months ago
This project is trying to raise science awareness by doing short videos about cancelled research — including mine.
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Mick Bonner
2 months ago
Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!
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Jorge Morales
2 months ago
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by
@dillonplunkett.bsky.social
, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
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Representational Momentum Transcends Motion
Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science
https://subjectivitylab.org/rm/paper
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Hilary Barth
2 months ago
There’s a fantastic developmental science resource called Children Helping Science, at MIT (
childrenhelpingscience.com
). Researchers run child studies online, Parents sign up & participate with their kids. CHS got an offer from an anonymous donor: matching gifts up to $100K through December!
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Home - Children Helping Science
https://childrenhelpingscience.com/
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Cameron Ellis
3 months ago
We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team! More details (e.g. responsibilities):
soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...
Apply here:
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
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People – Scaffolding of Cognition Team
https://soc.stanford.edu/people/#join-the-team
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Tomer Ullman
3 months ago
Officially out in the current issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences: "Physics versus graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Tomer Ullman
3 months ago
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* > These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees > They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
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Benjamin Pitt
4 months ago
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be joining the faculty at
@umassamherst.bsky.social
next year as an assistant professor in Psychological & Brain Sciences! 🥳
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Natalie Brito
4 months ago
Judy DeLoache passed away yesterday. She was a brilliant scientist and giant in the field of developmental psychology. She will be missed dearly.
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Boston University Conference on Language Development
4 months ago
Join us for our student workshop by the founders of Science Homecoming at
#BUCLD50
! Dr. Cantlon will give the presentation “Writing to Defend American Science” at the student workshop on Thursday, November 6th, 2025, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM.
#ScienceHomecoming
#BostonUniversity
#LanguageDevelopment
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Dawei Bai
4 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...
A short thread [1/5]👇
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Nora Newcombe
4 months ago
Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories
Longitudinal measurements of brain structure and function are critical for understanding how humans change over time. Traditional longitudinal approaches sample sparsely across large windows of time t...
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613%2825%2900244-X
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The New York Times
5 months ago
Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.”
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Phil Lewis
5 months ago
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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Jorge Morales
5 months ago
Imagine an apple 🍎. Is your mental image more like a picture or more like a thought? In a new preprint led by Morgan McCarty—our lab's wonderful RA—we develop a new approach to this old cognitive science question and find that LLMs excel at tasks thought to be solvable only via visual imagery. 🧵
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Artificial Phantasia: Evidence for Propositional Reasoning-Based Mental Imagery in Large Language Models
This study offers a novel approach for benchmarking complex cognitive behavior in artificial systems. Almost universally, Large Language Models (LLMs) perform best on tasks which may be included in th...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23108
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Sam Gershman
5 months ago
@arthurpr4t.bsky.social
has written another tour de force, showing how efficient coding reshapes numerosity representations in parietal cortex.
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Daniel Coppersmith
5 months ago
I’m starting a suicide prevention research lab at UMass Amherst! I’ll be reviewing applications for our clinical psychology PhD program. Come to our virtual open house to learn more about the program and speak with faculty accepting students.
www.umass.edu/psychologica...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience
5 months ago
Functional organization of the human visual system at birth and across late gestation
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677834v1
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Sami Yousif
5 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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Casey terHorst
5 months ago
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/grfp-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship-program
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Colette Delawalla
5 months ago
Emory University just closed all our DEI offices and programs. This is egregious.
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Sami Yousif
6 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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Katie Buehler
6 months ago
BREAKING: A divided Supreme Court ALLOWS the National Institutes of Health to withhold $783 million in funding for research related to "gender ideology," DEI & other disfavored topics with complicated reasoning. Roberts & liberals dissent.
#SCOTUS
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AAUP
6 months ago
Authoritarian madness.
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I'm accepting a phd student for this upcoming cycle! Happy to chat with anyone interested in numerical cognition, spatial cognition, mental rotation, intuitive physics, etc. Behavior and/or fMRI. You can find my contact info and more info about the lab at
www.auletlab.com
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Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Graduate Program : Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences : UMass Amherst
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Graduate Program
https://www.umass.edu/psychological-brain-sciences/graduate/cognition-and-cognitive-neuroscience
6 months ago
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CantlonLab
6 months ago
Children build math skills on a “cognitive bridge” between space & number. But where does it come from? Our new study finds monkeys transfer learning and abstractions across geometry & numerosity, revealing the evolutionary roots of basic math development. 🧪🧠
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Cognitive bridge between geometric and numerical learning in monkeys | PNAS
Educational research highlights strong developmental links between numerical and spatial cognition in humans, often shaped by cultural tools like t...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502101122
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Nydia Vurdah
6 months ago
🚨 New postdoc alert with
@dchyde.bsky.social
! Come join us at the Brain and Cognitive Development lab to work on a fantastic project!
@mclstrainee.bsky.social
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Mike Frank
6 months ago
Our position paper is now out: "Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing".
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(preprint:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Vlad Ayzenberg
7 months ago
Excited to be at my first
@cogscisociety.bsky.social
meeting! Come check out my talk tomorrow morning on the organization of the human visual system at birth in
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
Rumelhart award symposium
#CogSci2025
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Brynn Sherman
7 months ago
I'm recruiting a lab manager for my soon-to-be-launched lab at Ohio State! If you know of any recent grads who may be interested both in helping to build the lab and in developing skills in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, please share!
osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...
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Research Associate
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https://osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCareers/details/Research-Associate_R133399-1
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Vlad Ayzenberg
8 months ago
My paper with
@stellalourenco.bsky.social
is now out in Science Advances! We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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Fast and robust visual object recognition in young children
The visual recognition abilities of preschool children rival those of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads6821
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Noah Berlatsky
8 months ago
it's a great thing that trans people exist. they make the world a better place for everyone. attacks on trans people are attacks on everyone, and on the concept of human dignity and possibility.
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