Some research fields have a type of paper that basically asks: "What if a more expensive but less reliable machine can do [this] instead?"

The need for positive data is the original sin of science. To exist in science, you need grants. To get grants, you need to publish papers. To publish papers, you need positive data. This leads to null data staying in file drawers, and false or misleading positive data being published.

How to join zillions of lexical norms to each word in your language sample the easy way: a quick tutorial and demo reilly-lab.github.io/Jamie_JoinLe...

We received the an invitation from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) for CNS members who are faculty to join a discussion on 4/10 about federal science funding: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... This is in response to the the President's budget request for FY27. 1/

Looking inside and beyond eye fixations in reading Opinion by Elizabeth R. Schotter & Brennan R. Payne Free access before May 17: tinyurl.com/bde7p834

The game is to destroy academia and take control of universities. Throttling science funding is just one more move in the broader assault against #highered. Fight back. Don't give in. Don't give up. #AAUP #Standupforscience 5/5

How do we read faster than our brains process each word? Out now in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, @lizschotter.bsky.social and I explore how co-registering eye-tracking and EEG helps solve this paradox by looking "beyond" the individual fixation to probe dynamic coupling between the brain and eyes.

📢 BREAKING! TiCS just published a paper by @lamalab.bsky.social and me that synthesizes co-registration (and related) studies of reading that resolve the apparent paradox that the eyes move faster through the text than the brain can understand it!

Online Now: Looking inside and beyond eye fixations in reading

How do we read faster than our brains process each word? Out now in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, @lizschotter.bsky.social and I explore how co-registering eye-tracking and EEG helps solve this paradox by looking "beyond" the individual fixation to probe dynamic coupling between the brain and eyes.

How does the brain comprehend when listening gets tough (e.g., acoustic challenge, hearing loss)? Even when semantic retrieval and syntactic integration are impaired, listeners still prioritize prediction. Young adults: osf.io/preprints/ps... Older adults w/ hearing loss: osf.io/preprints/ps...

surely we can teach the children how to ethically use this product designed for unethical use by unethical people

free video for intro lectures on auditory perception

Although the reporting requirements are over for basic experimental studies in humans, the principle of making research plans and results public and accessible is “a good one that we should all continue to work on,” Jeremy Wolfe says. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence bit.ly/4kpaBCC

There's good evidence that talking is declining. I explore the cognitive and social consequences of this shift in the Washington Post. wapo.st/4pz96CG

Our first eye movement and eeg coregistration project from the lab. Allyson Copeland's (not on bsky) excellent thesis work examining prediction and plausibility violations in natural reading. Parafoveal n400s, frontal positivities, and LPCs. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out our new paper in CABN (special issue on neuroscience of effort). @sarahdoesscience.bsky.social shows that acoustic challenge modulates aperiodic activity in younger and older listeners, effects correlated with hearing loss and distinct from alpha modulations.

One last reminder that I’m recruiting a graduate student through the Cognition & Neural Science area @utah.edu this Fall! The lab uses MRI to study healthy cognitive aging across the adult lifespan and will start assessing factors that moderate cognitive aging (air pollution, cardiovascular health).

Imagine working in a restaurant where the boss tells you the job performance is based only on tables served. But then every shift you are scheduled to the stockroom, the dishwashing station, and occasionally to like, trim the hedges outside. Anyway. I'm an associate professor...

🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) Below a thread summary 🧵1/n #metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy

There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition. Feel free to sign and share this open petition: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

A statistical error known as pseudoreplication appears in more than half of recent mouse studies on neurological disorders, according to a new study. Peter Kind and Constantino Elfetheriou tell Lauren Schenkman why researchers should pay attention. www.thetransmitter.org/pseudoreplic...

President Trump’s FY26 budget for #NSF will slash funding for the agency by 56.9% and funding for Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences by 67.6% These cuts will end US STEM leadership, weaken national security, and set-back individual prosperity and well-being.

The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care? 1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.

Devastating...

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

And here is a free link to the published paper, now in Brain and Language: authors.elsevier.com/c/1l18O,28iJ...

Every year at the end of the semester, I ask the students in my Psych of Language class to create memes about what they've learned. They then vote for their favorites. Here's the winner about how the idea of a universal grammar is no longer as compelling as it once seemed. 1/5

Out now in Brain & Language -- "Did you say brain or brave? Event-related potentials reveal the central role of phonological prediction in false hearing" osf.io/preprints/os...

Hey academics, wondering about changes for evaluating job applicants and T&P decisions. Downgrade importance of grants if getting grants is no longer based on scientific evaluation. Increase the value of communication with the general public. We need to speak clearly about the value of our work.

Had a blast at #CNS2025! Proud of our LaMA labbers who gave some awesome presentations!

I'm giving a talk with Mark Seidenberg at Planet Word Museum on March 1. We haven't done a joint talk in over 30 years! My part aims to bring insights from psycholinguistic research to children's reading instruction. planetwordmuseum.org/events/eyes-...

🚨Pre-print alert! 🚨 New paper lead by Sara LoTemplio & Jack Silcox (not on bluesky)-- We examine single-trial relationships between error-related brain and pupil responses and their prediction of post-error behavior via simultaneous EEG-pupillometry. www.authorea.com/users/869767...

“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.” www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...

A great time at #psynom24 seeing new science, presenting our recent work, and catching up with old friends!

Hello everyone! A brief bio: we are a cognitive neuroscience research lab in the Psychology department at University of Utah. We research the cognitive and neural bases of language comprehension across the adult lifespan using tools like EEG, eye tracking, and TMS. Account run by Brennan Payne.