How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv

Inferential theories are on the rise in cognitive science. But what does it mean to infer? Check out our take on inference across a variety of (neuro)cognitive systems.

Excited to see this now out in the world! We identify a computational basis for how persistent underconfidence is maintained in the face of intact performance, finding that it is grounded in impaired updating of global self-beliefs from local metacognition www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/N

Our multi-sensory integration Neuro-AI paper is now published in J Neurosci www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Super excited to share that Ven Popov & me published a new release of the #bmm R package: venpopov.github.io/bmm/ We have added the Memory Measurement Model for categorical #workingmemory tasks to the package! Apart from that there are some minor fixes to already implemented models and functions.

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸/𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀? Some papers suggesting that it can. #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you a graduate student in #Ukraine interested in machine learning and neuroscience? My research lab at #UofT is now accepting applications for remote thesis supervision. (1/3) #neuroAI #compneuro @vectorinstitute.ai @uoft.bsky.social @uoftcompsci.bsky.social @uhn.ca

"It is thus as if nature smiled and gave the cerebellum-studying neuroscientist the ideal tool for testing null space hypotheses..." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New work by Sudeep Bhatia @sdpbht.bsky.social, Simon van Baal @svanbaal.bsky.social, Feiyi Wang, and @lukaszwalasek.bsky.social Lukasz Walasek -- now out in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hey #AcademicSky #PsySky. All is ready for the start of the PG Research Day @warwickpsych.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social we’ll be covering the event live from 10am UK time

🚀🚀 Very excited about this new preprint with @yunxiao-li.bsky.social and @asanborn.bsky.social! Months ago we released the samplr package on CRAN (helps you use sampling algorithms + cogn. models for human data). Here we explain the theoretical background and show how to use the pkg osf.io/ax8hm

Excited to share some work presented at @vssmtg.bsky.social this year #VSS2025. A great talk by Anxin Miao on a model codeveloped with @timbrady.bsky.social that bridges Bayesian and representational theories of memory, and makes parameter free predictions of visual memory biases.

The Brady Lab @timbrady.bsky.social will be at #VSS2025 @vssmtg.bsky.social this year! Here's a thread with some of the cool work we're coming to share:

On Sat., 05/17 at 2:30PM in Visual Memory: General, former undergrad Anxin Miao will tell us how to predict gist biases in memory APRIORI through independent measurements of memory biases at the level of items and ensembles. CC: @mmrobinson93.bsky.social

Honey, we fixed Signal Detection Theory (SDT)! In this preprint, Constantin Meyer-Grant, David Kellen, Sam Harding, and I critically evaluate the (unequal-variance) Gaussian SDT model in recognition memory and pursue the Gumbel-min model as a principled alternative: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵

If you’re into absurd movies check out my brothers deeply uncomfortable but awesome (I think) short

Every Progress Report

Genoa https://www.wikiart.org/en/aleksandra-ekster/genoa-1914

CSPI is joining the @aclu.org, the American Public Health Association, and others in filing a lawsuit challenging the abrupt cancellation of research grants by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). (1/2)

Report: 83% Of Americans Just Want To Put On Sunglasses And Say ‘Let’s Do This’ theonion.com/report-...

What initiatives in your department bring people together and encourage collaboration? Looking for fresh ideas to connect people! #AcademicChatter

We are recruiting for two 1-year teaching-focussed positions. We welcome applicants in a wide range of areas, with a particular focus on social psychology for one of the posts. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML866/a...

This doesn't look good, folks www.nature.com/articles/d41...

recently posted a new preprint (the first of my postdoc 🎉) where we implemented normalization across space *and* time, allowing us to capture several neural and behavioral findings! I'll be presenting this work at VSS in a couple of months too for those attending www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New comment by @faridanvari.bsky.social and friends arguing that psychology is fragmented into the study of too many constructs and measures with too few links. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Chinese porcelain https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/windows-and-palm-trees-1914

How to measure the prevalence of detailed—yet false—autobiographical memories in lab-based studies is debated. @kimwade.bsky.social and colleagues explain why even low false memory rates in lab-based research can be practically important: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

LLMs have shown impressive performance in some reasoning tasks, but what internal mechanisms do they use to solve these tasks? In a new preprint, we find evidence that abstract reasoning in LLMs depends on an emergent form of symbol processing arxiv.org/abs/2502.20332 (1/N)

Painting https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/painting-4

"Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?" is now available in Perspectives on Psychological Science doi.org/10.1177/1745... (1/4)

Interested in doing a PhD with myself, @gambichiara.bsky.social or @mmrobinson93.bsky.social ? Just 10 days left to apply

Thanks for featuring this paper @warwickpsych.bsky.social, brilliantly led by Miriam Brazzelli & Jemma Hudson. Now it’s clear we need to up our efforts treating sleep issues associated with fibromyalgia. Certain interventions hold promise but need more research & better evidence. 🧪 #sleep #pain

I just published The Unpredictability of Reasoning Isn’t a Flaw but a Feature medium.com/intuitionmac...

I learned that adding “in the wild” to a research talk makes you sound smarter, so now I use it for everything. Just walked into my kitchen to make a sandwich in the wild.

"To what extent can validity of methodological principles and standards (e.g. evidential standards, statistical norms) be extended from one discipline to another?"

🚨 A new preprint is out! How does utility influence mental simulations of risky events? 🤔🎲 We tested this across 4 experiments & found that most people simulate probabilities accurately, but biases emerge in key conditions! If you want to learn more, keep reading! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Our latest study in Psychological Medicine evaluates a digital CBT-Insomnia + Emotion Regulation intervention delivered in workplaces- and the results are promising! 🧪 ✅ Large improvements in: 💤 Insomnia (d=1.75) 😔 Depression (d=1.58) 😨 Anxiety (d=1.17) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Only a bit old and @warwickpsych.bsky.social has just hit 💯 followers! #AcademicSky #PsychSky Lovely psych people out there 🙏 and keep coming!

I don’t like hyperbole but this is the greatest interview/narration of all time. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mnTU...

"Coordinating multiple mental faculties during learning" There's lots of good work in object recognition and learning, but how do we integrate the two? Here's a proposal and model that is more interactive than perception provides the inputs to cognition. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌟 Join us for the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition! Amazing line-up of keynote speakers and instructors, new topics, and only £480 with 4 nights accommodation, social events and meals included! 🌟 www.compsoccog.com

Ok here’s a very general template people can build on. Some will use this as a meme template. Others will use it as a template to build careers out of extruding fields from cognitive science. There’s something for everyone!

Man With Fogged-Up Glasses Forced To Finish Soup Using Other Senses theonion.com/man-wit...

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/karel-appel/5c18f970edc2c9148025a464

Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!

"By systematically exploring how alternative analytical choices affect the findings, Multiverse Analysis reveals the full range of estimates that the data can support and uncovers insights that single-path analyses often miss." #Methodology