New academic year, new series of seminars from the francophone #cogpsych community Le Collectif Cognitif. Join us en ligne à partir de novembre:

The usual “what is psychology?” to a new cohort of Psych 101 students. (With the cover of James’ Principles of Psychology” on the slide!) Just goes to show that everyone thinks they know what #psychology is, but no one can really define it … (yet!)

Around 80 M1 across the 6 tracks and 65 M2 students, we are proud to welcome the new 2025-2026 #cog-SUP cohort! Master in Cognitive Science from @upcite.bsky.social and @sorbonne-universite.fr

As #ECVP2025 wraps up, I’m delighted that #ECVP2028 in Paris was accepted at the Business Meeting! ECVP will meet again before but the Parisian organizing committee is already planning an unforgettable 50th anniversary!

I am having waaaaay too much fun preparing a class on representation in #cogsci Talking about the shift from 1st-to 2nd-order isomorphism from Aristotle et al to Berkeley et al.; what is represented is not external objects but internal relations… Here is a chatGPT image made from this prompt:

2nd annual meeting of the French #cogpsych community in Dieppe, Normandy. Great fun to co-organize with @gaenplancher.bsky.social and François Maquestiaux! #collectifcognitif2025

EP #10 | @theresecollins.bsky.social recommends viewing some cool visual illusions (and illusion contests) and Moby Dick - we leave it to you to find out the link between cognitive science and Moby Dick www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/in... ; illusionoftheyear.com

If you teach cognitive psychology or related topics & are willing to share your favorite teaching resources (e.g., demos, videos), please reply to/quote this post, tag me in a new post, or send me email. I'll compile them, share the list, & keep updating it this summer. Let's inspire each other!

"As appealing as they can be, Large Language Models are as useful to scientific research as microwaves are to fine cuisine." doi.org/10.1177/0301...

Had a great time participating in this event on AI & Psychology - great cross-talk between clinical psych & #CogPsych

I need more time to think

New preprint! Serial dependence is assumed to be attractive, but some studies consistently show repulsion. We tried to replicate a surprising repulsive serial bias that switches to an attractive one when people get distracted during the memory maintenance. It worked! osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

#vss2025 is about science and networking and meeting up with friends, old and new. I always enjoyed the birds, they bring back fond memories of birding with Josh Wallman. I was an amateur birder to his exquisite expertise… He is sorely missed!

Repulsion, attraction, serial dependence, adaptation… Confused? Good thing @canmertdoit.bsky.social cleared that up for us at #vss2025 with his awesome poster. You can also find his preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Serial dependence is feature-tuned to object categories PhD candidate Pierre Costa presenting our work at #vss2025

Prochain séminaire en ligne du Collectif Cognitif: Mardi 6 mai 12h15-13h15 (h de Paris) François Quesque (Univ Paris Nanterre) Variations interculturelles de la cognition sociale Infos & lien visio:

🚨New article from the #DuguéLab in #PLOS_Computational_Biology, led by @lgrabot.bsky.social! We developed a new model-based neuroimaging approach to study Traveling Waves in visual cortex using MEG-EEG. @erc.europa.eu journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

The Trump budget cuts to Harvard are ~= the total budget the French government gives to ALL universities & higher Ed in France…

#cog-SUP is a Masters program in Cognitive Science jointly offered by @upcite.bsky.social and @sorbonne-universite.fr! Jérôme Iste, Talia Sander and Joaquín Schlotthauer from the first cog-SUP class is telling you all about it! More info: cog-sup.fr www.linkedin.com/posts/cog-su...

This guy is speaking at 'legendary Piano Vache bar 🍺' this Friday at 5pm (one free drink included!)

Writing is thinking. We get students to write so that they learn how to think and use their brains. Using LLMs to do your work is like trying to be an athlete by getting someone else to do your training for you.

Prochain séminaire en ligne du Collectif Cognitif: Jeudi 27 mars 12h15-13h15 (h de Paris) Josselin Baumard (Univ de Rouen) Outils, Action, Contexte: de la cognition motrice à la cognition sociale Infos & lien visio:

William James's take on psychophysics is *incredible*. Worth reading the whole quote. #psychSciSky #philsky #VisionScience "But psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods,

I have been tasked w/preparing a workshop on writing & submitting for #CogPsych #neuroscience PhD candidates, so I unearthed this book. My 2000 edition is outdated and even if recent editions seem ~better (e.g. exit the chapt by Bem recommending HARKing), I’d ❤️ ⭐️recommendations⭐️ for alternatives! 🙏🏼

Come meet the French #CogPsych community at our annual meeting, this year in Normandy! Abstract submissions closed mais l’inscription est open until le 30 avril: collectifcognitif.sciencesconf.org #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #Psychology #Cognition #neuroskyence #ESR

Prochain séminaire en ligne du Collectif Cognitif: Mardi 11 mars 12h-13h30 (h de Paris) Léo Dutriaux (Univ Lyon 2) Les référentiels spatiaux dans la représentation de l’espace et du temps Infos & lien visio:

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

#standupforscience Paris

Join us March 6th for a workshop on #Computational_Neuroscience. We’ll discuss several research topics within this interdisciplinary field, and ways to grow the local community. @upcite.bsky.social biomedicale.u-paris.fr/workshop-on-...

❤️ ☕️ ❤️ ☕️ ❤️ I miss the good ol’ days of full labs and bustling offices too! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

J-7 Réunion d’informations FRESCO📣 N’oubliez pas de vous inscrire à notre réunion d'informations le Vendredi 28 Février 2025 en visioconférence à 19h pour nous rencontrer 🤝 Sinon vous pouvez directement vous inscrire ici : forms.gle/8vTsy78W1GVP... Restez connectés 🔍 Cognitivement 🧠

Désolé de la pub blogs.mediapart.fr/david-monnia...

Guilty

I have been reading about cognitive maps and finding this literature fascinating, in particular that they could be reused to generalize. But is there really evidence for this? More generally, IYO what piece of evidence is missing to demonstrates the brain uses CM in important ways? Please RT🙏

My two latest reads. I think my subconscious might be trying to communicate with me… 😅

#ParisNeuroscienceEvent 'Neural Networking Night' 📍Le Piano Vache (8 Rue Laplace, 75005 Paris). This friday's talk (Feb 7th) will be by Laura Dugué @lauradugue.bsky.social (INCC - @cnrs.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social) More info at: neuralnetworkingnight.github.io/project/laur...

Prochain séminaire en ligne du Collectif Cognitif: Jeudi 6 février 12h-13h30 (h de Paris) Dorian Goueytes (@univlille.bsky.social): L’accumulation d’évidence comme processus sous-jacent de la métacognition dans la prise de décision perceptuelle #CogPsych #cognition #PsychSciSky Infos & zoom:

Attending GDR Vision in Louvain-la-Neuve with my fantastic group of PhD students Mert Can @canmertdoit.bsky.social, Pierre Costa & Dina Dagher and post-doc Morgan Lyphout-Spitz.

Looking for a #post-doc on visual representations and history effects using psychophysics and EEG? #NeuroscienceJobs #hiring #neuroskyence #CogPsych #AcademicSky 2 opportunities to apply to work in my lab @INCC in Paris:

Dear American #neuroscience #CogPsych students, Wanna escape fascism? Come try socialism in France, it’s not too bad 😁 #AcademicSky Apply to the Master’s program in #cognitivescience, cog-SUP, offered by Sorbonne Univ & Univ Paris Cité:

Prochain séminaire en ligne du Collectif Cognitif: Jeudi 23 janvier 12h-13h30 (h de Paris) Lucie Angel (Univ de Tours): Explorer le vieillissement de la mémoire à l’aide de l’EEG Infos & lien zoom: sites.google.com/view/collect...

The #cognitive_science_and_society cog-SUP track explores human cognitive processes and social dynamics within our society. Join us! More info here: cog-sup.fr/cognitive-sc... @theresecollins.bsky.social

Parisian drizzle and my desk today. January blues.

Prochain séminaire en ligne du Collectif Cognitif: Mardi 14 janvier 12h-13h30 (h de Paris) Solène Kalénine (CNRS & Univ de Lille) L'utilisation d'images avec indices moteurs pour faciliter l'apprentissage des mots et l'accès lexical Infos & lien zoom: sites.google.com/view/collect...

Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding www.cell.com/current-biol...

Happy to share our latest publication with Nikos Gekas on sequential effects in visual perception. Here, we manipulated the uncertainty of both the current stimulus and the previous ones, and found different repulsive and attractive effects. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

MEDIAS I Neuromanie : un vrai casse-tête [email protected]‬ avec @franckramus.bsky.social et @theresecollins.bsky.social 👇

avec @franckramus.bsky.social @cognitionens.bsky.social @normalesup.bsky.social, Fernando Vidal et @theresecollins.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social

Demain ? Les neurosciences font l’objet d’un engouement médiatique et sont souvent perçues comme l’outil de réponse aux troubles de l’apprentissage. Comment ont-elles évolué vers une telle neuromanie ? Quelle est la portée réelle des résultats neuroscientifiques ? RDV à 16h sur @franceculture.fr !

I would like to have students make mind maps as part of the assessment in a #CogPsych class but I’ve never used them for teaching before. Anyone have tips or pointers to how to use them to pedagogical benefit?! 🙏🏼 #AcademicSky #ESR