How do hippocampal pathways contribute to learning regularities and exceptions? To answer this, Melisa Gumus & @drmack.bsky.social use diffusion imaging to identify the endpoints of different hippocampal pathways, and then analyze functional activity within those "footprints". Super innovative!

super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!! osf.io/preprints/ps...

A few days left to apply to join my lab as a PhD student! We study how people explore, how new ideas form, and how thinking develops. Learn more at liquinlab.github.io. Application review begins 1/15. #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogSci #DevPsyc

#ACNP2026 - Wednesday afternoon @biancaleonard.bsky.social will present a computational model-driven motivational conflict challenge that identifies novel, *opposing* influences of early-life unpredictability and anhedonia @mikeyassa.bsky.social @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social

SPAN just dropped their new mentorship program open to undergrads and grads! Apply with or without mentors! 🥳🥳🥳

presenting TODAY at #SfN2025 🧠 if you're curious about distinct structure learning & metacognitive dynamics across multiple statistical patterns & stimuli types, come check out my poster w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social 📈 📍PSTR363.17 / UU13 🕐 Tues Nov 18 1-5 PM www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

#SfN Poster 5 of 6 TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 1-5p @rochellekaper.bsky.social PSTR363.17 / UU13 Quantifying the emergence of metacognition in structure learning www.abstractsonline....

#SfN2025 Poster 4 of 6 TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 1-5p @hazimi.bsky.social PSTR363.09 / UU5 Modeling Prior-like Higher-Order Representations in DecNef with a Generative NERD Model www.abstractsonline....

gooood morning #SfN2025! i’m presenting this poster at board CC11 *today* from 8am-noon stop by to chat learning, memory, (perceptual) decision making, and normative modeling that bridges cross-species and cross-task findings 🧠🐒 w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social

#SfN2025 Poster 3 of 6 TODAY! Tuesday 11/18 8a-12p @khoudary.bsky.social PSTR291.11 / CC11 Precision-weighted integration explains dynamic effects of expectations on perceptual decisions, with @aaronbornstein.bsky.social www.abstractsonline....#SfN2025

Good morning from San Diego. Come see my poster (UU7) on splitting and merging latent states in non-Markovian environments, at #Sfn2025 right now !

me & my Theme K poster are finally at #SfN25! stop by board WW13 anytime between now & tomorrow evening to learn more about how philosophy can help navigate meta-scientific questions about models in neuroscience 🧠 w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social

Come see the lab's work at #SfN2025! (🧵) Featuring: @khoudary.bsky.social @biancaleonard.bsky.social @malejandra.bsky.social @jungsuy.bsky.social @dalezhou.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @sharonmnoh.bsky.social

Our group has SIX posters at SfN! 🧵👇 links below in thread:

Kath really exemplifies the type of thinking that makes our weird little department so unique and valuable — definitely give this a read!

I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.

Friends (and friends-of-friends) in LA: Please help spread the word! On Saturday, November 15th 2p, @mameister4.bsky.social and I will be in conversation at the Burbank Library discussing bottlenecks and next steps for brain research. It's free! Register here: burbank.libnet.info/event/14639190

🚨 New preprint 🚨 How do people's mental models shape memory, prediction, and generalization? We find that people spontaneously construct goal-dependent causal abstractions that compress experience to privilege relevant information. 📃 osf.io/preprints/ps... 🔗 github.com/cicl-stanfor...

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

“…for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as ‘data labeling.’”

A compressed code for memory discrimination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.12.681901v1

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

i always knew writing my dissertation was going to be tedious, intimidating, overwhelming, etc. but no one ever told me it was also going to be *fun* 😳

join the protest: YES! register for the protest: NO!

From student to 3-time TA, Shahrzad M. Esfahan’s journey shows how Neuromatch Academy opens doors to global science and community 🌍🧠✨ ➡️ Read her story: www.linkedin.com/posts/neurom... #MyNeuromatchStory #ComputationalNeuroscience #STEMEducation #Neuroscience #DeepLearning

personally i do not think human rights should be up for “debate” but what do i know, i’m emotional and biased because those are my rights they’re talking about

New opinion piece! @amirtal.bsky.social and I argue that "wake reactivation" is not a scientifically useful construct; It encompasses nonconscious & conscious processes w/ varying levels of elaboration & diverging consequences, leading to conflicting results authors.elsevier.com/a/1lgli4sIRvW-LQ

How much does the environment we’re raised in change how we see the world? Wonderful piece in @sciam.bsky.social by @norabradford.bsky.social, ft. an interview with @dorsaamir.bsky.social about our work on the 'cultural byproduct hypothesis'. www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...

Therefore: Please don't use LLMs as research participants. LLMs do not simulate human psychology. (11/12)

seriously 😭 pls keep posting your posters & papers, especially if you work on expectations in perceptual decision making 🤲

Are you planning to attend #CCN2025? Do you want to reflect on how to direct your skills and aptitudes to tackle today's most pressing social problems? Make sure you come to Amsterdam a day early to attend our satellite event on Science for Social Good. Register here: forms.gle/TFRCZYX2qfwD...

I’m looking forward to our symposium at @ispsm.bsky.social on Sat at 5:30pm CEST. Zoom in to catch me, @kenaizawa.bsky.social, @gualtiero.bsky.social, and @francesegan.bsky.social talk about realism in Neuroscience! 🧠 🥳

Sign a letter demanding that UC and the state of California refuse to appease the fascists any further: tinyurl.com/ucstandup

presenting today at #CogSci2025🚀 come check out my poster on how stress & state anxiety influence the representation of info needed for visual working memory & decision-making🧠! underline.io/events/489/p... 📍P2-K-92, Salon 8 🕐 Fri Aug 1, 10:30 AM

💫 Just out! A tour de force by my colleague @olivia.science, new paper 📝: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? 🧮 ⏰ 🧠 Keywords: AI; cognitive science; sociotechnical relationship; cognitive labour; ANN; technology; cognition; human-centred AI Link to the paper on arXiv: lnkd.in/e9nHGkMK 1/n

Detecting dementia earlier | With $4 million grant, UC Irvine cognitive scientist Aaron Bornstein seeks to develop inexpensive assessment of cognitive ability @ucirvine.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!!

check out this blogpost where I share some of the behind-the-scenes motivations for this new paper w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social & @aaronbornstein.bsky.social! v grateful to get to share how philosophy helped me move thru the "existemic" angst that is years 3-4 of a comp cog neuro phd 🥲 🧠 🖥️

Who doesn't like a good model of the brain? Yet, from simple regression to neural nets, some limitations keep popping up (e.g., overfitting) @mjwolff.bsky.social & I saw some cool but puzzling data, ran a quick analysis & found one such limitation: model mimicry. Now in #naturecommunications &🧵below

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

Nice write up on our recent work on memory and forgiveness, spearheaded by Gabriela Fernández Miranda, and in collaboration with Matt Stanley, Sam Murray and Leonard Faul. www.psypost.org/scientists-s...

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

“Those with the clearest view are the ones bearing the brunt of such attacks...’ICE sent the city of Los Angeles a message when its agents showed up in full force and in broad daylight, and that message was responded to in kind by the people.’”

Congratulations to Dr. Jungsun Yoo (@jungsuy.bsky.social) on her successful PhD defense! We're sad that her time with us is past, but excited to see how her future research trajectory unfolds working with @yaelniv.bsky.social and @nathanieldaw.bsky.social

super excited that the first paper from my PhD is now out! we develop a "philosophical toolkit" for computational cognitive modeling & use it to conceptually re-analyze a long-standing debate about evidence accumulation models of decision making 🧠📈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨🚨 Alarming NSF policy update By accepting an NSF award, an institution now must say it's: 1. Not engaging in boycotts of Israel (yes really) 2. Not advancing or promoting DEI in violation of anti-discrimination laws Announced via a footnote today: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/gc1-ma...

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."