A brief history of Open Mind 2013: Dick Aslin was disillusioned with Cognition (Elsevier). Nick Lindsay (MIT Press) wanted to create an open access cognitive science journal Nick contacted Dick, and Open Mind started. Editorial, February 2017, issue 1 of Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

The Rhythmic Embodied Perception Framework of breath, brain, and perception academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:

Human learning of noninvasive brain–computer interfaces via manifold geometry Erica L. Busch, E. Chandra Fincke, Guillaume Lajoie, Smita Krishnaswamy & Nicholas B. Turk-Browne www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mapping histamine pathway networks in the human brain across cognition and psychiatric disorders www.nature.com/articles/s44... Nature mental health

🚨 Student Job Alert @mpib-berlin.bsky.social 🚨 Join a Germany–Japan comparative project on war-site tourism and how tour guides co-create collective memory as "memory mediators." Starts Sept 2026. Apply by 30 June. See below for more details👇 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2369370/2026...

Predictive learning induces Bayesian cognitive maps in the hippocampus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.03.729991v1

We @saschafrolich.bsky.social @stefankiebel.bsky.social investigated how habitual- and goal-directed control interact when actions must be made under time pressure. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

My dog (profile pic) passed away just before. I set this as my google scholar's pic as well, so I want to make him a famous dog all over the world by publishing many impactful manuscripts.

This is the reason why I like (and dislike simultaneously) Japan, my home soil 🤓

authors.elsevier.com/c/1nA3C_KOmx... new paper in Neuron in which we argue that many claims on consciousness in AI & animals etc are inconsistent. they are driven by theories/views that are not really supported by empirical evidence. they confuse subjective experience w/ cognition or perception

Inside insight: decoding how insight emerges from competing world models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.21.726889v1

Error-driven representation learning in the mesolimbic system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.18.725950v1

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Real-time fMRI-triggered experience-sampling: a proof-of-concept study

Toward resolving normality-disorder boundary issues in gaming disorder research www.akjournals.com/view/journal...

Bidirectional modulation of pain by neurofeedback: Preliminary findings with fMRI at 7T https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.11.724199v1

How do response biases complicate the relationship between mental health and metacognition? Super excited this is out now in PNAS! Fortunate to work with @matanmazor.bsky.social and @ruvidar.bsky.social Check it out! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

A detailed investigation of Shared Variance Component Analysis as a tool to characterize neural dimensionality https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.30.721904v1

🚨 Does social media use show established neurocognitive signatures of addiction? Concerns about social media addiction are widespread, yet whether platforms' design features actually engage the same neurocognitive pathways as established addictions has remained untested. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Google DeepMind researchers have transformed classic psychological theories of attitude change into executable models using generative AI, simulating historical behavior patterns. This work clarifies theoretical ambiguities and highlights context's role. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19791

(1/4) Our paper just dropped in Translational Psychiatry! 🧠 Up to 50% of depression patients don't respond to standard meds, partly because depression isn't one thing. Two people with the same diagnosis can suffer differently, yet receive the same prescription. nature.com/articles/s41398-026-04040-3

Upregulation of reward mesolimbic activity and immune response to vaccination: a randomized controlled trial pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41555034/

osf.io/preprints/ps... A Computational Perspective on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Sounds like another smart and well thought through project from the lab of @benediktehinger.bsky.social Looking forward to checking it out at some point... :)

The US/Iran war and escalating rhetoric are already disrupting civilian life and academic infrastructure across the region. We drafted a letter in defense of academic life, and to mobilize concrete support for affected students, scholars, and collaborations. Please check Sepi’s message and sign.

Childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder traits, societal exclusion and midlife psychological distress www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The digital sphinx: Can a worm brain control a fly body? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.20.713233v1

An fMRI examination of the role of the Locus Coeruleus in state regulation in ADHD direct.mit.edu/imag/article... "Our results therefore support the notion of a general “underarousal” in ADHD" Leap of logic, no? There is no direct evidence between LC BOLD and arousal as long as I know

Scientific publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published Review of how the loss of impact factor affected submissions at eLife - uneven drop across countries, but generally holding up remarkably well and shows a new model is possible elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Is there a single "interoceptive sense"? Our new study in @commspsychol.nature.com says: probably not. In 241 participants, cardiac and respiratory interoception were completely uncorrelated — only subjective confidence was shared across domains. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #psychscisky 🧪

I’m excited to share my newest work with @benhayden.bsky.social, and the work I’m most proud of to date, on characterizing semantic coding in single-neuron hippocampal activity in patients with autism during natural language comprehension! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Arousal elicits a brain-wide hemodynamic wave independent of locus coeruleus noradrenergic tone www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Pupil Dynamics Reflect Uncertainty-Driven Adjustments of Probability Learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... A crowdsourced megastudy of 12 digital single-session interventions for depression in US adults

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

Modular functional brain network organization contributes to training-related changes in task switching in children www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Last week, for the first time in 20 years, a man died from a treatable snake bite on my home island of Martinique. He had asked chatGPT what to do instead of going the hospital. He missed the 6 hours treatable window.

It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

🎉 psp just hit 14K+ downloads! Our #rstats package for parameter space partitioning powered our work on g-distance, model comparison, irrationality, and heterogeneity: doi.org/10.1037/rev0... CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=psp

Slow breathing impacts inter-organ dynamics modulating brain function and risk behavior www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Yoga for Opioid Withdrawal and Autonomic Regulation A Randomized Clinical Trial

Neurobehavioural links from infant screen time to anxiety www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

Stimulant medications affect arousal and reward, not attention networks www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...