Bernhard Pastötter
@pastotter.bsky.social
📤 1073
📥 468
📝 20
Scientific Manager at University of Technology Nuremberg
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
404 Media
15 days ago
NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.
loading . . .
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/
200
23937
7636
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Pooja K. Agarwal
about 1 month ago
I love free teaching resources (and I bet you do, too). I have more than 100 free downloads on my website. Download it all from my Google Drive!
loading . . .
Download Our Free Resources
In our 100+ free resources written by cognitive scientists, we condense research on teaching strategies, why they enhance learning, and how to implement them in the classroom.
https://retrievalpractice.org/library
0
2
1
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
DGPs - Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie
about 2 months ago
Die FG Allgemeine Psychologie lädt Mitglieder zur Einreichung von Anträgen ein. Im Rahmen dieser Initiative stärken wir den Austausch und die Zusammenarbeit innerhalb unserer Fachgruppe und fördern innovative Forschungsansätze 🔎 Weitere Informationen auf der Website
www.dgps.de/fachgruppen/...
0
4
3
In meiner letzten Statistik Vorlesung wurde ich heute ganz überraschend von den Studierenden und der Abteilung verabschiedet. Danke für die tolle gemeinsame Zeit! Ich nehme viele schöne Erinnerungen mit von der
@unitrier.bsky.social
.
about 2 months ago
1
8
0
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
DGPs - Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie
2 months ago
Warm invitation to our career workshop: writing DFG applications (Erstantrag/Eigene Stelle/Sachbeihilfe) When: Friday, Feb 27th 2026, 11am–2pm Where: Zoom A registration by February 20th is required, more information were sent out via the DGPs' mailing list. (The workshop will be held in German.)
1
1
1
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Margot Finn
2 months ago
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
loading . . .
AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review
If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ai-not-peer-so-it-cant-do-peer-review
6
366
176
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Rolf Zwaan
3 months ago
New post: replicating Loftus and Palmer at scale.
rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...
loading . . .
Memory, Misinformation, and Loftus and Palmer, Revisited
A few months ago, I floated a question in a post. Anita Eerland and I had applied for funding for a large-scale replication project. Early reviews of the proposal were very positive, but there was som...
https://rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-misinformation-and-loftus
1
19
11
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Sarah De Pue
3 months ago
Happy to share that our shared first-author paper with
@febedemeyer.bsky.social
is now published open access in
@jcgntn.bsky.social
🔗
bit.ly/4bt2D8Q
We developed and administered an open-source cognitive control test battery with often used tasks (
bit.ly/4ql9gyP
) in 247 students. Key insights in 🧵
1
13
8
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Eric Leung
3 months ago
still one of the best explanations of principal component analysis (pca), explained at different levels from layman to the more math inclined
stats.stackexchange.com/a/140579/132...
loading . . .
Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues
In today's pattern recognition class my professor talked about PCA, eigenvectors and eigenvalues. I understood the mathematics of it. If I'm asked to find eigenvalues etc. I'll do it correctly li...
https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/140579/132399
1
63
19
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Marius Boeltzig
3 months ago
Just kicked off the Kyiv Winter School of Memory 2026 with over 70 participants of different universities in Ukraine. So rewarding to see this slightly crazy idea become a reality. Thanks to
@linniplidot.bsky.social
and Karine Malysheva (National University of Kyiv) for organising this with me.
1
9
2
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
DGPs - Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie
4 months ago
Türchen 17/24 🧑🏻🍼 Heute stellen wir euch (ParenThesis) vor! Der Blog schafft Sichtbarkeit für die Probleme von Eltern in der Wissenschaft, stellt Lösungen vor und leistet damit einen hilfreichen Beitrag.
#karriere
#elterninderwissenschaft
#parenthesis
#blog
#worklifebalance
0
1
1
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
DGPs - Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie
4 months ago
Türchen 15/24 ✍️🌟 Heute startet die Anmeldung für die TeaP 2026! Bereits seit 1958 ist sie eine renommierte psychologische Forschungskonferenz. Damit auch weitere wichtige Termine nicht verpasst werden: einfach auf Instagram unter @dgps_fgal folgen
#teap
#psychologie
#konferenz
#forschung
0
2
2
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
adam osth
4 months ago
New paper in Psych Review on a model of false recognition in Deese-Roediger-McDermott DRM task. Not just recognition responses, but also associated RTs! And not just the semantic task, but also the structural task - where words overlap in orthography/phonology! A thread!
loading . . .
APA PsycNet
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-98750-001.html
1
30
14
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
DGPs - Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie
4 months ago
Türchen 4/24 🧑🎄 Heute möchten wir euch auf unsere Projekte, Programme und Angebote insbesondere zur Nachwuchsförderung aufmerksam machen. Hier der Link 🔗
www.dgps.de/fachgruppen/...
#nachwuchsförderung
#dgps
#psychologie
#angebote
#förderung
0
2
1
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
DGPs - Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie
4 months ago
Türchen 1/24 🕯️ Ursprünge der Psychologie Heute startet unser wissenschaftlicher Adventskalender! Freu dich auf interessante Forschungsergebnisse, Terminerinnerungen und Mini-Experimente! Folge uns (@dgps_fgal) auf Instagram, um nichts zu verpassen. Welche Themen würden dich interessieren?
loading . . .
0
3
2
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
DGPs - Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie
4 months ago
Looking forward to more inspiring sessions ahead! Next one on January 30th at noon, 12 pm, with Magdalena Abel, who will introduce her newly established chair at the UTN, the Technical University of Nuremberg. We hope many of you will join again.
0
3
1
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie
4 months ago
✨ Heute stellen wir unsere Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie vor! Sie erforscht Grundlagen wie Wahrnehmung, Denken & Gedächtnis ➡️ Fundament für viele psychologische Disziplinen. Die Fachgruppe ist auch auf Bluesky 👉
@dgps-fgal.bsky.social
sky.social
Mehr:
dgps.de/fachgruppen/allgemeine-psychologie
loading . . .
0
20
4
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie
5 months ago
🎉 Start unserer Vorstellungsreihe der DGPs-Fachgruppen! Den Anfang macht die FG Geschichte der Psychologie. Sie erforscht, wie psychologische Ideen, Institutionen & Praktiken entstanden – und warum das heute zählt. Seit 1988: Austausch & Nachwuchsförderung. Vernetzt Euch:
@dgpsgeschichte.bsky.social
loading . . .
0
15
5
New paper published: Having free choice over what to learn improves memory, even in the presence of distraction. Across two experiments, free choice selectively enhanced recognition for relevant, but not irrelevant items.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
loading . . .
The influence of free choice on recognition memory in the face of distraction
Recognition memory is typically better for items learned after a free choice (independent of study material) than after a forced choice. However, previous studies presented to-be-remembered items i...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09658211.2025.2551797
6 months ago
0
7
3
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
TeaP 2026
6 months ago
📢 The submission phase for talks & posters at
#TeaP2026
starts on October 27! 🎉 Submit your contribution by November 16:
coms.app/teap26/
👍🏼 Present in a symposium, mixed-topics session, early-career session, or poster session 😍
loading . . .
Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen 2026
https://coms.app/teap26/
0
6
6
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Gordon Feld
6 months ago
The official 2026 Psychology and Brain meeting website is now online! Save the date: June 4 – 6, 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany More information to follow shortly on the website. We already have some awesome keynotes lined up.
pug2026.org
@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
@igor-dgps.bsky.social
loading . . .
PUG2026 – PUG 2026: June 4–6, 2026, Heidelberg, Germany
https://pug2026.org/
0
45
22
Perception–Action Integration Is Linked to Posterior Alpha/Beta Desynchronization. Our EEG study out now and open access in
@jocn.bsky.social
.
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
loading . . .
Perception–Action Integration Is Linked to Posterior Alpha/Beta Desynchronization
Abstract. Stimulus–response (S-R) bindings, which integrate sensory stimuli and motor responses into event files, are transient yet essential for adaptive behavior. This study investigated the EEG osc...
https://direct.mit.edu/jocn/article/doi/10.1162/jocn.a.52/130959/Perception-Action-Integration-Is-Linked-to
6 months ago
0
8
3
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Brad Postle
6 months ago
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
loading . . .
Principles for proper peer review
https://doi.org/10.21428/8e6ba8ef.b519071a
0
20
7
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
PessoaBrain
6 months ago
Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
loading . . .
Why I left academia and neuroscience
Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.
https://mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left-academia-and-neuroscience
7
95
50
Das ICAN der
@unitrier.bsky.social
präsentiert EEG, fNIRS und vieles mehr interessierten Kindern und Erwachsenen beim City Campus in Trier. Besucht uns gerne!
7 months ago
0
6
2
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
TeaP 2026
7 months ago
📢 SAVE THE DATE for
#TeaP2026
in Tübingen 😍 Symposium submissions open on October 1! 🎉 For details, check out our website:
coms.app/teap26/
👍🏼
1
21
11
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Nature
7 months ago
It can take weeks to write a grant proposal, so how would it feel to have a machine reject it in seconds?
go.nature.com/42hLWrv
loading . . .
When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions
A Spanish foundation using an artificial-intelligence tool to screen grant applications says it makes the peer-review process more efficient, but other researchers say it’s a breakdown in trust.
https://go.nature.com/42hLWrv
2
29
10
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Maria Meier
8 months ago
The Young Scientist Retreat is the perfect event to get to know fellow PhD students and postdocs working in biopsychology and related fields. I highly recommend it! 👐
add a skeleton here at some point
0
1
1
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Dorothy Bishop
8 months ago
Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group.
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
#publishers
#retractions
2
106
61
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
8 months ago
The emergence of NeuroAI: bridging neuroscience and artificial intelligence — a Comment article by Sadra Sadeh & Claudia Clopath
@sdrsd.bsky.social
@clopathlab.bsky.social
#neuroscience
#neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
loading . . .
The emergence of NeuroAI: bridging neuroscience and artificial intelligence - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Neuroscience has inspired artificial intelligence (AI) for decades but, in recent years, AI tools have begun to revolutionize neuroscience research. The emerging field of NeuroAI has the potential to ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-025-00954-x?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social_&utm_campaign=nrn
0
32
8
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
tal boger
11 months ago
Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style? In
@nathumbehav.nature.com
,
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
& I take an experimental approach to style perception!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
2
81
32
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Ken Paller
8 months ago
After you fall asleep in the sleep lab, we can decide what you dream about — as Karen Konkoly showed in her PhD work and just published in this new paper: “Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences”
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...
6
74
16
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Brad Postle
8 months ago
2026
@jocn.bsky.social
Travel Fellowship
@jocn.bsky.social
and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend
www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti...
, to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
loading . . .
Annual Meeting - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster CNS 2026 Annual Meeting – March 7 – March 10, 2026 We invite you to join us at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2026 Annual Meeting, March...
https://www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeting/
1
21
23
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Mike Frank
9 months ago
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at
experimentology.io
- the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
9
535
243
🧠 Interested in EEG (and fNIRS) correlates of action control? Join our symposium and let's talk brains and bindings! 📅 Friday, 10:30–12:00
@pug2025.bsky.social
#PuG2025
10 months ago
0
5
3
Meta-analytic evidence for the complex mechanisms underlying congruency sequence effect:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
loading . . .
Meta-analytic evidence for the complex mechanisms underlying congruency sequence effect - Psychological Research
Introduction The congruency sequence effect (CSE) refers to a reduction in the congruency effect after incongruent trials compared to congruent trials in a conflict-inducing task. There is an ongoing ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-025-02093-5
10 months ago
0
3
0
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Sebastian Gluth
10 months ago
Job altert: Postdoc position (100%, 2 yrs) in our lab (
@cmdn-lab.bsky.social
) in context with the DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating (
www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/resea...
). We are looking for people with strong quantitative skills. Info and application via:
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
loading . . .
DFG Research Unit 5389
https://www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/research-unit.html
1
18
21
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Tobias Egner
10 months ago
New modeling paper, spearheaded by Raphael Geddert and Seth Madlon-Kay, now out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: "Modeling of control over task switching and cross-task interference supports a two-dimensional model of cognitive stability and flexibility". Free read link:
rdcu.be/epatc
0
26
15
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Mike Frank
11 months ago
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (
oecs.mit.edu
), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
10
414
191
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Dongyu Gong
11 months ago
First post on Bluesky! Check out our new paper (w/
@abclab.bsky.social
@brognition.bsky.social
) in Nature Communications
@natcomms.bsky.social
(featured in Editors' Highlights🌟)! We investigated how attention operates differently within WM and LTM:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(1/6)
1
14
7
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Paul Frankland
11 months ago
Sharing a new paper from the lab. This paper, led by Sangyoon Ko, represents a merging of two longstanding research themes in the lab-- adult neurogenesis and systems consolidation.
rdcu.be/el18q
A short thread follows for those interested. 1/n
loading . . .
Systems consolidation reorganizes hippocampal engram circuitry
Nature - A study shows that loss of memory precision associated with systems consolidation can be explained by neurogenesis-dependent reorganization of engram circuitry within the hippocampus over...
https://rdcu.be/el18q
15
220
103
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Sophie Herbst
11 months ago
Episode II of how are durations stored in working memory: Besides replicating our previous findings, we find that alpha power reflects a universal signature of WM load and mediates recall precision, even for abstract information like duration
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🔽 co-authors below
loading . . .
Alpha power indexes working memory load for durations
Timing, that is estimating, comparing, or remembering how long events last, requires the temporary storage of durations. How durations are stored in working memory is unknown, despite the widely held ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.12.653390v1
1
18
8
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Daniela Mier
11 months ago
Still time to apply! 🎉 (and to become a DGPA member, if you're not already)
add a skeleton here at some point
0
8
5
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Jennifer Gonzalez
12 months ago
How do we build more
#retrievalpractice
into our lessons? On the podcast, Dr. Pooja Agarwal (
@retrievelearn.bsky.social
), Dr. Janell Blunt, and Dr. Michelle Rivers share nine simple, easy, fun retrieval strategies that can be added to any lesson.
www.cultofpedagogy.com/retrieval-in...
loading . . .
Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers | Cult of Pedagogy
These nine strategies make it quick, fun, and easy to build retrieval practice into any lesson.
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/retrieval-in-action/
2
29
12
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
PCI Psychology
12 months ago
The PCI Psychology website is live!
psych.peercommunityin.org
We're working hard to be ready for launch (planned May 2025) but there's plenty you can do in the meantime to help it along. Go check it out!
#psychscisky
#scipub
loading . . .
PCI Psychology
Peer Community in Psychology
https://psych.peercommunityin.org/
0
43
37
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Saskia Seel
about 1 year ago
Happy and proud to announce that my meta-analysis was recently accepted for publication with Psychoneuroendocrinology! Still working on the proof reading, but we are getting there!
@unitrier.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
loading . . .
Experimental stress induction in children and adolescents with the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST): a systematic review and meta-analysis
The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) and its variations for children and adolescents are among the most frequently used laboratory stressors. A previou…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453025001775
0
2
2
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Psychologie & Gehirn 2025
about 1 year ago
One week left to submit individual contributions for this year's 50th Psychology and Brain (PuG) conference in Würzburg. We look forward to receiving abstract submissions for accepted symposia as well as poster contributions
www.pug2025.org
loading . . .
PuG2025 | Psychologie und Gehirn
Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the 50th Annual Conference on “Psychology and the Brain (PuG2025),” held from June 18–21, 2025, at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg!
https://www.pug2025.org/
0
13
13
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Earl K. Miller
about 1 year ago
It's all motor cortex. Robust encoding of stimulus–response mapping by neurons in visual cortex
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#neuroscience
loading . . .
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2408079122
3
29
5
reposted by
Bernhard Pastötter
Thorsten Pachur
about 1 year ago
Congratulations to
@linushof.bsky.social
from our lab
@tum.de
for being the runner-up at this year’s
#teap2025
poster competition! His research shows that people search adaptively in decisions from experience.
0
14
5
Load more
feeds!
log in