I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵

Trying to read while people talk nearby? Our new eye-tracking study shows that irrelevant speech increases rereading for low-frequency and semantically unpredictable words, despite little evidence for disruption during initial lexical processing. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

People in the AI world seem to adore the System 1/2 dichotomy. I love this quote from Gerd Gigerenzer about the concept:

New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...

We're happy to release NeuralSet: a simple, fast, scalable package for Neuro-AI Supports: 🧠 fMRI, EEG, MEG, iEEG, spikes… preprocessing 💬 text 🔊 audio ▶️ video 🏞️ image… embeddings 📦 pip install neuralset 🔍 facebookresearch.github.io/neuroai/neur... 📄 kingjr.github.io/files/neural... 🧵 Details👇

Reminder! The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) hosts summaries of what we know vs don't about a host of fascinating issues. All freely available. What a terrific alternative to doomscrolling: learning about (e.g.) The Mind-Body problem, Delusion, or Free Will. oecs.mit.edu

👀 looks like the core Stan folks are pretty bullish on Jax as the software of choice for fitting Bayesian models bob-carpenter.github.io/dj-paper/

#BIDS has been extended to #EyeTracking data! There is now a standard for organizing and sharing eye tracking, covering gaze position, pupil size, meta data, messages, and more. Great news for #OpenScience! 🎉 Martin Szinte et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Do you want to measure pupil size while participants move their eyes around 👀? We offer a straightforward solution to gaze-induced distortions on pupil size measurements in our newest paper!

The recording of Mel Goodale's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kThw....

Excited to see this work out! We show that attention can rapidly learn to ignore salient distractions within 1-2 exposures. Interestingly, this learned suppression is highly contingent on an initial instance of capture! More to come! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @yuezhang-mu.bsky.social

Are you interested in detecting brain changes in individuals with higher precision over shorter intervals? Check out our new paper in Nature Communications. With Randy Buckner, @jingnandu.bsky.social, and others. Link - doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Want to learn R? 📊 Join our NSF-funded "R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience Workshop"! This virtual workshop is completely free and teaches junior scientists the basics of coding for data analysis. Apply by May 15th! rworkshop.missouri.edu #RStats #Psychology #Neuroscience

New paper alert! 🚨 We independently evaluated the Pupil Neon mobile eye-tracker against the Eyelink 1000 Plus across 10 oculomotor tasks. Good: It hits ~1.45° accuracy and is incredibly stable over time without calibration. Bad: It cannot detect microsaccades. OA: doi.org/10.1525/coll... 🧵👇

Here is the "effective payline" for each institute, estimated (by Claude) as the percentile where one can expect 80% probability of funding from a logistic regression fit. The effective payline has gone from a historic ~12% to 6% in 2025.

Every psych department has its quirks but the elevator is currently broken in all of them.

Ever wondered how the Dalmatian Dog effect works? The human brain can quickly learn from a single experience and generalize it to related experiences — an impressive feat so far not matched by AI. Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com reveals how this works. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After 20 years as psychology's golden child, ego depletion collapsed. Now it's back...with a catch. The secret? Make people work for 30-40 minutes instead of 5. In other words, we finally discovered fatigue. New post on the redemption tour.

The OPAM conference is looking for new organizers, and senior grads and postdocs are eligible. Please share and post widely! This was one of the best things I ever did for my career, and as a service, and I cannot recommend it enough. Deadline 3/1/26; questions to me or [email protected].

Are you interested in adding Bayesian analyses to your next project so you can finally start interpreting your null results? Then join us tomorrow where Dr. Johnny van Doorn from @jaspstats.bsky.social will give a workshop how easy Bayesian stats can be using JASP! Sign up below!

Opportunities and Challenges in Precision Neurotherapeutics www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #neuroscience

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...

Meta-analysis: After correcting for publication bias, there is no effect of “social norm messaging” nudges on health behavior We need theories that explain *why* these interventions don’t work www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

We present a new Python library for processing eye movement and pupil data, compatible with Eyelink, Tobii, and generic eye trackers. Check out its features below! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝 Google search interest shows a stable pattern: 🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve 🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier #MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁 📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024) #dataviz #ggplot2

I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 New Publication Alert! Our study on cognitive control in healthy aging is finally out (for early access) in Communications Medicine bit.ly/48tkF9g We administered a comprehensive cognitive control test battery in 231 older adults (different cohorts) and 75 young adults 🧠 Key insights in 🧵(1/4)

The next installment of our NSF-funded OPAM workshop series will feature Dr Jason Tsukahara (of the University of Miami) presenting his workshop on researching individual differences (on December 9th). Visit the website (opamconference.com) to register for the free Zoom session.

Thoughtful review with some good recent historical perspective on the ongoing paradigm shift that is radically changing the way we think about what brain areas do. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

trained my first CNN today. am I an AI researcher now? 😂

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...

We used a brain "pinging" again and found that distractor suppression is reactive rather than proactive, meaning attention is first drawn to the distractor before being suppressed.

A recent redesign of OSF by @cos.io led to widespread access failures. What began as a few broken download links became for me a total disappearance of eight years of DOI-registered work. What happened, how was it resolved, and what it reveals about trust and infrastructure in open science

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Imagine your car knows how you feel! 🚗 Using one of the largest naturalistic driving datasets to date (N = 2658), we examined how everyday driving patterns are associated with general well-being and specific health domains. 🧵 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Big day for autonomous driving research. Nvidia just dropped 1700 hours of public driving data on HuggingFace from over 2500 cities: huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...

Excited to announce a new special issue on Passive Sensing for behavior in psychopathology at JoPaCS led by Dan Fulford and Nick Jacobson Check out their overview paper here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

I am accepting a Ph.D. student to begin Fall 2026. The position would be part of the Cognition and Neuroscience program at Mizzou. Great opportunities to learn eye tracking and ERPs. Ideal candidates will have some background in attentional capture and visual search. If interested, please email me!

Friendly reminder that the Object Perception, Attention, and Memory conference has a new "Lunch with an Expert” initiative where you can be paired with an expert and have the chance to ask them questions while enjoying a free lunch! Register (and please share!): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Someone quenched the magnet

🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨 We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health. We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach. With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social Thread ⬇️

JEP: General; Psych Science; Nature Human Behaviour

Interested in why/how to preregister your studies? Then join us online (10am EST) for our next OPAM workshop where @carohautekiet.bsky.social will answer all your questions! And be sure to "preregister" your attendance on our website! (where the zoom link will be provided)

We are looking for our next colleague. Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions!