My new piece "Reproducibility: how to strengthen a weak foundation" is out today @nature.com! 🎉 How reproducible is research in the social & behavioural sciences? A new study by Miske et al. assessed 600 papers across 62 journals: the results are sobering. 📄 doi.org/10.1038/d415... 📄 rdcu.be/fbcq5

We have a new PhD position at the University of Zurich to work on visual working memory. For more info see here: www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec...

Optogenetics induces aphantasia and hyperphantasia in mice I am thrilled to announce my latest study, providing objective neural evidence for imagery extremes – in mice! 🐁 Read the paper here: tinyurl.com/ycxnkka7 <----👀 A thread 🧵 1/N

🥁🎉The Psychosis Collective proudly presents our first preprint 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐳𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬-𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝘈 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 starring Le He & Harriet Feldman www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We wanted to understand how antipsychotics work. Thread🧵

How does the #brain support #perception of #duration? @valeriacentanino.bsky.social @gianfrancof.bsky.social @dbueti.bsky.social show that parietal, premotor & caudal SMA encode distinct durations, while frontal regions encode categorical, mean‑centered durations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4sObgRu

Visual #workingmemory peeps, you're going to love this. This is super challenging - might give you pause on how we are measuring color memory... My color memory is a 40.4/50. Please do worse so I feel better. dialed.gg?c=3PCHDE

I want more programming like this @alisongopnik.bsky.social, a researcher, and Ted Chiang, a science fiction writer, sharing ideas and imagining together Produced by @casbsstanford.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 Great paper discussing the challenges of understanding brain representations and the models-brain correspondence #neuroskyence t.co/9l1VU6Pox1

New preprint out! We show that the exposome and attention-related brain networks jointly predict attention problems in early adolescence—highlighting how environment and brain function have shared and unique associations with reported attention problems. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Open Research Europe is an open-access journal launched by @erc.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu. This looks *very promising*. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu #science #europe #ERC

New preprint with Chris Nolan and Kelly Garner in which we develop a new metric - transition entropy - that can be used to measure the extent to which behaviour in cognitive tasks is based on a routine. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

This is a major milestone for our Meditation Research Program, and a notable development for the field of contemplative science, and particularly the subfield of the science of advanced meditation. ⤵️

Bayesians: does anyone (@solomonkurz.bsky.social maybe?) have a good resource for how to set priors for beginners? Such as what kind of information in past papers you can use to inform your choices? I found this but any resources welcome! svmiller.com/blog/2021/02...

ICYMI, our new paper: Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom www.nature.com/articles/s41...

These beautiful creatures are conscious in a way that AI systems, however smart, will never be ! Our arguments here : arxiv.org/abs/2601.21016 With the fab @erikjbekkers.bsky.social

free video for intro lectures on auditory perception

Delighted to share our new paper on schizophrenia-related stigma. We argue that explanatory models grounded in predictive processing may offer advantages over classical neurobiological illness models in understanding psychosis — and may even help reduce stigma. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking for a #PhD or #postdoc position on predictive processing? 🧠 Please, get in touch if you are the perfect fit to join my lab at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Our latest results on bioRxiv! Our EEG study shows that human brain activity consecutively supports both Bayesian integration and prediction‑error signalling. Plot twist: prediction‑error signalling appears to be consistent with the Reverse Hierarchy Theory! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How spatial configuration shapes memory and cognitive load: A behavioural and EEG study of simultaneous spatial and associative memory www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper in PNAS! When the mind wanders, it often drifts to the body. We call this "body-wandering". These thoughts are often negative, but are associated with reduced ADHD & depression symptoms, driven by a distinct interoceptive-allostatic brain signature. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520822123

Happy to report that our survey study on the diversity with which people seem to experience their mental imagery is now published in RSOS :) doi.org/10.1098/rsos... I posted a longer thread summarising the findings some months ago when we first put out the preprint: bsky.app/profile/samp...

Honored to be named an APS Rising Star and to be on this list with so many fantastic scientists. Deeply grateful to my mentors, collaborators, and students over the years! ⭐

Science peeps! Excited to share first of two preprints just uploaded. This one concerns a person who hears sounds when she moves her eyes! We could actually record these sounds and verify they were connected to eye movements 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out this new cross-journal special Collection on Visual Imagery at Nature Communications, Communications Psychology and Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/collections/...! Get submitting! @natcomms.nature.com, @commspsychol.nature.com

📅 Early bird registration for European Conference on Visual Perception closes 7 April. Join the vision science community in Bournemouth this August and secure your place at a reduced rate. 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecvp-2026-... #ECVP2026 #VisionScience

Wait… localized norepinephrine transients in the awake visual cortex?! Who would have guessed this neuromodulatory signal is that spatially precise, right where visual processing is happening. Brain state control just got a lot more local. @ruedigersarah.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

🎉 Excited to share our publication in PNAS! 🎉 What happens when our stream of consciousness turns towards the body? Our fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience? Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as events become familiar. Slow-timescale structure predicts memory. Excited to share this work w/ Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

Exciting to see this lifting off :) open.substack.com/pub/theconsc...

ICYMI at #CNS2026, we have a new mentorship program! Learn more and sign up NOW to be a mentee or mentor: www.cogneurosociety.org/new-cns-ment... #neuroscience

a while ago, I made this feed for neuroscience/cognitive science summer schools. after some tuning, it generally manages to find cool events. 🙂 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Proud of this one, led by former lab student Ali Caron (not on bluesky) and online at @jocn.bsky.social. direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

🚨 New paper from our lab: "Immersive NREM2 dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure." More on the determinants of dream content coming soon.

Perceived #sleep depth is generally thought to reflect reduced brain activity. @giuliobernardi.bsky.social &co show this relationship weakens during #dreaming, suggesting that dreaming helps sustain the subjective experience of deep sleep @spacelabimt.bsky.social @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4v8OxkH

New paper (first from my PhD!) out in Visual Cognition ✨ @tandfresearch.bsky.social With the wonderful Sage Boettcher @dynacog-lab.bsky.social & Kia Nobre @brognition.bsky.social We ask how temporal expectations can help us find targets in dynamic, cluttered environments when location is unknown.

***Please forward to interested colleagues*** The call for symposia (deadline 15 April) and abstracts (deadline 1 May) for Biomag 2026 in Beijing (23-25 Aug) is now open: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn

How do humans adapt their behavior in natural, uncertain environments? Open PhD position in the collaborative DFG Excellence Cluster “The Adaptive Mind” (theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de) Apply: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...

Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

Join us, if you will, for the MIT Consciousness Club. Tomorrow, March 19th at noon. "Linking Past and Present Worlds in the Visual Control of Behaviour" Melvyn Goodale (Department of Psychology, Western University) Zoom link here: sites.google.com/view/mit-con... #neuroscience

We believe visual neuroscience is undergoing a paradigm shift — and the Beyond Binding exchange in @TrendsCogSci makes it visible. Five papers, excellent critics, and a discussion that sharpened and nuanced our argument. Thread 👇

For now, I don't think the functional architecture of visual language models is telling us much about human vision www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Look to the right, and you can have the impression that all the red dots are drifting upward. Look to the left, and you find this contingency is reversed. This illusion is described as Steady-state misbinding of colour and motion. It seems to demonstrate an error prone visual binding process

Some great tips here on making Google work for you rather than serve up stuff tailored to existing biases and sponsored links: open.substack.com/pub/cardcata....

"AI" is not a stochastic parrot.🦜 I wrote this piece a couple weeks ago, but it was hard for me to finish up given AI's role in society and war over the past few weeks. I should share it at some point though. Not perfect, but here it is. medium.com/@margarmitch...

Psypost published an article on our schizophrenia study 🤩 @paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky www.psypost.org/altered-sens...

The 6x US memory champion – Nelson Dellis – can memorize a deck of cards in 40 seconds and knows the first 10K digits of pi. To figure out how, he let us peak inside his brain. Here is what we learned in our precision brain mapping study www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... youtube.com/shorts/MryMq...

Really neat work by Fountas and colleagues at UCL: arxiv.org/abs/2603.04688 They propose that consolidation reflects a form of "predictive forgetting" that aids generalization.

How does the brain build a memory? A common assumption is that the neurons activated during an experience collectively form the memory engram. In our new Nature Neuroscience paper (finally out!), we show that this is not the case. www.nature.com/articles/s41...