Finally published: “Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... An information-theoretic framework to analyse complex multivariate dynamical processes ✨

“As AI tools become more capable, funding agencies and institutions may question why labs need dedicated computational staff. But these examples suggest the roles will become more important, not less”

📢Out now! @jixingli.bsky.social, @lamb-cityuhk.bsky.social and colleagues assess whether instruction tuning can enhance LLM's ability to capture linguistic information in the human brain. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #compneuro #ArtificialIntelligence

New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

How to compute surprisal (Shannon Information) for every word in your language sample. Then --- correlate surprisal with other major lexical-semantic variables (concreteness, semantic neighborhoods, freq). reilly-lab.github.io/Surprisal.html

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

My brilliant labmate, Keith Dodd, created this non-aggressive denoising pipeline for fMRI data for his dissertation! It has been super useful on some of our high-motion datasets, and I highly suggest folks check it out for their own studies 🧠📈🪲: direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

🔖 NEW PAPER ALERT 🔖 Out in PNAS – we used equation discovery algorithms to improve models of human reinforcement learning. Led by the wonderful Kyle Lafollette with an amazing team Yanni Yuval @roeyschurr.bsky.social and @d-melnikoff.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

If you want to read more about the nuts and bolts of our reward learning account of social learning—the Social Feature Learning (SFL) model—check out our recent @nathumbehav.nature.com paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our conversation analysis software is now on CRAN! Reach out with any questions. We hope it’s useful for all you language and social interaction folks out there.

"We propose a unified quantitative model that integrates decision-making and communication, revealing how verbal framing of probabilistic expression both reflects and shapes beliefs in speakers and listeners." Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our new paper is out in PNAS: "Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind"! Humans are the ultimate cooperators. We coordinate on a scale and scope no other species (nor AI) can match. What makes this possible? 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Optimistic people have functional MRI commonality of neural processing for imagining the future (whereas pessimists have a diverse pattern) www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

"We introduce Collaborative Rational Speech Act (CRSA), an information-theoretic (IT) extension of RSA that models multi-turn dialog by optimizing a gain function adapted from rate-distortion theory." arxiv.org/abs/2507.14063

Been really enjoying the Complexity Science Discussion Group hosted by Paul Middlebrooks, where we're working our way through the Santa Fe Institute's "Classic Papers in Complexity Science". The group is open for anyone interested: braininspired.co/complexity-g...

Major updates to our ConversationAlign R package - submitted to CRAN and JOSS today. If you're interested in computing alignment and main effects for >40 psycholinguistic dimensions in naturalistic conversation, this is the package for you reilly-conceptscognitionlab.github.io/Conversation...

Seamless Interaction dataset with 4000+ hrs of face-to-face dyadic interactions! 🤯 Seems like it could be a game changer for studying embodied turn-taking & mutual adaptation complementary with CANDOR, etc... arxiv.org/abs/2506.22554

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Check out our new TICS paper on disagreement and metacognition! We argue that disagreement drives metacognitive development by expanding children's consideration sets. With Antonia Langenhoff, Bill Thompson @wdt.bsky.social and Mahesh Srinivasan www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What a fantastic resource! Super valuable for those of us teaching experimental methods for undergrads (not to mention staying crystal clear on our own procedures) 👇

🧠 Paper out! We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that: 🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries 🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories! rdcu.be/eui9l

Does linguistic diversity when talking about emotions track wellbeing? In a new pre-print with @eriknook.bsky.social, we link emotion vocabularies to mental health in a large real-world psychotherapy dataset. Highlight: therapist emo vocab may help clients get better over time! shorturl.at/TKPN1

Highly recommend this superb forum article on genomics of human communication traits, free to read in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social. Beautifully succinct & accessible overview by @rosagisladottir.bsky.social on where the field is now & where it's heading. 🗣️💬🧠🧬🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Friends writing a paper you're going to cite for years is a cause for celebration! @elisabaek.bsky.social @rzhprfshr.bsky.social & @joebayer.bsky.social map how social connection is defined & measured, point to their false equivalencies + consider how media/constant connectivity changes things ♥️

If you fancy the idea that emotions are inferences we make together, have a read and fire back with critiques, questions, or priors of your own. arxiv.org/abs/2506.08599 #neuroskyence #hyperscanning

This! This the type of work that makes me so optimistic that the next 3 decades of brain research will be more impactful that the last for understanding/treating mental conditions. We finally have the right measurement tools & analyses (eg for emotion). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🔥New publication on dishonesty🔥 In a new collaborative paper (led by Shaul Shalvi), we review the key interdisciplinary frameworks on (dis)honesty & offer 66 open questions to guide future work 🔗(OA) doi.org/10.1016/bs.a...

Excited to share the DIMS Dashboard—a tool for displaying multimodal, extracted time series alongside the original video source! It’s designed to support and inspire a richer qualitative–quantitative research cycle. Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators and mentors who made this possible! 🙌

Strangers chatted once a week for 6 weeks and as they became closer, their self-reported emotions were *less* aligned after conversations. Fits with recent work (by @sebospeer.bsky.social @dianatamir.bsky.social et al) suggesting friends are free to explore and diverge

Top-down influences on the perception of emotional stimuli Review by Aprajita Mohanty, Jonathan Freeman & Jingwen Jin Web: go.nature.com/4cWj3p4 PDF: rdcu.be/ejIct #psychscisky #psychology

Our final round of blitz talks - first up @sebospeer.bsky.social examine how friends align and explore more ground during conversations

Happy to share a new preprint from my lab giving a way to break up fMRI searchlight maps into sub-networks! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroscience #fMRI #neuroimaging #methods #preprint 1/5

Today's the day! We're thrilled to share that Emily Falk's new book, "What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice & Change" is out now! Available here wwnorton.com/books/978132... & more. Happy reading! #psychology #neuroscience #communication #research #choice #change #book #emilyfalk #whatwevalue

Check out Emily’s essay, “How Small Talk Opens up Deeper Connections” in The Wall Street Journal! Sebastian Speer, Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, Lily Tsoi, Shannon Burns and Diana Tamir are also collaborators on the research behind this article. Check it out here: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

@upenn.edu communication professor Emily Falk at the @falklab.bsky.social & @asc.upenn.edu writes for the @wsj.com about how small talk can open up deeper connections. Gift link: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

📢 The Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab is hiring! 📢 We're seeking a full-time Research Specialist/Lab Manager to study naturalistic conversation, social cognition, and spontaneous thought. More info here: psnlab.princeton.edu/join-us Please apply and share!

Speer, S. P., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Tsoi, L., Burns, S. M., Falk, E. B., & Tamir, D. I. (2024). Hyperscanning shows friends explore and strangers converge in conversation. Nature Communications, 15(1), 7781. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please join us in congratulating the finalists for the 2025 SANS Innovation Award! These four finalists will be voted on by the attendees at the SANS conference in Chicago.

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

New exciting hyperscanning work by our team on linguistic coupling between neural systems. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL! Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025. Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social . 👇 Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!

📣 Absolutely elated to announce that in 2026, I’ll be joining Rutgers-Newark as TT Assistant Professor in the Dept of Psychology! Can’t wait to join this incredible community! 🤩 I’ve got some fun projects ahead as I wrap up my postdoc, but soon I’ll start recruiting at all levels so stay tuned. 1/3

A new Python toolbox called HSSM simplifies working with Hierarchical Sequential Sampling Models (HSSMs) to understand how we accumulate evidence and make choices. Built on PyMC, Bambi, & ArviZ. Check it out! #cognitivescience #python #decisionmaking edspace.american.edu/openbehavior...

Now published (Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews): "Relational neuroscience: Insights from hyperscanning research" We introduce #RelationalNeuroscience as a framework for research on inter-brain dynamics. We state that #hyperscanning is the prime methodology informing Relational Neuroscience.

Intracranial electrophysiological signals from human pairs engaged in a cooperation game show that teammate coordination and goal pursuit make distinct contributions to the behavioral cooperation dynamics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hang-Yee Chan is interested in what drives the liking of video advertisements. “Neural Signals of Video Advertisement Liking: Insights into Psychological Processes and Their Temporal Dynamics” was published in the Journal of Marketing Research. Give it a read! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Absolutely thrilled to be one of the authors on our latest paper about the "science of honesty"! 🎉 We dove into decades of research and highlighted some key areas for future studies. osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper! Led by Elena Kozakevitch-Arbel, with Simone Shamay-Tsoory, we used multi-dimensional reinforcement learning approach to examine whether people are sensitive to different dimensions of social scenarios during empathic interactions www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🧵