Last week we enjoyed an excellent #fNIRS workshop by @nirx-nirs.bsky.social and @artinis.bsky.social. Our lab now has a comprehensive set of tools for studying the physiology and neuroscience of human interaction. If you are looking for postdoc opportunities in social neuroscience, get in touch! 🧠

1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.

My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight. These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them. www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Our new study in Emotion! Parents report higher satisfaction yet lower daily happiness- the 'parenting paradox'. So in the transition to parenthood, how do we study well-being? We studied how new fathers adapt by examining meaning/purpose and brain connectivity. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Happy to share a new paper (w/ Biro, Huffmeijer, @hannelis.bsky.social, Bakermans-Kranenburg & @mhvij.bsky.social). We explored whether infants' brain responses and attention to their mother's facial expressions predicted infants' attachment security. 👶😀😠🧠 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper! Here (in Nature Communications) we (Ale Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriella Tina, & I; work led/run by Ale) show that 5-day-old newborns selectively attend to two distinct forms of prosocial over antisocial action: approaching versus avoiding and helping versus hindering. rdcu.be/evorW

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.

Are you interested in what to do with all that movement data you often get in your neuroscience measures? Is it just noise, or how can we make use of it? This December, we are organizing a workshop in Lübeck to discuss precisely these questions. (1/2)

The NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub is now available! •Researchers can explore ABCD & HBCD Study data in one place – with robust query & data analysis tools, documentation, & workflows •Learn more & apply for data access: www.nbdc-datahub.org @theabcdstudy.bsky.social

Suomen Akatemian suurilta tuntuvat myönnöt herättävät keskustelua. Saako tutkija tosiaan yli puoli miljoonaa veronmaksajien rahaa omaan taskuun? Miksei niillä rahoilla hoideta vanhuksia? Seuraa pitkä ketju siitä, mihin Akatemian myöntämä tutkimusrahoitus oikeasti menee ja miten raha kulkee. 1/9

new preprint - do you use #fnirs to study cognition? do you want to learn how to design better studies? our primer aims to get you started on using #fnirs for real-world #cognitive #neuroscience osf.io/preprints/ps...

Ketju vähemmän tunnettuista tilastoista Suomesta, vertailukohtana muut pohjoismaat.🧵 Aloitetaan verotuksen tasosta. Verotulot suhteessa BKT on Suomessa pohjoismaiden alhaisimmat. Tämä ei sisällä esim. eläkemaksuja ja muita sosiaalivakuutusmaksuja. 1/

Random self-promotion, but my hands-on #VisionScience textbook is available for <$50 at the moment! If you're excited about using analog demos of visual phenomena in your classroom, it's a great time to snag a copy! #STEMed

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#Attachment #MythBusting #29: Getting stuck in certain “brain or nervous system states” - especially in relation to #insecure #attachment and #trauma. 👉🏻 pvrticka.com/attachment-m... #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci #brain

My @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Fully funded for 2 years starting 01 October 2025. Application deadline is 01 June 2025. 👉🏻 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMX778/p... #fNIRS #hyperscanning #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci

Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits, & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Developmental Science is looking for new Associate Editors. Details are at lnkd.in/eDggC6WQ Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Join us! @health.nationalacademies.org is organizing a FREE virtual workshop May 19 and 21 on the neurobiology of empathy and compassion and their roles and applications in brain function, medical treatments, and human well-being. Register here: bit.ly/427yN4M

The question we ask: when do face responses arise in human infant cortex? Neuroscientists and developmental psychologists (my two disciplines) have different intuitions.

What they call pedants (people who can’t resist correcting you’re spelling and grammer) in five different countries…. 5. Comma fucker (Finland) 4. Little dot shitter (Switzerland) 3. Whittler of woodchips (Norway) 2. Counter of peas (Germany) 1. Sodomizer of flies (France)

Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government. Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea. eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...

Very excited to finally share this! In this new study with co-investigators @rogierk.bsky.social and Mara Cercignani, we are following 300 children longitudinally between 6 months and 5 years to establish the building blocks of cognition and their neural foundations. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New study on the brain topographies of perceived and felt emotions by Heini Saarimäki now out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social 🎉🧠

Issue 61, Volume 4 is now out for Developmental Psychology! psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES... Topics Include -Emotion Processes -Empathy across the Lifespan -Memory -Maltreatment & Victimization @apajournals.bsky.social 1/2

Tampere University offers support for preparing applications for the MSCA program. If you would like to do a postdoc in @hiplabtampere.bsky.social on social neuroscience in infants, children and adults (fNIRS, EEG, EMG, eyetracking etc.), please get in touch! #academicskye #neurosky

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Toddlers 🤝 President Jean Piaget

Is there a fetus-mother communication through their hearts? Our study in @expphysiol.bsky.social shows delayed, co-varying patterns in heart rate and rhythm, suggesting bilateral interactions. This dynamic intensified during labor, indicating ongoing co-regulatory mechanisms: doi.org/10.1113/EP09...

Tampere Institute for Advanced Study has a call open for 2-3-year fellowships. Get in touch if you fancy collaborating with us @hiplabtampere.bsky.social to study social information processing with EEG, fNIRS, EMG, eyetracking etc. 🧠 Links to calls on the IAS website 👇 research.tuni.fi/tampere-ias/

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

Now is your chance to apply to the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study and do a 2-year Postdoc or a 3-year Senior Fellowship with us! 🧠

Yhdysvalloissa on käynnissä tieteen alasajo. National Institute of Health, maan suurin biolääketieteen rahoittaja (yli 30mrd$/v) on romahduttanut maksettujen yleiskustannusten tason eilisestä alkaen. Tarkoittaa käytännössä miljardien ennakoimatonta leikkausta yliopistoilta ja tutkimuslaitoksilta.

Kiitos @juhalipponen.fi pioneerityöstäsi suomalaisen tieteen näkyvyyden edistämiseksi. Tänään Juhan listalla tutkimusryhmämme @hiplabtampere.bsky.social. Vielä Blueskysta puuttuu Tampereen yliopisto, muut Suomen yliopistot ovat tässä asiassa Tampereen edellä (ping @maunuannu.bsky.social).

Tampere Institute for Advanced Study has a call open for 2-3-year fellowships. Get in touch if you fancy collaborating with us @hiplabtampere.bsky.social to study social information processing with EEG, fNIRS, EMG, eyetracking etc. 🧠 Links to calls on the IAS website 👇 research.tuni.fi/tampere-ias/

In a few years, authors of meta-analyses and systematic reviews will have a hard time searching for literature from 2025 onwards as they need to consider all the ways that heated terms such as "women" or "socioeconomic status" might have been expressed in publications.

These keywords could show up in the text of ANY grant involving human participants. If you say you're going to study men and women, you get flagged. If you say you're going to control for socioeconomic status - totally standard practice - you get flagged. Disability? Flagged.

I am thrilled to announce that my @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social is now accepting attendance requests & abstract submissions for our 2025 #fNIRS #hyperscanning workshop (May 19-20) in collaboration with @artinis.bsky.social. Deadline 28 February. pvrticka.com/2025-soneat-...

Our department has just announced a new permanent associate professor position in developmental psychology, come join us at @uio.no! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We have two upcoming special issues at Developmental Psychology with open calls for letters of intent. Please do submit, as we are excited to continue providing leading and lively science in the pages of the journal. www.apa.org/pubs/journal... The two calls: 1/3 @apajournals.bsky.social

Excited to share a new paper! The development of emotion contagion- out in #DevSci We used the cool method of infra-red thermal imaging to examine #EmotionContagion in #infants using a #crosscultural sample from Uganda and UK @durhampsych.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A short thread on how small initial differences in genetically identical individuals (due to developmental variation) can get amplified over time to produce big differences in eventual phenotypes

👀 new paper alert! Over the last few years I have read & thought - a lot - too much!? - about whether/how neural synchrony (measured by #fNIRS) ⚙️mechanistically⚙️ supports child development. So E. Redcay and @rachelromeo.bsky.social and I wrote about what we know - and what we don’t. 🧠🔦 ⚡️ 🧠🔦 🧵 1/7

Here's a nice summary of our recent paper on fathers' empathy by @growkudos.bsky.social www.growkudos.com/publications...

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.

but meanwhile…. www.mdpi.com/about/announ... 😱

2/3 of my PhD done! 🥳✨️

New holiday reading from HIP Lab ❄️🎉

🎉New paper from @hiplabtampere.bsky.social out in Emotion. @hannelis.bsky.social measured viewing times to study whether new mothers and childless women differ in approach motivation to negative and positive infant emotions. Hormone levels were also assessed from saliva. doi.org/10.1037/emo0...

Are you interested in #neuroimaging & cognitive #neuroscience research on brain health in #football? We are looking for a PhD student/researcher to join our team to study the effects of cumulative head impacts on brain with #MEG & #MRI. Apply by 30th January! #brainhealth #subconcussive