Finally had a chance to read this study on conceptual alignment in human communication. Using a clever repeated reference game, it provides quantitative evidence that interaction drives people to converge on a shared, generalizable conceptual space: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05566 @rdhawkins.bsky.social

30 years since this happened (28 since I wrote about it). I still recall that wonderful tree and the generosity of my patient in her final illness. www.bmj.com/content/315/...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Dalin Yang, Adam T. Eggebrecht, et al: Mapping brain function underlying naturalistic motor observation and imitation using high-density diffuse optical tomography doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Had the opportunity to present our #fNIRS hyperscanning study @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @saradefelice.bsky.social at #ICON2025 in the Social And Embodied Language Learning Symposium. Felt small in the huge auditorium but the room was filled w/ inspiring questions!

Don't underestimate the effect of the arts—music, dance, visual, gardening, crafts, theater—for promoting health, a systematic review @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What an utterly delightful, inspiring and downright ace two days it has been hosting the Zurich Neuroscience Center-sponsored Social Connection workshop at @ethz.ch‘s glorious Villa Hatt! 🤩 SO much brilliant research & discussion shared while we socially connected over great food and stellar views!

I'm so excited to finally share work that’s been a couple of years in the making! See our new paper on *social interactions in #autism*, co-authored with Isabel Dziobek, @antoniahamilton.bsky.social & @thaliawheatley.bsky.social in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social 🎉 www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out our new paper on communicative intentions in social interactions! Sending emojis 😀/😐/😠 to a virtual agent modulated mimicry and evaluation of a facial expression received in response! doi.org/10.1111/psyp... @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @therealspr.bsky.social

Had a great time presenting our #fNIRS study w/ @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @saradefelice.bsky.social @ #ESCOP2025!🧠 Grateful for the thought-provoking discussions that keep inspiring our work. A fantastic conference ending on a high note in beautiful Peak District ⛰️

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky We all know: humans are very social animals But this study helps to quantify that premise. (even things we "know" to be true need to be shown to be empirically true) People prefer doing almost ALL activities with others (vs alone). journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Looking fwd to our neural synchrony symposium today - & especially learning more from @pvrticka.bsky.social on synchrony in #fNIRS. For a preview check out an excellent 2025 review led by @saradefelice.bsky.social - join us 3pm in Hyde 1. 🧠 ⚡️ 🧠 #flux2025 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

⚠️JOB ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️ Postdoctoral Position in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (Marseille) in collaboration with @alainbarrat.bsky.social. Join us to study higher-order brain interactions in causal learning using information theory and network science. More info www.fens.org/careers/job-...

We just published a new paper from our NeuroSync dataset in Infancy. Led by @aimeetheyer.bsky.social. We looked at brain function in caregivers and infants during joint and continued attention periods, and links to infant visual short-term/working memory. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper! Excellent work by @bignardi.bsky.social and @minafazeloxford.bsky.social, who leads the Oxwell study The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England Out soon. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢 Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia. 🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io 🚨closes September 12th!

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

It’s not just what you read—it’s whether you chose to read it. In our new paper out at QJEP 🎉 we show that: 👉 Having a choice over what you read makes reading more enjoyable 👉 …and makes people willing to pay more for books

Congratulations to Flo Martinez-Addiego and ‪@striemamit.bsky.social‬ for the publication of a cool new paper in PNAS showing that high-level actions like tool use generalize between hand and foot, even in individuals born without hands. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"autistic and non-autistic people did not differ in their ability to share information with others of the same neurotype" but "this study did not find the expected breakdown in information transmission in mixed-neurotype interactions" journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... three-site UK & US study, free

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Read it and weep / swear / etc. Tables of the bottom and top 40 occupations with "highest AI applicability score" from a pre-print Microsoft paper. arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 "Heart rate synchrony in minimal social interactions in relation to mimicry" 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... 🔬 We tested whether two distinct forms of mimicry: motor mimicry (copying actions) and choice mimicry (copying choices) can modulate heart rate synchrony.

No empirical support for 'Double Empathy' hypothesis from preregistered study: doi.org/10.1038/s415... "We hypothesized that information transfer would deteriorate faster and rapport would be lower in mixed-neurotype compared with single-neurotype chains." But no difference was found.

How do our brains and bodies support social learning in real time? We take an ecological and multimodal neuroscience approach to study mutual prediction and social coordination when learning with others. It took 5 full years for this one! Full open-access pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...

You get about 100 million breaths. So does every other animal big or small. Don't waste them. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🧠 Call for Participation: Social Dynamics 2025 🗓️ 20-21 November 2025 📍Utrecht University, The Netherlands 🔗 socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl ft @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @escross.bsky.social @suzannedikker.bsky.social @milicanikolic.bsky.social, @dcrafa.bsky.social + many more

Facial muscle activity can shape how we recognize emotions. Using electrical stimulation and EEG, the study found that activation of smiling muscles makes people more likely to see neutral faces as happy. @themisefth.bsky.social @sebkorb.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This! 👉 Inter-Brain Neural Dynamics in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning

We are looking for a Postdoc who loves fMRI, psychophysiology and data analysis 🎉. We run studies on social cognition and related processes with a focus on schizophrenia. German skills could be beneficial, bc the position involves teaching, but not mandatory. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...

Delighted to attend #ebbs2025 and share new work from @saradefelice.bsky.social and @paulawicher.bsky.social

I didn't know that this post about cats' sleeping positions was based on a new study published in Current Biology: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... What I loved about this short piece is that it comes w/ this cute animated video abstract. I'd love to see more such fun video abstracts for scientific papers!

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Paula Wicher, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, et al: How choice and motor mimicry affect affiliation: An fNIRS study doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

If you are in the process of designing a #fNIRS study to investigate cognition and want a list of dos and don'ts, have a look at our primer. Pre-print available here: osf.io/preprints/ps... @islalj.bsky.social @chiarabulgarelli.bsky.social @paola182.bsky.social @antoniahamilton.bsky.social

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...

Wow, I’ve just found a Bluesky channel that lets you see only posts with links to scientific papers and get a feed that focuses on the science discussions around them. This is transformative!

Excited to announce I'll be giving a workshop on creating Bayesian models of social transmission at @royalholloway.bsky.social Centre for Decision Sciences Summer School taking place from Sept 8-12th (center-decision-sciences.com/cds-summer-s...)

Congratulations to Prof @antoniahamilton.bsky.social, Prof @benlauderdale.bsky.social and Prof Jo Cook, who are among the 281 academics who have been awarded a prestigious @erc.europa.eu grants to support their research. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

Hello Bluesky! 👋 I’m a human cognitive neuroscientist and final-year PhD candidate at UCL, supervised by Prof. Hugo Spiers and Prof. Antonia Hamilton, using fNIRS, fMRI, and behavioural data to explore why we get lost and how our brains help us know where others are in space. 🧠✨

How do we make friends? 🤝 ERC Advanced grant recipient @antoniahamilton.bsky.social and her team at @ucl.ac.uk‬ will study how synchrony & shared tasks can help us bond and improve our well-being. Find out more👉 buff.ly/R6abUn2 #ERCAdG #FrontierResearch #SyncShareBondModel #Neuroscience

Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain? @andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This afternoon @antoniahamilton.bsky.social is talking about imitation and #autism and brain pathways. #EDAI2025

Really happy to receive my first paperback copy of Coming Of Age 🎉 I wrote this book to examine the emotional power of the adolescent years – I explore why adolescents behave the way they do, but also about why events from those years continue to affect who we are, even many years later 1/

On 24th June, we are hosting a 1 day event on Social Connections at UCL - come along to hear the latest research on wearable sensors and friendship and measuring social interaction. Please share widely palslanguagelab.wixsite.com/socialconnec...

Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫 A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology. Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW

EEG of the Dancing Brain - new paper out! 🧠🕺 Thrilled to share our latest work on disentangling the neural basis of real-time social dance!! www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2... A full @giacomonovembre.bsky.social NPA Lab production 🎬 #dance #socialinteraction #hyperscanning #motioncapture

🎇It's #PubDay for THE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (6e)!🎇 This is the latest edition of the most venerated institution in social psychology, dating back to 1954. Fifty definitive chapters, over 8,000 manuscript pages. (The TOC appears below.) And: IT'S 100% OPEN-ACCESS: www.the-HSP.com.🧵

Looking for a PhD position in psychology/neuroscience? Here's one - open to all, anywhere in the world. Please circulate. #phd #psychology #neuroscience #psychiatry #fnirs