The real problem isn’t p-values, it’s the epistemology behind them. Science shouldn’t depend on arbitrary thresholds that change with context. Knowledge should accumulate, not collapse into yes/no verdicts. Turning continuous evidence into discrete “significance” decisions is information loss

📢 Deadline extended! 📢 The registration deadline for #SNS2025 has been extended to Sunday, September 28th! Register here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/reg... PS: Students of the GTC (Graduate Training Center for Neuroscience) in Tübingen can earn 1 CP for presenting a poster! 👀

Are top-down feedback connections enough for robust vision? We found ConvRNN with top-down feedback exhibiting OOD robustness only when trained with dropout, revealing a dual mechanism for robust sensory coding with @marco-d.bsky.social, Karl Friston, Giovanni Pezzulo & @siegellab.bsky.social 🧵👇

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🔵 Proud and honoured to share a project I had the chance to contribute to. It’s been a long journey of research and collaboration, exploring how humans and deep neural networks perform in sound localization 👂📍 Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧠⏱️ New preprint! We found that temporal prediction errors are more strongly encoded when an overt response is required, and this encoding occurs in motor rather than sensory space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇

Honored to receive the ✨HIH Paper of the Year Award✨ for our work on predictive learning published in @natcomms.nature.com last year! Huge thanks to @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social and all collaborators — this recognition means a lot! 🙏 Check out the paper here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Word learning is usually about what a word does refer to. But can toddlers learn from what it doesn’t? Our new Cognition paper shows 20-month-olds use negative evidence to infer novel word meanings, reshaping theories of language development. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🤩New preprint out! 🎉 We explore the neural signatures of predictive coding during the acquisition of incidental sensory associations. Huge thanks to @agreco.bsky.social for leading this work!

The European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning is coming to Tübingen! 🌸

🙌 Hot off the presses @natcomms.nature.com! We created a custom #Minecraft environment to study a long-standing puzzle in cognitive science: How do humans flexibly adapt their individual and social learning strategies in dynamic, realistic situations? Check it out 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

🧠 What happens in the brain when we turn ideas into stories, and what makes a story truly creative? Our latest study explores the neural mechanisms supporting semantic control during narrative ideation. #fMRI + #LLMs Out in Communications Biology @commsbio.bsky.social A thread 👇

My latest installment of brain state modeling in creativity is out @ Psychophysiology! We found generating novel metaphors is associated with widespread alpha-band synchronization early on in ideation and, paradoxically, alpha-desynch right before response. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the A.M. Turing Award for developing the theoretical foundations of reinforcement learning, a key method behind many major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. 🧵

🚨 New Preprint!! LLMs trained on next-word prediction (NWP) show high alignment with brain recordings. But what drives this alignment—linguistic structure or world knowledge? And how does this alignment evolve during training? Our new paper explores these questions. 👇🧵

Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cognitive psych is often traced back to the 1950s. Psychology is often traced to Wundt's lab in 1879. Textbooks speak of "proto-psychologists" like Fechner & Helmholtz in the 1800s... Westerners all. Have you heard about Ibn al-Haytham, whose work predated them by 100s of years? 1/4

How do spatiotemporal patterns of brain activity evolve from childhood to adulthood? 🧠✨ Find in the latest from @tingsterx.bsky.social and ⭐coauthors 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My prediction is that in 30-50 years, not a single neuroscientist will study the brain in terms of "regions". These will be the last localizationist-driven decades 🔮 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our new study! Can visual hallucinations in virtual reality shape high-level cognitive processes? 🧠🍄👾 Check out our article to find out more! 🚀

We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️‍🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...

“Women leave or consider leaving [faculty positions] because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How critically or favorably do we cite ourselves? How favorably do we cite collaborators? Do high h-index scholars cite more critically than low h-index scholars? Are some disciplines (or countries) more critical than others? Why? Check out our new manuscript: arxiv.org/abs/2411.09675

Happy New Year🎉 Thrilled to start 2025 with $1M from @cziscience.bsky.social @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social to study the maternal brain using AI! Grateful for the chance to advance science for mothers worldwide 🧠 @emilyjacobs.bsky.social @susanacarmona.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social

Our new paper! "Analytic theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models" lead expertly by @masonkamb.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292 Our closed-form theory needs no training, is mechanistically interpretable & accurately predicts diffusion model outputs with high median r^2~0.9

If you are teaching an introduction to statistics course this spring and are looking for a fun way to illustrate p-values to your students, I've found this to be effective for undergrad crowds. #statistics #education #pvalues

Why #Probability Probably Doesn’t Exist (but It’s Useful to Act like It Does) | "Any numerical probability... is not an objective property of the world, but a construction based on personal or collective judgements and (often doubtful) assumptions." www.nature.com/artic...#Probability #statistics

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

Huge news! 🚨 @agreco.bsky.social 's #STST framework has hit Nature Computational Science! 🧠🚀 A groundbreaking way to study how brains and machines process dynamic visual stimuli—creative, elegant, and game-changing. P.S. So proud I had to bake it into a muffin. 🧁 For the article👇

Interesting paper by @jaanaru.bsky.social on human vs AI creativity. Argues while both can produce similar creative products, the internal processes are very different - from neural architecture to the role of conscious experience.

How similar are artificial and human creativity? What is the effect of artificial creativity on our creativity? In a new paper, I approach these questions through the lens of neuroscience and consciousness research and make some observations🔍 #psychscisky #neuroAI #consci arxiv.org/abs/2412.04366

After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro

Excited about this new paper in Elife where we show for the first time resting state patterns contain information about a participants states (e.g. their thoughts) as well as traits (e.g. personality). Led by the awesome @hardigirl.bsky.social postdoc in THINC Lab elifesciences.org/articles/93689

The "LLM World of Words" (n=12,000 cue words) finds humans generate more unique word associations than Llama3, Mistral, or Haiku. Semantic networks of LLMs overlap to varying degrees with humans and show similar semantic priming effects. arxiv.org/abs/2412.01330

Good news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! @graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool.skewed.de Graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N #networkscience

Our work on inductive biases in reinforcement learning is out: tinyurl.com/yfc74e3u By the fantastic @noahedrich.bsky.social Ppl learn faster from slowly changing features; we argue this reflects an inductive bias. Teamwork w @ericschulz.bsky.social & S HallMcMaster #neuroskyence #compneuro

Happy to share our review on OFC/vmPFC representations in Trends in Neurosciences, written with @nirmoneta.bsky.social and Shany Grossman www.cell.com/trends/neuro... Very short thread below to summarize our review #neuroscience #neuroskyence #compneurosky #PsychSciSky

I’m excited to share our new, open-access paper published today in NatMentHealth, “Latent mechanisms of language disorganization relate to specific dimensions of psychopathology”. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

It's that time again to update the lab's psycholinguistic database page. Lmk if you have any suggestions for stuff I've missed or sections to add (NLP, aphasia, discourse). Any suggestions for improving this hub would be most appreciated. www.reilly-coglab.com/data

Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7

Unifying prefrontal sequence memory with hippocampal maps The authors "develop a mathematical theory relating the algorithms and representations of episodic memory and working memory by unveiling a duality between storing memories in synapses versus neural activity". www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Calling all scientist moms! 👩‍🔬✨ Let’s connect, share, and inspire!🫰 From cracking theories to crafting creative ways to convince toddlers to eat broccoli—your stories matter. Drop a comment if you'd like to connect! 🌟💡

A women-led team of 20, working remotely, is showing up a trillion dollar megacorp. Truly inspiring.

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Okay the people requested one so here is an attempt at a Computational Cognitive Science starter pack -- with apologies to everyone I've missed! LMK if there's anyone I should add! go.bsky.app/KDTg6pv

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Hello Blueskies! #ComplexityThoughts will come out w/ Issue #48 on Friday For the newcomers: it's my 100% free blog about #ComplexSystems 👉 manlius.substack.com It comes w/ a beautiful non-technical podcast: open.spotify.com/show/2lxHtog... Join us if you love #Complexity 🧪 🧠🧬🦠🧫🐠🌪️ #AcademicSky

🚨 New article 🚨 Analyzing over 1,000,000 sampling decisions, @spektor.bsky.social and I show how people are adaptive explorers who reduce multiple types of uncertainty and leverage prior expectations and meta-knowledge about their decision environment. Open access article: lnkd.in/dWdSvQSq

Do babies pretrain? www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Here’s my women in AI starter pack, to help bring some diversity to your feed go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg