For all at @au.dk, our Writing Cafe is back from this Friday (5th Sept)! We offer a space for distraction-free writing and welcome new faces warmly. The magic of peer pressure, coffee & snacks = focused time. End the week on a good note: 1483, Room 312. interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

🧟‍♂️🚨 Publication alert! 🚨🧟‍♀️ Holy moly, I'm thrilled to announce our new paper in Emotion! We explored how recreational fear, physiological synchrony, and social closeness interact in a high-intensity haunted house setting. 1/5 🧵 Link: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Coming up June 16th, we have a very special event for postdoc-level researchers - all are welcome to join us! Sign up here: Play the GRANTED! Research Game and win 20,000 DKK for your interdisciplinary project. Networking, lunch, new research ideas interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

How do we build theory in cogsci? traditional physics w its rich data and experimental possibilities is often used as parangon. We argue historical sciences provide an equally rich source: "Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect": doi.org/10.1007/s421... 🧵 1/

Our daily lives are packed w complex behaviours: reading a novel & piecing together the plot; negotiating decisions w family... How do we build mathematical models of the underlying cognitive mechanisms? Our new preprint osf.io/d2v54_v1 argues for a community approach A 🧵 1/

It was such a pleasure to have you here and discuss how abstraction plays out in conversations! (interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...)

1/2 Coming up in June, @interacting-minds.bsky.social hosts a workshop for postdoc- level researchers. Play the GRANTED! Research Game and win 20,000 DKK for your interdisciplinary project. All welcome to join - we will place you into teams. Networking, lunch, new research ideas

Looking forward to Funda Yilmaz's talk tomorrow at IMC! @fundayilmaz.bsky.social

Tomorrow 6th May, we have Funda Yilmaz from @dondersinst.bsky.social giving a talk @interacting-minds.bsky.social, "An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency + the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art”. All welcome! interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

Minds in society: Learning and cognition applied Join us for this one-day interdisciplinary seminar with a stellar line-up incl Ophelia Deroy, Morten Nielsen, Christine Parsons, Ella Paldam, Marc Andersen! All are welcome, feel free to sign up! interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl... (1/2)

Next Tuesday Seminar at the IMC is by Funda Yilmaz from the Donders Institute! An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art Tuesday May 6th, 11am - all are welcome! interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

Now is the time to go write 📝 your application for this exciting postdoc position in our project exploring how the shift from animal to human-based research models shapes science and society 🔬🌍 Deadline Monday Apr 27 www.au.dk/om/stillinge... @interacting-minds.bsky.social

IMC Podcast Season 4 is out!☀️ The 1st episode starts with the peculiar problems that house crows in Tanzania have brought to the coastal area of East Africa🐦‍⬛ Kirsi Tilk is visited by Samwel Ntapanta from the IMC Postdoc training program - Check out the podcast here! interactingminds.au.dk/podcast

Join us today, starting soon (incl on zoom)!

Next Tuesday (Apr, 8 11am) we're happy to have Prof Robert Barton, Durham University, presenting his talk: Brains growing on the tree of life: the what, when, why & how of primate brain evolution Join us at the IMC or online - all are welcome! interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

Tomorrow - Tuesday 25th March 11am, we have an excellent talk lined up with Alejandrina Cristia, senior researcher at CNRS "Broadening giants' shoulders: Long-Form Recordings to Study Infants' Vocal Development and Speech Environments" All are welcome! Building 1483, 312 (Meeting Room).

Job opening at the IMC!!! - come work with @mettehoybye.bsky.social on this exciting new project. Application deadline is April 28, 2025

Looking forward to the PhD defence by IMC researcher and artist Helene Nymann from the EER project! Thesis title: "Memories of Sustainable Futures: Mnemonic Practices for the Intersubjective Spaces Between Artworks and Worlds" Open to all, 14 March, 1pm: interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

New paper out on #JointAction from Cordula Vesper & co - big congrats! Joint action partners modulate the first step of an action sequence to communicate a distal goal www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to join the Bsky community! As a starter post, will share a recent paper published with colleagues @janeenloehr.bsky.social, Cordula Vesper, @sinelabdtu.bsky.social, Simon L Kappel, @oleadrian.bsky.social, Peter Vuust, @perikeller.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/scan/article...

We're looking forward to the next IMC Research Meeting tomorrow - and discussing the projects of Yngwie Asbjørn Nielsen and Luke Ring 🧠🌱 interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

Dont forget you can join the writing cafe today (and every friday) - there's even snacks and coffee to keep the typing going! 👩‍💻🍫🍪☕️🧑‍💻 - reach out to @chrismmcox.bsky.social or @trupthi.bsky.social if you need to join online

One @interacting-minds.bsky.social initiative that I'm very proud of is our Friday writing cafe. If you're around @au.dk and want to experience the magic of co-writing, come along tomorrow at 10.00 - 14.00. There'll be snacks! Big thx to our organisers @chrismmcox.bsky.social @trupthi.bsky.social

Mind-wandering: when is it helpful, when is it not? Get the answer tomorrow!

Are the IMC Talks online? 📺 👀 Dont forget, many of our talks can be watched or re-watched online on youtube, from the comforts of your own couch 🍿 (200+ videos) Please enjoy! www.youtube.com/@Interacting...

Happening today - feel free to join in. All are welcome!

🎓 Come join us for a special lecture on Wed Feb 5th, 10-11am, with the one and only, Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social! We're really excited to hear Marieke's talk, “Mind-wandering: when is it helpful, when is it not?” 🧠 All are welcome - spread the word! interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

Next Tuesday, 11am Feb 4th, we welcome Nicola Simonetti, who will give a talk on "Speculative Temporalities: OCD and the Postcontemporary Time Complex" Coffee and lunch is on us, and everyone is welcome, as always! Details below - See you there! interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

A number of new papers came out in January, from a variety of research areas - big congrats to all! #thread #interdisciplinarity #seedfunding

Follow @interacting-minds.bsky.social for a view into an interdisciplinary research environment on - surprise - interacting minds and bodies. It brings in researchers from humanities and health research, from social and natural sciences. And listen to the podcasts, interactingminds.au.dk/podcast!

Meet our new research assistant, Sara Kjær Kristensen! Sara is from Cognitive Science and has already been around for a bit, working with the eSYMb project and with @christineparsons.bsky.social, but read more about her here - and do give her a warm welcome! interactingminds.au.dk/news/enkelt/...

Meet our new guest researcher - Eva Seerup! Eva is a physiotherapist and educational anthropologist, and will be working with @mettehoybye.bsky.social. Read about her work here interactingminds.au.dk/news/enkelt/... Please give her a warm welcome!

Why does Western paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often abbreviations? Our new #eSymb preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps... w Pagnotta, Psujek, Mendoza Straffon and Tylén ) challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices based on cogsci experiments. 1/

Hello all, We are thrilled to be here - and looking forward to seeing what you all are up to! - feel free to follow us for news on activities, opportunities, funding, talks, papers and podcasts. See you around 🌱 ❤️