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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jun 10

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

Plato's Cave allegory, illustrated. the shadows on the cave wall are captioned "increasingly insane and extreme positions", the prisoners labeled "internet users", the figures holding the shadow's shapes labeled "algorithms", the fire labeled "random internet users expressing their idiosyncratic beliefs". the space above the cave is labeled "literally just outside" and the philosopher freed from the chains of the physical world labeled "guy who logs off"

Davide Gheza @davideghez.bsky.social · Apr 13

James Swanson, one of the earliest researcher who promoted amphetamines in the 90’, in this piece by @nytimes.com on a.d.h.d. and stimulants. “there is no long-term effect. The only long-term effect that I know of has been the suppression of growth.“

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/m...

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Davide Gheza @davideghez.bsky.social · Jan 22

However, these results are contingent on whether the task features can be decoded. Activity-silent, or 'bursts' of proactive processes sprinkled in the ITI and not time-locked to the stimulus, may not appear with our method. Therefore, the proactive unicorn is still galloping even in our task.

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Davide Gheza @davideghez.bsky.social · Jan 22

I'll plug this in: we run the Multi task with EEG and, adapting Kikumoto's decoding+RSA method, we can see a change in distractors' coding compatible with the distractor-specific adaptation reported in our recent NHB. This 'looks' like reactive, given it shows up 500ms post-stimulus.

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · Jan 13

we've seen goal gradient like effects emerge in cognitive effort tasks but how does attention to goal progress ?

a new study from our lab, by Sean Devine and others, uses eyetracking to answer this question

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Increased attention towards progress information near a goal state - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

A growing body of evidence across psychology suggests that (cognitive) effort exertion increases in proximity to a goal state. For instance, previous work has shown that participants respond more quic...

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · Jan 2

Striatal stimulation enhances cognitive control and evidence processing in rodents and humans
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroscience

Striatal stimulation enhances cognitive control and evidence processing in rodents and humans

Developing an animal model of human brain stimulation therapy reveals that striatal DBS enhances the brain’s ability to process conflicting evidence.

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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · Jan 7

Three new CDML publications to start off 2025!

First up: research on multidimensional control from @davideghez.bsky.social in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social! Across three behavioral experiments and with computational modeling, Davide shows that people adapt control in a distractor-specific fashion.

Distractor-specific control adaptation in multidimensional environments - Nature Human Behaviour

Gheza and Kool show that, in multidimensional environments, people allocate attention to individual distractors on the basis of their interference with the current task. They develop a neural model th...

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Davide Gheza @davideghez.bsky.social · Jan 6

This is awesome! Congratulations!!

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David Barack @dlbarack.bsky.social · Jan 5

We've got an excellent line-up in both philosophy and neuroscience for our first conference! Submit your abstracts by Feb 1 and join us in St. Louis in early May!

SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · Jan 5

😎 SPAN2025 Keynotes, invited symposia speakers, and sponsored symposia just dropped! Take a look at who will be at SPAN2025 and then submit your abstract so you can be there too!

More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for all the details: philandneuro.com

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Davide Gheza @davideghez.bsky.social · Jan 6

It's out!
Our work on multi-dimensional control adaptation landed on @naturehumbehav.bsky.social
Free access to the full text here: rdcu.be/d5pt1

Big shout-out to @wouterkool.bsky.social for sharing the venture and for setting the bar that high in mentorship!

For a quick recap, linked thread

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Roselyne Chauvin @roselynechauvin.bsky.social · Nov 27

Great conversations with @ndosenbach.bsky.social while preparing this Nature News & Views on the new Kang et al. Ready to have the same with everyone here. Thoughts? What other practice should be investigated to help BWAS reproducibility?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Design tips for reproducible studies linking the brain to behaviour

Sampling schemes for reproducible brain-wide association studies.

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Yael @yaelniv.bsky.social · Nov 27

Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages.

Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter

Open letter of psychologists and neuroscientists for peace in the Middle East

We, psychologists and neuroscientists from around the world, call the international community to urgently put pressure towards an immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, to demand that t...

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Namnezia 🥑 @namnezia.bsky.social · Nov 20

Do you teach neuroscience? Here’s a list I’ve compiled of mostly free online neuroscience textbooks, simulations and datasets you can use for your course! If I’m missing something, let me know so I can add it! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Free Neuroscience Textbooks and Online Tutorials

Free Neuroscience Textbooks and Online Tutorials (Compiled by Carlos Aizenman, Brown University, Dept. of Neuroscience) Maintaining a current list of digital educational resources is tricky. Softwar...

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Davide Gheza @davideghez.bsky.social · Nov 13

#psynom24 is coming up. On Fri 22nd I will be talking about cognitive control with multiple distractors, including ↓
Hold your amphibians!

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Nov 13

Some resources i've curated for the cognitive and computational neuroscience communities on bluesky! First, a twin set of starter packs. go.bsky.app/2n84SRM

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Julia Haaf @juliaha.bsky.social · Nov 8

The *registration* for this year's satellite meeting of the Society of Mathematical Psychology at Psychonomics in New York City will *close Sunday, November 10!* If you plan to attend, register by Sunday for free on the meeting website: mathpsych.org/conference/17/

Society for Mathematical Psychology

Online conferences, news, membership functions, and information about the Society

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