Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
@nataliepeluso.com
PhD candidate in social cognition using naturalistic faces across the lifespan. Former successful opera singer, now I study faces instead of making really strange ones while singing really loud. Also @brisepsi.bsky.social
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Do Naturalistic Emotional Facial Expressions Catch Our Eye Like Posed Ones?
We know that people tend to notice emotional faces—like smiling or angry expressions—more quickly than neutral ones. But most research showing this uses “posed” faces: actors in a lab deliberately sho...
link.growkudos.com
Do naturalistic emotional facial expressions catch our eye like posed ones? 👀😀😠😐
This was my first, first author paper which was published in Emotion - Kudos have done a wonderful job of helping spread the world to a wider audience! #faces #affectsci 🧵1/ (Pls share!)
link.growkudos.com/1dybshxtam8
This was my first, first author paper which was published in Emotion - Kudos have done a wonderful job of helping spread the world to a wider audience! #faces #affectsci 🧵1/ (Pls share!)
link.growkudos.com/1dybshxtam8
Respiration Shapes the Neural Dynamics of Successful Remembering in Humans
Journal of Neuroscience January 2026
#interoception #neuroskyence
www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...
Journal of Neuroscience January 2026
#interoception #neuroskyence
www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...
Respiration Shapes the Neural Dynamics of Successful Remembering in Humans
Respiration has been shown to impact memory retrieval, yet the neural dynamics underlying this effect remain unclear. Here, we investigated how respiration shapes both behavioral and neural expression...
www.jneurosci.org
February 17, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Respiration Shapes the Neural Dynamics of Successful Remembering in Humans
Journal of Neuroscience January 2026
#interoception #neuroskyence
www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...
Journal of Neuroscience January 2026
#interoception #neuroskyence
www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...
Reposted by Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
Correlates of interpersonal physiological synchrony and sources of empirical heterogeneity
Review by Ilanit Gordon & Ronny P. Bartsch
Web: go.nature.com/4qCff1l
PDF: rdcu.be/e4pSE
#psychscisky #socialpsych
Review by Ilanit Gordon & Ronny P. Bartsch
Web: go.nature.com/4qCff1l
PDF: rdcu.be/e4pSE
#psychscisky #socialpsych
February 17, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Correlates of interpersonal physiological synchrony and sources of empirical heterogeneity
Review by Ilanit Gordon & Ronny P. Bartsch
Web: go.nature.com/4qCff1l
PDF: rdcu.be/e4pSE
#psychscisky #socialpsych
Review by Ilanit Gordon & Ronny P. Bartsch
Web: go.nature.com/4qCff1l
PDF: rdcu.be/e4pSE
#psychscisky #socialpsych
A wonderful thread defending philosophy's influence on (among other fields) cognitive #neuroscience - love this image in particular
Looking forward to reading the paper! @neuroai.bsky.social
Looking forward to reading the paper! @neuroai.bsky.social
I close with Kuribayashi’s For Trees 2015. He sealed cut-up pieces of a tree in glass boxes, but each box turned into an evolving ecology. Likewise, interdisciplinary mastery can observe plural abstractions as bounded ecologies, rather than a single map of reality that replaces the territory.
15/n
15/n
February 17, 2026 at 8:17 PM
A wonderful thread defending philosophy's influence on (among other fields) cognitive #neuroscience - love this image in particular
Looking forward to reading the paper! @neuroai.bsky.social
Looking forward to reading the paper! @neuroai.bsky.social
Reposted by Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium reflecting on the current state of experimental psychology and its future trajectory.
Please see below for information on how to submit a proposal!
eps.ac.uk/eps-80th-ann...
Please see below for information on how to submit a proposal!
eps.ac.uk/eps-80th-ann...
EPS 80th Anniversary Symposium – Call for Proposals
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium that reflects on the current state of experimental psychology and its fu…
eps.ac.uk
February 17, 2026 at 11:27 AM
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Experimental Psychology Society, we invite proposals for a special anniversary symposium reflecting on the current state of experimental psychology and its future trajectory.
Please see below for information on how to submit a proposal!
eps.ac.uk/eps-80th-ann...
Please see below for information on how to submit a proposal!
eps.ac.uk/eps-80th-ann...
Reposted by Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
New MemLab publication led by Will Duckett finds that only trial-by-trial measures reveal links between subjectively experienced vividness and objective memory accuracy in younger and older adults, and people with aphantasia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 17, 2026 at 9:59 AM
New MemLab publication led by Will Duckett finds that only trial-by-trial measures reveal links between subjectively experienced vividness and objective memory accuracy in younger and older adults, and people with aphantasia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Correcting for Unequal Variance in Signal Detection Models Using Response Time @hakwan.bsky.social
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Correcting for Unequal Variance in Signal Detection Models Using Response Time
This study examines signal detection theory (SDT) analysis of perceptual detection
performance using response time (RT) data. A defining feature of detection tasks is
the asymmetry between trials with...
www.cell.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Correcting for Unequal Variance in Signal Detection Models Using Response Time @hakwan.bsky.social
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Reposted by Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
Brains learn structure without reward, instruction, or feedback — a process called statistical learning.
Human infants do this effortlessly (famous work by Saffran et al 1996), but how does the brain implement it?
2/7
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Human infants do this effortlessly (famous work by Saffran et al 1996), but how does the brain implement it?
2/7
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants
Learners rely on a combination of experience-independent and experience-dependent mechanisms to extract information from the environment. Language acquisition involves both types of mechanisms, but mo...
www.science.org
February 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Brains learn structure without reward, instruction, or feedback — a process called statistical learning.
Human infants do this effortlessly (famous work by Saffran et al 1996), but how does the brain implement it?
2/7
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Human infants do this effortlessly (famous work by Saffran et al 1996), but how does the brain implement it?
2/7
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
I'm writing a book. Every working day begins with me rewriting what I wrote the day before, and the day before that. If your reaction to that is "AI could save you that trouble," I know you're not a writer. Computer programs can't sleep on it, can't dream an idea, can't suddenly realize something.
February 16, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I'm writing a book. Every working day begins with me rewriting what I wrote the day before, and the day before that. If your reaction to that is "AI could save you that trouble," I know you're not a writer. Computer programs can't sleep on it, can't dream an idea, can't suddenly realize something.
Facial gestures are enacted through a cortical hierarchy of dynamic and stable codes | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroskyence
#neuroskyence
Facial gestures are enacted through a cortical hierarchy of dynamic and stable codes
Facial gestures are one fundamental set of communicative behaviors in primates, generated through the dynamic arrangement of many fine muscles. Anatomy shows that facial muscles are under direct contr...
www.science.org
February 16, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Facial gestures are enacted through a cortical hierarchy of dynamic and stable codes | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroskyence
#neuroskyence
Introducing @brisepsi.bsky.social - we're an experimental psychology initiative run by grad students in Brisbane (Meanjin) across UQ & QUT 🧠
We host a monthly dose of freshly baked research (students, ECRs, & bigwigs) followed by social goodness. Help us grow with a follow! 🤗 #neuroskyence
We host a monthly dose of freshly baked research (students, ECRs, & bigwigs) followed by social goodness. Help us grow with a follow! 🤗 #neuroskyence
February 16, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Introducing @brisepsi.bsky.social - we're an experimental psychology initiative run by grad students in Brisbane (Meanjin) across UQ & QUT 🧠
We host a monthly dose of freshly baked research (students, ECRs, & bigwigs) followed by social goodness. Help us grow with a follow! 🤗 #neuroskyence
We host a monthly dose of freshly baked research (students, ECRs, & bigwigs) followed by social goodness. Help us grow with a follow! 🤗 #neuroskyence
Reposted by Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
Very impressive visual reasoning benchmark. They found that most models still fall below the capacities of a 3-year-old
unipat.ai/blog/BabyVis...
unipat.ai/blog/BabyVis...
BabyVision: Visual Reasoning Beyond Language
State-of-the-art MLLMs achieve PhD-level language reasoning but struggle with visual tasks that 3-year-olds solve effortlessly. We introduce BabyVision, a benchmark revealing the infancy of AI vision.
unipat.ai
February 15, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Very impressive visual reasoning benchmark. They found that most models still fall below the capacities of a 3-year-old
unipat.ai/blog/BabyVis...
unipat.ai/blog/BabyVis...
My singing teacher once said 'always, always choose roles you can sing with your capital, not your interest.'
If you throw everything you've got into a role? Then you also risk losing everything when the pressure is high (which is when mistakes are made)
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
If you throw everything you've got into a role? Then you also risk losing everything when the pressure is high (which is when mistakes are made)
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
Anatomy of an upset: how Ilia Malinin lost Olympic figure skating gold
The Quad God entered the Olympic free skate in control. Seven minutes later, early errors and scoring reality produced one of skating’s most shocking finishes
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:24 AM
My singing teacher once said 'always, always choose roles you can sing with your capital, not your interest.'
If you throw everything you've got into a role? Then you also risk losing everything when the pressure is high (which is when mistakes are made)
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
If you throw everything you've got into a role? Then you also risk losing everything when the pressure is high (which is when mistakes are made)
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
Reposted by Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
"UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin"
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin
UK and partners are today exposing the tragic circumstances surrounding Alexei Navalny's death and have confirmed there was poison found in samples from his body.
www.gov.uk
February 14, 2026 at 9:44 PM
"UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin"
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Interoceptive predictors of daily functioning in aging and their interaction with exteroceptive bodily representations 🧠🫀
New work led by @fraferri.bsky.social #interoception
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
New work led by @fraferri.bsky.social #interoception
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | Interoceptive predictors of daily functioning in aging and their interaction with exteroceptive bodily representations
Aging leads to progressive changes in bodily functions that affect cognition and everyday life. Older adults often experience difficulties in daily functioni...
www.frontiersin.org
February 14, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Interoceptive predictors of daily functioning in aging and their interaction with exteroceptive bodily representations 🧠🫀
New work led by @fraferri.bsky.social #interoception
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
New work led by @fraferri.bsky.social #interoception
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
I'm not sure waiting until 2026 to finally watch "Children of Men" was the right thing honestly (it's set in 2027!)
February 13, 2026 at 8:58 PM
I'm not sure waiting until 2026 to finally watch "Children of Men" was the right thing honestly (it's set in 2027!)
Watching Yourself Talk: Motor Experience Sharpens Sensitivity to Gesture-Speech Asynchrony
Tiziana Vercillo, Judith Holler, Uta Noppeney
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Tiziana Vercillo, Judith Holler, Uta Noppeney
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
February 13, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Watching Yourself Talk: Motor Experience Sharpens Sensitivity to Gesture-Speech Asynchrony
Tiziana Vercillo, Judith Holler, Uta Noppeney
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Tiziana Vercillo, Judith Holler, Uta Noppeney
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Reposted by Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
Pleased to share this newly co-authored expert opinion on the Polyvagal Theory (PVT): www.clinicalneuropsychiatry.org/download/why...
WHY THE POLYVAGAL THEORY IS UNTENABLE. An international expert evaluation of the polyvagal theory and commentary upon Porges, S.W. (2025). Polyvagal theory: current status, clinical applications, and ...
by Paul Grossman, Gareth L. Ackland, Andrew M. Allen, Gary G. Berntson, Lindsea C. Booth, Gordon M. Burghardt, Julie Buron, Vladimir Dinets, J. Sean Doody, Mathias Dutschmann, David G.S. Farmer, James...
www.clinicalneuropsychiatry.org
February 12, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Pleased to share this newly co-authored expert opinion on the Polyvagal Theory (PVT): www.clinicalneuropsychiatry.org/download/why...
Just walked past a ringing public telephone in the city and now I'm worried I missed my chance to be the main character
February 12, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Just walked past a ringing public telephone in the city and now I'm worried I missed my chance to be the main character
Reposted by Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
"The academic structure … makes planning for a family feel like an impossible luxury."
In this #ScienceWorkingLife, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. https://scim.ag/46uBWgD #WomenInScienceDay
In this #ScienceWorkingLife, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. https://scim.ag/46uBWgD #WomenInScienceDay
February 11, 2026 at 8:06 PM
"The academic structure … makes planning for a family feel like an impossible luxury."
In this #ScienceWorkingLife, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. https://scim.ag/46uBWgD #WomenInScienceDay
In this #ScienceWorkingLife, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. https://scim.ag/46uBWgD #WomenInScienceDay
Reposted by Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
PhD opportunity in "The role of neural development in multimodal intelligence" with me, @marcusghosh.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social. Read details below 👇.
Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27).
🤖🧠🧪
www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-co...
Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27).
🤖🧠🧪
www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-co...
PhD opportunities
The School of Convergence Science at Imperial College London is inviting applications for fully funded PhD studentships on research projects that sup...
www.imperial.ac.uk
February 11, 2026 at 6:41 PM
PhD opportunity in "The role of neural development in multimodal intelligence" with me, @marcusghosh.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social. Read details below 👇.
Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27).
🤖🧠🧪
www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-co...
Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27).
🤖🧠🧪
www.imperial.ac.uk/school-of-co...
Reposted by Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
Mental health is shaping survival after heart disease—yet we rarely treat it that way. A new meta-analysis of 22 million people links PTSD, anxiety, depression & insomnia with higher risk of acute coronary syndrome. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Mental health is shaping survival after heart disease—yet we rarely treat it that way. A new meta-analysis of 22 million people links PTSD, anxiety, depression & insomnia with higher risk of acute coronary syndrome. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Some people really need to get out more. Listen to unfamiliar music, taste something new, try a weird hobby, read that book. We're here on this planet to learn and the only way to learn is to experience the unknown! Scared people don't evolve
February 10, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Some people really need to get out more. Listen to unfamiliar music, taste something new, try a weird hobby, read that book. We're here on this planet to learn and the only way to learn is to experience the unknown! Scared people don't evolve
Fantastic PhD opportunity for domestic Australian students looking for a PhD supervisor - highly recommend the Sunshine Coast too! 👇🌞 Please share
Anyone want to do a PhD with me at the Sunny Coast? I'm recruiting, and I wanna do some fun psychophysics (but the possibilities for the PhD are very broad). Domestic students only, sadly.
In case y'all happen to know someone:
@nataliepeluso.com
@reubenrideaux.bsky.social
@visnerd.bsky.social
In case y'all happen to know someone:
@nataliepeluso.com
@reubenrideaux.bsky.social
@visnerd.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Fantastic PhD opportunity for domestic Australian students looking for a PhD supervisor - highly recommend the Sunshine Coast too! 👇🌞 Please share
Reposted by Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠
"Babies can categorise objects better at two months than previously known." - Professor Rhodri Cusack from Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and co-author of the research speaks to NewsTalk. Listen to the interview:
ow.ly/MqA650Y8ZbB
@rhodricusack.bsky.social @trinityneuro.bsky.social
ow.ly/MqA650Y8ZbB
@rhodricusack.bsky.social @trinityneuro.bsky.social
Babies can categorise objects better at two months than previously known | Newstalk
Babies as young as two-months-old can categorise objects in their brains, which is far younger th...
ow.ly
February 9, 2026 at 10:56 AM
"Babies can categorise objects better at two months than previously known." - Professor Rhodri Cusack from Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and co-author of the research speaks to NewsTalk. Listen to the interview:
ow.ly/MqA650Y8ZbB
@rhodricusack.bsky.social @trinityneuro.bsky.social
ow.ly/MqA650Y8ZbB
@rhodricusack.bsky.social @trinityneuro.bsky.social
Toward a Fuller Integration of Respiratory Rhythms Into Research on Infant Vocal and Motor Development
From @susfuchs.bsky.social Elina Rubertus, Laura L. Koenig, Aude Noiray
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
From @susfuchs.bsky.social Elina Rubertus, Laura L. Koenig, Aude Noiray
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
NYAS Publications
From birth, respiration constitutes an intrinsic rhythm. We suggest that vocalizations and bodily movements are interactively coordinated with this respiratory rhythm, providing a temporal framework ...
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Toward a Fuller Integration of Respiratory Rhythms Into Research on Infant Vocal and Motor Development
From @susfuchs.bsky.social Elina Rubertus, Laura L. Koenig, Aude Noiray
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
From @susfuchs.bsky.social Elina Rubertus, Laura L. Koenig, Aude Noiray
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...