Nora Newcombe
@noranewcombe.bsky.social
Cognitive and developmental scientist at Temple University
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New paper alert! We examined the effects of a teacher-delivered quantitative language intervention. In just 3 weeks, dual-language learners improved in their quantitative language skills. It was a privilege to work with such a great team!
Free access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
New paper alert! We examined the effects of a teacher-delivered quantitative language intervention. In just 3 weeks, dual-language learners improved in their quantitative language skills. It was a privilege to work with such a great team!
Free access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Free access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ece Yuksel presented her poster “Age differences in spatial navigation across real and virtual worlds: A mixed-methods approach” at Psychonomic Society 2025, for which she was awarded the Graduate Travel Award. See all SCANN Lab Psychonomic posters here: scannlab.org/psynom-2025
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Ece Yuksel presented her poster “Age differences in spatial navigation across real and virtual worlds: A mixed-methods approach” at Psychonomic Society 2025, for which she was awarded the Graduate Travel Award. See all SCANN Lab Psychonomic posters here: scannlab.org/psynom-2025
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Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!
OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available working memory datasets
williamngiam.github.io
December 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Do you have an open working memory dataset and want it to be findable and reused? You can now add it to the Open WM Data Hub: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData! The collection of datasets tagged with useful metadata is steadily growing thanks to a small team of volunteers!
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LEAP-InovAND a multiscale resource to explore genetics, brain imaging and clinical data in autism www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... - very interesting study on subtypes of autism defined by symptomatology and genetics
December 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
LEAP-InovAND a multiscale resource to explore genetics, brain imaging and clinical data in autism www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... - very interesting study on subtypes of autism defined by symptomatology and genetics
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Now I have to link Drew's paper. His trifecta is "malleable", "fundamental", and "would not have developed eventually in the absence of the intervention". My guess is that this intervention failed the last part.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Persistence and Fadeout in the Impacts of Child and Adolescent Interventions
Many interventions targeting cognitive skills or socioemotional skills and behaviors demonstrate initially promising but then quickly disappearing impacts. Our article seeks to identify the key fea...
www.tandfonline.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Now I have to link Drew's paper. His trifecta is "malleable", "fundamental", and "would not have developed eventually in the absence of the intervention". My guess is that this intervention failed the last part.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Noisy data + single smoothing curve = overly precise conclusions about where the peaks land.
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/five...
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/five...
December 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Noisy data + single smoothing curve = overly precise conclusions about where the peaks land.
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/five...
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/five...
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
Documenting a National Disaster
Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Documenting a National Disaster
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What makes visual stimuli memorable? Wilma Bainbridge, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, Lore Goetschalckx, and I investigate the role of processing fluency for memorability in a new review paper in Nature Reviews Psychology. Check it out!
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rdcu.be/eSyjz
Memorability of visual stimuli and the role of processing efficiency
Nature Reviews Psychology - Certain items are better remembered than others across individuals, a property known as memorability. In this Review, Bainbridge and colleagues detail memorability...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What makes visual stimuli memorable? Wilma Bainbridge, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, Lore Goetschalckx, and I investigate the role of processing fluency for memorability in a new review paper in Nature Reviews Psychology. Check it out!
rdcu.be/eSyjz
rdcu.be/eSyjz
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New paper from my postdoc with
@brianlevine.bsky.social now out in #PersonalityandIndividualDifferences!
We examined how different types of visual imagery relate to #STEM occupations across genders using a dimensional approach to code occupational attributes.
🔗 t.co/jX6214ZY2X
@brianlevine.bsky.social now out in #PersonalityandIndividualDifferences!
We examined how different types of visual imagery relate to #STEM occupations across genders using a dimensional approach to code occupational attributes.
🔗 t.co/jX6214ZY2X
https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692500515X
t.co
December 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
New paper from my postdoc with
@brianlevine.bsky.social now out in #PersonalityandIndividualDifferences!
We examined how different types of visual imagery relate to #STEM occupations across genders using a dimensional approach to code occupational attributes.
🔗 t.co/jX6214ZY2X
@brianlevine.bsky.social now out in #PersonalityandIndividualDifferences!
We examined how different types of visual imagery relate to #STEM occupations across genders using a dimensional approach to code occupational attributes.
🔗 t.co/jX6214ZY2X
Among things to worry about, flammable skin care was not on my list!
Beware flammable skincare, too many sprouts and overindulging in cheese this Christmas, say health experts
Beware flammable skincare, too many sprouts and overindulging in cheese this Christmas, say health experts
Some foods can interact negatively with certain medication while medical moisturisers can make clothes more flammable
Christmas might be a season of comfort and joy but health experts have warned of lurking dangers, ranging from the fire risk posed by skin creams to the possibility of festive foods interacting with certain medications.
People using medical moisturisers known as emollient creams, often used for eczema and other dry skin conditions, should stay away from heat sources including candles and open flames because such creams can soak into fabrics and make them more flammable, according to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Among things to worry about, flammable skin care was not on my list!
Great interdisciplinary perspective!
Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories - Chrisomalis - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories - Chrisomalis - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories
Cognitive technologies are socially acquired and culturally evolved systems whose primary function is cognitive. There is a tremendous untapped opportunity for a broad range of disciplines across the....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Great interdisciplinary perspective!
Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories - Chrisomalis - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Cognitive Technologies and Their Histories - Chrisomalis - Topics in Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Inspiring work in troubled times
I’ve Been Doing This Work for 25 Years and I’ve Never Seen Such Fear’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
I’ve Been Doing This Work for 25 Years and I’ve Never Seen Such Fear’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
Opinion | ‘I’ve Been Doing This Work for 25 Years and I’ve Never Seen Such Fear’
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November 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Inspiring work in troubled times
I’ve Been Doing This Work for 25 Years and I’ve Never Seen Such Fear’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
I’ve Been Doing This Work for 25 Years and I’ve Never Seen Such Fear’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
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I’ll look at it in more depth later but Northwestern’s agreement seems more campus-specific than previous deals and imposes restrictions on campus conduct beyond what others ave agreed to. Northwestern seems to have surrendered autonomy to a shocking extent. www.northwestern.edu/president/do...
www.northwestern.edu
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I’ll look at it in more depth later but Northwestern’s agreement seems more campus-specific than previous deals and imposes restrictions on campus conduct beyond what others ave agreed to. Northwestern seems to have surrendered autonomy to a shocking extent. www.northwestern.edu/president/do...
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Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
Majority of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored
As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organization...
www.insidehighered.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
Beautifully written, and not just personal. Lots of insights into what's awry with medicine.
Last month, I found out I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, after decades of chronic pain and medical disinterest.
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
Welcome to my body
After twenty years of pain and repeated medical dead ends, a stranger sent me a message on Instagram. It led to a diagnosis all the doctors…
medium.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Beautifully written, and not just personal. Lots of insights into what's awry with medicine.
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TL;DR: basically the same contemptible garbage as all the other schools, anti-trans, anti-protest, more restrictive on admissions than the court held in SFFA. 75 million dollar tribute payment. At least no surveillance of teaching evaluations I guess?
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
TL;DR: basically the same contemptible garbage as all the other schools, anti-trans, anti-protest, more restrictive on admissions than the court held in SFFA. 75 million dollar tribute payment. At least no surveillance of teaching evaluations I guess?
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We've got merch! Instead of giving your bucks to Bezos, why not get a gift that fuels the fight for science? Shop small this holiday season, and stand up for science! www.standupforscience.net/merch
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We've got merch! Instead of giving your bucks to Bezos, why not get a gift that fuels the fight for science? Shop small this holiday season, and stand up for science! www.standupforscience.net/merch
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Special issue of Neuropsychologia celebrating the career of John Duncan.
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#neuroscience
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#neuroscience
Neuropsychologia | Cooperating brain systems and intelligent behaviour: Special issue in honour of John Duncan | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Throughout his distinguished career, John Duncan has made numerous influential contributions to understanding the behavioural and brain basis of attention and intelligence. John’s ideas, invariably co...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Special issue of Neuropsychologia celebrating the career of John Duncan.
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
#neuroscience
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#neuroscience
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🚨New Preprint!
How can we model natural scene representations in visual cortex? A solution is in active vision: predict the features of the next glimpse! arxiv.org/abs/2511.12715
+ @adriendoerig.bsky.social , @alexanderkroner.bsky.social , @carmenamme.bsky.social , @timkietzmann.bsky.social
🧵 1/14
How can we model natural scene representations in visual cortex? A solution is in active vision: predict the features of the next glimpse! arxiv.org/abs/2511.12715
+ @adriendoerig.bsky.social , @alexanderkroner.bsky.social , @carmenamme.bsky.social , @timkietzmann.bsky.social
🧵 1/14
Predicting upcoming visual features during eye movements yields scene representations aligned with human visual cortex
Scenes are complex, yet structured collections of parts, including objects and surfaces, that exhibit spatial and semantic relations to one another. An effective visual system therefore needs unified ...
arxiv.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🚨New Preprint!
How can we model natural scene representations in visual cortex? A solution is in active vision: predict the features of the next glimpse! arxiv.org/abs/2511.12715
+ @adriendoerig.bsky.social , @alexanderkroner.bsky.social , @carmenamme.bsky.social , @timkietzmann.bsky.social
🧵 1/14
How can we model natural scene representations in visual cortex? A solution is in active vision: predict the features of the next glimpse! arxiv.org/abs/2511.12715
+ @adriendoerig.bsky.social , @alexanderkroner.bsky.social , @carmenamme.bsky.social , @timkietzmann.bsky.social
🧵 1/14
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In my latest for @nytimes.com, scientists and Indigenous sailors in the Marshall Islands are studying seafaring and the human brain. I became completely fascinated by navigation while reporting this story.
(gift link!)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...
(gift link!)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...
A Voyage Into the Art of Finding One’s Way at Sea
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
In my latest for @nytimes.com, scientists and Indigenous sailors in the Marshall Islands are studying seafaring and the human brain. I became completely fascinated by navigation while reporting this story.
(gift link!)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...
(gift link!)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...
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New preprint alert!
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
OSF
osf.io
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New preprint alert!
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
“I’ve had my bath, lunch was good, and I’m getting ready to watch my programs.”
Life Is Too Short to Fight With Your Family www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
Life Is Too Short to Fight With Your Family www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
Opinion | Life Is Too Short to Fight With Your Family
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“I’ve had my bath, lunch was good, and I’m getting ready to watch my programs.”
Life Is Too Short to Fight With Your Family www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
Life Is Too Short to Fight With Your Family www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
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Reposted by Nora Newcombe
Why impact evaluations are so important: not everything that sounds like a good policy actually has the desired impact. While many interventions are highly effective, others don't work at all:
Examining the One Laptop Per Child program in Peruvian rural primary schools finds no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative ones on grade progression, from Cueto, Beuermann, Cristia, Malamud, and Pardo www.nber.org/papers/w34495
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Why impact evaluations are so important: not everything that sounds like a good policy actually has the desired impact. While many interventions are highly effective, others don't work at all: