Carl Hodgetts
@cjhodgetts.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist at @RHULPsychology. Interested in how we represent and navigate the world around us. Hippocampus fanboy 🍤 #firstgen
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Carl Hodgetts
@cjhodgetts.bsky.social
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"Curiosity shapes spatial exploration and cognitive map formation in humans." We are excited to share this novel paradigm and findings on curiosity-based exploration. This project was led tirelessly by @danlucen.bsky.social in collaboration with @cjhodgetts.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Curiosity shapes spatial exploration and cognitive map formation in humans - Communications Psychology
Across two studies using desktop VR, curiosity determined how much humans explored and how well the hand-drawn spatial maps they acquired corresponded to the rooms
www.nature.com
Loved being part of this project w/ @danlucen.bsky.social & @mjgruber.bsky.social! Using a virtual exploration task, Danlu showed curiosity not only drives exploration but also leads to more precise spatial memories (i.e., curiosity shapes spatial knowledge). Link below! @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
We’re hiring a permanent Lecturer (R&T) in cog neuro and development / lifespan psychology at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social. Join a supportive, research-intensive dept - with a new MRI scanner on the way 🙂
Info below - and get in touch to learn more!
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging
Info below - and get in touch to learn more!
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging
🚨We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (teaching & research contract, full-time, permanent), starting 1 April 2026! The application deadline is 1 December 2025.
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology (Research & Teaching)
Full-time, PermanentApplications are invited for a post of Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, starting 1 April 2026. The post is open to ambitious, researc...
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
We’re hiring a permanent Lecturer (R&T) in cog neuro and development / lifespan psychology at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social. Join a supportive, research-intensive dept - with a new MRI scanner on the way 🙂
Info below - and get in touch to learn more!
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging
Info below - and get in touch to learn more!
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging
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It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful
#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs
#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs
How to get PhD funding in the UK
It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...
aidanhorner.blogspot.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful
#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs
#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs
In the context of the Sycamore Gap tree sentencing today, I've written a short opinion piece for @lbc.co.uk on the role of landmarks in shaping place identity and connectedness. Find it here: www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view... 🧠🌎
@rhulpsychology.bsky.social
@rhulpsychology.bsky.social
Why the loss of the Sycamore Gap Tree saw an outpouring of emotion
The sentencing of the two men who felled the Sycamore Gap Tree has brought back the incredibly strong emotions of the loss of such a world-famous, iconic national piece of history.
www.lbc.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In the context of the Sycamore Gap tree sentencing today, I've written a short opinion piece for @lbc.co.uk on the role of landmarks in shaping place identity and connectedness. Find it here: www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view... 🧠🌎
@rhulpsychology.bsky.social
@rhulpsychology.bsky.social
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Re-posting for the weekday crowd - MR Physics job available at our site in West London. We do cool stuff. Clinical trials, psychedelics/other drugs, lots of different MRI modalities, scope to do your own projects, etc.
We're looking for an MRI Physicist to support our (honestly, really cool and exciting) clinical trial work at our London site. Details and application at the link. Please share, tell your friends, post on other networks if you can, etc. etc. Thanks!
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
Perceptive Inc. hiring Senior MRI Physicist in Hammersmith, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 4:00:37 PM. 📍 State-of-the-art Medical Imaging Facility | Global Clinical Trials | Translational Science
Are…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
www.linkedin.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Re-posting for the weekday crowd - MR Physics job available at our site in West London. We do cool stuff. Clinical trials, psychedelics/other drugs, lots of different MRI modalities, scope to do your own projects, etc.
We’re all set for #RHULPSYCHFEST25 @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
We’re all set for #RHULPSYCHFEST25 @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
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World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression — and sing www.nature.com/articles/d41...
World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression — and sing
Device translates thought to speech in real time.
www.nature.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression — and sing www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Very pleased to share that our latest paper, "The limited place in cognitive space", is now out in Topics in Cognitive Science. Link below👇🏻
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Limited Place in Cognitive Space
The idea that objects can be represented within multi-dimensional ‘cognitive spaces’ remains popular within psychology and neuroscience, and yet the restrictive topology of such spaces is seldom cons...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Very pleased to share that our latest paper, "The limited place in cognitive space", is now out in Topics in Cognitive Science. Link below👇🏻
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature.
https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
go.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature.
https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
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In his new book, published today, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
‘Natural Neuroscience,’ an excerpt
In his new book, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.
www.thetransmitter.org
April 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
In his new book, published today, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
This is a great (and accessible) summary of our latest @commspsychol.bsky.social paper, which examines the link between curiosity, spatial exploration, and memory within virtual environments.
www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...
Paper link 👉🏻: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...
Paper link 👉🏻: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Virtual reality research explores curiosity and spatial memory
Virtual reality research reveals that curiosity is key in spatial memory and mental map formation.
www.cardiff.ac.uk
April 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This is a great (and accessible) summary of our latest @commspsychol.bsky.social paper, which examines the link between curiosity, spatial exploration, and memory within virtual environments.
www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...
Paper link 👉🏻: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...
Paper link 👉🏻: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Curious about spatial memory in 3D? Our new preprint explores how environmental boundaries and the way we move affect our memory for locations in volumetric space!
Huge congrats to co-1st @theoschaefer.bsky.social w/ Leonard König, Misun Kim, Christian Doeller.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Huge congrats to co-1st @theoschaefer.bsky.social w/ Leonard König, Misun Kim, Christian Doeller.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Locomotion-dependent use of geometric and body cues in humans mapping 3D space
The ability to represent locations across multiple dimensions of space is a core function of cognitive maps. While the influence of boundary-dependent environmental geometry on spatial representations...
www.biorxiv.org
March 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Curious about spatial memory in 3D? Our new preprint explores how environmental boundaries and the way we move affect our memory for locations in volumetric space!
Huge congrats to co-1st @theoschaefer.bsky.social w/ Leonard König, Misun Kim, Christian Doeller.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Huge congrats to co-1st @theoschaefer.bsky.social w/ Leonard König, Misun Kim, Christian Doeller.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Kubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category, and eccentricity from birth, and develop in parallel within each cytoarchitectonic area from infancy to adulthood. https://www.nature.c...
White matter connections of human ventral temporal cortex are organized by cytoarchitecture, eccentricity and category-selectivity from birth - Nature Human Behaviour
Kubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category and eccentricity from birth, and also develop in parallel within each cytoarchitectonic area from infancy to adulthood.
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Kubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category, and eccentricity from birth, and develop in parallel within each cytoarchitectonic area from infancy to adulthood. https://www.nature.c...
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New work from us led by the brilliant @drjk.bsky.social from our grant with the @britishacademy.bsky.social
⭐ Social exclusion increases paranoia and reduces self and other learning flexibility in adolescents
A brief explainer below...
📜 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
⭐ Social exclusion increases paranoia and reduces self and other learning flexibility in adolescents
A brief explainer below...
📜 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
March 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
New work from us led by the brilliant @drjk.bsky.social from our grant with the @britishacademy.bsky.social
⭐ Social exclusion increases paranoia and reduces self and other learning flexibility in adolescents
A brief explainer below...
📜 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
⭐ Social exclusion increases paranoia and reduces self and other learning flexibility in adolescents
A brief explainer below...
📜 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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What are we talking about, when we talk about 'representations'?
My undergraduate student, Oyinkansola Olorunleke, is conducting a thesis project on the concept of representation in cognitive sciences & neuroscience.
We are seeking interested participants in the below survey:
tinyurl.com/2e6rcnxv
My undergraduate student, Oyinkansola Olorunleke, is conducting a thesis project on the concept of representation in cognitive sciences & neuroscience.
We are seeking interested participants in the below survey:
tinyurl.com/2e6rcnxv
Representation: Past, Present & Future
This questionnaire is for a final year neuroscience student who is doing her capstone as part of the Representation: Past, Present & Future Project at Trinity College Dublin.
tinyurl.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
What are we talking about, when we talk about 'representations'?
My undergraduate student, Oyinkansola Olorunleke, is conducting a thesis project on the concept of representation in cognitive sciences & neuroscience.
We are seeking interested participants in the below survey:
tinyurl.com/2e6rcnxv
My undergraduate student, Oyinkansola Olorunleke, is conducting a thesis project on the concept of representation in cognitive sciences & neuroscience.
We are seeking interested participants in the below survey:
tinyurl.com/2e6rcnxv
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@diamondn.bsky.social et al. find that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related advantage for sequences persists for over a year. @brianlevine.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences - Nature Human Behaviour
How does sleep transform the way we remember our experiences? This study finds that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related...
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
@diamondn.bsky.social et al. find that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related advantage for sequences persists for over a year. @brianlevine.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Since we all should be currently boycotting Amazon, a reminder that Bezos owns Goodreads and there is a great, Black woman owned, alternative that you can easily migrate to. Highly recommend.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon
Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Since we all should be currently boycotting Amazon, a reminder that Bezos owns Goodreads and there is a great, Black woman owned, alternative that you can easily migrate to. Highly recommend.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
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For social psychologists looking for a more permanent home in the UK, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Job Details
my.corehr.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
For social psychologists looking for a more permanent home in the UK, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
@drberry.bsky.social testing his new VR anxiety and exploration paradigm on an unsuspecting @kavishinia.bsky.social!
January 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
@drberry.bsky.social testing his new VR anxiety and exploration paradigm on an unsuspecting @kavishinia.bsky.social!
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Across two studies using desktop VR, curiosity determined how much humans explored and how well the hand-drawn spatial maps they acquired corresponded to the rooms
@cjhodgetts.bsky.social, @mjgruber.bsky.social, @danlucen.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@cjhodgetts.bsky.social, @mjgruber.bsky.social, @danlucen.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Curiosity shapes spatial exploration and cognitive map formation in humans - Communications Psychology
Across two studies using desktop VR, curiosity determined how much humans explored and how well the hand-drawn spatial maps they acquired corresponded to the rooms
www.nature.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Across two studies using desktop VR, curiosity determined how much humans explored and how well the hand-drawn spatial maps they acquired corresponded to the rooms
@cjhodgetts.bsky.social, @mjgruber.bsky.social, @danlucen.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@cjhodgetts.bsky.social, @mjgruber.bsky.social, @danlucen.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Loved being part of this project w/ @danlucen.bsky.social & @mjgruber.bsky.social! Using a virtual exploration task, Danlu showed curiosity not only drives exploration but also leads to more precise spatial memories (i.e., curiosity shapes spatial knowledge). Link below! @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
"Curiosity shapes spatial exploration and cognitive map formation in humans." We are excited to share this novel paradigm and findings on curiosity-based exploration. This project was led tirelessly by @danlucen.bsky.social in collaboration with @cjhodgetts.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Curiosity shapes spatial exploration and cognitive map formation in humans - Communications Psychology
Across two studies using desktop VR, curiosity determined how much humans explored and how well the hand-drawn spatial maps they acquired corresponded to the rooms
www.nature.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Loved being part of this project w/ @danlucen.bsky.social & @mjgruber.bsky.social! Using a virtual exploration task, Danlu showed curiosity not only drives exploration but also leads to more precise spatial memories (i.e., curiosity shapes spatial knowledge). Link below! @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
Very saddened to hear this. I didn't know Eleanor personally, but her work and perspectives profoundly shaped the memory field and my own path studying the hippocampus. Many who worked in her lab spoke highly of how she supported and empowered them as scientists. A huge loss.
I just learned the very sad news that Eleanor Maguire passed away. It is very unlikely that I would be where I am if it wasn't for the work that she did since the early 2000s. She was a real trailblazer in the cognitive neuroscience of autobiographical memory, and conducted some (1/n)
January 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Very saddened to hear this. I didn't know Eleanor personally, but her work and perspectives profoundly shaped the memory field and my own path studying the hippocampus. Many who worked in her lab spoke highly of how she supported and empowered them as scientists. A huge loss.
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Please repost! Open PhD position on curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence with the amazing @yanafandakova.bsky.social at the University of Trier (Germany). The project is part of a cool international collaboration. :-) #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #neurojobs
Interested in curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence? Come work with us at the University of Trier - we have an open PhD position together with @mjgruber.bsky.social (Cardiff, UK) and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Bordeaux, France). Please repost!
#DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
#DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
PhD Position in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at Trier University
The Learning Brain Lab located at the University of Trier (Prof. Dr. Yana Fandakova) is inviting applications for a PhD position (E 13 TV-L, 75 %) in the DFG-funded project „How curiosity enhances lea...
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December 13, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Please repost! Open PhD position on curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence with the amazing @yanafandakova.bsky.social at the University of Trier (Germany). The project is part of a cool international collaboration. :-) #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #neurojobs
So happy for @eleanoralderman.bsky.social, who won the the best poster prize at the AVA conference! She presented her planned analyses on linking visual exploration to scene memory! @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 2:01 PM
So happy for @eleanoralderman.bsky.social, who won the the best poster prize at the AVA conference! She presented her planned analyses on linking visual exploration to scene memory! @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
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In today’s research tea event,
@ashleysymons.bsky.social gave an inspiring talk on mistakes in research and led fruitful discussions on how we can create a culture that collectively mitigates the impact of mistakes in research
@ashleysymons.bsky.social gave an inspiring talk on mistakes in research and led fruitful discussions on how we can create a culture that collectively mitigates the impact of mistakes in research
December 9, 2024 at 12:31 PM
In today’s research tea event,
@ashleysymons.bsky.social gave an inspiring talk on mistakes in research and led fruitful discussions on how we can create a culture that collectively mitigates the impact of mistakes in research
@ashleysymons.bsky.social gave an inspiring talk on mistakes in research and led fruitful discussions on how we can create a culture that collectively mitigates the impact of mistakes in research
Great to see that @rhulpsychology.bsky.social has arrived at BlueSky! Please follow for psychology and neuroscience research updates from Royal Holloway's amazing Department of Psychology!
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
November 20, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Great to see that @rhulpsychology.bsky.social has arrived at BlueSky! Please follow for psychology and neuroscience research updates from Royal Holloway's amazing Department of Psychology!
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky