Thomas Meyer
@thmeyer.bsky.social
Postdoc & CBT therapist in training. Stress, trauma, fatigue, comparative thinking in self-evaluation. Akademischer Wildwuchs @uni-muenster.de @morinalab, formerly @uclpals.bsky.social, @CogPT_lab, & @maastricht_fpn
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Thomas Meyer
@thmeyer.bsky.social
· Jul 9
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🚨New Preprint! Training spatial memory for traumatic scenes in #VR reduces intrusive memories. ~10 years in the making, with many great collaborators across 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇩🇪, including C.Brewin, J.King, P.Dibbets, @neilburgess10.bsky.social, @nexh-morina.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.31219/osf... #PsychSciSky
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🚀 New paper (open access) out in Cognitive Therapy & Research: we (@herzog.bsky.social, @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social, @hudsongolino.bsky.social and me) ask whether group‑level symptom‑change networks in CBT actually capture what happens inside each patient. #Psychology #CBT
Must We Always Go Idiographic? - Cognitive Therapy and Research
Purpose While psychological change processes are increasingly assumed to be “non-ergodic”, prompting a shift toward idiographic approaches, the assumption of ergodicity is often accepted a priori rath...
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🚀 New paper (open access) out in Cognitive Therapy & Research: we (@herzog.bsky.social, @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social, @hudsongolino.bsky.social and me) ask whether group‑level symptom‑change networks in CBT actually capture what happens inside each patient. #Psychology #CBT
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Very cool to see this one out now in Physiology & Behavior 🤩
- We tracked boredom-related & diffculty-related effort dynamics & assessed how they covary with changes in electrodermal activity
Led by Vanessa Radtke & w/ @corimartarelli.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- We tracked boredom-related & diffculty-related effort dynamics & assessed how they covary with changes in electrodermal activity
Led by Vanessa Radtke & w/ @corimartarelli.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Task-related effort - distinguishing boredom- and difficulty-related effort via electrodermal activity
Exerting effort is central to human performance, with the sources of effort varying across tasks. While traditionally linked to task difficulty, effor…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Very cool to see this one out now in Physiology & Behavior 🤩
- We tracked boredom-related & diffculty-related effort dynamics & assessed how they covary with changes in electrodermal activity
Led by Vanessa Radtke & w/ @corimartarelli.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- We tracked boredom-related & diffculty-related effort dynamics & assessed how they covary with changes in electrodermal activity
Led by Vanessa Radtke & w/ @corimartarelli.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Here a paper version rant on this in Nature Reviews Psychology.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
(PDF: eiko-fried.com/wp-content/u...)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
(PDF: eiko-fried.com/wp-content/u...)
Revisiting the theoretical and methodological foundations of depression measurement - Nature Reviews Psychology
Depressive disorders are among the leading causes of global disease burden. In this Perspective, Fried et al. argue that limited progress in understanding, predicting and treating depression despite a...
www.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Here a paper version rant on this in Nature Reviews Psychology.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
(PDF: eiko-fried.com/wp-content/u...)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
(PDF: eiko-fried.com/wp-content/u...)
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New Stage 2 Recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social:
🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠
Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty.
Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...
🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠
Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty.
Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...
Unmasking the effort of boredom: A deeper look into self-control...
doi.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
New Stage 2 Recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social:
🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠
Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty.
Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...
🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠
Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty.
Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...
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Next article of our special issue published in BRAT, examining the role of childhood maltreatment (CM): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Adults with CM history showed impaired belief updating when interacting with strangers and such deficits moderated the association of CM and PTSD symptoms.
From Maltreatment to Mistrust: Impaired Belief Updating as a Mechanism Linking Childhood Maltreatment to Interpersonal and Clinical Outcomes
Childhood maltreatment (CM), defined as caregiver-perpetrated abuse or neglect during childhood or adolescence, is associated with enduring social dys…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Next article of our special issue published in BRAT, examining the role of childhood maltreatment (CM): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Adults with CM history showed impaired belief updating when interacting with strangers and such deficits moderated the association of CM and PTSD symptoms.
New Stage 2 Recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social:
🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠
Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty.
Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...
🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠
Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty.
Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...
Unmasking the effort of boredom: A deeper look into self-control...
doi.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
New Stage 2 Recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social:
🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠
Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty.
Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...
🧠Unmasking the effort of boredom🧠
Radtke, Wolff, & Martarelli (2025) tested whether subjective effort attributed to boredom is differentially linked to pupil size than effort attributed to difficulty.
Find out more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...
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We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python
Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Nature Psychology Review is a journal created by a commercial publisher because it is easy profit. Review articles are easy to write, get cited a lot. Slap Nature on it and you get a high IF.
It should flip to a diamond open access journal. Submit your review articles elsewhere.
It should flip to a diamond open access journal. Submit your review articles elsewhere.
October 23, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Nature Psychology Review is a journal created by a commercial publisher because it is easy profit. Review articles are easy to write, get cited a lot. Slap Nature on it and you get a high IF.
It should flip to a diamond open access journal. Submit your review articles elsewhere.
It should flip to a diamond open access journal. Submit your review articles elsewhere.
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Great to see the next article of our special issue on belief updating out in BRAT. In this large clinical trial, the authors investigated the relative importance of expectancy violation vs fear reduction as two rationales of exposure therapy. For details, see 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....
Same same but different: Threat expectancy change and fear reduction as readouts of exposure rationales are only weakly associated and contribute differentially to treatment outcome in anxiety disorde...
Responses to exposure therapy vary across individuals, emphasizing the need for a deeper understanding of its underlying mechanisms. This study examin…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Great to see the next article of our special issue on belief updating out in BRAT. In this large clinical trial, the authors investigated the relative importance of expectancy violation vs fear reduction as two rationales of exposure therapy. For details, see 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....
Excited to share my first Stage 2 recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social:
💡Probe-based attentional retraining does not reduce worry.
Pond et al. found that a classic ABM protocol did not shift threat bias or anxiety in high-worriers.
✅Read more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...
💡Probe-based attentional retraining does not reduce worry.
Pond et al. found that a classic ABM protocol did not shift threat bias or anxiety in high-worriers.
✅Read more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...
Probe-Based Attentional Retraining Does Not Reduce Worry
doi.org
October 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Excited to share my first Stage 2 recommendation @pci-regreports.bsky.social:
💡Probe-based attentional retraining does not reduce worry.
Pond et al. found that a classic ABM protocol did not shift threat bias or anxiety in high-worriers.
✅Read more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...
💡Probe-based attentional retraining does not reduce worry.
Pond et al. found that a classic ABM protocol did not shift threat bias or anxiety in high-worriers.
✅Read more: doi.org/10.24072/pci...
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A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
www.science.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Wir müssen reden ...
über Überlastung!
7 von 9 planetaren Belastungsgrenzen sind überschritten. Das zeigt der neue "Planetary Health Check" (www.planetaryhealthcheck.org). Vorher waren es 6. Die Ozeanversauerung ist jetzt neu dazu gekommen.
🧵1/3
über Überlastung!
7 von 9 planetaren Belastungsgrenzen sind überschritten. Das zeigt der neue "Planetary Health Check" (www.planetaryhealthcheck.org). Vorher waren es 6. Die Ozeanversauerung ist jetzt neu dazu gekommen.
🧵1/3
September 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Wir müssen reden ...
über Überlastung!
7 von 9 planetaren Belastungsgrenzen sind überschritten. Das zeigt der neue "Planetary Health Check" (www.planetaryhealthcheck.org). Vorher waren es 6. Die Ozeanversauerung ist jetzt neu dazu gekommen.
🧵1/3
über Überlastung!
7 von 9 planetaren Belastungsgrenzen sind überschritten. Das zeigt der neue "Planetary Health Check" (www.planetaryhealthcheck.org). Vorher waren es 6. Die Ozeanversauerung ist jetzt neu dazu gekommen.
🧵1/3
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In meinem Team an der Universität Göttingen ist eine PhD Stelle (3 Jahre, 75%) ausgeschrieben – bitte gerne teilen bzw. bei Fragen melden!
www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...
www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...
Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Webseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
www.uni-goettingen.de
September 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In meinem Team an der Universität Göttingen ist eine PhD Stelle (3 Jahre, 75%) ausgeschrieben – bitte gerne teilen bzw. bei Fragen melden!
www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...
www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...
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New article on biased belief updating in relation to depressive symptoms. In 2 studies using real social interactions, dep symptoms were related to a reduced update of self-beliefs after positive social feedback and increased learning from neg fb relative to pos fb. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Biased Belief Updating in Relation To Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from Two Studies Using Feedback from Real Social Interactions - Cognitive Therapy and Research
Background Depression has been related to difficulties in updating negative beliefs in response to novel positive information. Research on this issue in the context of social feedback is scarce, thoug...
link.springer.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
New article on biased belief updating in relation to depressive symptoms. In 2 studies using real social interactions, dep symptoms were related to a reduced update of self-beliefs after positive social feedback and increased learning from neg fb relative to pos fb. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Here are two easy things YOU can do:
#1 Every academic supporting #openscience and #openaccess should consider ORE as their primary publishing venue and ask colleague/co-authors to do the same.
#2 Point your librarian, institutional leaders, funding agencies towards the documents linked above […]
#1 Every academic supporting #openscience and #openaccess should consider ORE as their primary publishing venue and ask colleague/co-authors to do the same.
#2 Point your librarian, institutional leaders, funding agencies towards the documents linked above […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
September 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Here are two easy things YOU can do:
#1 Every academic supporting #openscience and #openaccess should consider ORE as their primary publishing venue and ask colleague/co-authors to do the same.
#2 Point your librarian, institutional leaders, funding agencies towards the documents linked above […]
#1 Every academic supporting #openscience and #openaccess should consider ORE as their primary publishing venue and ask colleague/co-authors to do the same.
#2 Point your librarian, institutional leaders, funding agencies towards the documents linked above […]
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This should have been big news!
Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]
Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
September 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This should have been big news!
Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]
Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]
Reposted by Thomas Meyer
New prologue episode of Nullius In Verba! We read Boring's paper on The Psychology of Controversy nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/prologus-6... Written in 1929, but relevant as if he based in on scientists arguing on social media for the last decade. A must read - or, you can just listen to it!
Prologus 66: The Psychology of Controversy (E. G. Boring) | Nullius in Verba
Boring, E. G. (1929). The psychology of controversy. Psychological Review, 36(2), 97–121. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0072273
nulliusinverba.podbean.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
New prologue episode of Nullius In Verba! We read Boring's paper on The Psychology of Controversy nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/prologus-6... Written in 1929, but relevant as if he based in on scientists arguing on social media for the last decade. A must read - or, you can just listen to it!
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German bookstore selling a curated selection of works that were banned in US public schools and libraries.
(h/t @inabeintner.bsky.social)
(h/t @inabeintner.bsky.social)
August 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
German bookstore selling a curated selection of works that were banned in US public schools and libraries.
(h/t @inabeintner.bsky.social)
(h/t @inabeintner.bsky.social)
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A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
September 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
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3 new jobs in a great project 👇
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc
as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption.
Details here:
PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7...
Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...
The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc
as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption.
Details here:
PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7...
Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...
Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
August 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
3 new jobs in a great project 👇
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It's like an association, but more causal.
This reasoning is very prevalent in psych as well (in particular when it comes to "lagged effects", aka lagged associations, and "within-person associations") which is why we wrote a paper about it:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This reasoning is very prevalent in psych as well (in particular when it comes to "lagged effects", aka lagged associations, and "within-person associations") which is why we wrote a paper about it:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
August 21, 2025 at 6:35 AM
It's like an association, but more causal.
This reasoning is very prevalent in psych as well (in particular when it comes to "lagged effects", aka lagged associations, and "within-person associations") which is why we wrote a paper about it:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This reasoning is very prevalent in psych as well (in particular when it comes to "lagged effects", aka lagged associations, and "within-person associations") which is why we wrote a paper about it:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
August 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
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Systematic reviewers have a 10.7% error rate when screening papers for potential inclusion.
In other words, about 1 in 9 abstracts are categorised incorrectly (i.e., false inclusion or false exclusion). This really drives home the benefit of having at least two screeners
In other words, about 1 in 9 abstracts are categorised incorrectly (i.e., false inclusion or false exclusion). This really drives home the benefit of having at least two screeners
Error rates of human reviewers during abstract screening in systematic reviews
Background Automated approaches to improve the efficiency of systematic reviews are greatly needed. When testing any of these approaches, the criterion standard of comparison (gold standard) is usuall...
doi.org
August 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Systematic reviewers have a 10.7% error rate when screening papers for potential inclusion.
In other words, about 1 in 9 abstracts are categorised incorrectly (i.e., false inclusion or false exclusion). This really drives home the benefit of having at least two screeners
In other words, about 1 in 9 abstracts are categorised incorrectly (i.e., false inclusion or false exclusion). This really drives home the benefit of having at least two screeners
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New letter by @minzlicht.bsky.social and I forthcoming in TiCS on whether neurometabolic costs are necessary to explain cognitive fatigue. While the origins of fatigue may turn out to be metabolic, we argue there isn’t yet sufficient evidence for such theories. osf.io/preprints/ps...
August 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
New letter by @minzlicht.bsky.social and I forthcoming in TiCS on whether neurometabolic costs are necessary to explain cognitive fatigue. While the origins of fatigue may turn out to be metabolic, we argue there isn’t yet sufficient evidence for such theories. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Does cognitive fatigue require metabolic explanations? @jakeembrey.bsky.social and I argue the evidence is pretty thin. Computational & motivational theories may be sufficient without invoking depleting brain glucose or accumulating neurotoxins like glutamate. New commentary, in press at TiCS
New letter by @minzlicht.bsky.social and I forthcoming in TiCS on whether neurometabolic costs are necessary to explain cognitive fatigue. While the origins of fatigue may turn out to be metabolic, we argue there isn’t yet sufficient evidence for such theories. osf.io/preprints/ps...
August 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Does cognitive fatigue require metabolic explanations? @jakeembrey.bsky.social and I argue the evidence is pretty thin. Computational & motivational theories may be sufficient without invoking depleting brain glucose or accumulating neurotoxins like glutamate. New commentary, in press at TiCS