If you're in London in Sept and haven't seen our £50M Lab UCL PEARL... ...why not come down in Sept have a look around and pick up £30 as a participant in our next crazy neurocience & architecture study - Minds in Motion: mindsinmotioncrowd.netlify.app

Have you missed a recent EPS Prize Talk? Would you like to re-watch one you have seen recently? On the EPS YouTube channel, you can catch up and re-watch as much as you'd like! Why not take a visit? shorturl.at/RP8kP

EPS Prize Lecture Videos - YouTube

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Hey #CogSci2026! I'm so honored to be receiving this year's Elman Prize! Please join @m2b2.bsky.social and me Friday 2-3:30pm in Gavea A for two joint talks: "Multilingualism in Cognitive Science" and "Multilingualism for Cognitive Science and Society" 1/4 @cogscisociety.bsky.social

Judith Fan @judithfan.bsky.social takes the #CogSci2026 stage for her Gleitman Prize Talk, exploring how drawings, data visualizations and physical representations help us uncover useful abstractions.

It's hard to believe that OECS has now published 200 articles!🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to OECS—our authors, reviewers, readers, and fantastic section editors, and especially @mcxfrank.bsky.social frank.bsky.social and @hbaum.bsky.social Excited for the next chapter!

Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Today's #OA spotlight is extra special. Just this week, @mitpress.bsky.social published the 200th article in our OPEN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE. Congrats to @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social! We've come far since the 2023 @cogscisociety.bsky.social in Rotterdam! oecs.mit.edu

Nearly four years ago we asked ourselves, "what would it look like to have a field-leading, completely free reference work for cognitive science"? It's been so fun editing OECS with @asifamajid.bsky.social and @hbaum.bsky.social. I can't believe we have published 200 (!!) articles! oecs.mit.edu

Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Today's #OA spotlight is extra special. Just this week, @mitpress.bsky.social published the 200th article in our OPEN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE. Congrats to @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social! We've come far since the 2023 @cogscisociety.bsky.social in Rotterdam! oecs.mit.edu

Today's #OA spotlight is extra special. Just this week, @mitpress.bsky.social published the 200th article in our OPEN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE. Congrats to @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social! We've come far since the 2023 @cogscisociety.bsky.social in Rotterdam! oecs.mit.edu

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a new, multidisciplinary guide to understanding the mind: a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics to a bro...

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Philip Laughlin@philiplaughlin.bsky.social · last mo.

The July 21 #OA spotlight comes to you live from beautiful Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where the @cogscisociety.bsky.social will be holding court for the next few days. Today's @mitpress.bsky.social publication is DEFLATING MENTAL REPRESENTATION by Frances Egan. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for #EPSEssex 2026 is Andreia Santiago. Congratulations Andreia! For full information, please visit: eps.ac.uk/presidents-p...

President’s Poster Commendation Prize Winner – EPS Essex 2026

We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS Essex 2026 meeting is Andreia Santiago. Andreia’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘What do measures …

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Real pleasure to be at #EPSEssex and the symposium celebrating 80 years of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social - alongside Bob Logie, Anna Franklin, @bhisma.bsky.social, @angeladebruin.bsky.social and Sophie Scott. Thank you @asifamajid.bsky.social!

The EPS, in collaboration with the British Science Association, awards an annual prize to the best final year undergraduate project in experimental psychology submitted from a UK psychology honours degree programme. Nominations are due by 10th July 2026. For more info: eps.ac.uk/eps-british-...

EPS / British Science Association Undergraduate Project Prize

The Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) in collaboration with the British Science Association awards an annual prize to the best final year undergraduate project in experimental psychology submit…

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Thrilled to receive this support and excited to start! @stannescollege.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 2mo ago

Stuttering affects up to 8% of children, with 1 in 5 continuing to stutter into adulthood. Using a new ERC Advanced Grant, Kate Watkins will research how to better understand it, and explore innovative therapies. Read more 👉 link.europa.eu/6b9pgV #ERCAdG @kateewatkins.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

New paper out. My favorite finding is the distributional semantic comparison of "hundred/thousand/million/billion etc." to indefinite hyperbolic numerals ("gazillion", "umpteen" etc.) ⬇️ And: Did you know that jigsaw puzzles are lying to you? 👀

Greg Woodin@gregwoodin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How precise are numbers? Our new article in Language and Cognition (with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @lordlorson.bsky.social) finds that round numbers are used more approximately at higher magnitudes. (1/5) 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Another fun paper! We asked what words people find easiest to predict in a sentence, which is a good way to study how we represent lexical concepts. Found that people rely on more than just predictive statistics - it's more about which words are central in our semantic association networks.

Andrew Wang@andreww3-wang.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📄 New paper out in Collabra: Psychology. This work (with @perfors.net) shows how subtle differences in language use between humans & LLMs can be captured by measures of vocabulary centrality. 🔗 doi.org/10.1525/coll... @ucpress.bsky.social

Because the eye’s high-acuity region is so small, where we look serves as a precise, moment-by-moment window into our cognitive goals and intentions. Eye Movements by Mary Hayhoe https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.a42adb11 #CognitiveScience

Human cognition extends beyond the brain into external tools, though debates persist over whether these artifacts amplify our minds or simply… Cognitive Artifacts by Valeria Giardino https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.5e3d3713 #CognitiveScience

Loved this chat about words for smells, with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social (27 mins.) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Smell

Michael Rosen on the words used to describe the qualities of smells in different languages

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The meeting programme and information about the conference dinner is now available for #EPSEssex! Please visit our webpage: eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Next Meeting

EPS Meeting: University of Essex. 1st – 3rd July 2026. This meeting will celebrate the EPS’ 80th Anniversary with a symposium entitled, ‘Where is experimental psychology now, and where …

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Lovely tribute to a pioneer in the study of visual perception across cultures.

The Psychologist@psychmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Jan B Deręgowski 1933-2025 www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

We’ve always felt smell is an underappreciated sense..

New preprint of a series of studies that surprised us(!) We report six studies investigating SNARC effects for non-symbolic representations of quantity. Contrary to our previous findings, we find SNARC effects for colour decision to non-symbolic quantities osf.io/preprints/ps...

Come join us! We have two research coordinator positions open with the Stanford IRISS predoctoral program, a program designed to mentor students for graduate study: LEVANTE: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p... BabyView: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p... (deadline 5/1)

IRiSS Predoctoral Researcher in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States

The Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) is seeking Predoctoral Researchers to participate in our 2026-2027 cohort. The...

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We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS Newcastle 2026 meeting is Karen Hoang. Congratulations @karenhoang.bsky.social! For full information, please visit: eps.ac.uk/presidents-p...

President’s Poster Commendation Prize Winner – EPS Newcastle 2026

We are pleased to announce the winner of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS Newcastle 2026 meeting is Karen Hoang. Karen’s Research Study Poster is entitled ‘The development of e…

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The next EPS Meeting will be at the University of Essex from 1st – 3rd July 2026. This meeting will include the 33rd EPS Prize lecture and the 15th Frith Prize Talk. Portals for this meeting will open on Monday 13th April 2026 at 10am (UK time) and for at least 24 hours. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Next Meeting

EPS Meeting: University of Essex. 1st – 3rd July 2026. This meeting will include the 33rd EPS Prize lecture by Melissa Colloff (and accompanying symposium organised by Markus Bindemann). This meeti…

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This book has just been published, open access, edited by Ken Cheng and me. It contains multiple chapters originating in a wonderful Strungmann Forum held in Frankfurt around a year ago. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Challenges in Navigation Research

This open access book explores navigation across species using a multidisciplinary approach to address challenges in research and clinical applications.

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A free, searchable index of 212,000+ philosophy book reviews. Covers 1,200+ journals going back to the 1890s. Filter by subfield, journal, author, reviewer, year, or access type. Built it because I kept wishing this existed. Now it does. philreviews.org

PhilReviews

A comprehensive, searchable database of 212,000+ philosophy book reviews across 1,480 academic journals.

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Super thrilled that my article "Prosody" is now available to read in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science! oecs.mit.edu/pub/1w4cqquc... Thanks to @asifamajid.bsky.social and @mcxfrank.bsky.social for the opportunity and for creating such an amazing resource for our community!

Prosody

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New blogpost about a teaching experiment I'm doing this quarter: a "socratic tutor" bot to help students gain understanding of specific reading assignments. babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-l...

An LLM-backed "socratic tutor" to replace reading responses

Blog about fatherhood, langauge, developmental psychology, and cognitive science.

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Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx... @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlbanbury.bsky.social

I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)