Alexandre Nobre
@alexandrenobre.bsky.social
Post-doctoral researcher in cognitive neuroscience (Timing and Cognition Lab - UFABC, Brazil). Working in attention, expectations and learning. Gamer and literature fan. 🏳️🌈
New preprint www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... How does the brain separate "how long was that?" from "was it longer than expected?" We designed a task in which physical duration and categorical judgment vary independently, and used EEG to separate these signals. #neuroskyence #psychscisky 1/8
🥇 The €100K Institutional Award goes to the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative - a nationwide effort to evaluate lab biology research and the largest coordinated replication effort in the field worldwide, catalyzing lasting improvements across Brazil's research ecosystem. Congratulations!
My first post-doctoral paper is out! Grateful to have worked with @andrecravo.bsky.social and the amazing team at UFABC on this.
Andre Cravo @andrecravo.bsky.social · 10mo agoReally happy this is finally out (psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...). A lot of work (4 experiments!!!) by @alexandrenobre.bsky.social ! #neuroskyence
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
FAPESP recently announced two new calls to attract international researchers to São Paulo. Both opportunities include grant funding and scholarships, and could be interesting depending on career stage and plans. #neuroskyence #AcademicSky Here is a quick summary of each:
Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · last yr.Does anybody have a good visualization to explain how interactions can be confounded, and why interactions require interaction controls? @urisohn.bsky.social maybe? (Asking because I have an idea, but want to check out what exists already before investing the effort)
Honey, we fixed Signal Detection Theory (SDT)! In this preprint, Constantin Meyer-Grant, David Kellen, Sam Harding, and I critically evaluate the (unequal-variance) Gaussian SDT model in recognition memory and pursue the Gumbel-min model as a principled alternative: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵
Extreme-Value Signal Detection Theory for RecognitionMemory: The Parametric Road Not Taken
Signal Detection Theory has long served as a cornerstone of psychological research, particularly in recognition memory. Yet its conventional application hinges almost exclusively on the Gaussian…
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Abstract submission for #TRF4 is now open!! @timingresforum.bsky.social Symposium Proposals : March 15 - April 20 Oral and poster presentations : March 15 - May 31 sites.google.com/view/trf4tok...
Timing Research Forum 4
Welcome to TRF4! The 4th Timing Research Forum Conference We are excited to welcome you to TRF4, the fourth international conference organized by the Timing Research Forum (TRF) community. TRF is a v...
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Just published! Free download at mitpress.mit.edu/978026255160... Discounts available for anyone with a US mailing address at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777572... (use code MITP30 for 30% discount today only and READMIT20 for 20% discount anytime)
I found this to be an informative and provocative read - what happened to cognitive science? Authors argue, based on bibliometric and scientometric analysis, that cognitive science as a discipline is basically dead. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What happened to cognitive science? - Nature Human Behaviour
Núñez et al. use bibliometric and socio-institutional indicators to show that over the years, cognitive science has failed to transition to a mature, coherent, interdisciplinary field.
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I'm happy to release this preprint along with @andrecravo.bsky.social and the our wonderful colleagues at the Timing and Cognition Lab at UFABC.
Andre Cravo @andrecravo.bsky.social · 2y agoHappy to share our new preprint on how voluntary actions modulate temporal anticipation with @alexandrenobre.bsky.social as the lead author: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠📈 #cognition Some might remember him presenting this at @timingresforum.bsky.social in Lisbon. (1/7)
Overfitting, as it is colloquially described in data science and machine learning, doesn’t exist. www.argmin.net/p/thou-shalt...
Thou Shalt Not Overfit
Venting my spleen about the persistent inanity about overfitting.
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🕒 Excited to share our latest study on Temporal Binding, recently published in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics! We explored task-dependent variations and reliability across paradigms. Here's what we found: rdcu.be/d4eLP #TemporalPerception #Causality #TemporalBinding #Reliability
Temporal binding: Task-dependent variations and reliability across experimental paradigms - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Temporal binding refers to the subjective shortening of time between a cause and its effect compared with two unrelated events. The effect has been extensively explored over the past two decades and m...
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Happy that this has now been published: link.springer.com/article/10.3... Open (view-only) version can also be seen here: rdcu.be/d4eLP Code and data: osf.io/tk8f6/
Temporal binding: Task-dependent variations and reliability across experimental paradigms - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Temporal binding refers to the subjective shortening of time between a cause and its effect compared with two unrelated events. The effect has been extensively explored over the past two decades and m...
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Andre Cravo @andrecravo.bsky.social · 2y agoI am happy to share our new preprint on how robust temporal binding is across sessions and tasks osf.io/preprints/ps... #cogsci #cogpsyc