How do we make good decisions with little experience? Adults can rely on memories of past choices. In our new study in @pnas.org we show kids & teens do something similar–but what they remember turns out to be quite different! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Developmental changes in memory structure and precision alter the use of retrieved episodes during decisions for reward | PNAS

Most widely studied option evaluation strategies rely on knowledge accumulated across repeated experiences. But how should options be evaluated in ...

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it's been such a delight to work with (recent UNDERGRAD) @yuzhengwu2329.bsky.social on this passion project characterizing effects of evidence volatility on choice confidence. come chat w/ us this afternoon on the 10th floor, poster D53 🧠

megan peters 🧠@meganakpeters.bsky.social · last wk.

the #ReflexionLab 's posters at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social #CCN2026!! presented by @aliekhlasi.bsky.social @yuzhengwu2329.bsky.social @rochellekaper.bsky.social and @emilwolsson.bsky.social!

👇presenting POSTER TMRW @ #CCN2026: *Metacognitive sensitivity governs adaptive representational compactness in hierarchical structure learning🧠* 📍C59 🕐 wed aug 5 9:30 - 11:15 AM w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social 😊 tinyurl.com/mv2zpbch @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

So excited to be at #CCN2026 this week with our lab and our wonderful collaborators. Here’s where to find everyone. Please come say hi, we’d love to hear your thoughts!

So excited to share my work with @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @khoudary.bsky.social at CCN. My poster session will be at Wed 2:00-3:45 🤩 Come and visit!!

megan peters 🧠@meganakpeters.bsky.social · last wk.

the #ReflexionLab 's posters at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social #CCN2026!! presented by @aliekhlasi.bsky.social @yuzhengwu2329.bsky.social @rochellekaper.bsky.social and @emilwolsson.bsky.social!

New Preprint Alert! With @jasonleng.bsky.social @ashenhav.bsky.social @shenhavlab.bsky.social “Characterizing the causes, dynamics, and consequences of choice deferral” osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵🧵🧵

the #ReflexionLab 's posters at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social #CCN2026!! presented by @aliekhlasi.bsky.social @yuzhengwu2329.bsky.social @rochellekaper.bsky.social and @emilwolsson.bsky.social!

heading to nyc to give a talk at the Metacognition Science Satellite at #CCN2026 this sunday🗽🤔 catch me in the metacognition in novel task domains session @ 2:30🤗 w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social

Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 Announcing another edition of the Metacognitive Science satellite in NYC, August 2nd 2026 (day before CCN) 🧠 🧪 Abstract submission is now open and closes May 15th! metacognitivescience.org Co-organised with @meganakpeters.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social @dobyrahnev.bsky.social

I'm heading to #CogSci2026 @cogscisociety.bsky.social this evening, looking forward to seeing lots of new & familiar faces! 🇧🇷 I'll be presenting this paper: A measure of metacognitive bias you can be confident in 📍: T.18.3 🗓️: July 24th, 2-3:30pm 👥: @tianqizhan.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social

Kevin O’Neill@kevingoneill.github.io · 3mo ago

In a new preprint w/ @tianqizhan.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social, we developed a new measure of metacognitive bias (over/under confidence in individual decisions)! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

The postdoc position in our lab closes 20 July - get applying! :)

Peter Kok@peterkok.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The postdoc position is advertised here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Deadline: 20 July. 2/3

Interested in memory updating, exploration, structure learning, & reward? @asinclair.bsky.social & I are looking for candidates to apply for a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship at York University, with the opportunity to work at Rice too. Contact Allie or me for details! #PsychJobs

tfw the laptop gets opened again at 9pm

We make flexible choices in new situations by knitting together information from separate relevant memories. But what governs which memories are retrieved and when? In a new preprint, we captured how people build decision variables from different memories by tracking their gaze on a blank screen.

Flexible decisions arise from resource-rational memory sampling

Flexible decision making depends on retrieving and recombining memories. Yet because this process unfolds covertly, its governing principles remain unknown. Here we use gaze reinstatement to uncover t...

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I am organizing a symposium accepted for #PSA26 titled: A "metabolic turn" in studying cognition and computation With: @khoudary.bsky.social @jtheriault.bsky.social Mazviita Chirimuuta Myself (presenting work with @phaueis.bsky.social) #philsci, #cogsci, #philsky See yinz in San Diego

A global perspective | Award-winning @ucirvine.bsky.social cognitive sciences Ph.D. student Sharanya Bashyam is advancing research on language, culture and children’s social cognition @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @nadiachernyak.bsky.social

A global perspective

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SSNAP always ends with a final conference, open to the public--both in person and online. Here are the zoom links for this afternoon, for those who want to connect. Feel free to share widely! Jorge Morales (Northeastern): duke.zoom.us/j/99919297471 Zoe Drayson (UC Davis): duke.zoom.us/j/91565535456

We're recruiting postdocs to study how people build structured knowledge from experience & use it to act flexibly. Behavioral work, fMRI, computational & AI models, with a lifespan focus. You don't need experience with every method; fit & curiosity matter most. Please repost & share! 🧠

Today's SJDM Featured Paper is: Su, Y.-H., & Shenhav, A. (2026). Rejection-based choices discourage people from opting out of voting. Nature Communications, 17(1), 1768. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Rejection-based choices discourage people from opting out of voting - Nature Communications

When people dislike their options for candidates, they tend to refrain from voting rather than voting for the candidate they like best. Here, the authors show that this tendency to opt out of lose-los...

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I am recruiting an exceptional postdoc to join my lab at UC Irvine. Must be a productive researcher with experience in functional neuroimaging, network neuroscience, AI/ML, who is interested in aging, neuropsychiatric or neurodegenerative illness. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Check out our latest profile! Dr. Megan Peters (@meganakpeters.bsky.social) studies how the brain represents & uses uncertainty and she also co-founded the online summer school, Neuromatch Academy. Learn more at the link below! #WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

Dr. Megan Peters — Stories of WiN

studies how the brain represents and uses uncertainty and she also co-founded the online summer school, Neuromatch Academy

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Now out in Nature Neuroscience: "Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand". www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our eyes don't linger because recognition is hard; they linger to remember. Let me take you on a quick tour. 🧵

Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand - Nature Neuroscience

By combining magnetoencephalography and eye tracking, this study sheds light on why people fixate on some parts of natural scenes longer than others. Rather than visual complexity, fixation durations ...

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Excited to share I will be joining UC Davis as an assistant professor starting July 2027! Thank you dearly to all mentors and friends who have supported me over the years ❤️ and Cal Poly friends, I'll miss you!

🗣️excited to be giving a TALK TMRW at #VSS2026 🏖️ if you're interested in anything predictive learning, metacognition, successor representations & more, check it out!☀️ 🕚 tues may 19 @ 12 pm 📍talk rm 2: decision-making w/ @meganakpeters.bsky.social ✨

heading to #vss2026 this week👀come chat with me about all things predictive learning, metacognition, successor representations & perception🤩! ✨eager to be giving a talk in the decision-making session on tues at noon!✨ @vssmtg.bsky.social

New paper! Multistep inference across the human lifespan can be improved with individualized memory interventions, with co-first @kwcooper.bsky.social @lovecrabmeat.bsky.social @dalezhou.bsky.social, Craig Stark, and @aaronbornstein.bsky.social (🧵): academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

The #reflexionlab from @ucisocsci.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social is at #VSS2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social While *I personally* am not there 😭, you can still see our work!

find me on tuesday afternoon at banyan for more killer sentences at #VSS2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mega...

Oğul Can Yurdakul@ogulyurdakul.bsky.social · 3mo ago

that moment when you finally muster the courage to ask a question at a conference and the very first thing you say at the mic is smt like great you very much for the thanks

I was privileged to get to interview Dr. Hanna Pickard about her new book. It's smart, punchy, and a must-read for people who work on, think about, or suffer from addiction and its consequences. Our conversation is now up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/hann...

Beyond a Theory of Irresistible Desire | Los Angeles Review of Books

Hanna Pickard’s new book examines the neurobiology of addiction by probing deeper than the usual questions we ask, and by deconstructing the questions themselves.

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In a new preprint w/ @tianqizhan.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social, we developed a new measure of metacognitive bias (over/under confidence in individual decisions)! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

What does it mean for cognition to be Bayesian? The view that cognition is Bayesian inference is often intended at Marr's computational level. In a new paper in Nat Rev Psych, @kaixue98.bsky.social and I formulate the "explicit-Bayes" hypothesis that lives at the algorithmic level. rdcu.be/ff1XA