Mark Haselgrove
@markhaselgrove.bsky.social
Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Interested in associative learning, and its application to all manner of stuff. Not really interested in brains. He/him. https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=fObPQPsAAAAJ&hl=en
This graph took me 3 years to make. It's perhaps the largest-ever #metaanalysis of #TMS #BrainStim data. It includes my first real scientific discovery 🧵: When you stimulate the hand with a brief electric pulse, your brain and spinal cord are momentarily less excitable: muscle output decreases 1/n
Such an exciting day! 🎓 Huge congratulations to all of our fantastic students!
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
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Benefits of having a colleague who is also a bee keeper...
The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter
To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...
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Assistant Professor (lecturer in old money) job! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Full time, permanent positions available in the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Deadline Tuesday 18 August 2026 Please share!
Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Assistant Professor
We’re looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology who can demonstrate an emerging international research profile which complements and expands upon our existing research stre...
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Assistant Professor (lecturer in old money) job! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Full time, permanent positions available in the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Deadline Tuesday 18 August 2026 Please share!
Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Assistant Professor
We’re looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology who can demonstrate an emerging international research profile which complements and expands upon our existing research stre...
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk
Tagging the excellent @jialinshi.bsky.social who ran this exp. The full time scores are now in. We reproduced Haselgrove et al. (2025). When contexts sustain familiarity learning is more successful to novel than familiar stimuli (LI). When the context sustains novelty, though, the reverse emerges.
Mark Haselgrove@markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 3w agoHaving fun this summer, replicating our reversed latent inhibition effect: Reported a couple of years ago, here we show, contrary to 60 years of research, that people can learn more succesfully about a familiair than a novel stimulus. share.google/YIEYQj9yIPNj...
One great benefit of the hydration break is that, during them, the rest of the world can pop to the loo for a dehydration break.
Somehow, I managed to "pocket gif" my daughter via WhatsApp. This was the gif. I am so proud.
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Having fun this summer, replicating our reversed latent inhibition effect: Reported a couple of years ago, here we show, contrary to 60 years of research, that people can learn more succesfully about a familiair than a novel stimulus. share.google/YIEYQj9yIPNj...
Novelty mismatch as a determinant of latent inhibition - PubMed
Latent inhibition refers to the observation, made in both human and nonhuman animals, that learning about the relationship between a stimulus and an outcome progresses more rapidly when the stimulus i...
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Invitation to sign open letter: "The University of Exeter has proposed to make redundant a significant proportion of staff who are members of the Cognition Group in the Department of Psychology... We are writing to urge you to immediately withdraw this proposal..." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter
To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...
docs.google.com
Having fun this summer, replicating our reversed latent inhibition effect: Reported a couple of years ago, here we show, contrary to 60 years of research, that people can learn more succesfully about a familiair than a novel stimulus. share.google/YIEYQj9yIPNj...
Novelty mismatch as a determinant of latent inhibition - PubMed
Latent inhibition refers to the observation, made in both human and nonhuman animals, that learning about the relationship between a stimulus and an outcome progresses more rapidly when the stimulus i...
share.google
Eastenders is brilliantly, comically, fabulously bad at the moment. Genuinely recommend you watch the recent episode where Billy Mitchell is threatened with murder with the curly end of a waiters friend
Remembered, today, this classic bit of figure captioning from the original Thatcher illusion paper in 1980 by Thompson. Was this the peak of entertaining figure captioning?
Watching Toy Story 3 for the first time in an age. Spanish Buzz Lightyear is brilliantly, brilliantly funny.
My major contribution at todays away day was sharing Claude's suggested name for a pedagogy/psychology related research theme. I give you: Brainy-McTeach-Face Genius.
Good to see saliva is still relevant to associative learning...
Deon T. Benton@deontbenton.bsky.social · last mo.🚨 Officially out at Child Development! A few years ago in Science, Ashley Thomas (ashleyjthomas.bsky.social) and colleagues argued that saliva could be a cue infants use to infer the strength of social relationships. academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...
Now that the heatwave has passed the Uk (for now!) it's nice to once again have a cup of tea without fear of spontaneous human combustion.
So... (1) Tiredness and (2) England not being very good at football meant the game got turned off after 60 min. #Yawn
Have been asked by a procurement department at another university to provide them with a reference for a well known provider of eye trackers, so they can decide whether to buy one or not.
Solid rejection of "counting" and "statistical inference" abilities in nonhuman animals, from crows to chimps & pigeons. #animalcognition "associative learning models are a powerful tool in animal cognition research, often capable of unmatched quantitative accuracy." doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
Word of the day: "Dottle". The plug of unburnt or partially burnt tobacco and ash left at the bottom of a pipe after it has been smoked.
This is Penny. She found the perfect stick today and is determined to retrieve it. Hasn’t moved an inch so far, but her human didn't raise a quitter. 13/10 (IG: aussies_exploregon)
Very weird "pitch side" coverage from the pundits on ITV
University open day with Haselgrove jnr. Always quite a predatory experience, so it was nice to have this vibe confirmed upon arrival...
