Jason Chein, PhD, (@mindimager.bsky.social) will explore how digital behaviors may interfere with the development of key executive functioning abilities & cognitive skills at the next #AskTheExperts webinar “Meltdowns to Mindfulness (Part 2: Adolescence).” Register ➡️ https://bit.ly/4erBODK

“We propose a new model in which public communication and advocacy are considered as essential to our mission as rigor and reproducibility—critical not only for safeguarding science, but also for ensuring that its benefits reach all segments of the societies we serve” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neat registered report from @mattmattoni.bsky.social @dvsmith.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social diving into the tension between nomothetic (group-level) v. idiographic (individual specific) in functional connectivity models. #Neuroskyence direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Functional Connectivity Heterogeneity and Consequences for Clinical and Cognitive Prediction

AbstractFunctional connectivity is frequently used to assess dynamic brain functioning and predict individual differences in behavioral outcomes, such as psychopathology. Inferences from functional co...

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A deserving recognition for an incredible scientist and a great colleague. Congrats Nora! @noranewcombe.bsky.social

Cognitive Science Society@cogscisociety.bsky.social · last yr.

Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏅#CogSci2025

So excited that our work on children’s ability to discern real from AI-generated content received this recognition. We show that kids systematically misjudge some types of AI content as human, and that kids who use more technology in the home are worse at AI detection. Way to go Allison and team!

Children and Screens@childrenandscreens.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Digital Media and Developing Minds Congress Committee Award for excellence in science — Destinee Ramos, Allison Langer, and Wendy Rote, PhD. These recipients were awarded for their outstanding poster presentations at #MediaAndMinds! #SocialMedia

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Nice write up of our paper (with @vpmurty.bsky.social) showing that memories expressed with greater “authenticity” are more accurate, but people don’t use that information in judging whether someone actually remembers the event accurately or not, and instead use unreliable signals of accuracy.

Psychonomic Society@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · last yr.

When an eyewitness shares a memory, what might make a jury perceive it as accurate? 👩🏽⚖️ A recent #psynomPBR paper by Martinez et al. suggests that certain communication styles shape how accurate a memory seems, regardless of its actual accuracy. Post by Alyssa Asmar. buff.ly/S4SeOyo

This is great, and freely accessible!

Mike Frank@mcxfrank.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Beyond honored! Credit to the amazing students and collaborators who I’ve had the incredible privilege to work beside along the way.

Psychonomic Society@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · last yr.

PS is pleased to announce the 2025 Mid-Career Award recipients! These awards recognize scientists who have made excellent contributions to the field in the middle of their careers. bit.ly/4k7eH0k @mindimager @Jason Chein @R.Shayna Rosenbaum @sarahshomstein

Alert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪ The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

Alert!!!! “An Action Networks Model for Pain” We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it. 👉 thread below 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

This new article by @aaronjfisher.bsky.social, @mindimager.bsky.social, et al. is important for cogneuro research b/c it discusses the common yet problematic assumption that inferences based on group averages are applicable to inherently intraindividual processes. (1/3)

Group-to-individual generalizability and individual-level inferences in cognitive neuroscience

Much of cognitive neuroscience research is focused on group-averages and interindividual brain-behavior associations. However, many theories core to t…

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While the 'belief' plot draws attention, the core message of the final, deliberative consensus statements is that evidence linking smartphone and social media use to negative outcomes is limited, mixed, context-dependent, insufficient to support causal claims, and better research is needed.

Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · last yr.

Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation? This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change. See our paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Check if your university has signed. Write to your President if not.

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · last yr.

Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c... Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.

New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit

Thinking about fMRI study designs for brain-based prediction? Updated preprint!

Thomas Yeo@bttyeo.bsky.social · last yr.

Updated preprint for those who might be interested: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

The research grants canceled this week will stop treatments in rural communities, will stop the study of cures for conditions that affect all people, and will take away jobs from lower and middle class folks who live in “red” states. Period.

With teens, it doesn't help to just say no to screen time. Instead, experts suggest teaching them to be smarter viewers of content, and learn to recognize how influencers and algorithms can manipulate them.

Here are 4 ways parents can help their teens be smart with screen time

With teens, it doesn't help to just say no to screen time. Instead, experts suggest teaching them to be smarter viewers of content, and learn to recognize how influencers and algorithms can manipulate...

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NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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|| New Publication (Nature Communications) Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory​ Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation doi.org/10.1038/s414... Press Release www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03... Key Findings * Inoculation works * Effects dissipate * Booster shots remedy this (1/10)

Very excited that this fun collaborative piece with @aliocohen.bsky.social is now in press! We highlight how insights from adolescent brain development can shape and enhance computational models of learning.

Ali Cohen@aliocohen.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share this brief review where @katieinsel.bsky.social & I discuss studying adolescence to understand how brains work! We highlight avenues for future collaborative work at the intersection of cognitive, computational, & developmental neuroscience 🧠 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My lab’s latest paper, with @vpmurty.bsky.social. Memory for a scary real-world event (a haunted house) is reflected in the “authenticity” of expressed memories, but listeners mistakenly think accuracy is reflected in how “analytic” the expressed memory is - oops! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Linguistic properties of memory expression differentially relate to accuracy, specificity, and perceived veracity - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

When communicating our memories to others, we use specific language to represent and express those memories. However, whether the linguistic properties associated with memory expression, such as commu...

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And now this!? These moves are going to complete destroy land at NzIH that do incredible and important work

Meg K. 🌊🏔️❄️@c2snow.bsky.social · last yr.

We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science. Entire NIH departments will have no leaders. World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators. Is this what they want? Chaos? Destruction?

Former NIH director weighs in on the status of science in today’s America. A good summary of where we are, and why its bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Opinion | American Science is Under Attack

The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.

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Scientist unite!

Mitch Prinstein@mitchprinstein.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Setting up an fMRI model and getting hit with collinearity errors? Been there! 😢 Try removing regressors? Orthogonal regressors? Other tricks to resolve collinearity errors? Guess what—those fixes might make things worse. We explore why and propose recommendations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Unintended bias in the pursuit of collinearity solutions in fMRI analysis - Amazing work by @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social and @demidenko.bsky.social and many thanks to all of our collaborators! If you are using the monetary incentive delay (MID) task you should definitely read this.

Unintended bias in the pursuit of collinearity solutions in fMRI analysis

In task functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), collinearity between task regressors in a design matrix may impact power. Researchers often optimize task designs by assessing collinearity betwee...

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