🔴 My TED talk “How to Protect Your Brain From Extremism” is finally out! And I’m so honoured it’s been selected as a Global TED Editor’s Pick — especially given the talk’s final minute, where I go against one of TED’s strictest rules 🤫 Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEa1...

Are you susceptible to extremism? Take this cognitive test. | Leor Zmigrod | TEDxNewEngland

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Very excited to attend #CCN2026 this week and to present various projects from my lab! Here's a list of our posters and talks in case you'd like to see what we've been up to.

Yay, the field needs this! Excited to serve as an associate editor!

Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB)@mmb-journal.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

Here's where to find the Penn Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience next week! See you in NYC!

🚨 Exciting new replication paper on neural predictions in humans using an open dataset! All details below 👇

@romquentin.bsky.social · last wk.

🧠 Does the brain pre-activate feature-specific patterns resembling the perception of an upcoming, predictable stimulus? We reanalyzed the open dataset from Demarchi et al. (2019) and found no evidence of feature-specific neural pre-activation during auditory predictions. 🧵

A timely and must-read review on mindulness by @lcasedas.bsky.social, @mavadillo.bsky.social

Nature Reviews Psychology@natrevpsychol.nature.com · 2y ago

An integrative framework for the mechanisms underlying mindfulness-induced cognitive change Perspective by Luis Cásedas, Jonathan W. Schooler, Miguel A. Vadillo & Juan Lupiáñez Web: go.nature.com/3Nuy8lH PDF: rdcu.be/dXhZu #psychology #psychscisky

An integrative framework for the mechanisms underlying mindfulness-induced cognitive change Perspective by Luis Cásedas, Jonathan W. Schooler, Miguel A. Vadillo & Juan Lupiáñez Web: go.nature.com/3Nuy8lH PDF: rdcu.be/dXhZu #psychology #psychscisky

Congratulation, @biankabrezoczki.bsky.social @teodoravekony.bsky.social @florahann.bsky.social

Teodóra Vékony@teodoravekony.bsky.social · last wk.

Our new paper is out! 🧠 Implicit learning & cognitive flexibility showed an inverse link that weakened as OC tendencies increased - showing disrupted balance even without external feedback. www.cell.com/iscience/ful... #neuroscience #cognitivepsychology #OCD #academicsky

This one is finally published! Get a nice PDF copy from this link rdcu.be/fsEAn Massive congratulations to all authors, specially first author @antovami.bsky.social. Enhorabuena Antonio!!!

David Luque@davluque.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint! Habits should get stronger with more practice, right? Well, this crucial result has been difficult to reproduce in human labs. In an instant classic, de Wit (2018) showed 5 failures in obtaining more evidence of habits in conditions with more training -as compared to little trained

Whaaa? If this is true, it could resolve a lot of confusion about how the effects of sleep and rest on memory consolidation are weirdly similar across hippocampus-dependent and non-hippocampus dependent tasks. #sleeppeeps

Juan Linde-Domingo@lindedomingo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus 👀👀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What a splendid piece of work!!! "Brain-wide properties of slow waves across vigilance states" academic.oup.com/sleepadvance...

Brain-wide properties of slow waves across vigilance states

Using a large dataset of intracranial recordings in 106 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, we show that key morphological features of SWs change across

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A *super* exciting new paper from @lizsiefert.bsky.social!! Human hippocampal ripple rates track very closely with several indicators of low arousal, during both sleep and wake. This is probably the most compelling data I have ever been associated with.

Liz Siefert@lizsiefert.bsky.social · last mo.

New preprint! We show low arousal states promote hippocampal ripple genesis in sleep and wake. This bridges rodent work, where ripples predominate during sleep, with human studies reporting ripples during active behavior, identifying low arousal as a common mechanism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

In our study, implicit statistical learning and cognitive flexibility showed a trade-off, but this link weakened as obsessive–compulsive tendencies increased. OC traits may reshape the balance between automatic learning and flexible control. www.cell.com/iscience/ful... @florahann.bsky.social

Obsessive-compulsive tendencies shift the balance between competitive neurocognitive functions

Health sciences; Medicine; Medical specialty; Psychiatry; Natural sciences; Biological sciences; Neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience

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Brenda Milner is a hero and 108!! She did a lot more than discover the hippocampus is linked to declarative memory, but that work is the most famous.

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Neuroscientist Dr. Brenda Milner is recognized as one of the fundamental founders of modern cognitive neuropsychology. She proved the hippocampus is essential for forming long-term "declarative" memory (facts, names & events). She was born #OTD in 1918--she's 108 years old today! #WomenInSTEM

New paper out! We used MEG to catch the brain learning hidden patterns buried in noise and found two separate mechanisms at play: fast predictive activity (up to 500ms before a stimulus!) followed by slower representational change that tracks actual learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint! Children often beat adults at learning hidden patterns. Using eye-tracking and a method we built in eLife (Hann et al. 2026), we found the edge is not better error detection. It is flexibility: kids update their beliefs, adults cling to old predictions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Flexible belief updating drives the childhood advantage in statistical learning

Children often outperform adults in probabilistic statistical learning tasks, yet the mechanisms underlying this developmental advantage remain poorly understood. Here, we used eye-tracking measures o...

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Read the full article in Cognition: “Statistical learning and individual differences in language abilities…” by Ágnes Lukács, Bálint József Ugrin & Krisztina Sára Lukics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Nobody needs convincing that a science of the Meaning of Life is the wrong project. I will argue that a science of phenomenal consciousness is wrong for exactly the same reason: neither is amenable to the third-person perspective science requires." by @profdata.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.00226

Consciousness, AI, and the Limits of Scientific Explanation

Science is constitutively third-personal: its findings are in principle reproducible by any observer, independent of perspective, and answerable to measurement. This is the source of its power and als...

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New preprint from our team! We tested whether early reaction time variability predicts later implicit learning. Across two datasets, moment-to-moment variability, especially ITRV and Sigma, was linked to better later learning. Noise may sometimes reflect exploration. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

You can still submit your presentation about data analysis and statistics in behavioral and related sciences to our local international symposium in Pécs, Hungary, in September 2026. www.cogstat.org/best_approac...

We built a gaze-based method that tracks how people form and revise predictions trial by trial. The key finding: people keep their model unchanged when an error just reflects random noise, but update it when the error signals their model is wrong. @orspesthy.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Mind wandering enhances the brain’s ability to learn hidden patterns, new study suggests

Mind wandering enhances the brain’s ability to learn hidden patterns, new study suggests

Daydreaming is often viewed as a failure of attention, but new research suggests it serves a hidden purpose. Scientists have discovered that the temporary drop in self-control during mind wandering actually boosts the brain’s ability to unconsciously learn complex environmental patterns.

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As already mentioned, I'm re-vampiong my youtube channel. Just dropped the first few R videos. I'll be doing SPSS and R throughout the rest of the year if all goes to plan. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Discover Statistics Using R and RStudio - YouTube

Tutorials showing how to fit statistical models using R. Accompanies my book Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/dis...

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Come to our posters on VSS! Poster numbers: 467, 469. #VSS2026

Today, Teodóra Vékony will give a talk about our research on local sleep, mind wandering and implicit statistical learning at 18.45 in ROOM 1 at VSS (Vision Science Society). #VSS2026

Our article got a media coverage

PsyPost@psypost.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How video game habits act as a window into cognitive health

How video game habits act as a window into cognitive health

How video game habits act as a window into cognitive health

A new psychological study reveals that cognitive difficulties are linked to behavioral addiction, not the mere act of playing video games. While individuals at risk of gaming disorder struggle with working memory, recreational gamers actually display enhanced attention.

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Gran Canaria Cognitive Research Center

The Gran Canaria Cognitive Research Center was established in 2024 as the first research institute in Gran Canaria dedicated to the study of the brain and cognition.

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Want to do a funded PhD in Spain at a state-of-the-art research center? We’re recruiting in • Cognitive Neuroscience • Cognitive Psychology • Health Psychology Join an international team and work with cutting-edge methods. More info: gccognitive.es

Gran Canaria Cognitive Research Center

The Gran Canaria Cognitive Research Center was established in 2024 as the first research institute in Gran Canaria dedicated to the study of the brain and cognition.

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Our new paper is out.

Matthew D Johnston@mattdjohnston.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New @srcdorg.bsky.social paper exploring links between statistical learning and executive functions in middle childhood! Link here: doi.org/10.1093/chid... w Nic Chevalier, Jess Dolan, and @nemeth.bsky.social See thread below...