Takuro Zama is presenting resenting at #CCN2026 (Poster B62 in Poster Session B)! Asymmetric Interruption Costs Reflect Transition Structure Shaped by Task-Neutral Attractors: 2026.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=7...
Sam Verschooren
@samversc.bsky.social
MSCA postdoctoral fellow at Artctic University of Norway and MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Attention; mind wandering; latent state transitions; interoception and autonomic control https://samverschooren.github.io
A deeply destructive and inexpert management consultancy class has emerged whose sole purpose is to shrink Anglosphere universities and to undermine their future - all the better to secure more work. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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📢 PhD opening in comp. cog. neuro. in Toulouse: thalamo-frontal model of cognitive control. Modelling/EEG experience is welcome but not required. Application deadline: 8 Sept. 2026 Details: sdrive.cnrs.fr/s/eDrkeXfjdW... #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #EEG #neuroskyence #compneurosky
How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Could AI be conscious?
Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications
theguardian.com
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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New paper out: Led by super grad student Jim Zhang and in collaboration with Greg Cogan, we review and synthesize Insights into the neural mechanisms supporting cognitive stability and flexibility from human intracranial electroencephalography. For free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1nRYWY3M3p...
📣The July issue is live! Cover: The psychology of eating requires social context Also in this issue: 🔹Adolescent identity development 🔹Resilience interventions 🔹Transition dynamics between attentional states Read the full issue: go.nature.com/4b5Sw9h #psychscisky #cogpsy #socialpsy #clinicalpsy
How do we update our predictions when our environment changes? The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions. New work w/ @hannahtarder-stoll.bsky.social & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social – part of the theme issue on hippocampal predictions!
The hippocampus rapidly integrates sequence representations during novel multistep predictions
Abstract. Memories for temporally extended sequences can be used adaptively to predict future events on multiple timescales, a function that relies on the
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Every single humans rights org — including Israeli ones — have been telling the same story. Given that Israel still bars journalists entry to Gaza, which in itself is bonkers, how about we trust any or all human rights orgs. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The 2010 novel “Super Sad True Love Story” describes a world that feels very much like the one we live in today — hypervisual, looks-obsessed, post-literate. Our columnist Ezra Klein spoke to its author, Gary Shteyngart, about how he sees the world today.
Opinion | I Keep Telling People We’re Living in This Dystopian Novel
The 2010 novel “Super Sad True Love Story” foreshadowed our current world. So I asked its author, Gary Shteyngart, how he sees the world today and how we might find pleasure in it.
nyti.ms
More evidence, from a large-scale study in China, that using AI hurts learning if it undermines mental effort. When homework time drops due to AI use, so do test scores. Across studies, there is a clear theme: AI tutoring in support of classes is good, using AI to "help" with homework is bad.
I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Sabancı University in Istanbul for a 2-year TÜBİTAK-funded position, with possible extension. Interested candidates can email me with a CV and a brief note about their research interests. More details on gunselilab.com soon.
Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab | Istanbul | Sabanci Uni.
Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab at Sabancı University - Eren Günseli. We study how memory and attention interact, how humans control what to remember, what to forget, what to attend to, and...
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Mental image vividness and aphantasia judgements are fundamentally compromised by overlooked definition problems link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Mental image vividness and aphantasia judgements are fundamentally compromised by overlooked definition problems - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Vividness judgements are intended to capture variance in the axis that uniquely separates the experience of a mental image from other unambiguously sensory perceptual experiences, and from a completel...
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Last week we organized the Experimental Health Research Conference in Tromsø, bringing together researchers from across UiT's Faculty of Health Sciences (uit.no/tavla/artikk...). Very lucky with @epanlab.bsky.social and Arno Villringer as keynotes and we even caught some (almost) midnight sun!☀️🗻
You can access a read-only pdf of the article here: rdcu.be/fnzid
Transition dynamics of external and internal attention across on-task and off-task states
Nature Reviews Psychology - Attention can be flexibly directed to information that is on- or off-task and internal or external to the individual. In this Perspective, Verschooren and colleagues...
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🧵 Thread: Does the internet threaten democracy? I argue that it does in my latest piece in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie... Here's the short version. 1/9 1/10
The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy
Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, the evidence gives rise to a concerning picture, as summarized in a recent report for the European Commission that I co-led.
doi.org
#PuG2026 comes to an end. One of my highlights was presenting our pilot study using autogenic training to teach voluntary control over interoceptive rhythms, led by @samversc.bsky.social with @niketag.bsky.social @toninfrc.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com 🧘🫀 #interoception #neuroskyence [1/3]
“A habitable, equal 21st century is materially possible,” the report concludes. “What stands in the way is not technical impossibility but political choice and the hard but crucial work of building a coalition behind it.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions
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🎉New paper out today in Nature Reviews Psychology🎉 with @mjdahl.bsky.social, @mariamaly.bsky.social, and @thiasmittner.bsky.social. We've been working on a unified framework for attentional states and the dynamics of transitions between them. 🧵
🎉New paper out today in Nature Reviews Psychology🎉 with @mjdahl.bsky.social, @mariamaly.bsky.social, and @thiasmittner.bsky.social. We've been working on a unified framework for attentional states and the dynamics of transitions between them. 🧵
Morning #PuG2026 crowd! Mark your calendars for one of the first Mind-Body-Emotion talks by @martager.bsky.social today at 15:30
Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · 2mo agoCan we learn to voluntarily control our bodily states? 🫀@martager.bsky.social will present a pilot study using autogenic training to assess how people can successfully learn to directly decrease heart rate through the lens of ideomotor theory. 🕐 Thu, June 4th | 15:30-17:00 📍 HS 15 #PuG2026 [3/6]
This Thursday at 3:30pm (📍HS 15) at #PuG2026 come hear about our six-week pilot study using autogenic training to teach people how to voluntarily control cardiac signals, based on Verschooren et al. (2026) 🫀 with @samversc.bsky.social @niketag.bsky.social @toninfrc.bsky.social @michaelgaebler.com
Mind-Body-Emotion Group@mbe-lab.bsky.social · 2mo agoCan we learn to voluntarily control our bodily states? 🫀@martager.bsky.social will present a pilot study using autogenic training to assess how people can successfully learn to directly decrease heart rate through the lens of ideomotor theory. 🕐 Thu, June 4th | 15:30-17:00 📍 HS 15 #PuG2026 [3/6]
New paper with @paulm-k.bsky.social and Mark Stokes on how we switch internal attention between working memory contents. Beta-band oscillations tracked the magnitude and success of these switches. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1... #neuroskyence
Human Beta Oscillations Reflect Magnitude and Fidelity of Priority Shifts in Working Memory
Flexible prioritization in working memory (WM) is supported by neural oscillations in frontal and sensory brain areas, but the roles of different oscillations remain poorly understood. Recordings in h...
jneurosci.org
Great work by Nancy Wang (not on bsky), published now in Psychophysiology! We provide neurophysiological and modeling evidence showing that a hypervigilance manipulation negates the internal shielding benefit observed in the attention switching task
CAPLAB@caplab.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe have a new publication!! Too Alert to Think Straight: Combined Neurophysiological and Modeling Evidence of Impaired Internal Shielding During Hypervigilance by Nan(cy) Wang, @samversc.bsky.social and Gilles Pourtois is now out in Psychophysiology, check it out!
Science is a team effort 👩🔬👨🔬 We’re grateful that some of the core values of our group - collaboration, open science and peer support - have been recognized through a shortlist nomination for the Best Research Environment Award 2026 by @jungeakademie.bsky.social & @volkswagenstiftung.de 🚀 👇[1/2]
I appreciated the Einstein quote Rovelli uses here on the importance of engaging with philosophy (or history of ideas at least). I'd say it applies equally well to psychology arxiv.org/pdf/1805.10602
Respiration as a dynamic modulator of sensory sampling 🧠🫁🔥 @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence #interoception
Respiration as a dynamic modulator of sensory sampling - Nature Communications
Breathing shapes perception: Inspiration upregulates arousal and excitability, sharpening sensitivity to visual signals. By aligning respiration with task timing, people improve performance via neural...
nature.com
New preprint! Last year we showed humans adapt attention in a dimension-specific way when multiple things compete for attention. Now we read out the neural dynamics of this adaptation. doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.16.688701 w/ @mikefreund.bsky.social @theazalabak.bsky.social @wouterkool.bsky.social
