In the latest “This paper changed my life,” Luiz Pessoa @pessoabrain.bsky.social discusses the paper that taught him that mathematical modeling can be used to understand how neural networks are organized. www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c...

This paper changed my life: ‘A massively parallel architecture for a self-organizing neural pattern recognition machine,’ by Carpenter and Grossberg

This paper taught me that we can use mathematical modeling to understand how neural networks are organized—and led me to a doctoral program in the department led by its authors.

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Please, spread! 🧠 Competitive PhD funding is available for neuroscience projects in the Parisian region. Consider your options 👇 dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr... @c-brains.bsky.social

1/ Our paper "A large-scale, gamified online assessment of first impressions: The Who Knows project" has just been accepted at Behavior Research Methods! 🎉 Check out the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Special credit to Richard Rau for envisioning & spearheading this innovative project & app!

How does the perception of our bodily self arise in our experience, and to what extent do we process body ownership information unconsciously? In a new study (preprint), we found body ownership information processing cannot occur without awareness. 0/14👇 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Bye Eleanor, thanks for the science the discussions...

dickretired@dickretired.bsky.social · 2y ago

For all women in science Eleanor Maguire should be an inspiration. Unlike Rosalind Franklin, her contribution was fully appreciated during her lifetime. So it is fitting that in 2008 she was awarded the Rosalind Franklin medal by the Royal Society. #neuroscience #psychology

For all women in science Eleanor Maguire should be an inspiration. Unlike Rosalind Franklin, her contribution was fully appreciated during her lifetime. So it is fitting that in 2008 she was awarded the Rosalind Franklin medal by the Royal Society. #neuroscience #psychology

New paper from the Lab led by @evanlhealey.bsky.social in collaboration with coculab Argentina where we track brain dynamics as DMT psychedelic experiences unfolds. We show diverse and complex brain signatures intimately related to intensity, anxiety, temporarily, imagery, bliss.

Evan Lewis-Healey@evanlhealey.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Hot off the press! 🚨 Our new preprint explores the dose-dependent neural and subjective effects of smoked freebase DMT 🌌 🧠 Insights into brain dynamics 🌟 Phenomenology in focus 📖 Check it out: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Full breakdown below [1/20] 👇

Are you based in London? We are recruiting participants for our study. We need to test 400 people so would appreciate sharing. Thank you!

@embodystudy.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’re recruiting participants for the Em-Body study! Check your eligibility and sign up here: shorturl.at/AEelF

It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm. And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...

High-speed Paris-Berlin daily train service debuts

The route is the first directly linking the two capitals' city centres.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 2y ago

Even though "academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, [they] are less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards" The humanities have the least social mobility, quants have the most papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science. Deadline January 6: international.au.dk/about/profil...

Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

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The unbearable slowness of being: Humans still clock in at just 10 bits/s. Even after peer review :) Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHVa3BtfH.... ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

It looks even better once it's typeset for Imaging #Neuroscience 😎 Come take your single trial #ERP : It only costs you an #EEG or #MEG dataset, a few assumptions and a reaction time per trial (and a bit of RAM to be honest) direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Trial-by-trial detection of cognitive events in neural time-series

Abstract. Measuring the time-course of neural events that make up cognitive processing is crucial to understand the relationship between brain and behavior. To this aim, we formulated a method to disc...

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Gabriel Weindel@gweindel.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very happy of our preprint on single-trial detection of #cognitive events in #neural time-series www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... TLDR: with HMP, a few assumptions and the #EEG#MEG signal in the RT, HMP estimates: - how many events account for the data - their SINGLE-TRIAL time location 🤯

Out today: we discovered a new class of social hallucination - perception of chasing with high confidence. It is elevated in people who are paranoid and people who perceive meaning in the universe www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Paranoid and teleological thinking give rise to distinct social hallucinations in vision - Communications Psychology

When asked to judge if a chase was present in a visual display of moving discs, people with higher paranoia and teleological thinking were more likely to perceive a chase in its absence. They were als...

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Worth a read for those outside HE to get a flavour of the mess that ChatGPT etc are causing the whole sector www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis

More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports ...

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50 years ago Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch propelled the term #workingmemory into the psychological lexicon, with a vision that still resonates today! This editorial with Mark Hurlstone, @amyatkinson.bsky.social , Satoru Saito and Robert Logie, reflects on that remarkable contribution in 1974.

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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How does information processing during sleep really change? Brain activity might be higher but brain information is lower and redundant. Great and early discussions with Christine Blume and wonderful work from @Andrés Canales-Johnson conceptual and methodological analysis.

🚵 How does arousal level affect cognition? we show that cognitive control is preserved during sleepiness and intense exercise, but decision-making slows down while sleeping, and attentional focus improves while cycling. cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati... Data and paper open in the osf.io/uvq3m/

Do natural fluctuations in arousal modulate cognitive control and decision-making?

Throughout the day, people experience a series of natural fluctuations in our level of physical arousal. These changes in our physiological state, ranging from deep sleep to physical exhaustion, appea...

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👋 blue-sky people, I am coming back after 1 year... I hope this becomes good.

this is a bloody great name for a climate report www.unep.org/resources/em...

We have 4x Graduate Teaching Assistant positions (PhD with some teaching for the stipend) here in Psychology; I'm advertising a perception-action project, but there's plenty of other topics. Deadline Monday 27th November 2023

Graduate Teaching Assistant in Psychology at Leeds Beckett University

Recruiting now: Graduate Teaching Assistant in Psychology on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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We have x4 Postdoc positions @ Cambridge, @ the fantastic MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, working on exciting comp neuro, imaging and NeuroAI projects… w/ @duncanastle.bsky.social, Petra Vertes + others! Link here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/ If you have any questions, hmu! (Do plz share!)

1/15 We just put out a new paper using the traces of experience and neural dynamics to characterise chronic pain. @Cambridge_Uni @CambPsych @CamNeuro This is led by Joaquim Streicher Maria Niedernhuber and tailed by Bigna Lenggenhager and me. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our lab is recruiting a PhD student and postdoc! Check our our website to learn more about what we do: sites.dartmouth.edu/stoermerlab/ Applications for PhD students are due Dec 1st.

A British Academy analysis from 2020 shows "those taking arts, humanities and social science degrees end up in jobs in eight of the 10 fastest-growing sectors of the economy more often than their Stem graduate counterparts." www.theguardian.com/education/20...

'Humanities graduates are just as employable': do the sciences really lead to more jobs?

The UK government wants more students to study science subjects – but employers want humanities graduates too

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With my addiction, supporting the campaign to save National Health System from the tragic managment of the current UK goverment.

Some journals get it! "Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, do not currently satisfy our authorship criteria. Notably an attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, which cannot be effectively applied to LLMs." www.springer.com/journal/146/...

Bird Photographer of the Year 2023 Highlights Avian Attitudes and Winged Wonders Around the World www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/09/bird...

Bird Photographer of the Year 2023 Highlights Avian Attitudes and Winged Wonders Around the World ��...

The judges of the Bird Photographer of the Year competition sifted through more than 20,000 images this year.

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Hi everyone. I've been wanting to put this out there for a while now, as I think it's interesting work, and hope you do too. Memorability of scenes influences their perceived duration, and vice versa! #neuroscience #psychscisky

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 3y ago

Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.02.556045v1

There are limits to psychology's obsession with p-values, and better options exist. Read about an article making a compelling case for a model-centric psychological science in my latest Substack. open.substack.com/pub/bemusing... #edusky #academicsky #PsychSciSky

Why Models are More Important Than Replications

Berna Devezer and Erkan Buzbas make a compelling case for a model-centric paradigm in psychology.

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