📢 ***Call for papers at Psychological Science (APS)*** Dr Roni Porat and I are editing a special issue, "From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World.” Please see the detailed call here (www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...) and send us your best work!

📢 Now published in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social : “Functional role and semantic structure shape word memorability: Cue–target asymmetries in cued recall." Memorability is often treated as an intrinsic property of stimuli. But is the same word equally effective as a cue vs. a target? 1/8

Seeking experts, preferably in the field of biological anthropology and primate behavior (or allied areas), to evaluate a set of human emotional displays using an evolutionary framework (a clear guide will be provided). ~20 min, $10 (PPP adjusted). Email: rethinkingemotions@research.iiit.ac.in.

youtu.be/sVV3aJF6BOE?... This talk is now online, if anyone is curious about our work on traveling waves and memory in the human lateral temporal cortex.

WaveClub@waveclubseminar.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Thank you for your understanding as we reschedule. It'll certainly be worth the wait to hear from Dr. Vishnu Sreekumar next week. Join us on October 14th at 10:30am ET (8pm IST)! Please note the time @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social

The CogSci dept at IIITH is hiring. Please check out the ad below and share with your networks. You may contact the head with any queries. Details: tinyurl.com/374sknab

🚨AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 EHBEA is calling for SELF-nominations for their New Investigator Award. If you are doing, or know someone, some really cool research as an early-career researcher please don’t hesitate to apply! DEADLINE: December 19th, 2025 Here is the form👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

EHBEA-2026-New-Investigator-Award-nomination-form.docx

2026 NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD Self-nomination Form Please submit this application form by e-mail to the EHBEA Secretary ehbea.secretary@gmail.com. Next Deadline: 5pm (GMT), 19th DECEMBER 2026 ...

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Thank you for your understanding as we reschedule. It'll certainly be worth the wait to hear from Dr. Vishnu Sreekumar next week. Join us on October 14th at 10:30am ET (8pm IST)! Please note the time @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social

Nothing like a scheduled talk to an expert audience to get you to check and recheck results. My laptop's running hot but see you all at the @waveclubseminar.bsky.social!

WaveClub@waveclubseminar.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We can't wait to hear from from Dr. Vishnu Sreekumar in two weeks in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves of neural oscillations. Join us on October 7th at 10:30am ET! Please note the change in time @vishnusreekumar.bsky.social

1/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence

Shortlisting now, there is still time to apply! Check out LinkedIn for more details. www.linkedin.com/posts/vishnu...

Happening today, folks! I'm hearing great things about this meeting from them. I wish I could be there but if you're already there, please attend and give us some feedback. This is a project that makes a big leap from another discipline that we really are not experts on. So we'd appreciate feedback!

Vishnu Sreekumar@vishnusreekumar.bsky.social · 11mo ago

If you're at #behaviour2025, please check out Pritha Ghosh's talk tomorrow (Fri) at 7 pm! Pritha and A. Biswas from my lab have been a dream team on this project, which has a special place in my heart. See: mandalabodyssey.blogspot.com/2025/06/reme...

If you're at #behaviour2025, please check out Pritha Ghosh's talk tomorrow (Fri) at 7 pm! Pritha and A. Biswas from my lab have been a dream team on this project, which has a special place in my heart. See: mandalabodyssey.blogspot.com/2025/06/reme...

This was a fun paper to write, and one that fits nicely with some recent work I've been doing on the role of counterfactual simulation in memory encoding. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Episodic details are better remembered in plausible relative to implausible counterfactual simulations - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

People often engage in episodic counterfactual thinking, or mentally simulating how the experienced past might have been different from how it was. A commonly held view is that mentally simulating alt...

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Teaching this fall? Here is a handy webpage that will help you generate a list of the days your course(s) meet: wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

New CNeuroMod-THINGS open-access fMRI dataset: 4 participants · ~4 000 images (720 categories) each shown 3× (12k trials per subject)· individual functional localizers & NSD-inspired QC . Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.09024 Congrats Marie St-Laurent and @martinhebart.bsky.social !!

Beautiful and inspiring work from Gero Miesenböck and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep - Nature

Research on Drosophila neurons shows links between the need to sleep and aerobic metabolism, indicating that the pressure to sleep may have a mitochondrial origin.

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Please consider helping us out if you meet the criteria mentioned in the ad! We will pay $10 for ~20 minutes of your valuable time and expertise. Please share widely!

Looks like my account was hacked recently. I was unable to access the account for a while until now. I don't use bsky that much. Apologies if anything inappropriate was broadcast from this account!

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature

Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...

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Our lab (www.mandalab.org) turned 4 yesterday. Some pics with all the awesome folks I get to do science with every day.

📢 New preprint: "Comparing Cue and Target Roles in Cued Recall Reveals Limits of Intrinsic Word Memorability". See lnkd.in/gXs48uyx for a tweet thread. Congrats, Anuska Maity, for your first preprint (and hopefully published paper soon)!

A first-year PhD scholar in the lab, Ozoswita Deb, has been selected to attend Neurohackademy 2025. I'm super happy about this because she will get to learn from the best (@russpoldrack.org and others)! :) www.linkedin.com/posts/vishnu...

Incredibly saddened by Prof. David Huron's passing. His legacy will live on through the many students he inspired. David was one of the most important mentors in my life. Here's more about the lessons he taught me and the impact he's had on me: mandalabodyssey.blogspot.com/.../remember....

Is there a good way to post Twitter threads to bsky without having to redo the whole thing? Anyway, here's a thread about our recent paper demonstrating an issue with a narrative flow measure introduced by Sap et al. (2022, PNAS): x.com/vishnusreekr...

This a formidable summary of what we know (and don't know) about the retrosplenial cortex including an amazing section on anatomy and the lack of common definitions. I honestly rarely read a piece like this that addresses all my questions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rethinking retrosplenial cortex: Perspectives and predictions

The last decade has produced exciting new ideas about retrosplenial cortex (RSC) and its role in integrating diverse inputs. Here, we review the diver…

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What are the best fMRI summer schools out there (preferably outside of the US)? Ideally something where a grad student who has taken a course on fMRI can bring their own research questions and dataset and get to a point where they are comfortable doing mvpa?

Want to get editing experience? If you have a PhD & are a member of a group that’s historically underrepresented in editorial roles, apply for a 1 yr editorial fellowship at one of APS’s journals (including Psych Science)! Deadline 7 Feb. Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Ten simple rules for good model-sharing practices doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Ten simple rules for good model-sharing practices

Computational models are complex scientific constructs that have become essential for us to better understand the world. Many models are valuable for peers within and beyond disciplinary boundaries. H...

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Emotions are reactions to situations we encounter in daily life. In our new paper in Psych Review (psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...; with @oisinryan.bsky.social and @fdabl.bsky.social), we take a first step towards building a generative model for emotion dynamics based on this simple principle 1/4

Philosophy & Theory of Neuroscience Conference 🧠 next week @ Chapman & available via zoom.Talks by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social Newsome, Yassa, Roskies, Carolyn Parkinson, Frederick Eberhardt & many others! www.chapman.edu/scst/confere... #philsky #philsci #neuroskyence