If you're still going to be at #CCN2026 on Thursday, please consider checking out @mikezhu.bsky.social's poster showing "affect-biased attention" in VLMs!

Michael Zhu@mikezhu.bsky.social · 23h ago

Let's continue our #CCN2026 Back2NY discussion: how can studying machines help us cognitive scientists understand the mind? In work with @ycleong.bsky.social , we use VLMs as a natural comparison case to probe the origins of affect-biased attention. Poster F91, Rosenthal, Thur, 1:45–3:30 pm.

excited to be at #CCN2026! come talk to our very new lab during the poster sessions 🌱 we're introducing novel computational frameworks to model human 3D vision + developing theoretical and empirical strategies for understanding these abilities say hello & let us know what you think!

Thank you for this feature! I'm admittedly awkward on video, but I really enjoyed working on the spotlight piece and taking a bigger picture view of my research trajectory!

Association for Psychological Science@psychscience.bsky.social · 6d ago

Meet @ycleong.bsky.social, assistant professor at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on how social context and affect construct subjective experience. Leong is also a 2026 APS Spence Award recipient www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Excited to share that my first-ever first-author paper (w/ @atabk.bsky.social @AngeliqueDelarazan @zreagh.bsky.social) is now out in PNAS! Building a story to link two objects boosts associative memory and inference, but not memory for the objects themselves. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

Active linking through narratives facilitates associative inference | PNAS

In daily life, we often draw inferences about novel associations from prior experiences. This ability, associative inference, is thought to be a ke...

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Looking to work with a postdoc. Prior experience with fMRI and computational modeling required, interest in psychiatry desired. Fellowship provides three years salary plus independent travel/equipment funds. Send CV and 2-3 manuscripts (preprints OK).

Hi all! I’m looking for a full-time RA / lab manager (start date: late Aug or Sept, 1 year of funding guaranteed). Ideal candidate is a recent grad w/ relevant research experience. App review has begun, so if you’re interested, please apply here ASAP, by 7/12! Thx! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf02/ats/ca...

Very excited to share this paper, led by @ajhaskins.bsky.social ! We find that how people look around the world is stable and idiosyncratic — and that these gaze patterns are shaped in part by the conceptual priorities each person brings to a scene. 1/3 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Naturalistic Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab is launching at UT Austin and is looking for founding members at all levels, including lab manager, PhD students, and postdocs! #NeuroJobs We will study human brain🧠 and memory & attention, using fMRI and modeling. thesonglab.github.io

🌵🏜️🌵 Out now in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with @rbhui.bsky.social! If your advisor sends you an unclear email, do you interpret it as good or bad? 😏😱 In a new paper, we show how people make inferences about this type of ambiguous feedback during learning. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ambiguity and confirmatory reward learning

We tend to interpret feedback in ways that confirm our pre-existing beliefs. Such confirmatory tendencies are often viewed as cognitive flaws, but mig…

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Highly recommend working with @hayoungsong.bsky.social!!! Amazing scientist and person!!! Love her perspective on cognition and the brain as well!

Hayoung Song@hayoungsong.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎊New Lab Alert! I'll be starting at the 🧡University of Texas at Austin🧡 this August! More info to come. thesonglab.github.io I send my deep gratitude to my mentors, Monica @monicarosenb.bsky.social, YC @ycleong.bsky.social, ShiNung @shinung.bsky.social & Zach @zreagh.bsky.social, for everything.

New from our group - This longitudinal study shows 🎵 Songmaking in a group 🎵 reduces paranoia in people with schizophrenia, possibly by changing their prior beliefs about volatility osf.io/preprints/ps... huge congrats to first author Deanna Greco - a very talented graduate student - and team

In collaboration with @monicarosenb.bsky.social , we showed that individual diffs in LTM encoding is uniquely predicted by inter-electrode correlations even controlling for working memory abilities. This suggests that WM & LTM encoding are separate abilities coded by different neural signatures! 1/n

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Chong Zhao, Edward K. Vogel, and Monica D. Rosenberg: A unique neural signature of long-term memory encoding from EEG inter-electrode correlation doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Our first foray into horror movies was recently published. Former grad student David Gregory used them as a means to study temporal memory for threatening events. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41965942/

Arousal and valence differentially shape temporal memory for naturalistic events - PubMed

While emotional arousal and negative valence both alter episodic memory, their contributions to different facets of temporal memory remain unclear. Here, we examined two components of temporal memory ...

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I will be recruiting a lab manager to start in fall 2026 and will be accepting applications for Ph.D. students to start in fall 2027. For more information (& contact info), please reach out through my website: jlcrawford.netlify.app

Jennifer L. Crawford

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I'll be recruiting PhD students (2027 entry) and a postdoc to join the lab at Berkeley. Interests: • continuous person perception in interactive contexts • impression management and its biases • social perception in digital spaces Get in touch if there's overlap. Very excited for this next chapter!

New work led by @whatsinertia.bsky.social, combining fear conditioning and perceptual deindividuation. Conditioned threats spread to more dissimilar Black vs. White targets- findings of interest for soc cognition as well as eyewitness identificatoin. Check it out!

Arshiya Aggarwal@whatsinertia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social!! 🧵 When people learn to fear one person, who else do they mistake for a threat, and does race shape the pattern? Read here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m~aL51f8~...

🚨🚨 Job Alert! 🚨🚨 We are seeking a full-time Study Coordinator for a NIMH-funded project that aims to uncover cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying maladaptive food-choice behavior in anorexia nervosa using behavior, eye tracking, fMRI, and computational models. Pls spread the word!

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Department SSD Institute for Mind and Biology: Staff and Temporary Employees About the Department The Eating Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Univer...

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Glad that we could celebrate the end of a great #SANS2026 before I caught the red-eye back to Chicago with impromptu karaoke

Deeply honored that our paper was recognized with the #SANS2026 Award! SANS was an important part of this paper's journey! @jadynpark.bsky.social first presented this work at SANS2023, and again in SANS2025, and we benefited greatly from the feedback and discussion!

SANS@sansmeeting.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congratulations to @jadynpark.bsky.social and colleagues for winning the #SANS2026 Innovation Award for their paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@mikezhu.bsky.social digesting his win for the #SANS2026 logo competition at Haidilao!

Now out in PNAS with @jaeyoungson.bsky.social, Alice Xia, @apaxon.bsky.social & @orielf.bsky.social. Medial temporal lobe encodes predictive representations of people's real-world social networks which afford them key advantages in social navigation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

Medial temporal lobe encodes cognitive maps of real-world social networks | PNAS

Humans routinely solve social problems by navigating densely interconnected networks—gossiping strategically, brokering across cliques, and coordin...

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Excited to share this work led by @marinewang.bsky.social where we use fNIRS to study how hand gestures help kids learn math concepts!

Marine Wang@marinewang.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Why do kids learn better from gestures than visually similar actions with objects? In our new paper out in JoCN, we looked at how the brain responds to both. Check out the full paper here: doi.org/10.1162/JOCN... Thanks to @ycleong.bsky.social Susan Goldin-Meadow, Marc Berman and all collaborators!

My first paper with @jkragel.bsky.social and Joel Voss came out yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! It’s real! :D www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Spatial and semantic memory reorganize a hippocampal long-axis gradient | PNAS

The hippocampus supports episodic memory by binding spatial and semantic information, yet how this information is simultaneously organized along it...

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Great work by @nwrim.bsky.social applying word-embedding models to Reddit and news data to show how we are affectively divided on partisan identity, but less so on contentious political issues!

Nakwon Rim@nwrim.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New paper in @commspsychol.nature.com, with @ycleong.bsky.social, Marc Berman, and @joshcjackson.bsky.social! Two-sentence summary: Political pundits often talk as if partisans are divided in how they feel about political issues, as in “Democrats love abortion” or “Republicans hate immigrants.” 1/2

Hope everyone is getting excited for #SANS2026 next week! 🧠 Quick reminder that you can still sign up for the NIH Roundtable over lunch at the main conference. Open to all attendees. First 100 signups get complimentary lunch! 🍱 More info here: t.e2ma.net/click/b2zckk...

I'm SO pleased to announce that I'll be starting as an Asst Prof at @psychiowa.bsky.social this August. The lab will focus on neural & computational mechanisms of motivation, affect, & decision-making, with the aspirational goal of translation to neuropsychiatric disorders. 🧠 yeelabneuro.com

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The CAMP Lab at the University of Iowa uses computational, neuroimaging, pharmacological, and neuromodulation approaches to understand motivation, affect, and decision-making — and how these processes...

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Huge congrats to @monicarosenb.bsky.social, an amazing scientist and even better friend

Cognitive Neuroscience Society@cogneuronews.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Congratulations @monicarosenb.bsky.social on your Young Investigator Award! Join us now for her #CNS2026 award talk, about neural signatures of sustained attention, with intro by @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social

Register now for the trainee focused (pre-grad → postdoc) #SANS2026 Pre-Conference Workshop: Building a Thriving Research Career! NIH staff from OBSSR, NICHD, NIA & NINDS will be there to talk about funding opportunities, career development programs, and to answer YOUR questions directly.

Ever wonder how much your fMRI preprocessing choices shape your results? 🤔 Register now for the #SANS2026 pre-conference workshop: Navigating the fMRI Multiverse Learn best practices in fMRI preprocessing and explore how analytic variability affects reproducibility through multiverse analyses

Sad to miss #CNS26, especially when @monicarosenb.bsky.social receives the young investigator award 🎉 But for all attending, do go see postdoc extraordinaire @atabk.bsky.social's poster B121 "Tracking sampling strategies during value construction to guide novel choice" on Sunday morning.