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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨 We’re running a short self-report study on how BREATHING interacts with your daily life 🫁🌍

We're struggling to find participants and would truly appreciate your help; it only takes a few minutes.

👉 You can participate here: shorturl.at/rwwXc

🙏 Feel free to share the link with others. Thank you!

Breathing Through Your Day: A Brief Reflection Survey

You move, interact, speak, listen, think, and feel. Life unfolds through a rich variety of experiences and tasks.

test.uib.es

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Jul 21

Memory is not just in the head. It’s scaffolded by spatial structure.

This opens new doors in neuroarchitecture, design psychology, and the science of memory.

#Neuroarchitecture #Memory #VR #EmbodiedCognition #EnvironmentalPsychology #Landmarks #EpisodicMemory #SpatialCognition

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨 New publication!

My PhD student, Dylan Huynh, explored how landmarks and spatial geometry affect episodic memory using immersive VR.

We found that people remember better, and learn faster, when the environment around them is distinctive.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Investigating the effects of landmarks on memory performance

The built environment profoundly influences our brain, shaping how we perceive, remember, and interact with the world around us. Far from serving sole…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Jun 16

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RPPW20 @rppw.bsky.social · Jun 16

@zakdjebbara.bsky.social delivered the final talk of the day which was on architecture and environmental rhythms #RPPW20

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · May 14

If we argue that we only sense a limited number of things, and that the totality of information is just the possibility space built from those sensory inputs, then we’re essentially restating empiricism. The idea that thoughts are just combinations of sensory types sounds like an echo of empiricism.

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · May 14

Isn’t that what’s implicitly happening now… Many cognitive neuroscience studies investigate early responses that make up conscious experiences, but interpret them under different frameworks, so they won’t use labels like unconscious.

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Klaus Gramann @mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social · Apr 20

I am delighted to announce the upcoming

6th International Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference

in Berlin, August 26-28, 2026 at the beautiful Hotel Oderberger!

More information to follow in the coming weeks.
See you in Berlin in 2026!

#MobileEEG #MobileBrainImaging #EEG #NIRS #MoBI2026

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Clement Naveilhan @clementnaveilhan.bsky.social · Mar 22

Our new preprint is out with @stephen-ramanoel.bsky.social and @mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social !!! 🥳

Combining mobile EEG and Virtual Reality our results highlight multifaceted role of theta activity in the RSC during naturalistic human path integration

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Theta activity supports landmark-based correction of naturalistic human path integration

How do humans integrate landmarks to update their spatial position during active navigation task? Using immersive virtual reality and high-density mobile EEG, we investigated the neural underpinnings ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Mar 11

This is amazing work!

Martin Seeber @seeber.bsky.social · Mar 10

🧠 Our new (NIH funded!) paper reveals how the brain creates internal dynamics during both real- and imagined navigation. We recorded directly from the human hippocampus as participants moved through physical space and when they mentally navigated imagined routes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human neural dynamics of real-world and imagined navigation - Nature Human Behaviour

Seeber et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. Neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly, demonstrating parallels between navigational, im...

www.nature.com

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Mar 11

We found that participants consistently prioritized shorter distances over visible destinations, highlighting that cognitive maps might be more influential than visual appearance in navigation decisions.

Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Mar 11

In Virtual Reality, freely moving participants navigated a uniform environment (more or less a maze-like environment with no unique features to function as landmarks), with varied distance and visibility to their target.

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Mar 11

Cognitive Maps vs. Visibility 🧠👀

In uncertain environments, how do we make navigation decisions? Is the distance on our mental map more important, or is it the destination's visibility?

This study was conducted by architecture students in our science book club!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does the visibility of destination matter more than distance in human navigation? A pilot virtual reality study

Navigational decisions depend on both cognitive maps and immediate sensory experiences of the environment. However, when both cognitive maps and immediate sensory experiences are uncertain, it is u...

www.tandfonline.com

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Mar 9

Very strange and suspect behaviour from OAP. Some science sleuthing skills in this thread expose their fishy activity.

Be careful out there friends!

Klaus Gramann @mobilebrainimaging.bsky.social · Mar 9

After pointing out that some might interpret their generous "launch your academic journal" offer as a business opportunity conveniently free from the hassle of credible science, @openaccesspress.nsky.social responded with a second email demanding that I immediately and publicly retract my statement.

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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · Feb 22

This feels like an invitation😁 So... just a heads-up that we are recruiting for 5 positions pretty soon in the area of cognitive/behavioural neuroscience/psychology. Scotland is a beautiful place and we have some amazing science going on here... watch this space!

Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Feb 21

And honestly you can capitalize on the US brain drain that is happening/going to happen. Scoop up those American scientists!

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Feb 20

Ever wondered whether atmospheres affect your experience of the next space?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Architectural atmospheres, priming effects and first impressions: a multi-perspective approach integrating self-report assessments and physiological responses

This paper studies the priming effects of architectural atmospheres on our first impressions of space. We applied a multi-perspective approach combining first-person-perspective insights (self-repo...

www.tandfonline.com

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Feb 18

HOT OFF THE PRESS - Back in 2019 we started asking ourselves what could you to demonstrate where werable, OPM-MEG technology could fit into naturalistic #neuroskyence.

One snag, we'd have to build the system from scratch first...

Anyway its 2025, read the paper here -> doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Feb 18

Congrats George and team! Hope you’re all doing well

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Feb 11

It gives a nice overview of complexity science and is a good reminder that our fields are just man-made boundaries of natural processes. One should probably strive to become antidisciplinary, really. Great book!

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Feb 10

I’m only a few books in here in 2025, but this one is already a good candidate as my favourite this year!

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Jan 31

Could a linear regression with effect-coding be useful here? That could replace an ANOVA and qualify your post-hoc contrasts 😁

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Ed Baggs @edbaggs.bsky.social · Jan 27

🚨 Call for contributions!

We are hosting Dimensions of Radical Embodiment 3 at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, June 18-21, 2025

We are accepting abstract submissions for talks, posters, and brief ideas!

Deadline: March 14, 2025

radicalembodiment3.github.io

Poster for workshop: Introduction to cognitive ethnography

Poster for Dimensions of Radical Embodiment 3

Poster for workshop on Computational creativity, embodiment, and problem solving

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Jan 27

🚨 new publication from our lab in @pnas.org !
"Expert navigators deploy rational complexity–based decision precaching for large-scale real-world planning"

Entropy of streets & successor representations explain planning speed

Colab wth Daniel McNamee at Champalimaud

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Map of london with the planned routes of 43 taxi drivers overlaid in yellow lines.

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Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Jan 26

I don’t how these headphones work, but capturing meaningful data around the ears is possible;

www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

Frontiers | Assessing focus through ear-EEG: a comparative study between conventional cap EEG and mobile in- and around-the-ear EEG systems

IntroductionAs our attention is becoming a commodity that an ever-increasing number of applications are competing for, investing in modern day tools and devi...

www.frontiersin.org

Zakaria Djebbara @zakdjebbara.bsky.social · Jan 17

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