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Sam McDougle
@actlab.bsky.social
psychology prof @yale

http://actcompthink.org
New paper from the lab, "Perceiving Event Structure in Brief Actions," now out in Cognitive Psychology :)

Led by the inimitable Zekun Sun

This was my lab's first foray into event cognition

gift link: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
3 today —>>
heading to @sfn.org? Check out our group's posters -->
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reposted by Sam McDougle
11.17 | 1-5p | PSTR226 + PSTR226.05

Taylor McClure
Reaching Control: Movement Psychophysics and Neurophysiology + Selective attention in motor working memory

Chat with her at #Booth3724 on Tuesday from 2-3p to learn more about her work.

#KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale #SfN25 @actlab.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Excited to share our latest Sensorimotor Superlab Journal Club. Juliana Trach joins us to discuss her latest paper with @actlab.bsky.social, now published in @nathumbehav.nature.com: Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations. youtu.be/6LlDYxDV8wo
Juliana Trach (Yale University)
YouTube video by Andrew Pruszynski
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
MLMC2025 is tomorrow!

For those joining remotely, here is the link for the meeting:

harvard.zoom.us/j/9544921964...

Reminder, the conference will start promptly at 9am PST.

Please visit the website for additional information, schedule, registration, etc!

motor-conference.org/openconf.php
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November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
heading to @sfn.org? Check out our group's posters -->
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Reposted by Sam McDougle
Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Concurrent selection of internal goals and external sensations during visual search
Internal and external selection processes can codevelop in time to yield efficient search behavior.
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🐝
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Reposted by Sam McDougle
The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
😂
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
There it is!!! 🥳
ALL RIGHT AP JUST CALLED IT WITH 69% OF THE VOTE HA HA HA HA
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
🚨📡 Official MLMC program now posted! See you in San Diego (or hybrid if you can't make it!)

Register NOW!!!

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motor-conference.org/openconf.php
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November 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Don't forget to get your submission in for #NCMKobe26! Team/panel and individual orals close at 23:59 PDT Dec 1.

Learn more - ncm-society.org/subm...
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers!

WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...

Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525

#KnowTogether
October 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Reposted by Sam McDougle
I am recruiting a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara for an NIH-funded project on the organization of lateral PFC function--across emotion and cognition--using representational fMRI & TMS. I’d love to find someone w/ a background in cognitive control & computational modeling to complement our team! 🏝️ 🧠 🧲
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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🏆 #CNS2026 Young Investigator Award Winners 🏆

Congratulations to Monica Rosenberg and Samuel D. McDougle, recipients of the 2026 Young Investigator Award! 🎉

We look forward to their award lectures at the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada! 🇨🇦✨

@cogneuronews.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
thrilled!! but speaking after @monicarosenb.bsky.social ??? that's too tough to follow
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
the best neurons
October 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reposted by Sam McDougle
New Pre-Print:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

We’re all familiar with having to practice a new skill to get better at it, but what really happens during practice? The answer, I propose, is reinforcement learning - specifically policy-gradient reinforcement learning.

Overview 🧵 below...
Policy-Gradient Reinforcement Learning as a General Theory of Practice-Based Motor Skill Learning
Mastering any new skill requires extensive practice, but the computational principles underlying this learning are not clearly understood. Existing theories of motor learning can explain short-term ad...
www.biorxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Proud of my little guy :)
The @nywfp.bsky.social had the littlest protester, and the kid was awesome. (Photo taken with grandparents' permission.)

#NoKings #Manhattan
October 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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I never met Jane Goodall, but she loomed over much of my reporting over the years. With @emilyanthes.bsky.social I wrote a piece about her scientific legacy. Gift link: nyti.ms/46PGBtd
nyti.ms
October 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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sound on
October 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
saturday -->
September 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM