Brian Odegaard
@brianodegaard.bsky.social
UF Assistant Professor. Attention, Perception, Consciousness.
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Delighted to share our new Perspective article @natrevneuro.nature.com, led by the great @edoardochidichimo.bsky.social : "Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination". With @loopyluppi.bsky.social, Pedro Mediano, @introspection.bsky.social, Victoria Leong and Richard Bethlehem.
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Delighted to share our new Perspective article @natrevneuro.nature.com, led by the great @edoardochidichimo.bsky.social : "Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination". With @loopyluppi.bsky.social, Pedro Mediano, @introspection.bsky.social, Victoria Leong and Richard Bethlehem.
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This study aimed to investigate how working memory interacts with perception at the behavioral level. We examined whether working memory modulates subjective perception when the general capacity for perceptual processing is kept constant.
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This study aimed to investigate how working memory interacts with perception at the behavioral level. We examined whether working memory modulates subjective perception when the general capacity for perceptual processing is kept constant.
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www.biorxiv.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This study aimed to investigate how working memory interacts with perception at the behavioral level. We examined whether working memory modulates subjective perception when the general capacity for perceptual processing is kept constant.
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This study aimed to investigate how working memory interacts with perception at the behavioral level. We examined whether working memory modulates subjective perception when the general capacity for perceptual processing is kept constant.
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Folks: a few weeks ago, I came across a post on bsky about genAI in the classroom, linking to a google doc that was essentially "Yes, we thought about that" for *all* the ways to combat cheating with genAI. "Don't do cop shit" was a repeating theme. I have tried so hard to find it, but failed. Help?
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Folks: a few weeks ago, I came across a post on bsky about genAI in the classroom, linking to a google doc that was essentially "Yes, we thought about that" for *all* the ways to combat cheating with genAI. "Don't do cop shit" was a repeating theme. I have tried so hard to find it, but failed. Help?
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Adults who were required to use #GenAI to answer LSAT questions did better than a no-AI control group, but the GenAI group also exhibited greater metacognitive inaccuracy. I'd like to see some conceptual replications before drawing firm conclusions. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
AI makes you smarter but none the wiser: The disconnect between performance and metacognition
Optimizing human–AI interaction requires users to reflect on their performance critically, yet little is known about generative AI systems’ effect on …
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Adults who were required to use #GenAI to answer LSAT questions did better than a no-AI control group, but the GenAI group also exhibited greater metacognitive inaccuracy. I'd like to see some conceptual replications before drawing firm conclusions. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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If you're interested in auditory neuroscience and doctoral work, reach out! I'm one of the mentors listed for CSD's (@ucf.bsky.social) new PhD program and would love to recruit a kind, curious, and enthusiastic new member of the conscious audition and scene analysis (CASA) lab.
tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
Doctoral Program - UCF School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
The School of Communication Sciences and Disorders offers professional education leading to a Master of Arts in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
tinyurl.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If you're interested in auditory neuroscience and doctoral work, reach out! I'm one of the mentors listed for CSD's (@ucf.bsky.social) new PhD program and would love to recruit a kind, curious, and enthusiastic new member of the conscious audition and scene analysis (CASA) lab.
tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
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Correlation detection as a stimulus computable account for AV perception, causal inference & saliency maps in mammals elifesciences.org/articles/106... Image- & sound-computable population model for AV perception -> Used simulation to model psychophysical, eye-tracking & pharmacological experiments
Correlation detection as a stimulus computable account for audiovisual perception, causal inference, and saliency maps in mammals
Optimal cue integration, Bayesian Causal Inference, spatial orienting, speech illusions and other key phenomena in audiovisual perception naturally emerge from the collective behavior of a population ...
elifesciences.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Correlation detection as a stimulus computable account for AV perception, causal inference & saliency maps in mammals elifesciences.org/articles/106... Image- & sound-computable population model for AV perception -> Used simulation to model psychophysical, eye-tracking & pharmacological experiments
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"How disconfirmatory evidence shapes confidence in decision-making"! Now out in @commspsychol.nature.com
w @annikaboldt.bsky.social & Yishu Sun
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Metacognition #Confidence
w @annikaboldt.bsky.social & Yishu Sun
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Metacognition #Confidence
October 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"How disconfirmatory evidence shapes confidence in decision-making"! Now out in @commspsychol.nature.com
w @annikaboldt.bsky.social & Yishu Sun
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Metacognition #Confidence
w @annikaboldt.bsky.social & Yishu Sun
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Metacognition #Confidence
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Nothing in teaching gives me anxiety like trying to get across the Baddeley & Hitch working memory model. Any tips to make it intuitive to undergrads? especially the episodic buffer?
October 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Nothing in teaching gives me anxiety like trying to get across the Baddeley & Hitch working memory model. Any tips to make it intuitive to undergrads? especially the episodic buffer?
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In my #Neuropsychology course, I use many patient videos to give examples of various consequences of brain injury. Some of these are really excellent and can be tricky to find, so I thought I'd share this doc with links to some of my favorites - a brief 🧵with some highlights. (more to come later!)
Neuropsychology_Psyc486_VideoLinks
docs.google.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In my #Neuropsychology course, I use many patient videos to give examples of various consequences of brain injury. Some of these are really excellent and can be tricky to find, so I thought I'd share this doc with links to some of my favorites - a brief 🧵with some highlights. (more to come later!)
🚨🚨 New tenure-track job posting! 🚨🚨
The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, with an open research focus.
Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
Here's some info about why you should apply to this job! 1/
The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, with an open research focus.
Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
Here's some info about why you should apply to this job! 1/
October 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
🚨🚨 New tenure-track job posting! 🚨🚨
The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, with an open research focus.
Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
Here's some info about why you should apply to this job! 1/
The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, with an open research focus.
Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
Here's some info about why you should apply to this job! 1/
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Finally had a chance to read this study on conceptual alignment in human communication. Using a clever repeated reference game, it provides quantitative evidence that interaction drives people to converge on a shared, generalizable conceptual space:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05566
@rdhawkins.bsky.social
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05566
@rdhawkins.bsky.social
arxiv.org
September 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Finally had a chance to read this study on conceptual alignment in human communication. Using a clever repeated reference game, it provides quantitative evidence that interaction drives people to converge on a shared, generalizable conceptual space:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05566
@rdhawkins.bsky.social
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05566
@rdhawkins.bsky.social
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Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
October 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).
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📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
October 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉
The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
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This paper in @cp-iscience.bsky.social led by Laura Doll and Alexander Gutschalk @uniheidelberg.bsky.social was published last year, but I'm highlighting it again b/c I think it's really cool and has all the things: M/EEG, pupillometry, awareness ratings, SDT.
#consci 🧠💻
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
#consci 🧠💻
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Perceptual awareness of near-threshold tones scales gradually with auditory cortex activity and pupil dilation
Biological sciences; Neuroscience; Sensory neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience
www.cell.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This paper in @cp-iscience.bsky.social led by Laura Doll and Alexander Gutschalk @uniheidelberg.bsky.social was published last year, but I'm highlighting it again b/c I think it's really cool and has all the things: M/EEG, pupillometry, awareness ratings, SDT.
#consci 🧠💻
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
#consci 🧠💻
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.
Review begins 10/10.
Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵
Review begins 10/10.
Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵
September 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.
Review begins 10/10.
Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵
Review begins 10/10.
Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵
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Our spotlight article on Goueytes et al. (2025) study is now online at Trends in Neurosciences: "Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds", by P. Barttfeld, @ncomay.bsky.social, I. Embon & @guillermosolovey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds
In a recent study, Goueytes and colleagues combined computational modeling with intracranial
recordings to dissect the neural basis of confidence and changes of mind. They reveal
a temporally organize...
www.cell.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Our spotlight article on Goueytes et al. (2025) study is now online at Trends in Neurosciences: "Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds", by P. Barttfeld, @ncomay.bsky.social, I. Embon & @guillermosolovey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
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Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...
authors.elsevier.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...
Saurabh Ranjan, my first PhD student, has some interesting new work investigating vividness reports from the VVIQ-2 and PSI-Q in humans and LLMs, using tools from psychological network analysis. See his thread for more details.
World models are a highly speculative topic in AI as well as in cognitive science. I’m excited to share my manuscript on investigating internal world models using imagination networks in humans and LLMs! 🧵1/n
arxiv.org/abs/2510.04391
arxiv.org/abs/2510.04391
Internal World Models as Imagination Networks in Cognitive Agents
What is the computational objective of imagination? While classical interpretations suggest imagination is useful for maximizing rewards, recent findings challenge this view. In this study, we propose...
arxiv.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Saurabh Ranjan, my first PhD student, has some interesting new work investigating vividness reports from the VVIQ-2 and PSI-Q in humans and LLMs, using tools from psychological network analysis. See his thread for more details.
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Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg:
#psychskysci #neuroscience
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#psychskysci #neuroscience
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg:
#psychskysci #neuroscience
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#psychskysci #neuroscience
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Imagine an apple 🍎. Is your mental image more like a picture or more like a thought? In a new preprint led by Morgan McCarty—our lab's wonderful RA—we develop a new approach to this old cognitive science question and find that LLMs excel at tasks thought to be solvable only via visual imagery. 🧵
Artificial Phantasia: Evidence for Propositional Reasoning-Based Mental Imagery in Large Language Models
This study offers a novel approach for benchmarking complex cognitive behavior in artificial systems. Almost universally, Large Language Models (LLMs) perform best on tasks which may be included in th...
arxiv.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Imagine an apple 🍎. Is your mental image more like a picture or more like a thought? In a new preprint led by Morgan McCarty—our lab's wonderful RA—we develop a new approach to this old cognitive science question and find that LLMs excel at tasks thought to be solvable only via visual imagery. 🧵
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🚨 Out now in @commspsychol.nature.com 🚨
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Our #RegisteredReport tested whether the order of task decisions and confidence ratings bias #metacognition.
Some said decisions → confidence enhances metacognition. If true, decades of findings will be affected.
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Our #RegisteredReport tested whether the order of task decisions and confidence ratings bias #metacognition.
Some said decisions → confidence enhances metacognition. If true, decades of findings will be affected.
September 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🚨 Out now in @commspsychol.nature.com 🚨
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Our #RegisteredReport tested whether the order of task decisions and confidence ratings bias #metacognition.
Some said decisions → confidence enhances metacognition. If true, decades of findings will be affected.
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Our #RegisteredReport tested whether the order of task decisions and confidence ratings bias #metacognition.
Some said decisions → confidence enhances metacognition. If true, decades of findings will be affected.
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NSF GRFP solicitation is up, deadline extended to November www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
NSF GRFP solicitation is up, deadline extended to November www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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The influence of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program really cannot be overstated. The fact that there is still no solicitation for this year is unfair to students and risks damaging the future of American science. Please take 30 seconds to sign the open letter to US STEM Leadership 🧪🌎
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io
September 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The influence of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program really cannot be overstated. The fact that there is still no solicitation for this year is unfair to students and risks damaging the future of American science. Please take 30 seconds to sign the open letter to US STEM Leadership 🧪🌎
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paper is up~
This study examines performance evaluation in perceptual detection tasks using response-time-based signal detection theory (SDT) analysis. A defining feature of detection tasks is the asymmetry between trials with stimulus presence and absence, often reflected in ....
This study examines performance evaluation in perceptual detection tasks using response-time-based signal detection theory (SDT) analysis. A defining feature of detection tasks is the asymmetry between trials with stimulus presence and absence, often reflected in ....
detection d' is generally overestimated, coz we tend to be too lazy to collect the necessary data in order to correct for the unequal variance between target present vs absent distributions. turns out we can do this for free - using reaction times data. so, let's do it~
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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osf.io/preprints/ps...
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OSF
osf.io
September 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
paper is up~
This study examines performance evaluation in perceptual detection tasks using response-time-based signal detection theory (SDT) analysis. A defining feature of detection tasks is the asymmetry between trials with stimulus presence and absence, often reflected in ....
This study examines performance evaluation in perceptual detection tasks using response-time-based signal detection theory (SDT) analysis. A defining feature of detection tasks is the asymmetry between trials with stimulus presence and absence, often reflected in ....
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Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman
Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence